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To be brief SBQ came together one year ago when Quiver lost their songwriter and gained keysman Peter Wood. It happened to he just when the Sutherlands were getting fed up with life as a duo and as Bruce Thomas the quivering bassman put it: "We each had what the other needed." | To be brief SBQ came together one year ago when Quiver lost their songwriter and gained keysman Peter Wood. It happened to he just when the Sutherlands were getting fed up with life as a duo and as Bruce Thomas the quivering bassman put it: "We each had what the other needed." | ||
He likens his career to that of a professional footballer (comes from Middlesborough y'see): "It{{nb}}all seems to have been leading up to this band. We've all done our apprenticeships. We've suffered most of the pitfalls, bad record companies, bad agents, bad managers, bands that break down on the M1, terribly shitty tours of poxy clubs in Germany. Then Quiver was like going from the Fourth division to somewhere in the Second and now we're hovering at the top of the Second waiting for promotion at the end of this season. SBQ are the | He likens his career to that of a professional footballer (comes from Middlesborough y'see): "It{{nb}}all seems to have been leading up to this band. We've all done our apprenticeships. We've suffered most of the pitfalls, bad record companies, bad agents, bad managers, bands that break down on the M1, terribly shitty tours of poxy clubs in Germany. Then Quiver was like going from the Fourth division to somewhere in the Second and now we're hovering at the top of the Second waiting for promotion at the end of this season. SBQ are the Middlesbrough of rock bands at the moment. Which is better than being the Norwich or West Ham. | ||
So presumably a hit with "Dream Kids" will be like winning the cup... or should that be the Test Match? | So presumably a hit with "Dream Kids" will be like winning the cup... or should that be the Test Match? | ||
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"If we'd been totally successful we'd all have retired. But yes it's been successful. We are making good music, we are getting very positive reactions at gigs and I think we've done as much as any band could have wanted to have done. We sat down a year ago and asked what would we like our position to be in a year's time... I don't think we've got any cause for complaints. It's all going uphill. There's always been a positive aura about the band and it's showing no signs of diminishing at all. Even in our present economic crisis and the fact that we've only just begun. Shall I break into song?" | "If we'd been totally successful we'd all have retired. But yes it's been successful. We are making good music, we are getting very positive reactions at gigs and I think we've done as much as any band could have wanted to have done. We sat down a year ago and asked what would we like our position to be in a year's time... I don't think we've got any cause for complaints. It's all going uphill. There's always been a positive aura about the band and it's showing no signs of diminishing at all. Even in our present economic crisis and the fact that we've only just begun. Shall I break into song?" | ||
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'''Record Mirror, March 16, 1974 | '''Record Mirror, March 16, 1974 | ||
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[[Peter Harvey]]'s profile of Sutherland Brothers And Quiver includes | [[Peter Harvey]]'s profile of [[Sutherland Brothers And Quiver]] includes quotes by [[Bruce Thomas]]. | ||
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