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 The Portsmouth Music Scene
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There may be gaps, missing names and no doubt mistakes - we would welcome further contributions to improve the record.
“Groups” refers specifically to those playing pop, beat, rhythm & 
blues, soul and rock music, broadly utilising amplified guitars and 
drums plus in some cases, other instruments. 
It does not include 
jazz, folk, danceband. Our aim is to include any group from/based in the
 Portsmouth area that made at least one public performance. 
Mick Cooper (cooper_m6@sky.com) & Dave Allen (dave.allen@port.ac.uk)
 
Key to Instruments:
 * = Stage Name, V = Vocals, G = Guitar, O = Organ
 LG = Lead Guitar, BG = Bass Guitar, SB = String Bass, Vio-Violin/fiddle
 K=Keyboards, D = Drums, S = Sax/Woodwind, BS = Baritone Sax, TS = Tenor Sax.
 Tr = Trumpet, H = Harmonica, Vib = Vibraphone, RG = Rhythm Guitar.
 
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Personnel in SURNAME order 
 The Storms
  Crescendos
  Tony Porter Group, Midnighters, Hellions
  Harlem Speakeasy 1967-1968, Rosemary 1969-1970, Gilbey Twiss 1970-1971
 Federals
 Demons Skiffle Group
  Rivals
 Confidentials
    Sherlock and the Saints
   Signs Of Change
 Crestas (Lynn Orchard*)
 Groovy Kind
  Leytons, Blues Convention, Whiskey River
 Mood Five
  Informers
  Blues Unlimited 
 Hellstones  
  Hi Fi's
 Rod and the Residents, Furys  
 Legends, Jamie’s Kin, Blues Convention, Lord Maurice Group, Horizon
 Rod and the Residents, Furys 
 Barry and the Strollers, Outer Limits
 Hellstones
 EXP, In Grandma's Ansence, Absence
   Chicago’s Insolence, State Penitentiary, Riverside Blues Band
    Talismen, Dynamos, Scheme, Roger Anthony Four, Lace
  Leytons, Blues Convention, Whiskey River
 Academy, Klimaks, Coconut Mushroom
 The Royals
  Resonettes
 Bipeds, Teenbeats
     Force Four   
    Dynachords
    Sherlock and the Saints
    Sherlock and the Saints
     Pevensey Brown Mellon
 Hot Rods, Diplomats, Arthur Ward Band (Mike Devon*) 
     Federals
 Phantoms
     Egypt, Virgin Circle
   Crusaders (D), Federals (BG)
    Green Machine
 Rengades (Danny Raven*)
     Escorts
 Tremors
 Classics
 Dynachords
 In Pulse
 Challengers
 Resonettes
 Mustangs
 Hellstones
 Bipeds
 Dynamos, Billy Storm and the Stormriders, Scheme, Roger Anthony Four
 Poor Valley String Band. 
 
 Teenbeats
 Generation, Smiling Hard
 Rod and the Residents
 Hustlers
 The Vigilantes
 The Royals
  Dog Jaw, Shrine, Aunty Maggies Remedy,  Cinnamon Set, Rosemery Green
 Mood, Baxter's Art of Tomorrow.
 Time Dynasty, Hector
  Time Dynasty, Hector
  The Denny Bernard Combo.
  Billy Storm & the Stormriders.
 Avengers, J Crow Combo
    Whiskey River, Mirkwood, 
     Chapter 6, Whiskey River, Mirkwood, Dawn
     The Travellers 
  Legends 1963
 Federals
     Phantoms, Talismen, Lace
 Sons of Man
  Legends 1963
 Quasar, Edward Bear &  Arms & Legs
  Blackout
  Lord Maurice Group  
 Legends
    Inspiration, Coconut Mushroom.
 KC's Convention
     (Original) For-Tunes, Rampant 
     Phantoms, Conchords, Soul Society
 Barry and the Zodiacs   
 Barry and the Zodiacs   
 Shamrocks 
 Dirty Pig
 The Strange Case of Watkins World
 Sheiks of R & B, Universal Trash Band 
  Sons of Man, Aubrey Small 
  Inspiration, Wanted
  Coconut Mushroom, Morgan's Camel Train
 Mustangs
    The Charades
 Morgan's Camel Train
 Classics
 Johnnie and the Cutters
     Tremors
  Legends 1964
  Legends 1964
 Challengers
  Monk, Zeo Zigg
 
