MILLPORT had never seen anything like it and, quite frankly, neither have we.
The Skiffle sound might have taken a while to filter north but, once young music fans heard Glasgow lad Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line, they were hooked.
Armed with a tea-chest base, an old washboard, mouthie, guitar and banjo, The Peepel were bashing out their basic rhythms for these sou'wester clad fans on Cumbrae in 1957. And what an odd bunch they are. Looking like extras from an Ealing Comedy, almost every character type is represented, and not one looks like a rock 'n' roll fan.
Things would soon change. You just imagine them traipsing back to their boarding houses, scratching their heads, and saying to each other: "Wonder where mum keeps her washboard?"
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