Ady Croasdell

Is this the one they used in the Orange ads in the cinemas? If so that could explain the price. I like it.

No they weren't at all; unless you'd overdone the gear!

First Northern boot was Jeff King's Old Soul label The Poets She Blew A Good Thing about 1970/71, it came out when the Harboro nighter was running

That East European bloke looked liked he'd eaten a few Bosnians or Croatians for his tea.

Shane McGowan ran the cloakroom at the 100 Club for a year or two, for some of which he was actually banned from the club by the manager.

10-10.40 Mick 10.40-11.20 Ady 11.20-12 Rog 12-12.45 Butch 12.45-1.30 Keith 1.30-2.15 Mick 2.15-3 Ady 3-3.45 Butch 3.45-4.20 Roger 4.20-5 Keith 5-5.30 Mick 5.30-6 Ady

The guitarist sounds familiar, no wiser though Soz

Stick that up and all then, it might be a clue!

The Pied Piper and GWP sides of it were never notified or recompensed and as they were only licenses to Kapp originally they are at least technically boots if not out and out boots.

All sorted folks Thanks for the help, Mark Lamarr is in your debt Ady

How mint is it Godz?

Come on; don't be embarrassed folks, you've all got it stashed away from when it was big at Wigan for 2 weeks in 1977!

Time Marches On/Scrooey Mooey; I actually need it for the flip! Don't need a UK copy at the moment. Has anyone got an Ex to M copy of this they could send me sharpish? Rewards will be forthcoming. Ady

Shirellesy

Sounds like some of the Flomar demos, defo NYC quite possibly not a soul track. That piano hook sounds like I've heard it. Interesting, I'll ask my co-workers.

At the 100 Club we've been trying to promote the more upfront end of the scene ever since Stafford made us aware of the rarer end of it all. We've purposely never gone as extreme as they did with the sounds and always mix in a few oldies where we can. The mainstays of the past 20 years have been Butch and Mick, primarily newies and oldies, in the parlance, but both capable of mixing a bit of the other in if needed or they feel like it. Other residents have been in-between the two probably playing current biggies from around the country and with good enough collections to be able to entertain the crowd which can vary quite a bit in taste from one night to another. The guests usually add a third dimension but I'd try to maintain the balance of primarily rarer stuff with perhaps 20-30% oldies over the night. I think it works and has certainly lasted us for a bloody long time, however I do think the real hardcore rareties fans don't visit us enough as there's a lot of great largely unknown sounds that get spun but not being totally dedicated to newer stuff seems to prevent some from the occasional visit. I can understand oldies fans not coming as we only play a smallish percentage of those sounds. In conclusion both oldies and newies scenes could probably do with a little more of t'other, but if people want to go all one way and it works, good luck to them. If it doesn't; reconsider baby. Ady

Tell him, I'll be giving his anniversary 45 to Butch for him. That should cheer him up! Best wishes from his friends down south too. Ady

It's nice that I can excite a middle aged man; oo-er!

Just had 6T27 the anniversary record in and played it very nervously as we didn't have time for test pressings this year. Thanks God it plays wonderfully and it's a double treat for the lucky attendees. All Ace staff have signed statements that if the word gets out they will allow me to kill them. Ady

Terrific stuff, I just caught up on the early years. I love the fact that Joe Evans had a publicity photo taken of Toy Kates the Manhattans roadie. Ady

We got that but also the flip a brilliant floater called 'We Go Together' ady

The artist will continue to earn royalties though Bob so they will get money now that they wouldn't have had the old 50 year law stood

Pied Piper and GWP were very separate entities that sometimes both worked on a recording and sometimes worked totally serparately Get the GWP Kent CDs for the full story

The latter Bob, it's a very timely piece of legislation which amazingly at one stage was opposed by the UK the Eurppean country with most to gain! Out Of Copyright merchants have been making a living off other peoples music over here for the last 5 or more years

Thanks for the good wishes folks; it'll be a special night and I'm going to do all I can to get them played around the country/world eventually. Ady