 Conchords, Poor People
 Indigo Mood, Country Jam, Birth
 Mustangs
 
 Fleetwoods
 Teenbeats, Sheiks of R&B
 Force Four
 Barry and the Strollers, Force Four
 
 Hot Rods 
 Sapphires
     (Original) For-Tunes, Rampant, Jamie’s Kin, Soul Society, Heaven 
     Tennessee Studs
  Mood Five, Tangerine Slide, Morgan's Camel Train
 Confidentials
 Confidentials
     Shamrocks (IOW)
  Good Life, Timeless Trend 
 Mood, Baxter's Art of Tomorrow, The Strange Case of Watkins World
 Hot Rods, Wrong Direction
  J Crow Combo, the Crow
  Hellions
 Plague, Cherry Smash
  Lord Maurice Group  
 
 FivexFive
 Country Jam, Birrth
 Challengers
     Bipeds
 Outer Limits
 Barry and the Zodiacs   
 Phantoms
 Conchords, Soul Society, Dawn 
 Rengades
 Crusaders
 The Chicanes, Black Cat Bones 
 Mood Indigo 1968  
     Johnnie and the Cutters, Midniters
    Sherlock and the Saints
  Sapphires 
 Johnnie Vance and the  Everglades, Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
 Johnnie Vance and the  Everglades, Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
 Johnnie Vance and the  Everglades, Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
 Johnnie Vance and the  Everglades,  Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
  Soul Society
 Karl and the Rapiers
 Coastliners
     Chicago’s Insolence, State Penitentiary, Riverside Blues Band
 Classics, Hookfoot 
  Sapphires
 Gaudy Doyle Set
  Chicago’s Insolence
 Indigo Mood, Inspiration, Wanted, Coconut Mushroom
    Pevensey Brown Mellon
  Paper  
     The Charades
     Jaguars
 Shamrocks (IOW)
 Informers
 Hot Rods, Billy Storm and the Stormriders, DJ Radio Victory 1970's
 The Sun City Set 1968/69
 The Sun City Set 1968/69
  Harlem Soul Band, Harlem Speakeasy, 
 Gold Dust, Smiling Hard,  Zeo Zigg, Queen
 Leytons
     Harlem Soul Band, Harlem Speakeasy  
 Limelites
 Pete Stroiller and the Drifters
   Virgin Circle
 
  Avengers, Technicolour Yawn 1966  
 Mood Indigo 1968 
  Avengers, Frost, The Storms, The Royals
 The Informers
 Midnighters, Hellions
 Confidentials, Meteors UK
    Travis Raymar, Generation, Tangerine Slyde, Rosemary
   Legends 1964
 Wanted, Dawn, Mushroom.
     Crestas, Southern Sounds
 
