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Dennis sang and played guitar, Eddy was the bass player, and Mick the Sticks was on drums. The band did about half covers, and half Dennis's own songs. Bob Dylan's 'Desire' had recently been released, (Hi Bob!), and we covered several tunes off the record, quite a few fine Jackson Browne songs, and even a Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks tune as well.
I seem to remember playing pretty much every night for up to a year. The Beach Hotel in Eastbourne was a memorable Saturday night residency, oh, and Frasco's winebar on a Thursday lunchtime, The Six Bells, Chiddingly, at the time a legendary venue, and so many I can't remember. Tha band shared a big old house down there, and I think we made about enough money to pay the rent and buy bread.
Ashley and Magee, I remember seemed to be just about always there at gigs, and times were good, if a little hazy. I've really been in pursuit of that vibe ever since. Sooner or later, I got replaced in the band by a sax player. I went back to college at Medway college of art, now Kent Institute of Art and Design, and spent three further years completing my four years of art college education.
Billy Childish and the Pop Rivets were kind of our adopted college band, and I think Tracey Emin was around with Billy on the poetry reading circuit. After college I set up a studio locally and worked a little for myself, then for an established potter on the Essex Suffolk borders, then I went and fell in love again...
I've now been here in London for 25 years. I worked for a Chelsea based architect for a time; that was good. Then I was involved with short life housing ; that was not so good. I was next door to the Hypnotics for going on 10 years. I've selectively forgotten that era, thank heavens.
I recently stopped working as a carpentry contractor for a local authority, something I did rather well for the last 10 years.
I set up a website or two a year or two ago, and am trying to, I guess, kind of rationalise my musical abilities and desires, in some kind of contemporary framework.
I've gigged a bit these last couple of years, previously with a 4 piece band with vocal, guitar, violin, bass and drums, and at the moment I'm enjoying playing with a smaller outfit accompanying a singer songwriter. See elsewhere on this page for details and links.
I kind of hope, that by having this space up here, I may someday hear again from the guys in Bandit. Back in the '70's, I was 19 or 20, the baby of the band, and all the guys were like, 30, which then may as well have been a hundred to me. There was no internet back then, no MySpace or anything like that. So, the band was 'BANDIT' in Eastbourne, and I'm BARRY TARGETT...
Please do check my YouTube channel (Link opposite, on the left of this page), where I have 40 odd mostly violin videos....
Thanks,
Barry.
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