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    Jan 13, 2022 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW: JIM WIRTH

    How did Blossom Toes come together?

    BRIAN GODDING: We started out as The Gravediggers when me and Brian Belshaw were apprentices at a scientific instrument factory in Finsbury Park. Jim joined the band when we were The Ingoes. Giorgio Gomelsky had sent us to France to improve, and when he came back he told us to change our guitar player, which was pretty contentious. Then the office decided that we should be called the Blossom Toes.

    They were sort of a Tamla Motown rock and blues band

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