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IaninSheffield

Veteran
Location
Sheffield, UK
It, Doncaster, is part of Scotland
Well, blow me down! Never knew that.
Does that mean if I flitted to Donny, Nicola rather than Boris would be calling the shots?
 

PaulSB

Squire
I saw Steve Gibbons several times around 1970 at local college gigs in Birmingham. Always a good show and I never understood why he never had more popular and commercial success.
I also saw him when he played in a band called Balls featuring Denny Laine (who lived at the top of our road at the time) ,Trevor Burton from the Move and other members who would later end up in ELO.
The Brum Rock scene was bangin' in the late 60s and early 70s.
http://www.brumbeat.net/index.htm
As a teenager at the time it was quite exciting.:becool:
My sister in law went out with the drummer from the Idle Race at one time. There's a claim to fame. :laugh:
Yes I never understood why he didn't make it in the way others did. His music is/was far superior to The Move for example.

I'm aware of these connections through reading but that's all.

Around the same time we used to see Jasper Carrot in pubs and clubs all over Worcestershire.........not very rock 'n' roll but he was outrageouly funny till he got on telly and the BBC made him tone it down a bit.
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
You need the following:
Large plastic bottle
Cheap beer/booze
Slice of bread

Leave the lid in place.
Cut out a small panel on the side.
Leave the bottle on it's side, with the bread in it.
Pour the cheap beer/booze in.
Place somewhere it is unlikely to be knocked. (Panel uppermost).

You'll have a quiet day the day after you put it out.
That was one of the classic poachers methods of silently getting pheasants. When my father was a journeyman gardener they all lived in a bothy with a food allowance but they supplemented this by poaching.
In a later life my cooperage staff always had a pot on their stove with a mouthwatering smell arising. I never commented but had to fend off constant complaints from a neighbouring estate about poaching by my employees. My reply was that what they did in their own time was none of my business.
 
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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
Yes I never understood why he didn't make it in the way others did. His music is/was far superior to The Move for example.

I'm aware of these connections through reading but that's all.

Around the same time we used to see Jasper Carrot in pubs and clubs all over Worcestershire.........not very rock 'n' roll but he was outrageouly funny till he got on telly and the BBC made him tone it down a bit.
We used to in to see Jasper Carrot at the Boggery folk club.
He went to my school along with Bev Bevan and Chris Spedding amongst others.
 

PaulSB

Squire
May well have been.
Whereabouts in Brum did you live and what years?
I was in Pershore '74 - '76. It would have been '75 or '76 when we used to go to The Boggery, more likely '76. I would have been the cool, good looking guy at the back!!!! 😂 Then went to York.

Back to Brum in September '80 and rented in Sparkbrook or Sparkhill for a few months - they used to pray for Bobby Sands!!! I'll check the church we got married in - that'll tell me.

Then moved to Harborne, 42 Victoria Road. Just round the corner from the pub with the bowling green. Mrs P was training at the QE. At the time it was the premier teaching hospital for midwifery.

Moved up here in '82.
 
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