Pete Prescott… I still have the album !
Neil Cartwright… Good man – top producer!!!
Day: 9 May 2024
Doctor Zhivago Film – Curzon Cinema St Leonards-on-Sea 9th May 1968
JS Bythesea… A great film
Monica Bane… One of my favourite films, with my darling husband!
Judy Atkinson… One of my favourites too, and the music is sublime. Anyone else read the original book?
Brigitte Lee… Judy, I have read it. Love the film and the music.
Judy Atkinson… I read a sequel novel a couple of years ago “Lara’s Child”, about what might have happened to her and Yuri’s baby after she disappeared. The most heartbreaking, dreary & depressing book I’ve ever read
Judith Monk… I went to every showing of this at the Curzon at that time. I wore a long string of beads the first night which broke as I twisted them with the tension and total immersion into the film….the cinema had a raked floor and these beads went pinging in all directions…people were slipping on them as I left red faced….but it is my favourite film.
Margaret Trowell… Loved it…I was still at school but Julie Christie was an old girl of the school so had to see it ….. countless times now
Nicola Dobson… Yes she was…regarding Dr Zhivago..they filmed some if it at Fairlight snd we went there after they left and found many things from the film on the beach. My parents took some half barrels for planters, we had them for years in the garden, dad painted them black and white
Malcolm McDonald… my nan adored Omar Shariff…which wouldve made him a toy boy anyway..
Tracy Birrell… I remember watching this at the Curzon.
Kate Recknell-Page… I went to see it at The Odeon at Hounslow West when it was first released – so long ago but Omar Sharif was a real heartthrob at the time x
Gong – Hastings Pier 9th May 1974
ad supplied by Sarah Harvey, paper plate frisbee supplied by Mick Mepham
autograph poster from the gig supplied by Peter Houghton
photos supplied by Clive Richardson
Gary Kinch….Wet Cheese Delirium
Clive Richardson...I remember Daevid Allen had a fishing rod and cast something into the audience.
Mick Mepham.…It was Daevid Allen with the rod and it was a little rubber fish on the end of the line. He cast it out, reeled it in and said “hmmm not biting today”. It utterly freaked loads of people out hahaha. Great gig.
Phil Thornton…..the UV flying UFO’s over the audience was the most memorable moment for me, along with the splendid ‘gliss’ guitar orchestra bliss out soundtrack ! I also loved steve hillage’s home made leslie cab device made from an old record deck and a big wedge of expanded polystyrene
Mick Mepham…..I’ve still got one of the paper plates that they frisbeed out into the audience …. see above
Perri Ann Haste…..Steve Hillage! – I still have one of his Vinyl albums in the loft somewhere… Think one of the tracks is called ‘ All too much ‘
James Turner…I was just sorting out my old albums,I got this on the pier in the 70’s
Mick Mepham… I do that one at Beatles Day Perri Ann Haste. Good innit?
Tony Court-holmes… I i am now going to trawl through my mind for another odd band that played there.
Tony Ham… I’ve got the Flying Teapot album.
Pete Fisher… Saw Steve Hillage in 1976…
Jeremy Harrison… Anyone else buy Camembert Electrique for 99p? Worth a few Bob these days in good condition……
Mike Curtis… my copy has Gong on one side and Side 1 of Tubular Bells on the other
John Mcewen… 79p for mine, I think I got it in Woolworths.
Ben Taylor… No way, did they have Allan Holdsworth at that point?
Jeffrey Beadle… I think it’s Steve Hilage?
John Coleman… I Was there!
Stuart Moir… Look at those trousers, his mum probably ran them up on her singer sewing machine
Dave Nattress… Didn’t see Gong – I have got “L” by Steve Hillage in vinyl – must play it later, must be years since I did, but Tony Court-Holmes commented about trawling his mind for another odd band. I reckon the oddest band I saw at the pier was Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come – I just have an image of them now, seemed like weird stuff both the music and it was somewhat theatrical.
James Turner… I got the album somewhere.
Pete Houghton… I remember those days. Still got mine
Pippa Barber… Wow ! Great pics
Alan Esdaile… Do you remember buying this album for 59p in 1974?
Mike Curtis… I do. And my copy has Side 1 of Tubular Bells as its Side 2!
Alan Esdaile… Mike, collectors item?
Mike Curtis… Yes. There were quite a few of these mis-pressings apparently. I have been offered considerably more for it than it cost me new!
Ronald Collins… I have about 40 of the above mentioned frisbee/paper plates Want to make me an offer ? [Probably got the ticket around somewhere,too.] For Birmingham Town Hall,whenever it was.
any interest I will pass on to you Ronald.
Factory & Effigy – Clive Vale Annexe. Fri 7th May 1971 & YMCA review 13th August 1971
Supplied by Jon McCallion
Andy Qunta… Ah! Good times!
Phil Gill… I was there, probably with young Carey, Meachen and Shirley, as they labelled us at school. Sarah Harvey might have enjoyed the evening too.
Sarah Harvey…. I did indeed Phil and I had. completely forgotten about Effigy and to be honest cannot remember seeing them at all other than a vague memory that I didn’t think much of them. Factory as ever were THE band of Hastings at the time.
Chris Baker… Hah! Flight of the Rat was one of my “Flashy” solos! Those were the days! We only did a few gigs.
