Loved their stuff - especially Phaedra. Also Tomita and later the Canuck band Syrinx - a John Mills-Cockel creation. My wife ( a ballerina in her early incarnation) danced to this particular Syrinx piece - that's how I discovered their stuff. A Londoner ( RIP Malkie), we were on the same football team for quite a few years in the 80's, played percussion on one of their albums. Also on one of Elton John albums before he came over here. Here's the ballet with the music composition...
David Whitfield Hessle Ex- Servicemans or similar club in Hessle mid 50's Lonnie Donegan Regal Cinema late 50's The Beattles Feb 1963 just before they brought the Please Please Me Album out, at a dance at the Harrogate Royal Pavilion danced first half listended the second when we though hey these guys are good. We had an ear for talent! Rod Stewart Brid Spa 1966 Jose Carreras Seattle WA 1990's Hall and Oates 200? MaryHill WA USA Paul McCartney 200? Portland Or Sarah Brightman 200? Portland Or U2 Portland 201? Portland Or Dixie Chicks 2015 Portland Or The one that stands out most in my mind of course The Beattles the year music was changed forever!
Deffo in my top 5 tracks ever. I got lambasted by someone on FNMT for having posted it too many times on said regular thread (multiple subject matter an' all - too subtle for the critical bugger to understand . If I could give you multi likes I would. Cheers for posting it.
Hessle Ex-Servicemans on the Weir in Hessle was taken over by Waggy after he retired from football, sometime in the 80's or early '90's if I recall. I had a few bevvies with him in there the week before the final game at B.Park. He invited me down (after I'd bought a few copies of his biography mind) to come early so I could meet some of the ex-players who attended that last match (Darlington methinks, which we bloody lost). Anyway. I took one of Waggy's books with me and managed to get somewhere around 30 autographs of ex-City larkers in the inside front cover pages. Think I even posted it somewhere on the History thread on here. He sold up a few years later, changed ownership tarted the place up so every time I was back staying at my ma's place in Hessle, I used to take her for a half pint on the patio out front. Can't remember the new name of the place - just at the top of Prestongate, t'other side of the road where the City Hall(town hall I suppose) and the cop-shop was. Fond memories. Boring old bastard aren't I. What do you expect, no football, no golf, no pub.
When Waggy took it over it had been Marlborough Club. Ex Serviceman’s has always in my lifetime anyway just west of Buttfield Rd on the corner I think of ArcadelArcadia? It was a Nissan hut early doors and then they pulled that down and built the current building. Definitely not a Frank Lloyd Wright or Guggenheim
Chemical Brothers are still my favourite band - 26 years since I first heard them, and 23 years since I first saw them live. Went to their latest tour at Manchester Arena just before Christmas last year. This is probably their campest, catchiest tune though....
