last known members of Patrol were
Ronnie ( Ron ) Smith - Guitar
Graham ( Stewarty ) Stewart - Bass
Patrick ( Paddy ) Feechan - Vocals and Trouble
John ( Jock ) Hart - Drums.
Influences
From Procal harum to the Sex Pistols .... from Abba to the Clash ...from Jimmy Hendrix to Creedance cleerwater revival ...who cares.
The Fab Four come from the cultural centre of the UK - Leven/Methil and apart from playing music, they are heavily involved in drinking. Musical influences range from Marie Osmond to Donnie Osmond. Patrol will consider all offers of recording contracts and will accept donations gratefully. The band's main ambition for the future is to make lots of money"
That's what we said on the insert for our second demo cassette, "Another Fiasco", in 1982. The bit about the money came true: in January 1997 we each made £12.50 from a live gig!
We have never taken a decision to stop playing as a group, but around 1987, we just sort of stopped doing gigs. Around about 1992 we got together to do a party gig with another local band "Backlash".
In October 1996 we were asked to do a support for Canadian band "The McCrackins" along with "External Menace". This went well (according to the audience), but was hellish (according to us). As a result of that gig we've played several others and are looking towards writing new material and recording some of the older songs which never made it onto tape/vinyl.
There WILL soon be a CD of Patrol stuff - the original Patrol demo tapes and more. Meantimes, there are a couple of MPEG audio files on the discography page on the website here>>>
http://www.unknownsoldiers.co.uk/
Angel City Outcasts – The Clint Eastwood of Rock – is back in europe! They play a mixture of Rock’n’Roll and Punkrock and deliver such a powerfull straight-in-your-face liveshow you won’t forget. They already shared a stage with Bands like Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Social Distortion, Peter Pan Speedrock, Peacocks and many more.
Aye - a couple of gigs coning up after us "resting" over the summer!! We managed all to be in teh same place at teh same time for 999 but we Haven't played together for four months so need to get a few practices in again - if our busy lives let us!!!
aye good gig as always,, pity about the usual com on everybody,, swindle wana be punks,, they know who they are,,,,, remember 1977,, time to change there nappys ,,HA HA,,, BRILLO,,,
Great to hear you boys up and playing again! I'll no make the Funpub - I'm at a gig in Kirkcaldy (working) -lots of Irish chaps in colourful fancy dress playing musical instraments in the streets of Kirkcaldy then various parts of Fife that evening! (i'm sure they'll keep me and my chums busy!). Catch you soon (in a good way) HF
THESE ARE OUR NEXT GIG'S I HOPE YOU CAN MAKE TO SOME OF THEM THE ELIZABETHAN IS FREE AND THE CAFE DRUMMOND'S GIG IS ONLY £ 3 SO IT WONT BREAK THE BANK SEE YOU THERE
