The Movies - Black Country Lady

The Movies were:
Jon Cole: Guitar & Vocals
Greg Knowles: Guitar & Vocals
Dag Small: Keyboards & Vocals
Durban Laverde: Bass & Vocals
Julian Diggle: Percussion & Vocals
Jamie Lane: Drums & Vocals
Originalversion from the LP Record - 1975

[@mikelamb3751]

❤ happiest day of my life mega album still love it at 65 ❤

[@kevinolevino8952]

If you search the internet you can find ALL the Movies songs available free to download. Posted up by a former member.

[@kevinolevino8952]

Unsung heroes !

[@jonpitt8504]

Bought this album in 1976 ... and it zoomed straight to the top of my favourites list. In terms of musicianship and originality, this was arguably the best British band of the '70's. As I understand it, these guys were all former session players, and it showed .. on every single track. This was one that stood out for me, great arrangement and a superb guitar solo that would have been beyond any British rock god of this era, except Jeff Beck. Such a travesty that 'punk' had to come along and kill off bands like this. The British music scene has never recovered since.

[@kevinolevino8952]

Couldn't agree more!

[@RemiPut]

Saw this band in the 70's opening for Supertramp in Amsterdam ! They sound GREAT!

[@Hermanroovers]

great album! one of my favourites, great arrangements and nice to hear the superb guitar playing and the tastefull moog/synths

[@martincarden]

I first saw them (The Movies) as Joan Armatrading's backing band (both were awesome) supporting Supertramp at the Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollo) on the 'Crisis, what crisis?' tour sometime in 1975 I suppose, maybe '76 - One of the best concerts I ever attended. This is my favourite track from my favourite album by them - I liked the Steely Dan-esque laid-backness of the sound which they never re-visited on later albums. They struggled for ages, through several not bad albums but never really quite hit the bigtime (shame!).

[@martincarden]

If interested in this band check out www.themovies.org.uk/rekindle/ (posted by Jon Cole a couple years back).

[@dacun2734]

Great

[@tvcentury]

I used to hear about this band's progress direct from Adrian Knowles, Gregg's brother, as we used to attend the same secondary school (Sir Freds in WGC) - he used to help out with roadie work and was often at their gigs, which I heard all about told with huge enthusiasm for his brother's guitar playing - I eventually saw them play live at Sheffield Poly around 1977 and recall it was an excellent gig. Really enjoy the combination of synth and guitar on this track

[@ambadad]

I went to Sheff Poly in Sept 1978 and certainly saw them there in what was then the new Student Union building (now gone).

[@tvcentury]

@@ambadad The gig I saw was at the Totley Union bar at the Teacher Training site - but also saw bands at the Student Union building - very cheap beer I recall.......

[@ambadad]

@@tvcentury Sounds like you were a year ahead of me. I did get out to Totley a few times doing the discos with Stage Services. Also saw Chris Rea and Dexy’s Midnight Runners out there. Great place.

[@ercheo]

Durban Laverde is living in Venezuela his hometwon

[@MrDurbs1]

No, he's not, in UK.

[@kiae-nirodiariesencore4270]

Two from Public Foot the Roman, another underrated band. Sadly The Movies couldn’t survive Punk, bad timing.

[@KevMuso]

Durban Laverde played bass, not keyboards. Dag Small played keyboards. Bass and keyboards are both excellent on this album.