Technique (1965 -1972)
Line-up included
- Derek McCulloch - lead guitar and vocals
- Ian Wrigley - organ and vocals
- Les Andrew - drums
- Stuart Adams - bass and vocals
I was a drummer with the group 'Technique' - sometimes called 'Manchester Technique' (we lasted seven years from 1965 -1972) - the group consisted of Derek McCulloch - lead singer and lead guitar, Ian Wrigley - organist and back-up vocals, Stuart Adams - bass guitar and back-up vocals and me as drummer ( they kept the microphones well away from me - I was tone deaf!) - later in our career, our agent was 'Ugly Ray Terrret' (Spelling) - he wrote a song called 'No, No, No, No' which we recorded
It was great to see the picture of Pete Summerscales - featured in your article - he played with my brother Kevin Andrew in a group (can't remember the name, but they had a great bass player!)
Les Andrew
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Our front man, lead singer and guitarist Derek McCulloch, left the band in about 1975. Luckily Dave had many contacts in the game and we were joined by Barry James and Geoff Scofield. Geoff became lead singer and Barry was lead guitarist and backing vocals. We focussed more on cabaret and comedy and the new five-piece Technique was a successful group until its disbanding in about 1978.
Following a grammar school reunion thirty years after we had disbanded, we reformed Technique in 2010, still with most of the original members - Barry James, Dave Farnell, Stu Adams, Ian Wrigley and our percussionist from 1963 Mel Brierley. The five of us formed the foundation backline and we got Eddie Bishop and Roxanne to front the singing. We have been playing ever since!