March 1986: Gutter Band formed by Martin Ball (Drums: ex O Hara's Playboys),

Jon Short (Bass: Ex March the 3rd) & Vocalist Paul Miro (who goes onto achieve considerable success with Apes, Pigs & Spacemen).

Sept 1986: Neil Tomlinson (Ex Internationals) replaces Paul Miro on vocals.

Band adds Guitarist Pete Morton ( Ex March the 3rd) The band in the early days are nothing short of being a Rock band

Gudbye T Jane, Cum on Feel the Noize, Metal Guru, no ballads, no finesse - an out and out ear bleeding juggernaut.

Nov 1986: Band decide to go the whole hog & wear greaspaint, glam outfits and adopt stage personas

namely (pic below) L-R: Malice Pooper, Gary Gutter, Splodgy Bolder & Aladdin Pain!

May 1987: Band become the first UK Cabaret band to launch a hydraulic show featuring

the Reliant Robin Car Boot, an Ossa Trials Bike, The "Incredible Spinning Man", The Glam Ramp,

The Blackpool Illuminations Cape & the band expand to a 6 piece feat. Ken Furness as "stooge" Gandhi

& John McFaul as Lew Cypher (male fire eater.) The band also decide to expand the repertoire

and experiment more with orchestration, especially on "Life On Mars" & "Everyday".

The Splodgy Bolder character is dropped by Pete and re-brands himself as Roy Wouldn't!

Dec 1988: Appeared on James Whale TV Show (the band subsequently appear 3 times,

NT also makes a guest appearance in 1990 on "Katie Puckrick's Pyjama Party")

Band apply for Opportunity Knocks & New Faces and are turned down flat for both!

February, 21st 1989: Expand into an 8 piece with the additions of Second Drummer

Dave Hayes (ex Sound FX) guised as "Doreen Pooper" (Malice's wife / alter ego dressed identically but in white!!)

& the Dwarf Julian Skelton joined as Little Jimmy Ossmuck: singing one of 2 tracks:

"Short Arsed F***er From Liverpool" OR "If I Had A Hammer (I'd Smash Your F***in Face In!").

March 1st 1989: 4 of the band suffer a near fatal Road Crash on the M1 returning

from their Tuesday night residency at the Star Hotel in Blackpool.

Off the road for 3 months.Stage favourite Gandhi (who had suffered crushed vertebrae in the crash)

managed to return briefly but Lew Cypher, Jon Short and Pete Morton

left within days of the prognosis that the Band would be out of action for months!

June 1989: Band return with new personnel:

In and Out went Alan Guest as Alvin Ballrust (Mimed Bass) & Paul MacDonald (ex Impossible Dream)

as Roy Wouldn't (Guitar ), both leaving in December 1989

and LJO (who left in February 1990 & sadly passed away in 1996.)

Dave dropped the Doreen Pooper character he had played for a mere 7 Gigs and took the vacated role

of Aladdin Pain! As Gandhi left the band his role as "stooge" would be shared amongst various

members of the soon to be appointed roadcrew: so at any particular time it could be either Ziggy,

Blackpool Benny, Reg or Dukey!!

April 1990:A 30 week Summer Season at "Jokers" in Blackpool, & recorded an

album with new members Chris Cuttriss (ex Playback Trio / Flying Pit Props - Guitar & Road Manager)

as Roy Wouldn't, Glen Broadhurst (Ex Spasms / Actors- Bass) as Joe Waddywaddy

& Brian Ashley as Brian the Singing Miner! The few who have heard the Gutterband cassette single

"These Boots were made for Stomping" and witnessed Brian's "Womping (Gargle Mix)"

on the B.Side  witnessed something quite unique. The Single (Only 100 cassette copies ever printed )

was premiered at their third appearance on The James Whale Show along with Brian's version of "Sailing!"

The band recorded 1 studio cassette that year called "The Gutterbands Worst Hits "

& followed it throughout that season with 2 live cassette albums called "Chocolate Time"

and "Full 70's show with a Bit of Glitz".

Brian remained with the band until he retired 1993 and was last seen in a retirement

home in Clowne, Derbyshire (pic below).

Oct 1992 Janet Sutton leaves & is replaced initially by Ziggy& later by Pete Dawson who becomes "Gilbert O' Sillyget"

to control lighting / hydraulics & be the band "stooge". Chris left the band in early 1993

after a fallout, & John Grainger (ex chicken ass Blue Band) takes the role apart from Steve Lewis (ex USA) deputising

for 1 gig at the Hollies Club in Wath On Dearne. John's back cracked & popped out at Haggeston Catle in Berwick On Tweed &

was just about well enough to perform one of his final gigs with the band at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield.

Paul "Macker" MacDonald accepts the opportunity to return

for what became a short second spell as Roy W. Band)

April 1994: Saw the arrival of Paul Hudson as Norman Postlethwaite

on stooge duties to replace Pete Dawson & Steve Allan (ex Complete Madness)

joined as Roy Wouldn't to replace the injured John Grainger.n guitar

September 1st 1994: Martin Ball left. Dave takes the role of Malice Pooper.

Jason Whittle (ex Pure Fantasy) becomes Aladdin Pain on the kit .

The band commence their first UK National Tour for Yates's Wine Lodges.

These tours continue for the next 3 years & include a short 12 night University Tour.

Jan 1996: Disaster strikes when NT is almost killed by an electric shock whilst

on stage at the Mayfair Suite in Seaton Carew. He falls from the stage bashes his head

and swallows his tongue. Luckily a nurse in the crowd revives him!

(Classic quote of the night, as NT falls and bangs his head his wig falls off and someone in

the crowd is heard to shout: "***ing hell his hairs dropped out!")

Strife strikes again in September when NT gets a career threatening vocal strain called

Reinkes Oedema which forces NT to undergo strenuous vocal coaching,

speech therapy and solid practice of up to 1 & a half hours daily! Strife strikes again in September `97 when NT discovere

d that he was suffering a career threatening throat complaint a called Reinkes Oedema

Nov 1999 throws up the bands toughest challenge yet when Gary Glitter is jailed.

As the show had been heavily reliant on the Glitter tracks and persona, the future of the band

was once more in jeopardy: Who would buy a band associated so heavily with Glitter Tracks?

The band reinvent the show with new intro, 7 new tracks, new costumes and went on to what

in NT's opinion was the best period for the band, widening the scope of the material

with NT adopting the persona of Alvin Tardis! NT promptly dropped a stone in weight in 2 weeks!

The set list read more varied than ever before taking on tracks such as "Heroes",

"Sweet Caroline" and even "In the Summertime".........

......all tracks that 12 years earlier the original Gutters would have avoided like the plague!!

The Malice Pooper role then became something of a problem post as in October 98,

Dave left to be replaced by Russell Francis. He was also replaced by Haydn Walden in February 2000.

HW left in July 2002 to tour with the Rocky Horror Show and was replaced by Bob Wynne.

Likewise BW left in Feb 04 to be replaced by James Morley until October 2004.

For the few remaining dates that year young Lee McKie took the role!

Dec 23 2004: NT decides to concentrate on his Management Company and retires.

The band decide to take a sabbatical with the intentions of re-launching after a breather!

The lads employ Neil Hart as their new frontman and launch a sister show called Beetlejoos.

April 8 2006: The Gutterband re-form with Jason Whittle, Glen Broadhurst,

Steve Allen and David Hayes, & introduce frontman Neil Hart as Alvin Tardis offering

over 50 years Gutterbanding experience between the 5 of them!! N