The Contenders
Elastic Band played the band “The Bank of England Pop Group” in the TV mini series The Contenders from 1969 shown on UK TV.
The Contenders
Category: Andy Scott Bio
Andy Scott/The Strangers
And Andy remembers: “I was with them for a few months before I joined The Silverstones. We won a Battle of Bands which would lead to a record contract but 2 of the guys had good jobs and would not become professional
Andy Scott/The Strangers
Andy Scott/Solo releases
Andys solo career, such as it was, happened purely by accident. From 1974 – 1984 he released 5 singles in 10 years – the word is discerning or maybe lazy or possibly just very busy!
Andy Scott/Solo releases
Andy Scott/Biography
Formerly known as the website www.andyscott.info Andy Scott: “I am a hoarder and to my delight and chagrin I appear to have kept everything. As a result everything you read an see here has been taken from my own personal collection of
Andy Scott/Biography
Andy Scott/Mayfields Mule
The band were: Chris Mayfield, Wendy Grant, Mike Scott, Pete Saunders, Sean Jenkins, Andy Scott.
Andy Scott/Mayfields Mule
Andy Scott/The Scaffold
The Scaffold were Mike McGear, John Gorman & Roger McGough they performed a mixture of comic songs, comedy sketches and the poetry of McGough, Which can be heard on their 1968 live album, they also released a number of singles on Parlophone
Andy Scott/The Scaffold
Andy Scott/The Cool
In late 1968, the Elastic Band wrote and recorded an album of vocal and instrumental tracks under the contractually anonymous pseudonym of The Cool. Although the tracks weren’t made commercially available at the time, it was a useful experience for the band,
Andy Scott/The Cool
Andy Scott/Elastic Band
The Elastic Band sprang back like a rubber chicken from the remains of The Silverstone Set. As the legends go, the night they opened for The Jimi Hendrix Experience in Manchester was a life-altering episode for Andy and Ted Yeadon—like discovering that
Andy Scott/Elastic Band
Andy Scott/The Silverstone Set
When he joined The Silverstone Set in 1966, they were probably the most professional outfit in the North Wales Area. They were a six-piece band – a drummer who sang lead vocals, Andy was the bass player, a guitarist, Hammond Organ and
Andy Scott/The Silverstone Set
Andy Scott/The Forewinds
The Forewinds was the first “pro” band that Andy played with. The manager was the father of the guitarist and he ran the band as if it was a business. This was his first taste of discipline within the music business but
Andy Scott/The Forewinds
