(Chiswick, London 78 – 86)
Official Pre-79 Releases;
Come on 7″ (Albion, ION-1) released Mar 78
Tracks: Come on, Darkest Night
Hold on 7″ (Albion, ION-2) released Sep 78
Tracks: Hold on, Chicken run
Hld On 7″ (Ariola, 100 417) released 78, Germany
Tracks: Hold on, Black & white
24 Hour service 7″ (Albion, ION-5) recorded 78, released Feb 79
Tracks: 24 Hours service, Black & white
Summer Holiday LP (Albion, ALBG-100) released Dec 78, re-issued as Gomm With the Wind (Albion, DAI-1)
Tracks: Hooked On Love, Sad Affair, Black And White, Come On, Hold On, Airplane, 24 Hour Service, That´s The Way I Rock ´n´ Roll, Dirty Lies, You Can´t Do That, Chicken Run, Another Year
Various Artists – Vinyl Solution LP (Jem, IMP SAM 9) released 78, USA
Tracks: Dirty Lies
Other Pre-79 Recordings;
Further Information;
http://www.iangomm.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gomm
http://www.herbieflowers.com/
Line up:
Ian Gomm’s band
c78
Ian Gomm (voc/gtr)
Herbie Flowers (bass)
Barry De Souza (drms)
Raf Ravenscroft (sax)
Chris Parren (keyb)
Ian Gomm is ex-Unit 4 (62-64), Unknowns (65), Generations (66), Triangle (67-68), Daisy Showband (69), Brinsley Schwarz (70-74), also in Frankie Miller’s band (78)
Barry De Souza is ex-Smooth Layer (71), Ablution (Sweden, 74), Herbie Flowers also backed Johnny Rubbish
Chris Parren is ex-Forever Amber (69), JJ Jackson’s Dilemma (70), Locust (76), Midnight Flyer (77), later The Contenders (79)
all the punk bands 