The METRONOMES

BIOGRAPHY:

Local act from the 1930's featuring George Neilson (accordion), David Thorburn (trumpet), Danny Faulds (drums), John Neilson (saxophone) & Jim Stirratt (bass). The band split in 1939 when several members joined the army upon the outbreak of the Second World War. Faulds died in 1942 as a prisoner of war in Poland.