Zellots, Cedar Lounge

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Our friend Dave O'Halloran (aka What Wave Dave on CHRW) has been sharing on Facebook, with our grateful permission, photos that we had taken of various bands back in the 1980's. Today Dave writes in The Cedar Lounge - Blue Boot group:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton pics, this time The Zellots at the Cedar Lounge, London ON, circa 1980.
At this time, the band consisted of Christine DeVeber, Catherine Destun, Jane Colligan and Craig McGauley on drums. Later Greg Moore joined on drums full time."

The Zellots were a great band and there were lots of comments remembering them:

Kerry Piper: The Zellots were an incredible band. RIP Chrissy. 

Various Artists: One of my favourite London bands. These are great shots.

Kelly Mulvey: OMG I loved this band soooo much🎶💕

Debbie Weir Cairns: Loved the Zellots!

Rob Gliddon: They were sooo good. And Lou Reed said it best...

Kate and I were fans as well. I recall we had a tshirt made where we had printed with "Zellots" written out in random fonts — like a ransom notes with letters clipped from various papers and magazines. We never knew the band beyond seeing them perform several times.

Chrissy DeVeber, lead guitar, passed away recently in London; here's her 2022 obituary. The Zellots did reunite for a gig in London back in 2012 for the Graphic Underground, a book by Brian Lambert celebrating the artists, posters and music of that period. Several of my photos appear in that book.

See also

• Zellots 1980 — many of these same photos
• Zellots 2015 — grab bag of old photos
• Graphic Underground 2012

Many thanks to Dave for his work organizing photos and figuring out the location and time for many of these.