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Bob aged 18, practising his rhythm method. His mum wouldn't let him to get a proper kit so he had to use an oversized blancmange. | |
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Bob's first band, Bolweivel, during a publicity trip to Feltham Common. Bob is far left. Really. | |
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Bolweivel on the last freedom moped out of Staines. | |
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Dave's first stab at rock and roll immortality, Panti-Hose and the Y-Fronts, circa 1977. Dave's flares had their own post code. Jesus Christ, what were they thinking? | |
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Dave's first real band, Tall Order, live at the Cardiff Top Rank in 1979. | |
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Former Red plankspanker Mark Sullivan and current Red drummer Tim Bruce giving it some welly, circa mid-seventies | |
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Probably the most inept and talentless Blues Brothers tribute band ever to crawl out of the Midlands. Dave on guitar at a packed-out Tic Toc Club in Coventry, 1991. | |
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Tim in rehearsal with Toytown Rovers, 1994. | |
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The first incarnation of Shades Of Red, 1995. Obscurity was just a heartbeat away. | |
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The second Shades Of Red line-up, featuring Malcolm for the first time. He had only turned up at the Young Offenders' Institute to take Bob home but found himself in the band. | |
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The third line-up. Boyzone? More like Warzone. | |
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In a laid back mood, Kingston 1998. | |
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Bob Grant on his way to Woodstock. That's Woodstock in Oxfordshire, presumably. | |
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A flyer for The Hungry Horse. Whatever happened to The Unknowns? No-one knows. | |
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Bob, Mick (occasional acoustic guitarist) and Malcolm. Malc is worried that people might mistake Mick's good-natured camaraderie for something more, er, intimate. | |
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An acoustic night with Red at an unknown and undecorated venue. | |
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Rocking Feltham. The only known photo of Red with former bass player Hugh Stokes, who has been carefully obscured by Malcolm's suntan. | |
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