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Tuesday 2 April 2019

TINY TOWN


In the early 80s singer/songwriter Peter Loveday moved to London with the Brisbane-born, London-based band Tiny Town with long time collaborators Leigh Bradshaw and Geoff Titley. Titley was already based in London where he had been a member of the pioneering do-it-yourself ethic band, the Desperate Bicycles. Tiny Town performed and recorded in London for the next seven years, coinciding with other Australian bands in London at the time, like the Birthday Party, The Moodists, and The Go-Betweens. The first Tiny Town recording "Back to the Bow" was distributed as a flexidisc in the Sydney fanzine, Distant Violins. Tiny Town played regularly at the old time music hall theatre, the Pindar of Wakefield, subsequently called The Water Rats, alongside bands like The Pogues, and fellow Australians in London at the time the Moodists and the Go-Betweens. 

At one such gig, music journalist Chris Heath wrote "Tiny Town had reason to be nervous. Not only had they to follow a casually brilliant performance by fellow Australians-in-London the Go-Betweens, but to do so in front of an audience barely numbering 25, two of whom were those young men-about-town, English BBC DJ, John Peel and his producer, John Walters." The Pindar of Wakefield was where Bob Dylan played his first UK gig in December 1962. The band's first album 'Little Tin God' was released on the Elastic label in 1985. More singles followed during the decade but sometime in the late 1980s the band split when Loveday moved to Barcelona.

Members

Peter Loveday (vocals/guitar),  Leigh Bradshaw (vocals/keyboards),  Geoffrey Titley (drums)







References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Loveday


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