Effective period / Period of releases: 1975 - 1978

Members: Terry Woods, Gay Woods

Irish folk-rock duo active through the 1970s.

Married couple Gay and Terry Woods formed The Woods Band in 1970 after their split with Steeleye Span, then joined Dr. Strangely Strange for a six-week tour in the spring of 1971. The couple later resumed performing as The Woods Band and also as Gay & Terry Woods, with a rotating cast of musicians, and released a final single as The Woods Band in 1974 before continuing under the name Gay & Terry Woods.

The couple divorced in 1980, with Gay forming Auto Da Fé and Terry retiring from the industry for 5 years before joining The Pogues.