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Otway
Is, was and always will be an Aylesbury legend. After Really Free gave
Otway his one hit wonder status in 1977 which he regularly played on
('I'm now going to do a selection of my hit'), he confounded everyone by
being back on Top of the Pops in 2002, 25 years after last troubling the
charts, with the entertaining 'Bunsen Burner'. Plans for a world Otway
tour where he took the audience with him in a plane fell through in
2006. He's still gigging today, occasionally with Wild Willy himself and
helped close Friars Phase Three in 2010 having played the first gig
there in 1975. starred in Otway the movie in 2012
Howard Jones
One of three local acts to go big in 1983 (Marillion
and Kajagoogoo the others), Howard Jones kept on getting bigger and bigger
playing the country's biggest venues by 1985/6 and had many successful
singles and albums (including the No 1 Humans Lib in 1984). Also appeared
at Live Aid 1985. Howard still makes records and gigs today and in 2008
celebrated his 25th anniversary
(since New Song) with a special gig at the
London Indigo2. In 2012, Jones toured Human's Lib and Dream Into Action,
only previously performed in the UK in 2010 at the Indigo2
Simon Cheetham
returned to Friars with The Disco Students in 2009 |
