Red Guitars

This Hull-based guitar pop band featured Jerry Kidd (vocals), Louise Barlow (bass), Hallam Lewis (lead guitar), John Rowley (rhythm guitar), and Matt Higgins (drums). Formed in 1982 by Lewis and Kidd, they released two superb singles, ‘Good Technology' and ‘Fact', before achieving a number 1 on the independent charts with ‘Marimba Jive'. The latter was included on Slow To Fade which emerged on Kidd's own Self Drive Records in November 1984. This was a highly polished and original pop album, with Kidd's analytical lyrics to the fore: ‘I said that I love you/God knows I tried/Yo...