Wayward Skylabs Dummies
The origins of the group date back to early 1979 when a Brian Neil Henderson, Chub McBride, Donald Kerr and myself (Steven Todd) decided to form a band. Things got off to a good start when Neil bought a guitar from his mum #39;s littlewoods club book but that was as far as it went for a few months. The band members used to gather at Brian #39;s house and listen to Joy Division, SpizzOil, Desperate Bicycles and the like and were still at the point of deciding on a name for the band when in July 79 the Skylab 1 space station crashed into the atmosphere. On the 6 o #39;clock news Kenneth Kendal reported that the \"Wayward Skylab\"had finally crashed to earth, hence the band #39;s name. Nothing really happened on the musical front except that Brian wrote the first lyrics to a song that became \"Marine Boy\" which later was a crowd favourite. My young brother Robert Todd then came into the frame and he really drove things on and sorted out a practice room next to our dad #39;s shop on the local aerodrome. I had joined the army by then so was away most of the time so was only an honorary member by autumn 79 although I was around for 5 months whilst convalescing after a bad bike smash. The band line-up quickly changed and by late 79 the line-up was Robert Todd, Donald Kerr, Rab Lynch, John X and Paul Johnstone. Paul was the last to join and was recruited on the strength of his singalong to the Damned #39;Love Song #39; whilst helping to paint out the practice room. Songwriting duties fell to whoever could ...From:Steven ToddViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:49More inPeople Blogs
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