Local band, The Gents, Wakefield/Barnsley, mid 80's?

[Zax47]

Can anyone enlighten me about a band from the Wakefield/Barnsley/Darton area (I think) called The Gents. I believe they were around in the mid 80's, one of the guys I shared a house with at uni during that period was mates with one of them and had some self taped gigs. They did some ska type covers and I'm sure that a version of the Pink Panther theme by Henry Mancini was their "signature" tune. I saw a cassette by them in a 2nd hand record shop years ago and wish I'd bought it now.

Searching the interweb throws up very little about them (so please don't say "Google is your friend"!). I was hoping to find a discography or at least which label they recorded on.

[aka pixi]

wow thats a blast from the past lol. I saw them in pussycats club in wakefield when i was about 16/17 (1983/84ish)

Theres seems to be loads of info here
http://www.thegents.org.uk/id8.html

[Zax47]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Just what I've been looking for, but NEVER appears in a search list regardless of which search engine you use.

Brilliant!

[aka pixi]

You're welcome Zax :)

curiosity got the better of me (probably cos I saw them even though I didnt think they were that good) theres a couple of msn groups you could check out if you want

http://groups.msn.com/80sMod/gents2gigs.msnw

http://groups.msn.com/80sMod/thegentsalldayer. msnw

I dunno why nothing came up for you (and it seems thats the norm after reading a bit of the first site i put up) but the link to the gents site was the first thing google fetched up...maybe its cos im in wakefield area (is google that clever? ) lol