The Gallery - The Early Years

Friends Along The Way		The Early Years [80s]

Lena's 5 Card Trick. Now Norwich based. With Chas Smith, Bobby Graham and drummer Chris Gray, giving Roy Waller a hard time at BBC Radio Norfolk!	c1979. This is where the singing bug first bit! Lena in Farmers Jig, singing with Norfolk's young Hayley Moyses www.hayleymoyses.com and her brother Sean www.seanmoyses.comnow one of Europe's finest pro banjo players!	Southern Nights (Lena's 2nd band) early eighties. Martin Hayley(bass) and Ronnie Pitt (gtr).


Pollyann And The Hole In The Wall Gang (Lena's 3rd Band) Still wearing hot pants 'Daisey Duke' n country style! mid eighties.	Little Ginny shares a joke and a dressing room with Lena(Stony Broke Country Trio) backstage at the Princess Theatre, Hunstanton. Summer season mid eighties.	Lena's 5 Card Trick 'promo pic'. Shortly after this was taken, unfortunately the hot pants turned into a mini skirt, following a high kick In Johnny Paycheck's 'Take This Job And Shove It' at The Armadillo CMC, Norfolk Dumpling!

Rod Clark (Rollercoaster ) and top Norwich jazz pianist Simon Brown backing Lena in a Pavillion Theatre Country Show. c 1985.	Irish Country star Rosemarie discusses 'song sharing' with Lena and Vic Woodhouse backstage at the Theatre Royal, Norwich. c 1985.	Switzerlands Berne International Country Music Festival, where Lena represented the UK. Backed by top German country band George and The Lucky Riders!

Mark Flanagan (pre Jools Holland!) and Lena are pictured here (first gig together) as a country duo, onstage at Cromer Regal 'Cine-Theatre'. Mark's guitar is ex Black and White Minstrel Shows if I remember correctly! And his socks were odd colours!	Pavillion Theatre, Gorleston. Lena's next band The Texas Tea Boys (assembled by guitarist Mark Flanagan) included fabulous Will Lorenzo on drums, Pete Beresford/Kevin Willoughby, bass, and probably the UK's finest 'super steelie' Norwich's Patrick Arbuthnott.	Still pre his Jools Holland days, Mark is pictured here chatting with fellow Lena's Texas Tea Boys band members,(mid 80's) as they check out the Norfolk Country Music Festival.

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