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Lincoln Tiger said:
True story this. During the 90s, one of the bands I play with were resident at the Dee St. Club. One of the acts that played there over the years was a brilliant club comedian called Roger 'Ollie' Spencer. Ollie had been the drummer with one of Jeff Lynne's formative bands 'The Idle Race' (check them out - you can hear a lot of the prototype ELO stuff there). In fact, Lynne had left the Idle Race to join Roy Wood and Bev Bevan in 'The Move'. Ollie Spencer was still in touch with Jeff Lynne, and I kid you not Jeff Lynne rang Ollie Spencer whilst we stood having a chat in the changing cupboard. This was just to check that Ollie was free the following week for the Birmingham City home game and a curry plus few beers afterwards. I said that I thought Jeff Lynne lived in LA as a non dom! Apparently, Lynne had worked it out to the finest detail how he could get in as many Birmingham City home and away games plus the curry nights as he could within the 90 days allowance leaving some days for 'work' or meetings. He actually planned his visits back to the UK around the games. According to Ollie, Lynne really missed the football and Birmingham curry houses. However, that night Lynne had rang to say that he'd be over for a quite bit as he was working with a few mates on a new record. The 'few mates' turned out to be the surviving Beatles!
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Idle Race. That takes me back. Creation, Action as well. Bands which never made it really big which were great to see live.
 
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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
Does anyone know if Jeff Lynne arrived by helicopter, I saw one arrive which seemed to land at the Infirmary helipad?
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Thought it might be Mr Abramovich with Mr Slutsky here to speak to the Alarms about buying the club, then selling it back to them for £5 on the understanding that he retains the majority interest, thereby circumventing FA rules..
 
Lincoln Tiger said:
True story this. During the 90s, one of the bands I play with were resident at the Dee St. Club. One of the acts that played there over the years was a brilliant club comedian called Roger 'Ollie' Spencer. Ollie had been the drummer with one of Jeff Lynne's formative bands 'The Idle Race' (check them out - you can hear a lot of the prototype ELO stuff there). In fact, Lynne had left the Idle Race to join Roy Wood and Bev Bevan in 'The Move'. Ollie Spencer was still in touch with Jeff Lynne, and I kid you not Jeff Lynne rang Ollie Spencer whilst we stood having a chat in the changing cupboard. This was just to check that Ollie was free the following week for the Birmingham City home game and a curry plus few beers afterwards. I said that I thought Jeff Lynne lived in LA as a non dom! Apparently, Lynne had worked it out to the finest detail how he could get in as many Birmingham City home and away games plus the curry nights as he could within the 90 days allowance leaving some days for 'work' or meetings. He actually planned his visits back to the UK around the games. According to Ollie, Lynne really missed the football and Birmingham curry houses. However, that night Lynne had rang to say that he'd be over for a quite bit as he was working with a few mates on a new record. The 'few mates' turned out to be the surviving Beatles!
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It was in the nineties that he was working on stuff for the Travelling Wilbury's with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. Him and George often worked on stuff in the UK, sometimes the others came to the UK to work on stuff, or George and Jeff would take stuff back to the States they had been working on. Could have been that he was referring too?
 
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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
It was in the nineties that he was working on stuff for the Travelling Wilbury's with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. Him and George often worked on stuff in the UK, sometimes the others came to the UK to work on stuff, or George and Jeff would take stuff back to the States they had been working on. Could have been that he was referring too?
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No, Ollie Spencer told us the next time we saw him it was the Free As A Bird sessions that Jeff produced.
 
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Barchullona said:
Idle Race. That takes me back. Creation, Action as well. Bands which never made it really big which were great to see live.
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Very envious... I would have loved to have seen Idle Race perform and especially The Skeleton And The Roundabout. When we played Ollie Spencer onto the stage with Come With Me, he was genuinely moved that we'd bothered and indeed even knew the song.
 
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