Things I Knew about the North East #01 - The Tygers of Pan Tang and Whitley Bay

Tygers of Pan Tang in Whitley Bay Rik Walton

To be honest I didn’t really know a great deal about the North East before we moved here… but, I did know that The Tygers of Pan Tang were from Whitley Bay - I’m not sure why that was important, but it seemed to be. To be honest I knew The Tygers were from Whitley Bay long, long before I had a clue where Whitley Bay was!

But that knowledge was embedded in my head and lived there long after I’d left NWOBHM behind and gone all indie!

Tygers do Abbey Road on the Whitley Bay prom

not that I ever really got NWOBHM out of my system - so boys, when you play a hometown gig … I’ll be there!

Now playing: Tygers of Pan Tang - Wild Cat (1980)