Members
Trish Hathaway: vocals
Nigel Jones: vocals, guitar, mandolin
Dick Shaw: lead guitar
Keith Jones: fiddle, mandolin
Terry Biddulph: bass
Tom Farnell: drums
About
Keith left Orphan in 1983 to form folk rock band Back Street Slide with the wonderful Trish Hathaway on vocals. It was definitely back to his roots, performing songs by the likes of Richard Thompson and Jethro Tull. The band had several drummers during their time together including Mark Stephens, Trevor Foster (ex Flying Hat Band/Albion Dance Band – hear Trev at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCtBjKMO_30 with the Pipe Factory Ceilidh Band), Colin Rote (ex Britain) and Tom Farnell (ex Roy Wood/Fairport Convention – hear Tom at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxlzBKUjGlU with The Raymond Froggatt Band).
A small amount of college/university work followed plus they started the reasonably successful ‘Loonybin Folk Club’ (Camp Hill RFC) in Solihull, West Midlands. However, this was a time when University /College budgets were cut with the result that the gigs that the band should have been playing just didn’t happen. The band had no songwriters and Keith, having become very disillusioned by the music scene in general, left the band sometime around 1986. The remaining members carried on for a little while with fiddle player Nick Martin before the band, sadly, folded.
Back Street Slide Gallery
Our drummer Tom Farnell (Far Right) with Roy Wood & his band ‘Roy Wood’s Helicopters’ with Jon Camp, Terry Rowley & Robin George.
Tom Farnell at London’s Marquee Club.
Back Street Slide: Trevor Foster, Terry Biddulph, Dick Shaw, Trish Hathaway, Keith Jones & Nigel Jones.
Trish Hathaway
Trish Hathaway.
Trish Hathaway, Mark Stephens, Keith Jones @ The Railway, Curzon St, Birmingham.
Terry, Nigel, Keith, Trish, Trevor, Dick.
Nigel and Terry.
Keith and Dick Shaw.
Back Street Slide multi-instrumentalist Nigel Jones at the famous Railway, Curzon St, Birmingham..
Nigel Jones and Terry Biddulph.
Performing at the now demolished Railway Inn, Curzon Street, Birmingham.
Keith at The Looney Bin Music Club, Shirley, Solihull.
A ticket for The Loonybin Music Club, with our special guests Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol from Fairport Convention.
From Newcastle Polytech student rag, “reading between the lines this lot are either going to be as hot as hell, or a bunch of chancers” Well I can definitely report we were not the latter! That student obviously hadn’t done his homework…..
The wonderful Dick Shaw on his Fender Stratocaster.
Dick Shaw at a garden party, from memory Hall Green in Birmingham.
Keith as Boy George at the Loony Bin music club Christmas fancy dress.
Mark, Keith and Dick.
1985 The Guild Club, Station St, Birmingham.
Played at The Railway, Curzon Street many time, the last time was with Back Street Slide. It obviously changed into O’Neills then was demolished, another great gig wiped out!
Well this was once the way of promoting your band, a promo’ cassette! Recorded live at Ripon and York St John College, Ripon North Yorkshire.
Dick Shaw.
Keith Jones.
Mark Stevens.
Nigel Jones.
Terry Biddulph.
Trish Hathaway.
Energy, couldn’t do this now! (Mark Stevens on drums).
Publicity (front page) for Back Street Slide.
Publicity (inside) for Back Street Slide. To think I used to produce the originals with letraset one letter at a time! (Colin Rote, drums on this line up) 1985.
Nigel Jones, electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin and vocals – Terry Biddulph, bass guitar.
Keith Jones Music 