How do you feel

about music?

The young man (below) playing flute with my lot Scarlet Town (Barebones tonight) is Adam. He’s playing with us before going off to music college, next year. In the meantime as part of his current music studies he’s doing a survey about people and music and he’d be grateful if you’d complete and despatch it to him. Many thanks

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2393946/Music-and-the-Mind-Survey

PS Photo by Mick (cheers). Unusual on Thursday night that both Scarlet Town and Aubrey Small featured flute. On which subject, does anyone out there know anyone who teaches flute?

In the Picture

Many thanks to Mick for these photos from last night’s enjoyable evening at the Guildhall:

Aubrey Small (plus guest vocalist)

Scarlet Town

Eleanore Hodge

I & I Dread

I don’t do that many gigs these days – a dozen a year at the outside – but tonight I’m starting a spell of three in eight days.

As a singer there’s one thing I dread more than anything else – worse even than entertaining a Hell’s Angels Convention or the 6.57 Crew at Basin’s

And there it was.

Tuesday morning a sore throat. By this morning a streaming cold that will no doubt convert to a chest sounding like a machine gun in the next day or two.

Stuffed – literally.

Wonderland

You may spot that today is the 150th anniversary of the delightful Alice in Wonderland. The real Alice (Liddell) married the Hampshire cricketer Reginald Hargreaves and they are buried together in the New Forest. Here’s a fine ‘tribute’ – so popular that people are known to use it as a ring-tone I believe

Youth Clubs

A couple of interesting comments about the Youth Clubs back when

I’m doing some new maps for the Guildhall AAA Show and it would be good to have one for YOUTH CLUBS that featured LIVE BANDS

I’ll start with three that I knew quite well:

St Nicholas’s Copnor

The Red Door, Baffins

St Margaret’s Eastney

More please

 

You’re never alone …

… in a band

(from Colin – cheers)

In Town Tonight or Out of Town

Saturday night – 28 November

If anyone tries to tell you they can’t make it because they’re off to see Yellowbed or Mellowbread or Right said Fred

Tell them it was LAST Saturday

So

In Town – Milton Village Hall, Scarlet Town & Jack Harris (barebones)

or

Out of Town – Jack Hargreaves with Tuxedo Junction at the Chairmakers Arms in Worlds End Nr Denmead.

 

Frank Kelly

What a delight to get a long and very interesting comment from the original Pompey rock & roller on the previous post. Thanks too, to Rod, for making the contact. Great memories from when I was very young indeed. Thanks Frank. Incidentally it must be a week for the Classics – saw Ian Duck on Weds evening and an hour or two earlier came home to find a present from Tony Ransley who has been over for a little while. I managed to miss him but it was very kind (cricket books since you’re asking)

Incidentally, Oscar will know/have this already but there’s a new book by Jon Savage called 1966: the Year the Decade Exploded. I’ve just started it and it seems a really good one. 12 Chapters, each linked to a 45rpm record of the year but exploring all sorts.

Trevor Williamson/Williams

This has just come in as a Comment on an earlier post about Frank Kelly’s Band, the Hunters. Can anyone help?

“Hi we have been researching the life of Trevor Williamson who I believe is the Trev Williams mentioned as a member of the Hunters (previously the Paramounts) we found a photo in his effects. Unfortunately Trevor has just died and we held his funeral today. We would be really interested if anyone could add to his story or if any of the band members are still about?”

Spike Edney

Another good night at the Guildhall AAA Show – the opening of the new and very impressive Spike Edney exhibition which is VERY MUCH worth a look. Congratulations to Spike and to Nigel, Audrie and Phil who worked very hard to put it together.

In the photos (left) Spike addresses the multitude of famous Pompey faces while right, Spike (left) chats with a very dapper Mark Andrews and the legendary Ian Duck.