 The Blue Diamonds, 
 The Green Onions, 
 Baxter's Art of Tomorrow, 
 The Liqueur. 
 The Denny Bernard Combo.
 The Sun City Set 1968/69
 Barry and the Strollers, Mark Bowie Four
 Leytons,  Blues Convention, Whiskey River, Gilbey twiss
 Image
   Johnie Little and the San Pedro Four
 Diplomats
    Conchords, Soul Society, Dawn, Image
 Mood.
    Universal Trash Band, The Rovers folk band 1967 
 Johnnie and the Cutters
 Indigo Mood
    Frenzy, Universal Trash Band, Heaven, Heaven mk2
   Aunty Maggies Remedy, Cinnamon Set Dog Jaw Rosemery Green Shrine  
  Coconut Mushroom
  Cherry Smash, England
  Blackout
  Blackout, Goldust, Smiling Hard
 Blackout
 Barry and the Strollers
   Pete Stroiller and the Drifters,  Barry and the Strollers
  Karl and the Rapiers
    Mike Glover Combo/Quartet
  Frenzy, Universal Trash Band, Heaven, Heaven mk2
 The Chicanes, Black Cat Bones 
 Dark Angels Rhythm Group
  Inspiration
   Dynamos, Renegades, bass in Rampant
  Playboys
 The Denny Bernard Combo
 The Rising Sons, Lees Angel Cake Band, Time Dynasty, Hector
 (J Kidd & Pirates), Paper, Heaven2
  Freemen
  Virgin Circle, Image, Frank Kelly and Friends
 Cadillacs
  Image
 Coconut Mushroom
  Travis Raymar, Tangerine Slyde, Rosemary
 Jaguars
 In Pulse, Harlem Speakeasy
 Folk performer, Harlem Soul Band, Harlem Speakeasy, 
    Chicago’s Insolence
  Legends, Horizon
     Moonrakers, Moments
 Midniters
 Billy Storm and the Stormriders
 Midniters
 The Strange Case of Watkins World, Smiling Hard
 Crestas
 Legends, Jamies Kin 
   Pevensey Brown Mellon
  Legends 1965,  Technicolour Yawn 1966 
   Rod and the Residents,  Furys 
   The Cellarmen
 Riverside Blues Band, Dear Rachel
 Diplomats
 Crescendos
 Ramblers  
   Hi Fi's, Midnighters, Hellions, Southern Sounds 
   Hi Fi's
 Cadillacs
 The Irish Rovers
 In Pulse
 Phantoms
 Hustlers 
 Mood, Baxter's Art of Tomorrow.
 Dynachords
 Midniters
 Pete Stroiller and the Drifters, Mark Barry Four
 Hawkley Fox
 Mood.
   Soul Society
  Poor Valley String Band. 
   The Remains 1962/3
  Commodore Jazz Band
 Dirty pig 
    Gaudy Doyle Set
 FivexFive
 The Irish Rovers
  Tangerine Slyde 
 Truth, Dragonfly
    Universal Trash Band/Heaven  
  Legends 1963
    Gold Dust, Smiling Hard
 Cherry Smash
 Generation, In Pulse, Smiling Hard
  Dog Jaw, Shrine, Aunty Maggies Remedy, Cinnamon Set, Rosemery Green
    For-Tunes, Original For-Tunes, Rampant
    Brother Blue
    For-Tunes, Original For-Tunes, Rampant
  Third Dimension, J Crow Combo, Crow, 3rd Dimension, Academy, Cherry Smash, 
 Sheiks of R & B, Soul Society
 Crestas, Hunters
    Crestas
   The Denny Bernard Combo.
  The Informers
   The Cellarmen
 Transit 1960's
  The Travellers 
 Blackout
 Johnnie Vance and the  Everglades, Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
 Commodore Jazz Band 
 Image
  Playboys,
   Pevensey Brown Mellon
  Teapots, Wrong Direction
  Harlem Speakeasy, Image
 Pevensey Brown Mellon(Lightshow)
 Crestas, Hunters
   Five by Five, Inspiration, Universal Trash Band, Heaven
  Jamies Kin
     Limelites, The Royals
      Green Machine 
 Moonrakers, Poor People, EXP, The Charades.
 Leytons
  Bondsmen
   Mustangs
    Five by Five
   Frenzy, Universal Trash Band, Heaven, Heaven mk2,
 Paramounts, Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
 State Penitentiary, Riverside Blues Band, Dear Rachel, Truth
 Paramounts, Brothers Scarlet with Gary& Lee
 Ramblers
 For-tunes (aka Josie Franklyn*)
 Commodore Jazz Band
 Dark Angels Rhythm Group
 Bipeds
  Hot Rods
 Teenbeats
 Escorts
 The Vigilantes, Remains, Travis Raymer,  Poor People, Morgan’s Camel Train, Tangerine Slyde, Rosemary
  Renegades, Fleetwoods
 Mood.
 Escorts 
 Jaguars
 Paramounts, Hunters
 Fool Moon, Roadrunners & King Rollo
  Truth, Dragonfly
 Riverside Blues Band, Dear Rachel, Truth
  The Royals 
  Country Jam
 Crusaders
  Harlem Speakeasy, Harlem Soul Band, Rosemary  
  The Rovers folk band 1967 
  Aunty Maggies Remedy, Dog Jaw, Shrine, Cinnamon Set, Rosemery Green  
 Mood Indigo 1968 
   Furys
 Midnighters, Hellions
    Teapots, Wrong Direction
    Sherlock and the Saints
 The Cellarmen/Lengens 1965, Technicolour Yawn 1966
 Groovy Kind, Transit 
 Bipeds
  Image
 Indigo Mood, Inspiration
 Hellstones, Green Machine, Rivals
    Groovy Kind,  Transit  
 Groovy Kind
 Dynachords
     Escorts
   Coastliners, Third Dimension, St Louis Checks, Coconut Mushroom
  Monk, Zeo Zigg 
 Diplomats
 Country Jam
 Mood, Baxter's Art of Tomorrow.
 Blackout, Gold Dust
  Hi Fi's
 Image
 Travis Raymar
 Frenzy
 EXP, In Grandma's Ansence, Absence
 EXP, In Grandma's Ansence, Absence
     Cadillacs
  The Irish Rovers
 Mood.
  Hi Fi's
  The Storms, Scheme, Roger Anthony Four
 Legends, The Rovers folk band 1967, Technicolour Yawn 1966 
 Freemen
  Freemen 
 Barry and the Strollers, Generation, Scheme, Thumper 
 Hoy Rods, Mustangs
     Confidentials, The Storms, The Royals
    J Crow Combo, Hawkley Fox
 St Louis Checks
 Midniters, Fleetwoods
 Good life, Timeless Trend 
  Demons Skiffle Group
 Mood, Baxter's Art of Tomorrow, The Strange Case of Watkins World
     Classics, Simon Dupree 
 
