COVENTRY MUSIC ARCHIVE

HOBO WORKSHOP - About

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:15:57 +0000

The HOBO Music and Arts Workshop 1974 / 75 was community based venture that was the culmination of a number of threads and a desire to develop more support and facilities for local bands, artists and poets in Coventry and resources for young peo...

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HOBO WORKSHOP - THE BANDS AND MIXED MEDIA

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:12:45 +0000

The Hobo Workshop operated for roughly one year between June 1974 and June 1975 (ish). The regular Monday night mixed media music concerts, first at the Holyhead Youth Centre and subsequently upstairs at the Golden Cross, were the central focus ...

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HOBO WORKSHOP - Underground Films,Street -Theatre, Trench Coat

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:08:47 +0000

I's fortgotten until I looked thrugh the letters I sent to the unedited versions of the letters I sent to the Coventry Evening Telgraph in relation to the Shut Down Coventry Shopping Precinct Concert, there more things being planned. A few got th...

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HOBO WORKSHOP - Shut Down Precinct Concert

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:05:46 +0000

THE HOBO WORKSHOP COVENTRY PRECINCT SWITCHED OFF POP CONCERT (Photo shows where the bands played) On September 1974 on a Saturday, the Hobo Workshop organised a a morning concert in Coventry city centre near the ountains. Youth worker Bob Rhodes...

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HOBO WORKSHOP - Detached Youth Work

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:01:38 +0000

Although Hobo was about music, poetry and Art, it also began with a social conscious. Part of the petition that led to Hobo was a complaint about the RU 18 squad (and local authority only busting underage drinkers and not doing anything to provide...

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VIRGIN ALBUM CHARTS - Coventry Store 74-75

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:00:54 +0000

The Virgin Record store in Coventry was a far cry from the impersonal, walk through mega-stores of today. This was the first-born venture of Richard Branson and the 60's ethos still permeated his business approach. The Coventry store was relative...

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COVENTRY TOP OF THE SINGLES CHARTS 1972

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:07:16 +0000

It was strange. In November 1972, two Coventry recordings both reached No one in the NME singles charts. Lieutenant Pigeon's instrumental Mouldy Old Dough reached No 1 October 14th 1972 and remained there for an amazing four weeks until 4th Nov...

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A LOTTA RAIN IS FALLIN - Songwriting at the GEC

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:02:53 +0000

I met Pete Waterman in 1970, while working at the GEC Stoke Works in Coventry. I was an Electrical Inspector at 19, testing telephone racks in the Telecommunications dept. It was a 7am start in a smelly factory (although as Pete notes in his auto...

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PETE WATERMAN'S SOUL ARTICLE FOR HOBO 1974

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:50:09 +0000

In 1973 Pete Waterman opened his new shop (with his mate Tilly) - The Soul Hole - in the basement of I AM - a hippy boutique in Hales Street Coventry. It specialised in rare soul imports not available in this country. Pete had connections thr...

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MADCAP PAINT FEUD

nobody@vox.com(HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:59:35 +0000

Although I wrote this, I was there to see it - this was reportage by Niki and various Hobo associates so I can't vouch for it's accuracy. It became a piece of Coventry scene folklore and strangely Roger Albion who has responded to the site, ment...

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