HARLOW BANDS ARCHIVE SITE IS NOW ONE YEAR OLD

To celebrate Harlow Bands archive sites first holiday we have special pictures on the right for you taken from Richard Holgarths' scrapbook. Click on images for a larger view.

Richard has kindly allowed his scrapbook to be scanned and made downloadable as a pdf. It is a big file so please be patient when downloading.

Special thanx to Richard for allowing us to peep into his personal scrapbook and a part of Harlow bands history.

To download file click here.

ROMAN HOLLIDAY LIVE MP3 - DEVIANT AMPS VIDEO

In the mid to late 80's many local bands came together and recorded christmas songs for a cassette to help raise money to buy new gear for The Square. Deviant Amps have re-recorded Walking In The Air and have made a video to accompany it which you can see by clicking on the image on the right. You can download FREE files to burn to cd or mp3 versions from www.deviantamps.com

Also, as it's christmas, here is a very classy mp3 file of Roman Holliday in all their live glory. Click this link to listen to or download http://www.romanholliday.co.uk/mp3/Concert.mp3

JOHN OTWAY BIG BAND - BUNSEN BURNER VIDEO

Here is the John Otway Big Band in the 2002 video for Bunsen Burner. Bunsen Burner climbed to number 9 in the charts and also got them a slot on the legendary Top Of The Pops music show.

It features John Otway with Harlow boys Richard Holgarth on guitar, Adam Batterbee on drums, Mark Thomas on bass and Murray Torkildsen on guitars.

KICK OUT THE TORIES

NEWTOWN NEUROTICS - REBELLION FESTIVAL 2009

Here is some You Tube footage of Newtown Neurotics kicking up a storm at 2009's Rebellion festival which was held in Blackpool August 7, 8 and 9th.

Newtown Neurotics played on the Saturday evening.

TWO SODS INTERVIEWS........

This is an interview that Kevin Jones of The Sods did around 2004 for Punk77. Go here to view

The second is a free PDF download taken from an unknown fanzine. Thanks to Gordon Wilkins (Stortbeat) for the fanzine scans. Click on magazine face to view or download PDF.

VIDEOS UPLOADED

There are four You Tube videos now up online taken from Harlow Bands Family Tree launch night. They feature Between The Lines, Austins Shirts, Deviant Sods and Mad Chateaux. Go here to watch

HARLOW BANDS ARCHIVE SITE

Beginning with The Bluebeats circa 1961 this site will cover everything from Harlow’s first band to chart, The Naturals, pictured right, (”I Should Have Known Better”, written by The Beatles, charted at number 24 in the summer of 1964) to the last band to chart (John Otway Big Band with “Bunsen Burner” in October 2002) and ends in 2008 with some of Harlows newer bands like The Seminals, The Feelmores, Pennyroyal, Retraphone and The Worldonfire who are recording a new album at the moment.

HARLOW BANDS FAMILY TREE

Harlow Bands Family Tree was launched on February 7th 2009 and featured performances from Mad Chateaux, Sarah Ross, Deviant Amps (featuring Kev Jones and Mickey Howard from The Sods), Austins Shirts and Between The Lines.

A Poster of the Family Tree is available and a double DVD of the night is out now. Go To Shop

The full size Family Tree is hung in The Galaxy Bar at The Square. Full review launch night here