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Songs you'd forgot about.

I haven't actually been to a gig (Killing Joke at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on their Pandemonium tour) since about 1995, consequently I've forgotten every song I ever heard.

I think that's already TMI about my historical musical "tastes," so I shall fetch my coat, which I see Daniel is kindly already holding for me, having found it in the cloakroom, all ready to hand it to me at the exit (where I see he's also thoughtfully opened the door).
 
Going to quite a few gigs. Loads of bands from the 70s and 80s. Madness and squeeze,nine below zero and doctor feelgood. Nothing better than going to see a cracking band live. Went to see men without hats recently and they were tremendous.
 
Best place I've been to for gigs is the Royal Albert Hall, the acoustics are better than such as Wembley, Brixton Academy and O2 etc
 
Ian_Davies said:
I haven't actually been to a gig (Killing Joke at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on their Pandemonium tour) since about 1995, consequently I've forgotten every song I ever heard.

I think that's already TMI about my historical musical "tastes," so I shall fetch my coat, which I see Daniel is kindly already holding for me, having found it in the cloakroom, all ready to hand it to me at the exit (where I see he's also thoughtfully opened the door).
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Back in the day I could have took offence at the term Coat holder. I frequented and ran at one time some spit and sawdust pubs the one I actually ran was amongst the roughest pubs in the roughest areas of the Midlands.

We had a coat holder called Beaver the term given for when any aggro kicked off he'd be the guy you told to hold the coats and go stand in a corner out of the way for a lack of being any use in a fight.

Looking back Beaver was the instigator of many a riot himself as he was a bit of ladies man the problem being he didnt mind trying it on with ladies who were already attached and usually attached to one of the local thugs. So he'd get himself in plenty of bother and then usually we had to step in to stop somebody from killing him. Meanwhile he'd be stood in his corner out of the way usually trying to lay his charm on some other lucky lady whilst we were sorting out the previous issue.

So to be called the coat holder was certainly an insult to someone's masculinity. However these days in my current condition ( Far too old,fat and crippled for that game) its probably a fair shout. Me fight ? I'd struggle to put your imaginary Cat out Ian.
 
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Ah okay well all of that is outside my frame of reference so I simply meant you probably want to escort me off the premises.

I am glad I provoked that cracking anecdote though.
 
Danny said:
Back in the day I could have took offence at the term Coat holder. I frequented and ran at one time some spit and sawdust pubs the one I actually ran was amongst the roughest pubs in the roughest areas of the Midlands.

We had a coat holder called Beaver the term given for when any aggro kicked off he'd be the guy you told to hold the coats and go stand in a corner out of the way for a lack of being any use in a fight.

Looking back Beaver was the instigator of many a riot himself as he was a bit of ladies man the problem being he didnt mind trying it on with ladies who were already attached and usually attached to one of the local thugs. So he'd get himself in plenty of bother and then usually we had to step in to stop somebody from killing him. Meanwhile he'd be stood in his corner out of the way usually trying to lay his charm on some other lucky lady whilst we were sorting out the previous issue.

So to be called the coat holder was certainly an insult to someone's masculinity. However these days in my current condition ( Far too old,fat and crippled for that game) its probably a fair shout. Me fight ? I'd struggle to put your imaginary Cat out Ian.
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I was definitely a coat holder.
 
I've probably referenced before a concert at the Albert Hall a few weeks after I moved to London in 1970. The support act was Elton John but the headliners were a group called Fotheringay which was basically a vehicle for Sandy Denny organised by her boyfriend Trevor Lucas and featuring folk/rock illumni such as Gerry Conway and Pat Donaldson. They were short-lived but they produced a brilliant first album icluding this:


Sandy was previously with Fairport Convention. It's hard to over-emphasise how popular they were in student circles in the late 60s but Meet On The Ledge is a fair example of their ability.


The Fotheringay song was written by the much under-rated Gordon Lightfoot who wrote this about riots in Detroit early in his career.

 
I used to carry my rather large transistor radio around with me and can still remember Meet on the Ledge being played one day when I was walking round Birmingham. And also remember going to a disco at a local college and as I walked in a song called Lady Samantha by a little known Elton John was playing. It’s odd how some songs stick in my mind like that.Itchycoo Park takes me right back to my hippie days and the first time I heard Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother was when I was in my flat in Cornwall. I can’t forget that because I tried to open a window and the glass broke cutting my wrist ( thankfully it missed the vein; it was a very old house with very old windows) and I’ve still got the scar!
 
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The group called Eclection were similarly short-lived and recorded one eponymous album in 1968. The line-up shown here ( from left ) is Georg Hultgreen, Gerry Conway, Kerrilee Male, Trevor Lucas, and Michael Rosen ( a Canadian ). Hultgreen later adopted the name Georg Kajanus and achieved some fame as leader of the 1970s singles group Sailor. I am fairly sure that there is no filmed footage of this group.

In 1970, Sandy Denny was a DJ on DR, Denmark’s national radio station, where she played her favourites. The recording is still available online and well worth a listen.
https://www.danskkulturarv.dk/dr/beatgæst-sandy-denny-1/
 
I thought I was old but you guys making me feel young. I'm a punk at heart but my sister introduced me to James Taylor,Paul Simon,Carole King etc so got a fairly mixed taste. Went to 23 gigs in six months winter 77/spring 78. So many great venues in Edinburgh. Very few now.
 
Went to the punk all dayer in Glasgow this summer. Skids,rezillos,buzzcocks,undertones stranglers and pistols with Frank Carter. Only 72 quid. Fabulous day.
 
Obviously the greatest punk band of all time were The Osmonds.

The Sex Pistols learned everything they knew off them.

The highly-subversive and nihilistic "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" was a particular Classic.
 
I only saw showaddywaddy,cosi Powell,gerry and the pacemakers and Freddie and the dreamers.
The last on the list is a story on its own.
 

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