Plummet Airlines

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Plummet Airlines
General information
Genre (s) Pub rock
founding 1973 as The Brothel Keepers
resolution 1977
Founding members
Harry Stephenson
Guitar, vocals
 Richard Booth
Guitar, vocals
 Ken ...
Bass , vocals
 Darryl Hunt
Simon Bladon
former members
Drums
 Keith Gotheridge (from 1974)
Guitar, vocals
 Duncan Kerr (from 1974)
Vocals, guitar
 Malcolm Morley (temporarily 1976)
Drums
 Gaspar Lawal (temporarily 1977)

The Plummet Airlines were a British pub rock band from Nottingham , whose members could later be found in the Darts , the Pogues and Audio Murphy . The rock group was founded by singer and guitarist Harry Stephenson from Harrogate , who had previously played in the band Junkyard Angel . The Plummet Airlines were the first band of The Pogues bassist Darryl Hunt .

Band history

Beginning in Nottingham

The five members of this "crashing airline" met in 1973 at the art college. Stephenson, Hunt, drummer Simon Bladon, and two other guitarists, including Richard Booth, were looking for a band for a film project. Since they couldn't find what they were looking for in town, they quickly founded one themselves, which - as it was supposed to be called in the film - was called The Brothel Creepers . Soon after the film was shot, they also played their first concerts - at college dance parties. Their music was influenced by Eric Clapton , Neil Young , Poco , Love and Captain Beefheart . One of the band's first original songs was "Silver Shirt" (like most of the material written by Stephenson), which they played live from the start but didn't record as a single for Stiff Records until 1976 .

Scene hit in London

In 1974 Keith Gotheridge replaced drummer Simon Bladon; Duncan Kerr came on as guitarist for founding member Ken. For a while the band called themselves Glider . After they got their first gigs in London , they called themselves Plummet Airlines . They played in the Hope & Anchor Club, whose studio was run by Stiff founder Dave Robinson at the time . There they met Malcolm Morley (formerly with Help Yourself , Man ), with whom they went on a tour to Holland in 1976 . On this tour they also played with Clancy , the band of Morley's former bandmate Ernie Graham .

Morley recorded an LP with Plummet Airlines as the backing band (and with Ian Gomm von Brinsley Schwarz , who also produced) , which was only released a quarter of a century later. John Peel invited the Plummets to his sessions twice. They also opened up for bands like Van der Graaf Generator , Huey Lewis and Mallard . The single on Stiff (produced by Sean Tyla ) was followed in 1977 by another, "It's Hard" (on State Records ). The Plummet Airlines were great as a live band and had, at least in the UK an enthusiastic audience. But the band's management failed to negotiate a longer record deal. The punk was going off now, and the band members were divided on which direction their music should go. So it came to the separation.

After the separation

Stephenson then worked on the Harry & the Atoms project ; In 1981 he put a double album for Hedon Records together with the best that Plummet Airlines had ever put on record, including live recordings from Hope & Anchor . Booth went to Brainiac 5 and later to Audio Murphy (where he met Duncan Kerr, who in the meantime played darts with Keith Gotheridge .) Darryl Hunt became bassist for the Pogues . In August 2004 there was a reunion concert in Nottingham. And in April 2006, some former Plummet Airlines members performed as the Richard Booth Band in Great Britain.

Discography

  • Silver Shirt / This Is the World (Single, 1976)
  • It's Hard / My Time in a While (single, 1977)
  • On Stoney Ground (double LP, 1981)

with Malcolm Morley

  • Lost and Found (album, 2002)

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