1977/1978 - LOCKJAW (Simon Gallup)
1977/1978 - LOCKJAW
Gary Bower (Bo Zo) - vocals
Stuart Hinton (Micky Morbid)- guitar
Simon Gallup (Andy Septic) - bass
Martin Ordish (Oddy Ordish) - drums
Lockjaw Links;
http://www.detour-records.co.uk/LOCKJAW.htm
http://www.detour-records.co.uk/LOCKJAWTEXT.htm
http://www.detour-records.co.uk/LOCKJAWBOZOEMAIL.htm
Below is information I found online = (a
Lockjaw link)
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Oddie Ordish
Reminisces...
Formed out of the ashes of 'The Guernsey Flowers', then changing their name to
'The Amazing Doctor Octopuss' before settling on 'Lockjaw'. The first ever gig
was under the name of 'The Guernsey Flowers' and it was at 'St Francis' Church
Hall, Balcombe Road in Horley. For a laugh we put a load of confetti in a
cardboard box over the stage. It was my idea of special effects!! What we didn't
realise that earlier in the day, the box had contained flowers from Guernsey,
and this was actually printed on the side of the box!!! These special effects
(or not as the case was...) lead the audience (one man and his dog with a few
Hippies chucked in for good measure) led to a slight misunderstanding. The
upshot was, the assumption we were called 'The Guernsey Flowers' ... Not the
best name for a young well 'ard Punk band starting out in those days! It took
ages to shake off this name but thinking back it was a good old larf...
In our two year existence, we recorded many tracks for 'Lee Wood's' "Raw
Records" and managed to release two singles on his label. The first being 'Radio
Call Sign' which was actually written by our faithful Van Driver / Roadie come
Manager 'Dave Gallup', the older brother to 'Simon Gallup'. The label actually
credited a 'D. Gallot' but this was a typing error. The follow up single was
'Journalist Jive'. Unfortunately, the other studio recorded tracks have been
lost in time......or have they? It would be good if we could track down the
masters to all these tracks, or good quality versions so that we could release
then as a retrospective release and actually make a little dosh as we never saw
a penny from Lee Wood!!!
When we were gigging as 'Lockjaw' we used to play with another local band called
"Easycure". We used to play under the heading of "I KNOW AN EASYCURE FOR
LOCKJAW". A year later they dropped the 'Easy' and became 'The Cure' and we
changed our name to the "The Magazine Spies" or just Mag/Spys.
Just as the 'The Cure' were breaking, the band were invited to support 'The
Specials' in Paris so a few members of the 'Mag/Spys went along as roadies for
them.
Sadly, the Mag/Spys wasn't really in existence that long as things were really
taking off for the other local band The Cure' as they had just been signed to
'Fiction Records' and 'Mick Dempsy' has just left and his space needed filling.
So 'Robert Smith' asked 'Simon Gallup' & Matthieu Hartley' if they would like to
join The Cure. Sadly that was the last time we saw those two for many years!
Years later, I went on 'Head On The Door' tour with 'The Cure' and Robert Smith
ponced a fiver from me....I suppose some things never change!
The rest is history so to speak....
Martin "Oddie" Ordish
8th January 2006
(http://www.detour-records.co.uk/LOCKJAWTEXT.htm)
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Emailed Received On 11th January 2007
Just discovered your site and I have to announce I am " Bozo" or Gary Bowe from
Lockjaw / Magspys. I can tell what a surprise to see these old records on a
website It is close on 30years ago when we went to Cambridge to record Radio
call Sign at Spaceward studios. I remember Dave Gallup phoning me at home and
saying we were going to make a record and I didn't believe him. If Stuart, Simon
or Martin are out there they can tell you all about me and Bounty bars and tell
you about Barry Ward and Steve Mushroom or about how Simon Gallup used a beer
glass to take a piss in at Spaceward studios and almost got the engineer to
drink it (accidentally of course). I would love to hear from them if you can
get Emails etc and reminisce.
Bozo
(http://www.detour-records.co.uk/LOCKJAWBOZOEMAIL.htm)
(thanks so much
http://www.detour-records.co.uk)
