Grove documentary - the music

Met Aries this evening and I gave him a copy that he intends making more copies of.

I agree Pat. We should all commit to e-mailing RTE to rebroadcast the show and our Webcast as well. I started watching the RTE2 movie last night - a local production called Goldfish Memory or something like that. I just didn't get it and switched off.

Bruns,

It was actually near 290,000 people who watched it.

See response below from RTE

Dear Pat

Thank you for your request which will be logged for circulation to the senior Editorial Team.

Your interest in RTÉ output is appreciated.

Kind Regards

Brigitte Murphy
RTÉ Information-Communications

 

info@rte.ie

This is Bitch, the band whose single, "Good Time Coming", I played on the documentary.

Originally called "The Clevedonaires", from Clevedon just south of Auckland, New Zealand they came to UK in 1971.

Line up Graham Brown, Rob Aicken, Gaye Brown, Ron Brown. The Browns were all related, two brothers and Gaye the sister.

"Good Time Coming" was not a commercial success which makes it all the more amazing that Cecil had their record and played it and that I heard it and got it eventually and that it ended up on the documentary.

So if I'm ever in Clevedon, I expect a couple of free beers



p.s thanks to Derek Farrell for the pic





Edited by Biker Pat

Floyd wrote: Was a great evenings viewing,but leaves you a little sad,only because you immediatley want to be transported to a re-union,or back to the real thing twenty odd years ago. A fitting but slightly final little twist at the very end after the credits is where Cecil slides closed one of his famous singles boxes,as if sadly never to be opened again.

I guess Cecil did really close those boxes in 1997 thinking they would remain shut. But the wonderful thing is that he continues to play those songs at reunions and we can all get together to celebrate on a reasonably regular basis. Plus the Grove finally got the recognition it deserved through the documentary and subsequently by 32a, DJing on Phantom FM and general interest in the website. So the spirit of 67-97 lives on.

Yes-hear,hear,hear.

And Pat-any similarities to the vocals on Good Time Comin to CCR being the reason you liked the song??? Think it's a ringer for early Fogarty...

Had a friend who's home from Germany who came to visit last night-we showed her the doc and as SOON as Bitch came on she said-'Oh-thats CCR!!!'

I laughed out loud just as Pat came into the picture strumming beside the stereo!