  Aunty Maggies Remedy, Dog Jaw, Shrine, Cinnamon Set, Rosemery Green, Vince's Teeth
 The Storms, The Royals
  Avengers
 Stormriders, Talismen
 Conchords, Soul Society, St Louis Checks, Amalgamation
     The Charades
 Talismen 
 Challengers
  Coconut Mushroom, Paper, Heaven2
    Horizon
 Demons Skiffle Group
    Leytons,  Blues Convention 
  Aunty Maggies Remedy, Dog Jaw. Shrine. Cinnamon Set. Rosemery Green 
 Challengers
 Tremors
 Brother Blue
 Mood.
     Talismen, Sons of Man, Lace, Aubrey Small
 Talismen,  Dynamos, Scheme, The Roger Anthony Four 
     Barry & Zodiacs, Chapter 6, Rosemary, Springhill, Dawn, Informers
  Poor Valley String Band. 
 Riverside Blues Band, Dear Rachel
  Aunty Maggies Remedy, Dog Jaw Cinnamon SetRosemery Green
 
   Legends 1963 
   Karl and the Rapiers
 Escorts
  Informers
  Horizon
 Tennessee Studs, Tony Porter Group, later promoter 
   Challengers, Moments
  The Storms, The Royals
 The Irish Rovers
 Phantoms, Conchords, The Chicanes, Black Cat Bone, Soul Society, Morgan's Camel Train
 Outer Limits
  Barry and the Zodiacs
 KC's Convention
 Moonrakers, Moments
 The Denny Bernard Combo.
 Cadillacs, Billy Storm & the Stormriders, Southern Sounds (aka Colin Christian), Hot Rods
 Hot Rods
 Truth
     Paramounts, Hunters
 Classics, Simon Dupree & BS
 Tremors
 The Cellarmen
     Talismen, Lace
 Frenzy
 Dragonfly
 Hustlers
  Image
    Johnnie and the Cutters, Talismen, Arthur Ward Band
 Mood Five
 For-tunes, Original For-Tunes, Rampant
 The Travellers 
 Mood Five
  Bondsmen
 Billy Storm and the Stormriders, solo folk musician
 The Chicanes, Black Cat Bones 
 EXP, In Grandma's Ansence, Absence
 Shamrocks IOW
  KC's Convention
 Tennessee Studs
  Johnnie Vance and the  Everglades,
 Crusaders
     Crusaders
    Dynachords
    Wanted
 Travis Raymar, Tangerine Slyde
 Klimax, Wrong Direction
   Outer Limits
 Sheiks of R & B, Frenzy, Frost
  Avengers
 Leytons
    Crestas, Southern Sounds, J Crow Combo, Crow, England
 Pevensey Brown Mellon
    Indigo Mood, Universal Trash Band, Heaven
 Ramblers    
  Paper, Heaven2
  Mike Glover Combo
 The Royals
     Cherry Smash
 Limelites
      Riverside Blues Band
 Time Dynasty, Hector
   Karl and the Rapiers
     Outer Limits
 The Vigilantes
    In Pulse, Image, Harlem Speakeasy, Harlem Soul Band, Tayles, Les Humphries Singers
 The Vigilantes
 Roadrunners, Simon Dupree & BS, Gentle Giant
 Roadrunners, Simon Dupree & BS, Gentle Giant
 Roadrunners, Simon Dupree & BS
  Barry and the Strollers, Frost
   Jays
 Birth, Time Dynasty
  Furys
 Cadillacs,
 Riverside Blues Band, Dear Rachel
 Flintstones, Everly Brothers
 Green Onions, Poor People
