CREPES 'N' DRAPES

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East-Midlands, England, 1974. Some young teds are trying very hard to make rock 'n' roll music as it sounded way back in the fifties. After a lot of rehearsing and playing in local pubs around the Gloucester area, the gang formed they're first band. Crepes 'n' Drapes were born. There were so many changes in the line-up between 1974 and 1980 that I won't name them all here, well I probably couldn't anyway, even if I wanted to. In 1978 the band sent a demo tape of two self-penned songs to Sonet Records, who wanted to issue a rockabilly compilation of local bands. And they did, the two songs were issued "as is" on the album "The Best Of British Rockabilly, Volume 1". The band never knew about this until the album was released. The songs were never intended to be issued as demo's, the band wanted to record the songs in a proper studio. Now I think, this was a pretty good move of Sonet, because these songs, "Boogie Bop Dame" and "Big Black Chevrolet" are the only two songs that were ever released by Crepes 'n' Drapes. Around the same time, the band was signed to Aaran International Entertainments Agency & Promotion and they finally got a bit more national attention. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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