Mick Farren, left, with a 1969 lineup of the Deviants: Mike McDonnell, Mike Bunce and Jeni Hurley. Photograph: Associated Newspapers/Rex
Over the years, in Britain, the US and Japan, Mick Farren co-opted many different musicians into his bands, for both recording and performing live, but they always went under the name of the Deviants. (One deviation from this that I know of was at Glastonbury festival in 2011, when he and most of the original 1967 band, plus others, appeared on a side-stage as Mick Farren and the Last Men Standing).
At his final appearance, and since his return from the US in 2010, rather than the "new assortment of Deviants" Richard Williams mentions, he was playing with the nucleus of the original band – Duncan Sanderson on bass and me on drums – plus Andy Colquhoun, his musical collaborator and writing partner in the US for more than 30 years. Also with the current band was Jaki Miles-Windmill, a well-known percussionist on the Brighton music scene. Perhaps this goes some way towards illustrating the ties that continued to bind a few friends for nearly 50 years, and the affection in which Mick was held.
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