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Ollie, Warren (Standing), Dave, Rob and Dean (Sitting)
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Deano's
Marvels -1977
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...The
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![]() The band were formed in mid-1977 by Dean, an ex-Hot Rods Roadie, and consisted in their main incarnation of Ollie Burton (ex-Savage) on Vocals, Dean Kennedy on Guitar and Vocals, Warren Kennedy on Guitar, Tramp (ex-Accidents) on Bass and Buzz Barwell (ex-Savage) on Drums. The band's first gig was upstairs at The Railway Hotel in Clifftown Road on September 17th 1977, and they soon graduated to appearances at the Shrimpers Club and Woodlands, then London venues like the Red Cow, The Marquee and the Nashville Rooms. Peter Clarke ('Clarkie') and Ed Hollis both had stints managing the band, and a demo was recorded by the band at local studio Spectrum in Westcliff, which currently remains unreleased. An Echo report on the band that appeared in John Allan's rock column on 09.01.78 interestingly revealed local venue's attitudes towards punk, for as Dean said "We could not seem to get any local bookings a while ago, and so we assumed we had been banned because people thought we were punk. We prefer to think of ourselves as High Energy Rhythm and Blues." ![]() The band would split later that year though, with Dean and Warren Kennedy going on to form and play in The Rubies and The Canvey Island Allstars (C.I.A.), with Dean also going on to be Dr Feelgood's Road Manager. Warren would later go on to play in Eddie and The Hot Rods in the 1980's. Rob Paveley and Dave Dyke would go on to Speedball and Buzz Barwell would go on to play with The Lew Lewis Reformer, The Wreckless Eric Band, The Hamsters, Wilko Johnson and Doctor Feelgood before relocating to Denmark to join the Intellectuals, where he sadly died on 31.01.04. |
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Special Southend Punk Feature - Click Here to see two special Deeno's Marvels Galleries! | |||||||||||||||
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Discography 'Southend Rock' - Features
two Deeno's Marvels songs - versions of 'Tears of A Clown' and 'I'm Not
Like Everybody Else' - LP (Sonet Records SNTF 806- 1979)
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