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The Winkies (1975)
The Winkies are a 1970s British band lead by Philip Rambow. Philip's wife and my wife are best friends. Today Philip turns 60 years old and he's celebrating by playing a reunion concert at a pub in London. Sadly I wont be there as I live 12,000 miles away. However I have been playing Philip's album which is remarkably good for a band that no-one has heard of.
Here's what the reviewer from Amazon.com has to say about The Winkies:
Of all the songwriters & performers who were thrown into the spotlight during the early to mid-'70s, yet never attained more than a modicum of mainstream success, few proved as accomplished as Philip Rambow. Author of such modern classics as 'Night Out' & 'Young Lust' (for Ellen Foley) & 'There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis' with Kirsty MacColl, Rambow himself also emerged as a major player on two of the most important underground scenes of the era, the British pub rock boom of the early to mid-'70s & near-concurrent the New York proto-punk explosion. His group, the Winkies, meanwhile, were integral to Brian Eno's plans following his departure from Roxy Music, while the band's own recordings so expertly straddle the preoccupations of the time that it would be no exaggeration to describe them as one of '70s rock's greatest lost opportunities. They really were that good.
Nigel.
The Winkies are a 1970s British band lead by Philip Rambow. Philip's wife and my wife are best friends. Today Philip turns 60 years old and he's celebrating by playing a reunion concert at a pub in London. Sadly I wont be there as I live 12,000 miles away. However I have been playing Philip's album which is remarkably good for a band that no-one has heard of.
Here's what the reviewer from Amazon.com has to say about The Winkies:
Of all the songwriters & performers who were thrown into the spotlight during the early to mid-'70s, yet never attained more than a modicum of mainstream success, few proved as accomplished as Philip Rambow. Author of such modern classics as 'Night Out' & 'Young Lust' (for Ellen Foley) & 'There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis' with Kirsty MacColl, Rambow himself also emerged as a major player on two of the most important underground scenes of the era, the British pub rock boom of the early to mid-'70s & near-concurrent the New York proto-punk explosion. His group, the Winkies, meanwhile, were integral to Brian Eno's plans following his departure from Roxy Music, while the band's own recordings so expertly straddle the preoccupations of the time that it would be no exaggeration to describe them as one of '70s rock's greatest lost opportunities. They really were that good.
Nigel.
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