 During the 1960s, he was also a member of a couple of jazz groups, namely the Terry Lightfoot and Alex Welsh bands and played with Edmundo Ros.He also had played trombone and sung in a blues band called 'Dillingers' with saxophonist Don Mackrill and bassist Ronnie Shapiro, the brother of Helen Shapiro.Eric Allandale appears to have been involved with a group called Romeo Z.