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    Toy Dolls

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    Tongue-in-cheek good-time Geordie punks The Toy Dolls contributed two songs to the most infamous Oi! album, Strength Thru Oi!, and released a self-financed single (Tommy Kowey’s Car) on their own GBH label, which quickly sold out of its initial 2000 pressing.

    Eventually, EMI came knocking . . . and then swiftly departed again, leaving the band with Newcastle-based indie Volume Records, with whom they cut their brilliant and successful debut album, Dig That Groove Baby (1983).

    Their 1984 smash hit Nellie The Elephant (a typically offbeat revival of the old kiddies favourite) served to get them – unfairly – tagged as a pure novelty act.

    Stand out singles tracks include Deidre’s A Slag (1984) (obviously the band were fans of Coronation Street), She Goes To Fino’s (1985) and James Bond (Lives Down Our Street) (1985).

    Michael ‘Olga’ Algar
    Vocals, guitar
    Robert ‘Happy Bob’ Kent
    Drums
    Phillip ‘Flip’ Dugdale
    Bass
    Barry ‘Bonny Baz’ Warne
    Bass
    Pete ‘Zulu’ Robson
    Bass, guitar
    Colin ‘Mr Scott’ Scott
    Drums
    Paul ‘Hud’ Hudson
    Vocals
    Dean Robson
    Drums
    Trevor ‘The Frog’ Brewis
    Drums
    Graham ‘Teddy Toy Doll’ Edmundson
    Drums
    Steve ‘Rubiboy’ Mallinson
    Bass
    Frederick ‘Freddie Hotrock’ Robertson
    Bass
    Nick Buck
    Drums
    Alan ‘Dirty Dicka’ Dixon
    Drums
    Malcolm ‘Dicky’ Dick
    Drums
    Paul Smith
    Drums
    Ernie Algar
    Bass
    Kevin Scott
    Drums
    John Casey
    Bass
    Richard ‘Dicky’ Hammond
    Bass
    Gary ‘Fun’ Dunn
    Bass
    Martin ‘Marty’ Yule
    Drums
    Suba
    Drums
    Michael Rebbig
    Bass
    David Nuttall
    Drums
    Duncan Redmonds
    Drums, vocals
    Tom ‘Goober’ Blyth
    Bass, vocals

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