User:IvanDeal

The Mole Band were just the epitome of the sixties. Just the Moles! Unknown outside their huge underground following. But just the greatest rock 'n roll band of their generation. There were the Stones, the Beatles, selling well and selling their soul and then there were The Moles. Raw and uncut, just rock'n roll. Where are they now? Perhaps if they see this they will get together again. Let's hope so! In the late 1960s and early 1970s, they sang in small-time English bands such while working in careers in Stock Broking, Banking, Shipping and the Armed Forces. In 1968 they recorded a few demo tracks in London which have been lost (needs confirmation)like the eralier album, who would shortly found the base of a rock n’ roll movement that wouldn’t die. More Essex Estuary Blues than Surrey Delta for sure. Their first release on a compilation album did nothing until they released their own covers and new written material on vinyl called “Moles, who digs ‘em” for Deal Records (note needed) set the pattern for Essex blues. The Essex Estuary Blues sound. More closely the Roding Bottom Blue Note...... They began doing the rounds of the British pub rock scene, The 'Mem, Drill hall, often augmented at times by a German element from ‘Dirty Weekend’ and ‘Free Beer’ and especially ‘Streem’ touring permanently in Germany. The band's next album, Moling as released to family and friends in 1968 and was followed (relentlessly) by the stylistically similar Moling 2 (years later and badly titled as it was their third album) a mixture of old rock and ballads, these albums reflected The Moles early influences (from Ravitz & Lander, Tommy Steel, Joe Brown with a bit of Buddy and Elvis thrown in). On these albums were all the songs the band knew and played live and which never hit the Top 40 in the UK (or elsewhere as far as we know). Mainly playing in pubs and small venues they were well know in their local area of London and began making an impression in Germany. Appearing on Dutch TV (confirmation needed) after being appalled at seeing the Dolly Dots appearing and badly lip sinking. The band in various guises and members spent most of the late seventies and eighties in Germany on the service trail and apart from a video most of the recordings (nearly all made at a radio station in Koln) have completely vanished. Drifting apart the band played in other bands around Germany and ended up in the west of England, Australia and the Czech Republic, still mostly gigging locally (no change from the early years) in pubs and clubs