Mainly at Adrian House in Aigburth but that was in the 80's and I didn't
start on the pipes until 1972 although before that we spent several years at
the Lamb Hotel in Wavertree (upstairs, huge cavern of a room with some
buffalo horns over the side stage - coal fires and freezing cold in the
winter - our audiences collapsed after a long bus strike in the 60's and
never recovered .
It was held in a building run by the Knights of St. Columba and had an
enormous crucifix on the back wall which always caused concern to those
singing the more risqué songs :)
We did have Alistair Anderson as a guest on one occasion and his playing of
the pipes went down a treat (I still have that on cassette somewhere) and
Canny Fettle (Pipes made by the same chap that made mine - Bill Hedworth) so
we "did our bit" .
Dreadful name for our trio/duo of "The Thatchers" - selected by Barney from
the Dubliners from a list of two or three names. There was a fashion for
calling groups from traditional trades then - Spinners, Weavers, Farriers
etc.
Bad move.
We went down pretty fast when a certain Iron Lady came to power.
On reflection, we weren't that good (pretty bad, actually) but very
enthusiastic!
Colin Hill
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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: *** SPAM *** RE: [NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the
reeds...
There were many Folk clubs during the 60's - 80's including a
few excellent
"traditional" clubs (I ran one - and played my pipes there
Which one was that? I was quite active on the folk scene in Liverpool in the
mid-60s but had only ever encountered nsp on record (played by colin ross
accompanying louis killen on derwentwater farewell).
Strange our crossths didn't path ;-)
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