In 2007, Mystic Records released a concert film Demons of the Night Gather To See Black Widow – Live as a DVD. The film includes Black Widow’s entire Sacrifice album show from 1970. Jones and Geoff Griffith started to work on new Black Widow music.
The album was finally released in 1997 on the Mystic Records label. In 1998 the original recordings of their debut album, made before Garrett left the band, were released as Return to the Sabbat . In 2000, Black Widow Records (an Italian label) released King of the Witches: Black Widow…
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Paolo “Apollo” Negri from an Italian hard rock band Wicked Minds agreed to join the project on keyboards. The next Black Widow studio album, Sleeping With Demons , had a 1980s new wave style. Rock singer Tony Martin is featured on the album as a guest vocalist on the song…
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By 1971, the band had moved away from its darker occult imagery in an effort to gain a wider audience, which was unsuccessful. Having replaced Bond and Box with Geoff Griffith and Romeo Challenger , Black Widow released the self-titled Black Widow album in 1971 and Black Widow III in…
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Black Widow’s most popular song “Come to the Sabbat” has been covered by many bands and artists including Timberjack (Top 10 hit in New Zealand in 1971), Jon the Postman , Bewitched, Death SS , Propagandhi , & Flummox . Jones of Black Widow together with Mark Pollard and Kevin…
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Sacrifice reached No. 32 on the UK Albums Chart . The band performed at the Whitsun Festival at Plumpton , UK, and at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 .
The band released one album for Pye Records as Pesky Gee!, 1969’s Exclamation Mark , before Garrett left the band. The remaining band members continued on as Black Widow and released their debut album Sacrifice in 1970.
The band originally formed in 1966 as Pesky Gee! with Kay Garrett (lead vocals), Kip Trevor (lead vocals, guitar and harmonica), Chris Dredge (guitar), Bob Bond (bass guitar), Clive Box (drums and piano), Gerry “Zoot” Taylor ( organ ), Clive Jones (aka Clive Beer-Jones; saxophone and flute ). Jim Gannon…
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