Good Habit were a professional touring band mostly from Penarth

Penarth

Penarth is a town and seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales, 5.2 miles south west from the city centre of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and lying on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay...

 in South Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 1970 - 75.


They had one single 'Find My Way Back Home' that was released by RCA

RCA

RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

 and reviewed by John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

 in Sounds

Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a long-term British music paper, published weekly from 10 October 1970 – 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications , which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left "Melody Maker" to start their own company...

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Some songs including 'Ship of Gold' were recorded for Peel's sessions. For a while the band wore green monastic habits

Religious habit

A religious habit is a distinctive set of garments worn by members of a religious order. Traditionally some plain garb recognisable as a religious habit has also been worn by those leading the religious eremitic and anachoritic life, although in their case without conformity to a particular uniform...

 on stage. Live favorites included Danger Zone and King of the Mountain,final numbers would be Keep on Moving and Chicken Shack Stomp/ Hey Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley (song)

"Bo Diddley" is a rhythm and blues song first recorded and sung by Bo Diddley at the Universal Recording Studio in Chicago and released on the Chess Records subsidiary, Checker Records in 1955. It became an immediate hit single that stayed on the R&B charts for a total of 18 weeks, 2 of those weeks...

. Good Habit toured with many well known artists over the years including, Thin Lizzy, The Who, Gong, Genesis, The Velvet Underground, Rory Gallagher, Funkadelic, UFO and many many more! Good Habit also played iconic music festivals, the first ever Glastonbery festival, and also the 1972 Reading festival.

The Line up included :

• Alan Collier aka Clutch Gessler - Guitar and Vocals
• Ian Thomson aka Orange Tom - Baritone and Tenor Saxes and Flute (ex Stone Idol, Nite Time Pipeline)
• John Roberts aka Rubble - Tenor and Soprano Sax (ex Stone Idol)
• Philip Blackmore aka Twillie - Guitar and Vocals (ex Stone Idol, Nite Time Pipeline)
• Peter Hughes - Guitar (Now in Blues Central)
• Paul Stewart - Drums and Piano (ex Mad Dog, Nite Time Pipeline)
• Paul Tenant - guitar
• David Land aka Toulouse La Fingers - Bass and Vocals (Later in Racing Cars
  Racing Cars
  Racing Cars are a Welsh pop band, formed in the Rhondda Valley, Wales in 1973.-Career:They were signed to one of the biggest British record labels of the time, Chrysalis Records. Racing Cars's debut album yielded their only hit single with "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"...
  
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Peter replaced Twillie on guitar. In 1973 the sax players left.
Ray Ennis aka Alice (ex The Swinging Blue Jeans

The Swinging Blue Jeans

The Swinging Blue Jeans were a four piece 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their hit singles with the HMV label; "Hippy Hippy Shake", the follow-up, Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly", and "You're No Good", a Clint Ballard song that provided a change of pace and furnished the...

)joined the band on guitar. Biffo replaced Paul on drums and Gareth Mortimer aka Morty (ex Ancient Grease) joined on Vocals and Tambourine. The finale to gigs became Highway 69 followed by Johhny B Goode/Bye Bye Johnny. After Clutch left Morty had taken over most of the songwriting and they became Racing Cars

Racing Cars

Racing Cars are a Welsh pop band, formed in the Rhondda Valley, Wales in 1973.-Career:They were signed to one of the biggest British record labels of the time, Chrysalis Records. Racing Cars's debut album yielded their only hit single with "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"...

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External links

• http://link2wales.co.uk/south-wales-n-z/south-wales for more on Welsh bands
• http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/RTT2.htm for gig references
• http://www.songkick.com/artists/2380444-good-habit/gigography for gig and festival references
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1970s/1972/Dec18goodhabit/ Good Habit's Peel Session
• http://www.unsigned.com/bluescentral re. Blues Central