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Also pre-Tube Mark Mywords (before he changed the spelling) was always good for a laugh

I have an audio tape of a gig by Mark Mywords at the Rotherham Civic Theatre in the 80s, which was recorded through the mixing desk. He was on the same bill as us (The Popups - formally Tension) where he did his poems and routines about a spray that makes yer farts smell nice, the musical based on an unemployed youth called, "That's Unemployment" and various other things.

If anyone's interested in what we are up to musically after nearly 30 years please have a look at http://www.snowdune.co.uk/

I thought I knew you. Left in 88 when they offered a good redundunency as it was coming to an end especially after we were telling customers to buy their machine. I worked for myself after that til 95 and now I am enjoying every day being Sunday. Now the machines are getting too tempremental causing no end of problems not like the ones we grew up on, so I thought leave it to the young ones. Are you still at it Andy I knew you stopped working with Bingley.

John Bingly died about 4 years ago, was only about 58. I don't do repairs any more John. I run web sites about white goods and washing machines instead

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Andy

Yes John, We were Bingley & Trigg. I was the young cocky lad at the bench next to Dave Bird. I left in 1978 not long before it all went tits up at Wiggies.

Hi Dennis

My name is John Bishop an ex Hoover service engineer working from Walker St, the from Claywheels Lane with the TV men before being moved to Rotherham as ServiceScope. Your name doesn't ring any bells

Yours does John. I'm Andy Trigg, from the 3rd floor. My workbench was nearest to the stores. I remember all the outside reps who used to come in a morning to get spares and pick our brains at times ;-)

I was at Walker street from 1976 - 1978. Best days of my life.

Hey there are a couple of uncool dance band songs to download and i have all the records from them, My dad was the drummer Steve Maxwell, there were from Doncaster.

Nice one. Have you got a link? Does your dad still play drums?

Was the lead singer of Popups called Martin? Did a brilliant version of The Commodore's "Easy"

Sorry Markey, I only just found your question as I didn't receive notification of your post. Yes our singer was called Martin.

Thanks for your interest, my email address is at the bottom of the Sheffield bands page if you have any examples of your singing and/or any writing to send.

We need accomplished musicians to join our project. Interested in something challenging and different? Please see my web site for full details http://www.sheffieldbands.co.uk

As a result of my post I've been contacted by Steve, the lead singer from The Uncool Danceband. Viva the Internet :-)

Great days for music in Sheffield. The original drummer from ABC who played on Tears Are Not Enough (Dave Robinson) became our drummer (in Tension) after he left them. The original bass Player (Mark Lickley) inspired me to take up slapping on my bass and showed me how do the funk bit which he used on Poison Arrow.

I remember those days with great affection. I remember my favourite band in the early to mid 80s were The Uncool Dance band. They played Sheffield a lot but not sure they were actually from Sheffield. I remember their songs were really catchy and if memory serves me right one was called I wish she was my girl?

I used to love watching their bass player who was a bit mad and always sang along to much of the songs to a mike stand - with no mic. Fantastic. I'd love to hear some of their songs again but I can't find anything about them.

I played bass in a band called Tension (who later changed their name to the Popups) and we played catchy popy 80s stuff. We didn't really gig enough to get well known but we played the Hallamshire and all the other regular pub gigs.

We recorded live sessions and interviews for Radio Sheffield and Radio Hallam too. Radio Hallam even paid us :-) We were quite popular with many of the Hallam DJs such as Brian Westlake, Dave Kilner (who came to see us a few times) and even Beverly Chub. They played our songs for months and often said really nice encouraging things about us. One of our songs often played was, Not another Love Song.

We played in the Battle of the Bands competition (as the Popups) at the Fiesta run by the star and won our leg, but lost out in the final to Sharp Cuts. In our leg my Bass amp packed in during the second song and I completed the gig playing sharing the guitarists amp.

Anyone else remember this era?