Local band Floosie I Need You were notable for the drummer Dil Green who went onto to be the drummer in bIG fLAME, the post punk Manchester based band.
Thanks to Mick Greenway for altering us to Floosie I Need You, just the name alone demands more information on them.
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The Floosie I need you band was formed in Bearwood in 1979/80, with Dil Green on Drums (who was @ 6th form college living with his dad in Harborne). The only other accomplished musician was Chris Baker from Litchfield on bass. Alex Kilner played good old punk guitar and various other people shouted vague lyrics – Ian Parker and Mark Blackman to name two.
Alex,Ian and Mark were all exiles from Hereford who realised that living live on the dole would be more fun in Brum than in the rural wilds, Dil also spent most of his ‘difficult’ years out in the Herefordshire badlands.
To be honest, they never set the world on fire but had fun in the days when every pub seemed to host a few local bands and the audience accepted that most of what they would see/hear was crap, but at least it was good old honest crap.
I can’t remember much of what was done, but do remember a few lyrics written by a schoolboy Dil penning a song against abortion control called Castrate Corrie:
dirty money
dirty deads
dirty hands
& dirty sheets.
He was such a feminist. (I think his mum bullied him into it though).
Chris was seduced into joining the band at an Au Pair’s gig, Obviously.