- The Bollweevils story
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- Formation
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- A Gigging
Band
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- The Record
Deal
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- It starts to go
slightly wrong
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- It goes very, very
wrong
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- Aftermath
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- The Bollweevils
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- This is
the story of a band called The
Bollweevils -- a band that never quite made it to
the big time. It could be read, I suppose, as some kind
of cautionary tale, but it is presented here purely to
remember a fine band, some good songs, and some great
friends. I hope that it brings back a few memories for
those who were in and around Sheffield in the late 1980s,
or who saw them gigging at various venues around the
country. And for those who didn't know the band at the
time, I hope you enjoy the music that still sounds pretty
darned good over a decade later.
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- (It was
some time after the band was formed that they found out
that the name "The Bollweevils" had previously been
adopted by an early incarnation of The
Kinks, and our band (1985-1993), should not be
confused with the 1990s punk band from Chicago.)
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- Formation
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- Acknowledgements: Many thanks to the Mark
Johnson, Sarah Griffiths, Chris Coyle and Pete
Darnborough for their time in checking the information on
this site, and for their generosity in allowing mp3s of
their work to be made available for free.
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