WetWetWet the band



		Clydebank Glasgow Clydebank was once a boomtown, the home of a mighty shipbuilding industry responsible for some of the world’s greatest passenger liners, including the Queen Mary and the QE2.
The Singer’s sewing factory and the Goodyear Tyre plant each employed tens of thousands of locals. There was a pride in Clydebank… a small town with a big heart.Then in the early 70’s disaster struck. The heart was ripped out of the town as factories closed, one after the other.
		Prospects for teenagers looked bleak, not least for the four young men who against this depressing background would form one of the most successful British bands of the decade. Said Graeme "it was either crime, the dole, football or music… and we chose music!"
In 1977 at the tender age of 12, Graeme Clark, (a pupil at Clydebank High School) bought his first guitar for the princely sum of ten pounds. At the same time, Tom Cunningham Snr. Was finally giving in and buying his son his first drum kit… "down the Social Club for Ł15.00". A chance meeting on the school bus brought the two together....		NB. Tommy and his fact file were deleted from these pages after he left the band at the end of 1997. His details have now been restored as far as possible, for reference purposes.