[Susan Foreman]

Week 5 of ECT and it was getting into its stride properly, even if the line ups were a bit hit and miss.

No exception this week as we start off with MARINO THE BAND. They were a rock combo promoting their guitarist who I think was named Mike Marino. Anyway as it turned out the band actually became a star vehicle for heavy metal (ahem) pin up Lisa Dominique. As you can see from the below video MARINO THE BAND weren’t the greatest but Dominique held the interest of Kerrang! for a few years and appeared in the magazine in various sultry shots. In those days before PARAMORE and other glamorous female fronted rock acts, all the guys had to go for were GIRLSCHOOL and ROCK GODDESS. I’m not denying the charms of either of those two bands, but Lisa Dominique was much more a feminine pin up type of character. Also remember 90% of rock fans in the mid 80s were male, it wasn’t until the tussled Jon Bon Jovi took over the world that female rock fans appeared in hordes . Anyway, on with MARINO THE BAND….oh and you get the CH4 logo and opening sequence this week!



WILDFIRE, I honestly can’t remember anything about. So without fanfare here they are…



Next up were boogie rockers SPIDER. They were always a lot of fun with a real Classic Status Quo sound and they added a good touch of humour to their stomp along songs.

Saw then supporting Gillan

Sadly and for the first time in this whole ECT run-through, I can’t find any posted footage from their ECT performance, so instead here are a couple of studio tracks from the band





Finally the big names came out this week to headline GARY MOORE AND PHIL LYNOTT. Playing their chart bothering hit ‘Out In The Fields’ and another song that appeared on GARY MOORE’S ‘Run For Cover’ album. Sadly you can see LYNOTT doesn’t seem quite with it and as we all to well know the drugs sadly got him a few months later and his death shocked the rock world and beyond. Hard to believe we’ve lost GARY MOORE as well.

Never saw Thin Lizzy, but I did manage to see Gary Moore on one of his Blues tours

Anyway, here’s PHIL and GARY, let’s enjoy the memory of two legends on stage….