Phil Gill… As I recall Chris, you showed me how to play the pedal note riff from Flight of the Rat, one night at an Effigy rehearsal that Roger Carey and I attended. Was it School Road in Ore? Roger was buying Iain Cobby’s speaker cabinet and we came along to look at it.
Brigitte Lee… Where was Clive Vale Annex?
Chris Baker… Ha! Phil! My arthritic old fingers can’t play it so fast these days! Fun to so though. Still got that analog Park Fuzzbox too and the old Hofner!
Geoff Peckham… I remember we (Factory) were really impressed with Effigy. Didn’t they do a couple of other Deep Purple covers? Speed King, and Child in Time? According to Andy’s diary we played with them twice in 1971. May 7th at Priory Road School. Andy said that school gigs have been “…really great. This was no exception. Bit of trouble from old ladies and police about the noise but never mind. Effigy supported (or did we support them?) – not bad for their first gig.” The second was at the YMCA on August 13th. Andy mentions the awful acoustics and that “Effigy (with Tom) supported.” Could that have been the legendary Tom Jones? (The one from Stoke, not S. Wales!)
Phil Gill… And Steve’s drumming was *never* too loud. End of.
John Wilde…. Tom Jones, any info on his history or where he is now?
Geoff Peckham…. I got to know Tom in ’69 when his dad had an electrical shop in Western Rd, Bexhill. He told me stories about being in a pre-Black Sabbath band called Horny Moon (!) and other tales. He was a great character and raconteur. Like you, he had great stage presence – a great blues singer and harpist. He moved back to Stoke, and around 73-74 turned up at a Factory gig in NE Staffs University. I think he put us up for the night. Haven’t seen him since. Anyone else know anything? Be good to see you again sometime.
Alan Esdaile…yes it was School Road Ore where the rehearsals took place, in the old church hall which was full of antiques and clobber and the band squeezed somehow in the middle. I think their was a giant stuff bear but maybe wrong? Geoff Peckham date is correct as Friday 7th May 1971. Clive Vale Annex was part of Priory Road School and the gig took place at Clive Vale. Jon McCallion sung with Effigy at this gig and glad you remembered Tom Jones. I got a review somewhere which I will post on the YMCA gig shortly.
Ten Years After – Hastings Pier Sat 22nd September 1973
poster supplied by Mick Mepham, ad supplied by Sarah Harvey
photos by Roger Carey
Glenn Piper…. I remember this gig; one of the early ones that I worked on .
Jim Hobbs….Yep, me too!
Here they are playing the great Slow Blues In C – venue unknown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6fZzWrzCE
Roger Carey… 1000 plus people at the Pier concert which discouraged me from going to the front!
Sarah Harvey… Just talking to Roger last week about this gig….. he always remembers me telling him that Alvin Lee just walked past me and he was so small (height wise). I had his poster in my room for many a year and always imagined a guy towering over everyone…….but he was Ronnie Corbett height. Must have worn big platformed shoes. He looked a massive bloke on Woodstock and all the posters.
Jim Breeds… I was at this gig! I had long blond hair – it couldn’t be could it!? Probably not.
Yvonne Cleland… This was a good gig. Remember it well, and Alvin Lee came out afterwards and spoke to us.
Who remembers babycham?
photo source: unknown
Pete Prescott… My mum drank it.
Kathy Wood… I put a glass of babycham down and my MILs dog drank it
Wendy Weaver… It was a nice drink. People used to collect Babycham paraphernalia and collections come up at antique auctions occasionally .
Judy Atkinson… My mum would order it (when I was under age) & I would drink it. With a glace cherry of course!
Betty Austin… Add a brandy lovely
Dennis Torrance… Have a collection of babycham glasses brought in old town some years back
Josie Lawson… Definitely, used to drink it and for quite a while had one of those babysham animals
Keith Blizard… My mother loved it with a dash of brandy, it wasn’t easy to find in her final days but I’m certain it was better for her than any medicine !
Sophie Ash… Our Economics lecturer cited it as a product which would not exist without advertising, and whose price consisted mainly of advertising spend.
Mandy Wright… We had one of those deer things in our ‘cocktail ‘ cabinet xx
Joe Knight… Champagne Perry
Eric Harmer… Always served with a cherry in a stick
Gerry Fortsch… Good with a large brandy.
Stephen Kolimbarides… Gerry, I’ll drink to that!!!!
Jan Deane… Cider and Babycham – my drink of choice when I lived in Glasgow in the 70s. Knocked your socks off!!
Virginia Davis… Brandy and babycham
Andrew Moodie… Ah’d LURRV a Babycham!
Mick O’Dowd… I’d love a Babycham!
Patricia Wapshott… Still buy it for Christmas , love it !
Roxine Lucas… I love a babycham with a cherry on top remind’s me of my mum x
Jan Warren… Iceland sell Babycham, Snowball and Cherry B at Christmas in packs of 4 bottles, nice for a bit of nostalgia
Leigh Wieland-Boys… Loved a Babycham or a Snowball back in the day!
Lyn Humphrey… But were any deer harmed in the making of those commercials?
Alan Pepper… Yes my mum enjoyed one at Christmas ! Or a Snowball !! Hic…
Dave Nattress… Definitely recall it, my Mother used to drink it. Little bottles but did they used to do large bottles.
Jeff Belton… If you like Babycham ? Try it with Brandy. It’s lovely