DEVON'S new record label is continuing to bring new life to forgotten bands from pop's heyday - including those with South West connections.
In a Spin Vinyl, based in Plymouth and Exeter, had dug up two lost pop nuggets from the 1960s and rereleased them as new singles with a wealth of information about the bands.
One new release is from the Primitives, also known as Mal and the Primitives, an Oxford-based outfit that flopped in the UK but saw its leader become a superstar in Italy.
The other is from the wonderfully named Apostolic Intervention, which also failed to make the big time despite being championed by the Small Faces' Steve Marriott.
In a Spin Vinyl co-founder John Griffiths, also of Exeter's record fair business HDR Music Group, tracked down the Primitives' Mal Ryder in Italy, where Italian TV was filming a special about him. And he found Apostolic Intervention's drummer Jerry Shirley at his home in Cornwall.
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