This long lost group are only remembered because for a short time they featured a young Alvin Lee (Graham Barnes) on guitar. This was the second group Alvin was in. Alvin went on to become a world famous guitarist with Woodstock heroes “Ten Years After” after an apprenticeship with one of Nottingham’s foremost early sixties groups “The Jaybirds”.

Alvin joined Vince Marshall in 1959 after he had been in Alan Upton’s Jailbreakers in 1958.

In around Late 1958 Lee answered a ‘musician wanted’ ad for a group called Vince Marshall and the Squarecaps, where he played rhythm guitar. Lee turned up at the audition at The Kardomah Coffee Shop in Nottingham, with his guitar and amp. The auditions were supposed to start at 2pm, but lead singer Marshall did not turn up until after three, when a lot of hopefuls went home. His reason for being later was to test how keen people were to join his band. So, all the people still there were hired, which was two drummers, three guitarists and a piano accordionist. The band rehearsed for six months with an all-instrumental repertoire and immediately broke up after they played their first gig.

Alvin Lee then help form the first line up of Ivan Jaye and the Jaymen in April 1960.