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A Tribe of Toffs were a novelty pop band from Sunderland, England, best remembered for their 1988 Top 40 single, "John Kettley is a Weatherman". The band was formed in 1986 by four pupils from Bede Comprehensive School in Sunderland. They were noticed after sending a tape of their songs to children's TV presenter Andy Crane. The producer of Children's BBC's But First This, Paul Smith, liked the tape and arranged for the band to come down to London in July 1988 to record the song at the BBC Television's Maida Vale Studios. The following month the four were back in London to record the video, at the warehouse just across the road from BBC Television Centre, where Who Framed Roger Rabbit had just been filmed. The band went on to make appearances on Wogan, Daytime Live (with Alan Titchmarsh) a

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rdfs:comment	A Tribe of Toffs were a novelty pop band from Sunderland, England, best remembered for their 1988 Top 40 single, "John Kettley is a Weatherman". The band was formed in 1986 by four pupils from Bede Comprehensive School in Sunderland. They were noticed after sending a tape of their songs to children's TV presenter Andy Crane. The producer of Children's BBC's But First This, Paul Smith, liked the tape and arranged for the band to come down to London in July 1988 to record the song at the BBC Television's Maida Vale Studios. The following month the four were back in London to record the video, at the warehouse just across the road from BBC Television Centre, where Who Framed Roger Rabbit had just been filmed. The band went on to make appearances on Wogan, Daytime Live (with Alan Titchmarsh) a (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Pebble Mill at One Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Musical groups disestablished in 1990 England Musical ensemble Andy Crane London Single (music) John Kettley Music industry BBC Television BBC Television Centre UK Singles Chart Who Framed Roger Rabbit Alan Titchmarsh English pop music groups Musical groups established in 1986 Record chart Weather forecasting Sound recording and reproduction Television presenter Terry Wogan 1986 establishments in England Children's BBC Television Top 40 Recording contract Pop music Film Wogan Maida Vale Studios Music video Song Novelty record John Kettley is a Weatherman Audio tape
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genre	Pop music
origin	Sunderland, Tyne and Wear England
past members	Andrew Stephenson - Bass, guitars, vocals (en) Michael 'Motch' Haggerton - Guitar, vocals (en) Philip Rodgers - Drums, percussion, vocals (en) Stephen Cousins - Guitars, vocals (en)
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