The Rave – Local Press 1979
The Rave at Braintree nightclub Weavers 1979
The Rave-Sounds Live review
The Rave in Sounds
The Rave – review at the Triad Band Contest
Rave Gigs
The Rave at The Greyhound
The Rave at Braintree Night Club – Weavers – 1979
Rave In the Spotlight pic by Dominic Rouse
Andy O – The Rave at Weavers Night Club – Braintree – 1979 – pic by Dominic Rouse
Pete Collins Guitarist with The Rave – Weavers Nightclub – Braintree – 1979 – Pic by Dominic Rouse
Rave Fans
Dominic Rouse, the photographer who took these pictures, was 19 and worked for the Braintree and Witham Times at the time of ‘The Rave Wave’. Thank heavens he was there to capture some of the magic. http://www.dominicrouse.com
The Rave demo’d three songs from their repertoire they are as follows and please click on the links to hear them.
Blue Zoo 
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Great to find this page – you might be interested to know that guitarist Kevin Prockter now plays for a band called “Fixater”.
Does anyone have a copy of the Sounds article or know which edition it was in?
Cheers, Robert
Hello Robert,
I am pleased to hear that you like the Rave page on the Blue Zoo blog and thanks for the update on Kevin. We were in The Rave together. I have put out a request for the Rave article in Sounds but haven’t had much repsonse. I thought I might have had a copy myself somewhere among all the Blue Zoo clippings but sadly not. I want to put the article on the site. I can’t remember which edition it was, only that it was 1979. It would be good to read agai after all this time.
Best
Andy O
I play with Kevin in Fixater and it is shocking for me to think there is so little else written about this band.
A friend of mine has every copy of Sounds magazine during that period, so it will surely come to light quite soon. I will give you a shout when I have it!
Cheers,
Robert
Unfortunately, apart from the Sounds article back in 79, which I now remember was written by Robbie Millar ( female), there were no live reviews from the major music press. Of course, local press such as The Braintree and Witham Times cottoned on to the band but that was sadly it. I wish you both well with Fixater, I like the name.
Best
Andy O
Hello Andy,
Kev found the Sounds article and we put a scan of it in the “Historical” album on our new MySpace page – http://www.myspace.com/fixater
Obviously, the text is way too small to actually read, but if you send me your email address I will send it and some other stuff that he found over to you.
Cheers,
Rob (info@fixater.com)
Hi Rob,
Well done Kev! Yes please send the article and other stuff over to me at asoverall@hotmail.com
Thanks Chaps
Andy
Hi Guys,
Great to find this page of magic memories. Does anybody know of any recordings from those days. the band did two studio sessions so the tapes must be somewhere. i also had some recordings of a couple of gigs at weavers which were borrowed by someone and never returned. That was the days of the famous Victoria street flat, the unofficial hq of the band. anybody can contact me at dickofish@gmail.com
cheers, Dicko aka Paul Dickinson
Hi Paul,
How are you? I do still have a tape of 3 songs that we demo’d, Conviction and See You Next Tuesday being two of them. I don’t recall any other recordings. Shame that the live Weavers recordings went missing, you should of made copies!!!! Chase them up!!!!
All the very best for 2013
Andy O
Hi Guys,
G’Day you old Ravers! Just been told of this on-line page (bit late I know) but I have a recording of the studio versions of ‘See you next Tuesday, Conviction and Look Around’ and a few photos and memories, and approx. 1 hour tape of a rehearsal at ‘The Swan” pub quality not brilliant you under stand, tell you the truth I think ‘Archie’ recorded it?
I’ll dig some out and send them if you can get back in touch.
Hi Nigel,
How are you? Long time. You’re in Australia right? I set up The Rave page sometime ago now, as a page connected with my other musical outings such as Blue Zoo and Motherhive. Kev Proctor managed to get hold of the Braintree and Witham Times pictures, from Domonic Rouse and the Sounds article etc etc. In fact, Kev came along to see the first Blue Zoo show in 30 or so years at Shepherds Bush in 2010, he came back and said hello, it was good to see him. I did get back to Paul (dicko) remember him? RE: the demo ( I also still have a copy) but I don’t have the rehearsal, would love to hear that….Please send me a copy….. Anyway I hope you are well and things are good.
Best Andy.