After
Slime (Rowleys' Story)
After Slime Regis died so suddenly, it left his backing band – The Drain Blockers – in quite a pickle. Not at all sure that their brand of R&B versions of English rugby songs would be accepted from a less accomplished vocalist, they started out on the long and thankless search for a replacement.
Their panic was short lived, however, as Slime’s youngest daughter - Rowley - had followed her Dad’s every move since she was 3 years old. Just a few lyric changes to suit a female presenter and they were off and running.
Although content to sing the bawdiest of ditties to a mixed audience, Rowley thought the bands name was
far too crude for the Working Mans Club circuit and suggested a change. They argued the point for months before deciding on what
was to become the iconic Rowley Regis and The Unblocked.
Excerpt from an interview with Chubby Flicker - recorded in 1995.
As I remember it. Jesse, Frankie and Slime could only scrape up two bob between them and egg and chips plus one cup of coffee was on the menu at one and ninepence. They decided to buy one between them with Jesse having the egg and Frankie and Slime sharing the chips. Jesse stood in the queue while Frankie and Slime went for a pee.
Frankie got back first to discover that Jesse had already eaten the egg and most of the chips. Frankie’s sugar levels were on the floor so you can imagine how pissed off he was feeling. Without a word he hit Jesse on the back of the head with a metal barstool and calmly sat down to eat the remaining chips while Jesse bled to death on the floor underneath the table.
Slime, having missed all the action returned from the toilet area to see Frankie apparently finishing off the chips. Not seeing Jesse, he assumed that Frankie had eaten the lot. In a blind rage, Slime grabbed the mug of coffee with the intent of drinking the lot. Sadly he tripped over Jesse’s feet and spilled the hot beverage down the cleavage of a young woman who was being accompanied by three Hell’s Angels.
The last I saw of them was as the Angels dragged one Droopy each off into the sunset. The following day the police found a funeral pyre with three unrecognisable bodies on it. We were asked to identify the bodies but the only things we had to go on were their rings and jewellery. Someone had removed all the teeth from the bodies – probably because of the gold ones that Jesse was sporting – so the usual forensics of the day would not suffice.
Some years later there were rumours that Jesse, Frankie and Slime were seen working as a trio in Rio, but every time the police or the press caught up to them they had mysteriously melted away. People kept reporting the haunting sound of three Harleys in the distance - perhaps we'll never know what really happened.
