Harold Pendleton RIP

I’ve only just spotted an obituary for him although he died a couple of months ago. He was the man who, with Chris Barber started and sustained the legendary Marquee Club (from 1958), he organised the recording session at which Lonnie Donegan recorded “Rock Island Line”, he ran the early jazz festivals in Beaulieu for his Lordship, and then in the early 1960s, kicked off the Richmond and Windsor Jazz & Blues Festivals.

I went to the 1967 one at Windsor and on my first day at a Festival I saw (among others) Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Mick Taylor – and that’s just the guitar players! The festival moved to Reading and survives to this day every August Bank Holiday.

Pete Cross

Never knowingly undersold!

“PORRIDGE 69p  a packet from Farm Fresh (beat that Waitrose) with crumbled nuts, cranberries, linseed oil with Milk in the microwave –very tasty very nice – the secret of my youthful looks revealed.

Want to borrow a couple of bob to buy your next pack of Porage from  Waitrose Rodders??”

Alf Rocks

Long-time local drummer Alf Pink and his new band:

RUBY ROCKS

at Ye Olde Whyte Harte in Hamble this Saturday lunchtime

12.30pm 2nd December 2017.

Have a good gig Alf!

(Now, time for some Porage!)

And the answer is …

PORAGE!!

(Why buy one, when two will do?)

In the 1960s

… the places to be seen, included the Birdcage, Rendezvous, Parlour, Vat etc

This afternoon I was wandering round to Waitrose in Southsea, and there was my old mate ‘Lenny’. As we chatted about Monday afternoons buying “bits & pieces”, along came Dave Mussell – all we needed was a bass player for a cool ‘jazzy’ line-up. Into Waitrose I went, and there was Shep Woolley having just finished his shopping.

It’s the place to be seen these days.

Packing them In!

It could be the next big thing … Southsea Skiffle Orchestra, Guildhall, last Tuesday

To Celebrate …

here’s another EP – ESPECIALLY for the Renegades, although that particular instrumental isn’t actually on there (too wide awake!)

Whisper it

But I might be back.

I think I’ve discovered why it took that nice Mr Branson so long to fix my internet (assuming he has)

So what exactly is a BOOKAZINE – and how does the Sun qualify?

 

 

Warren “Pete” Moore of the Miracles.

One of the GREAT, GREAT, GREAT vocal groups of all time. Lenny has just informed me of his death this week.

RIP and thanks for beautiful music

(Incidentally, this message is coming to you courtesy of the free WiFi in the Canteen, Round Tower, which might become my regular broadcasting site for some days)

By the Sea

From Graham (cheers). A very famous venue in the 1960s – often the late night ‘trip’ after the Birdcage