The People Band is a musical collective functioning in the UK, which started in the mid to late 60s. Its music is inclusive: Genre, style, audience and environment are all enveloped into the music making. The group has a particularly liquid membership - any combination of People Band associates can function as the unit - but if its central figures were to be narrowed to two, they would likely be drummer Terry Day and pianist Mel Davis. It is Day's exceptional technique at the drums that attracted Charlie Watts, who financed the band's only studio album in 1968. People Band was issued in 1970 on the Transatlantic label, and remained largely forgotten until Julian Cowley wrote an incisive feature on the group in the June 2002 issue of The Wire. Now Martin Davidson's Emanem label has reissued the 1968 album along with additional material from the original studio session.
