Atticus Finch

think these may have already been posted before but worth another listen on a Friday night,

Used to work in Beverley years ago, out on work’s Christmas do one night and it was snowing quite heavy, we ended up in Nellies and I thought I’d stepped back in time with the dimly lit gas lamps and coal fires, half expected to see Sherlock Holmes sat in one of the alcoves.

Nellies in Beverley, is that the one lit by gas lamps and coal fires?

He played at the Bately variety club in the late 60’s. Probably decided to visit the beautiful Yorkshire dales whilst here.

I fear he may have stayed the night here...

Yeah but “Ingoe” eggs though!

Spot on

Every year I call in at the Cromarty Micro brewery when I’m up in Scotland to pick up a supply of their award winning “Red Rocker” beer. This time I was lucky enough to chat to the head brewer while in their shop and after noticing majority of their beer range now available in cans I asked him why the change According to him cans are the future, the quality & taste of the beer is not affected due to a plastic coating inside the can. He said beer quality in bottles is more likely to be affected by sunlight where cans are not, plus it’s cheaper for the brewery. Craft ale out of a can does take some getting used to though.

Great post Tone, magic of the F.A cup.... brought back some great memories. Pitches were as shite as I remember them. Still cannot work out why the linesman disallowed Whelan's goal though in the first game, maybe levelling up for disallowing the York goal earlier.

It was a close game, went to extra time if my memory is correct, York also had a goal disallowed before the 90 mins was up. Didn't think it was the 5th round though

York City is my local non league team having fallen out of the league and down the football pyramid over the last few years, national league north now. I did take my grandsons to watch them a few times before lockdown at their Bootham (or Kit Kat) crescent ground which unfortunately has now been sold for housing development. Anyone remember when we played there two years running in the FA cup 3rd round back in the early 80’s? First one was a freezing January day, most games were called off but York had covered the pitch in tonnes of straw the night before and the game went ahead, some deliberate shithousery by York though to try stop us playing football as the pitch was a fucking disgrace and looked more like a ploughed field and we were fortunate to come away with a draw. Thumped them at Anfield 7-0 in the replay a week or so later though.

Nah mate...try this stuff you’ll change your mind (and shit yerself if you eat enough).

PB hasn’t posted on here for a while now, I think you’ve already been in and out of Germany admiring the church spires.

Cairo

Nailed on he’ll score a cracker against us now.

Nah this one’s better

Pesti’s effort which to be fair was a decent effort considering it’s overseas and it gets a neg, this abomination of which there is no excuse for, and it gets an upvote. Standards have clearly slipped on this thread. I blame Ardja for posting all them shit breakfasts people have become immune

Eh? You saying Red Phoenix was the fantasist or is he Cliff Richard?

I had a pop tart once, Paula Yates Does that count? (courtesy of Viz circa 1980s)

XTC Swindons finest

Another Vote for Squeeze

York City is my local team so I always keep an eye out for their score Forres Mechanics (great name) in the highland league

On the road again is indeed a great track and would certainly be in my top 5 all time best. I've been a fan of the blues music of Canned heat for a long time and Alan Wilson was the creativity behind the band and often wrote about life experiences in songs, if you listen to the track "London blues" he sings about a girl who strung him along and then blew him out while he was staying in the city while the band was touring. As for the lyrics for "on the road again", Alan's mother did actually leave him when he was quite young, he was three years old at the time when she walked out on the family and it was quite a few years before he was reconciled with her. Before his untimely death Alan has suffered what would be classed today as "mental health issues" and today would have received the appropriate treatment but in 1970 he was just released back in to the care of another band member Bob Hite with no help or treatment. At the time Canned Heat seemed to be permanently touring and it's written that Alan had long had enough and wanted to quit, the day before he was found dead the other band members were already flying over to England for yet another long tour but Alan never showed up at the airport and after a search was found dead the next day in the woods behind the house where he was living at the time. As for suicide, it is well documented by his friends that Alan used to have trouble sleeping and would take barbiturates to help him sleep, it will never be know whether he intended to take his own life. In my opinion Alan Wilson was probably one of the greatest ever blues harmonica player, something John Lee Hooker agrees with and it was tragic that his life ended at the young age of 27 but one thing is certain, he was no killer.