Peet Coombes

Peet Coombes (1952–1997) was a British musician, guitarist and vocalist with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart in the two pre-Eurythmics bands, The Catch, which only released one single, "Borderline/Black Blood" (1977, Logo) before morphing into the other, The Tourists, who had several UK hits in the late 1970s. Many of The Tourists' songs were written by Coombes.

Born in Bradford, but spending most of his early life in Sunderland, Coombes befriended Stewart prior to the latter's romance with Lennox. Although the Tourists were moderately successful in 1978–79, by the release of their third album, artistic differences were emerging between Stewart and Coombes, particularly as the former wanted to go more in the direction of the synthpop sound that the early Eurythmics would go on to have success with.

Coombes and Singapore-born bassist Eddie Chin decided to form a group called Acid Drops but it was not successful. Coombes lived in London during most of the 1980s and was effectively retired from the music scene. However, he spent 1992–1995 working in Cornwall with amateur producer and bassist Andy Brown and his wife Cathy with Dave Farghally as drummer. The band was known as Diminished Responsibility, and though tapes exist of their work, it was never commercially exploited due to his illness.

Coombes

Coordinates: 50°51′47″N 0°18′29″W / 50.863°N 0.308°W / 50.863; -0.308

Coombes is a hamlet and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea.

Coombes Church is an 11th-century Church of England parish church that has lost its dedication. It has some of the most important medieval wall paintings in England, which were painted c. 1100. There is a single church bell that weighs about 77 pounds (35 kg) and was probably cast in Normandy. It is one of the oldest bells in Sussex, dated to c. 1150. The church is roofed with Horsham Stone slabs.

The civil parish has an area of 525.81 hectares (1,299 acres) and has a parish meeting rather than a parish council. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 51 people living in 22 households of whom 23 were economically active.

Church Farm is next to the parish church and Applesham Farm is about 0.6 miles (1 km) to the south.

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Coombes (surname)

Coombes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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