Billy Bowman's Band

While browsing in a Cumbrian bookshop at the weekend I found a collection of Cumbrian Memories published by the local WI Federation; inside was a short piece (undated) recalling Billy Bowman and his sister arriving on a motorbike and sidecar to play at hunt balls and village dances. Denis Westmorland has a lovely song about Billy Bowman's Band, and Colin Armstrong's excellent song The Pride of Lorton Town has the line "Oh, I saw her at the hunt ball dance to Billy Bowman's band".

I wonder if there are any more memories of the band out there? Or even, by some miracle, some recordings of the band perhaps.