Geraint Watkins Talks Balham Alligators with Malcolm Mills
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06/11/21 • 52 min
In this fifty minute podcast, Watkins details how he, Robin McKidd and Gary Rickard formed the basis of the band that stormed the London pub scene of the 80s once they were joined by Arthur Kitchener and Kieran O’Connor.
He tells of how Arthur funded the recording of the first album from a Thatcher hand-out and relates stories around the recording of the other four albums.
Along with his recollections of “crackling” times on the road with the various incarnations of the band, the podcast contains music from each of the five records they released.
In his own words, The Balham Alligators were ‘Never mediocre, we were either brilliant or bad’.
As a companion piece, you can LISTEN to a 44-track compilation of The Balham Alligators' recordings here....and;
READ MORE about their story at our website here.
In this fifty minute podcast, Watkins details how he, Robin McKidd and Gary Rickard formed the basis of the band that stormed the London pub scene of the 80s once they were joined by Arthur Kitchener and Kieran O’Connor.
He tells of how Arthur funded the recording of the first album from a Thatcher hand-out and relates stories around the recording of the other four albums.
Along with his recollections of “crackling” times on the road with the various incarnations of the band, the podcast contains music from each of the five records they released.
In his own words, The Balham Alligators were ‘Never mediocre, we were either brilliant or bad’.
As a companion piece, you can LISTEN to a 44-track compilation of The Balham Alligators' recordings here....and;
READ MORE about their story at our website here.
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