THIS SITE IS FOR THE MEMORY OF KEV WHO WOULD HAVE LOVED THE INFINITY THAT IS THE GLOBAL NETWORK AND THE IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO ALL THAT TALENT OUT THERE.
The X-Certs, from Coventry, England, began life in 1978 and lasted for 3 years. Zero Summers (Kev) had started playing drums about 2 weeks before we got together. A Natural!!! Gray Summers, previously playing 6 string, changed to bass at the same time due to a lack of bass players in Coventry, at the time. Dave Pepper, was persuaded to join by kidnapping and threat of torture. He was pretty good and Gray and Zero didn’t think he would join a couple of novices. Swayed by our lack of good looks (it meant he would stand out!!) we got down to the nitty gritty of writing some tunes. Dave and Gray shared vocals and the song writing. Some decent tunes and a semblance of being able to play a bit materialised and we launched into gigs. Joined by Dave Chalmers (sound) and Chris King (previous manager of The Flys - check them out on myspace, you’ll be glad you did!) we got rolling.
Our image was pretty low key as we thought the music spoke for us. Our following was pretty good, but the more visual bands of the time (the Specials/Selecter/God’s Toys) grabbed a huge fan base in Coventry. We won the Battle of the Bands at Warwick Uni. and suddenly ’got confidence’. Dill of God’s Toys (a superb Cov. band see them on youtube) felt cheated. We’d probably agree with him. Gig after gig, a few recording sessions and interest from record companies materialised and then we sort of drifted apart really. The threat of the single release of ’FEELING IN THE GROOVE’ c/w ’SATISFIED’ didn’t materialise as the Indie record label ZAMA Records kept re-mixing it all the time. (They wanted fairy dust sprinkling over it !!!!!)
Zero joined up with a few mates playing his own songs and Dave and Gray went on to form Team 23 (Soul Band) with Jerome Heisler, Adrian Black and John Hewitt. We did some great gigs of which supporting Dexy’s Midnight Runners was the biggest and then Dave decided the style wasn’t for him. He went and did music more suited to his style of playing.
Gray added a brass section to the Team 23 (Roy Wall-sax and Lynn Thompson-trumpet) and a new guitarist (Jim Landsbury-later of Coventry 80’s band ‘King’) The Team supported the Specials on tour, Madness and the Selecter and played mainly original songs written by Jerome and Gray. A single was released on the Specials drummer John Bradbury’s Race Records label. ‘MOVE INTO THE RHYTHM’ (Gray) and ‘WHATEVER MOVES YOU’ (Jerome) was a double ‘A’ side 7†vinyl. If you’ve got a copy it’s worth a cool collectable £40 now!!! It was after a few radio plays and a change of personnel that Gray started to feel the ’Seeking Elusive Stardom’ thing wasn’t for him and took up making ceramics. He lives in West Wales now and can be seen strumming and playing djembe on the beach in between the busy times that involve studying for a degree in nursing.
Gray’s brother, Kev (Zero Summers) was sadly killed in a car crash at the age of 21 and the lights went out really.
Dave still plays (check out his music and information on his myspace site davepepperband , and again, you’ll be glad you did). He lives in America now and still rocks.
The songs ’SATISFIED’, ’FEELING IN THE GROOVE’, ’ONE OF THE BOYS’ and ’ASYLUM’ are PEPPER/SUMMERS compositions.
To all who have accessed --- Have a golden life.
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