1. Scientists Abnegate the existence of little green spacemen from Mars

2. Scientists Abnegate the existence of little green spacemen from Mars.

3. It was in 1962 when he needed a band to tour with him that 'Joe Brown and the Bruvvers' was cemented, containing two members of the Spacemen, brothers Tony and Pete Oakman.

4. The group by this time was rechristened the Bruvvers, owing to the fact that they weren't using the Spacemen name anymore, and had no official name, but were, as Brown put it -- in his uniquely Cockney-styled way -- "like Bruvvers."

5. Musical references abound--old radio soap opera, skating rink, Buddhist chant--but the most delicious sound is the sort of beep-beep that used to go with spacemen in ridiculous cartoons, and there is a free-floating outerspace Aeriness that has no obvious hookup with any lyric--well, I …

6. On this website we have created a few pages which looks at Pete's career from his start with The Spacemen, moving on to play with Joe Brown and The Bruvvers, the time he spent with Harley Quinne, the thirty five years he became a "rock" with the great Lonnie Donegan and still going strong with the Liverpool band The Swinging Blue Jeans.