FORGOTTEN BANDS : FELINE GROOVE

Back in the late 1980s FELINE GROOVE made a small ripple in old London Town.

They caught my eye due to their sassy early Aerosmith/Hanoi Rocks sound and reminded me very much of THE GUNSLINGERS who seemed to have disappeared without trace by 1989.

 

Feline Groove

FELINE GROOVE were almost the house band at the Friday night rock club at London’s Astoria. They seemed to be on once a month and I caught them at a few other venues as well.

The crowds never went that mad in those days. It was the time of posers and trying to be cool people used to do everything they could to show they weren’t watching the band, even if they were toe tapping quietly.

I used to love rocking out to FELINE GROOVE though (I was more inclined to try and be un-cool) and the fact that I can remember some of their songs 20 years later, despite not having a record by them shows how good they were.

I think they release a cassette (as you did in them heady days) and I had that, but most of the songs were committed to memory.

The best thing about FELINE GROOVE was their charismatic spinning and dancing lead singer Charly, though he was backed up by some dudes who soft shoe shuffled across the stage, smoking in a way that would have made James Dean proud.

FELINE GROOVE disappeared as fast as they arrived, but this rocker has never forgotten them.

Fortunately Charly uploaded some filmed footage from London’s Hippodrome a couple of years ago so there is a taster of what a FELINE GROOVE night was like. Here’s a couple of songs :

 

That's The Way It Goes

 

 

Shake It

 

 

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