When I Wake Up In The Morning

Will She Or Won't She

High Society

Know A Woman

Wild Day

Rotten Rose

Don't Care

Do It To Me

Judgement Day

I'm Your Man

Aging rockers despair in recalling romantic ineptitude

Nothing At All

Who are The Specs?
We are often asked: “who are you?” in a belligerent or bemused tone. This may arise from the character of the band, once summarised caustically - yet pithily - by a High Court Judge as ‘mad, sad and bad’. 
Here are a few more details ...
After a lifetime of violent drumming and social abuse, David ‘Mad Professor’ Mosey has found a degree of inner peace, despite an early incarnation as the grand spitoon of punk. Having led several street protests in the early 1970s, including the Hunter-Bowie Riots, an unfortunate period spent stalking celebrities culminated in incarceration at HMP Hegley, after which a reformed Mosey wrote his seminal ‘God, moistness and PPC2000’. He now lives relatively quietly, watching and bothering his neighbours.
Charles ‘Blighter’ Morrish spent his early years as a Louisiana sharecropper, before an unfortunate incident involving jam and the cast of Hello Dolly led him to stow away on a packet liner, docking in Southampton. Having been taken ‘Up The Hamble’, his hirsute charms and mellifluous voice proved irrestistible to the local Southern Belles, resulting in broken drainpipes and paternity suits. Charles survived on pork scratchings and bashing his bass ‘like a blighter’ until semi-retirement to the country beckoned. Here he casually eradicates animals smaller than himself. 
Originally a woman, Ian ‘Glenda’ Graham was discovered, aged four, blowing his saxophone whilst simultaneously playing keyboards and writing Section 106 Housing Agreements. Since then he has fallen into low company and worse habits, failing to hold down a proper job or generally get his shit together. His trans-gender experimentation once led him to achieve 24th place in a Blokes with Beards contest, after which he hospitalised the panel when demonstrating the smooth efficiency and aesthetics of his dual-function apparatus. Ian/Glenda is at his happiest collecting bone china and voting for the return of capital punishment.
Despite being born with nine fingers and three thumbs, Mark ‘Django’ Oglesby has never progressed beyond Grade 2 guitar. Some put this down to perverse interests in, respectively, Rula Lenska, immortality and tarmac. His obsession with Blind Willie Longhorn and the Sudbury Screamers has left him partially blind, yet capable of occasional warmth. He is often found huddled in the corner of his chicken coop, smiling.
The band is currently recording 'Slightly Blurred' - mixed by the astonishingly tolerant and talented Nigel Read at Tweeters in Leatherhead, after a rather mixed experience with a Blue Ape at a public convenience in Uxbridge.
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