    Virgin Circle, Eygpt, Mushroom
 Image
 KC's Convention
 Pete Stroiller and the Drifters, Mark Barry Four
 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound
  Horizon
 Phantoms, Tennessee Studs
 Country Jam
  Green Machine 
 Green Machine
 The Irish Rovers
    Tennessee Studs, J Crow Combo, Klimaks
 Mike Glover Combo
  Legends 1965
 Limelites
 For-tunes, Original For-tunes, Classics
 Southern Sounds
 Caddilacs, Jamies Kin
 Meteors UK
 Commodore Jazz Band, Renegades
 The Storms, The Royals
    Monk, Zeo-Zigg
    Monk, Zeo-Zigg
 Mood Indigo 1968  
 Mike Glover Combo, Scheme, Pete Stroller and the Drifters, Dynamos, Mark Barry Four
    Fleetwoods
 Escorts, later roadie with Rampant
 Billy Storm and the Stormriders
 Pete Stroiller and the Drifters
 The Irish Rovers  
  Generation 
    Parkas
 Parkas
   Five by Five, Jamies Kin, Birth, Good Life, Timeless Trend 
 Pevensey Brown Mellon(Lightshow)
   KC's Convention
   The Storms, The Royals
  Gaudy Doyle Set
   KC's Convention
     Sons of Man, Aubrey Small
 Jays, Travis Raymar, Tangerine Slyde, Coconut Mushroom
 Hawkley Fox
 Legends 1964, FivexFive
 Johnnie and the Cutters
 Good Life, Timeless Trend 
 Hustlers
 Inspiration
 Commodore Jazz Band
     Dark Angels Rhythm Group
     Meteors UK
 Johnie Little and the San Pedro Four
    Karl and the Rapiers
    Inspiration, Wanted, Gilbey twiss 
 Inspiration
     Rengades, Dynamos, Third Dimension, Acadamy, Cherry Smash
     Brother Blue
    Demons Skiffle Group
 Dragonfly
 Hector
 Force Four
 Dragonfly
 Dragonfly
   Crescendos
     Signs Of Change
 EXP, In Grandma's Ansence, Absence
 Tea-pots, Wrong Direction
 Tangerine Slyde
   Legends 1963 
     Teenbeats
    Conchords, Soul Society, Frost
  Hi Fi's
  Sapphires
 Jaguars, Playboys
 Midniters, Paramounts
 Diplomats, Moments
  Rivals, Moments, Plague, Academy, Soul Society, St Louis Checks, Magic Roundabout
 Karl and the Rapiers
  Dirty pig 
 Dark Angels Rhythm Group
 Rivals
 St Louis Checks
 Rod and the Residents, Furys 
  Good Life, Timeless Trend 
 The Irish Rovers 
 Crescendos  
 Indigo Mood
     Rivals
  Mirkwood
  Hot Rods, Billy Storm & the Stormriders, Diplomats
 Sheiks of R & B, Coastliners, St Louis Checks, Magic Roundabout, Harlem Speakeasy, England
     Crow
 Crow
 Paramounts, Hunters
 Jays, Outer Limits, Threshold, Chicory Tip
     Billy Storm & the Stormriders, 
     Cadillacs, Rengades, Barry and Strollers, J Crow Combo, Hot Rods
     Lees Angel Cake Band
 Rivendell
 St Louis Checks
  Classics.
  Hustlers        
 Mood.
   Sons of Man, Aubrey Small
 Sons of Man 
 Meteors UK
 The Travellers, Legends (BG)
 Meteors UK