What an amazing site, which I’ve come across by googling the Sons of Adam. They feature in my memories as a brilliant band on the Cardiff scene when I was a kid – and brought to mind by that tv programme ‘They Sold a Million’ with Andy Fairweather-Low the other night. (Which junior school did he go to in Llanrumney? Was it Glan-yr-Afon? There was a photo of him in football kit and I don’t think it was Bryn Hafod where I was and I’m the same age as him.) I’ve got memories of The Sons playing up in Llandaff – at the Parish Hall, I think it was – and at Fitzalan High as well as The Paget Rooms in Penarth: their version of John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boom Boom’ is still pounding through my head right now. How many of these r’n'r stars came from Llanrumney/Rumney? Wasn’t Joey Escott from there? And there was a guy named Stuart with a quiff – used to wear a grey suit – great singer but I can’t remember the name of his band – regularly played the church hall down in Countisbury Avenue, I think. Heady days of great music and their influence is still with us. Keep posting stuff about the re-unions and live gigs, guys.
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