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Hobo Coventry Music archives started out on Vox blogs in 2007, The site now closed is hosted on Typepad but provides an opportunity to reorganise the material on that site. Hobo was a Coventry Music and Arts Magazine c 1973 -75 run by Trev Teasdel and co-founded with John Bargent (Bo) and the Hobo Workshop at The Holyhead Youth Centre and later the Golden Cross was an important early music center in the history of Two Tone and the Coventry music scene.
This is the Hub to all the Coventry music sites below http://covmusicscenehobo.blogspot.co.uk/
This is the New Version of the Hobo A to Z of bands called Coventry Bands - 1960's to Now Here https://coventrybands.blogspot.com/
Hobo Coventry Music Archives ( The main blog) (Hobo magazine archives, features, other alternative Coventry mags and more.
Coventry Arts Umbrella Club The Umbrella was established 1955 and opened by the Goons. It produced an important Literary Journal which featured an essay by Philip Larkin. Held lectures by writers like EM Foster. Held the first Coventry Folk club. Was home to Coventry musicians, including some who were later in Two Tone bands.
Coventry Gigs 1960 - present houses Peter Clemon's Rock of Ages columns for the Coventry Telegraph which charts gigs in Coventry (local bands and famous bands) from 1960 onwards. In addition I'm adding Disco DJ Venue Gig, Coventry Hits, Pete Waterman archives to this section and my 1971 diary of Coventry gigs as a resource.
Coventry Discos / Venues / Studios - Work in progress - includes music shops and more.
Coventry Folk Club Scene
This blog with house copies of Pete Willow's Folks Magazine from c 1978 and articles from it. My archive of material from the Coventry Folk Scene in the 1970s and other relevant articles, You Tube and links.
Trev Teasdel
contact hobozine@googlemail.com
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