Red Admiral Records REDAD CDA545 - The Sharpees Bar Code 5060090920003 All Songs written by (Mead/Goodey) Published by Cringe Music   Billy Mead (Schmeelie) : Vocals, Bass Pete Goodey (The Claw) : Guitars, Synth's, Vocals John Smith (Smiffy) : Drums, Vocals Sold out, downloads only See a Video

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reformed in 2004 after Bill and Pete started attending local jam nights, and many of the audience remembering the original band. Only this time the drummer is Big Mal Hylands, and boy is he LOUD AND POWERFUL!
This is a real pro Retro 80's Rock band. Catch 'em live, they only consist of guitar, bass, and drums, but it is a massive wall of sound and melody.

About The Songs
In 1980 The Sharpee's booking agent 'phoned one evening to ask the band to fill in for a new American band, they were the Stray Cats. At the gig, the Sharpee's were sound-checking, when some of the Stray Cat's fans arrived, mostly Hell's Angels chaps! They liked a tune the band was jamming, this song was played that night at the H.A.'s request, and Plastic Surgery was born!
On return from a west London gig The Kensington, Russell Gardens, a really over the top Rolls Royce pulled up at the traffic light's next to the band's truck, with middle-eastern number plate's on it, gold-plated door handle's, blacked-out window's et al! -Arab's in London.

Anybody remember tilted T.V. screen's in pub's everywhere around 1980 going "bleep-zing-wugga-wugga"? Everybody Wants To Play Invaders.

545. A complete piss-take of the controversy about when Trevor McDonald became the first black news-reader in the U.K. Also the response by the BBC, to broadcast their news in sensational mode!

European Holiday is Bill writing about a drive down through France to Spain, getting sun-burnt and pissed on foreign beer, and losing his sunglasses on the hot sand's of E'Scala.

Computer Operator is about Pete's girlfriend, (now wife), first job commuting to London, although Meopham Station didn't rhyme as well as Milton Keynes!

No Place is about a French hero akin to a modern day Robin Hood. The police were embarrassed about his antics, so they decided to shoot him.
Finally caught and shot in his car, but his girlfriend's rather strange reaction when she saw the bullet-ridden vehicle was "Is my dog OK?"

Stranger in NYC is about a lost love in said city, Great live tune.

These tunes were sent to John Gifford, who was Joe Jackson's management in the 80's. Also the tapes got sent to Chris Lycett who used produce Radio One Live in Concert. Another to Toby Frazier, who managed Fisher Z. They quickly became interested, and a recording deal with A&M Records was set up. Also, live dates throughout Europe and America. Unfortunately, the music scene at the time was also becoming more and more electronic based (think Gary Neumann, Deplete Mode, etc); the boys witnessed some of the acts live, all pre-recorded! They decided this was not their vision of the way music should be performed as they always played very much live, became disenchanted and dissolved the band.

The reworked CD album and has been licenced to Red Admiral Records through the services of Cringe Music (publishers)

December 2004. Details: 11 track CD called Strangers -