Gents, The ‎- How It All Began CD

Detour Records WELL WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE GENTS THAT HASN’T BEEN SAID BEFORE? STARTING OFF THEIR MUSIC CAREER AS FAR BACK AS 1980, THEY CUT THEIR TEETH, SO TO SPEAK, IN THE WORKING MEN’S CLUBS OF SOUTH AND WEST YORKSHIRE AND THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND. THIS WAS A HARD SLOG AS THEY HAD TO PLAY TO A MIXED AUDIENCE, BUT OVER THOSE EARLY YEARS THEY MADE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES AS THEY STOOD OUT FROM THE REST OF THE ACTS ON THAT CIRCUIT AS THEY PLAYED ORIGINAL AND ALSO MIGHTY FINE AND CATCHY SONGS AMONGST THE COVERS REQUIRED IN THE CLUBS. WHAT THEY HAD WAS AN IMAGE AND MUSICAL ABILITY THAT MADE THEM STAND OUT AND ABOVE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ON BOTH THE CLUB AND MOD SCENES. WORD QUICKLY SPREAD AND THE MODS CAUGHT ON TO THEM AND STARTED FOLLOWING THEM TO EVERY GIG. ONE OF THOSE YOUNG MODS WAS GENTS-MAD SIMON CURTIS AKA ‘SLICK’ WHO HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN PERSUADING THEM TO FINALLY ALLOW THIS RELEASE AND THEN PUTTING IT TOGETHER. BIGGER AND BETTER GIGS FOLLOWED AND SOON THEY WERE PLAYING THE M