The Archive

Last update August 2009.

    This looks like it might have been a good un ! Two top English blues bands and a host of good support bands, a large number of them Welsh bands from Swansea , Cardiff and Neath areas . The Eyes of Blue were well known to the Archive as we lived in the area (in fact we roadied for an offshoot band called Yellow for one gig , a free concert in a park in Swansea attended by about five people, the soles of my shoes nearly melted due to the exhaust of the van becoming red hot , amazingly the van didn't catch fire ).

    The Eyes featured Phil Ryan who went on to star in Man , as well as Taff Williams and John Weathers, who both played in various well known UK bands in the 1970s . Kimla Taz were semi legendary in most of South Wales, even in 1969, as they sported an excellent guitarist in the late Tich Gwilym, although we never caught one of their gigs. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera were famed for excellent live shows.