Hardware

Derby based Jazz Rock group formed in 1970 with Nottingham connections.

Line up:
Geoff Cook: Organ
Les Shaw: Drums
Geoff Pearson: Bass
Irv Penchion: Tenor and Flute

Hardware L-R: Geoff Cook, Les Shaw, Geoff Pearson, Irv Penchion

Geoff Cook had been in Derby group The Skyliners in the late 50s early 60s. He was also in the first line up of Nottingham group Robert Hirst and the Big Taste.
His brother Ken was in Derby groups Thorndyke Mordecai’s Imagination and then just “Imagination”, then Strange Days.

Les Shaw had worked with Robert Hirst and the Big Taste.

Irvine Penchion had also worked with Embers West (I think), Robert Hirst and the Big Taste, Raw Meat Blues Band and many jazz gatherings eg The Mel Thorpe group.

Derby Daily Telegraph – Saturday 19 September 1970

Irv Penchion related cuttings