The Mobiles – 1988-89

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photos supplied by Neil Cartwright 

Anna, Russ, Chris, Neil & Garry in the background.

Neil Cartwright… I was lucky enough to play a number of ‘Showcase’ gigs with them in 1988-89. The line-up was Chris, Russ and Anna, with Garry King on drums.

Tony May…. Great pics Neil. I played ‘Drowning In Berlin’ on my ipod today and it still sounds as innovative and imaginative as ever. I really liked ‘Your Not Alone’ as well but it made no impression as a single.

Matt Thomas… Her brother Matt was my first manager at Masons Music

Garry King… Wow great to see this after all these years, good times indeed

Harry Randall… They used to rehearse out at Crowhurst

The Beatles on Hastings Pier in 1966? It didn’t happen. Fake?

beatles hastings pier 1966

supplied by Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas… Came across this poster while working as a bouncer on the pier in the sixties

Alan Esdaile… Anyone know anything about this poster. We know that The Beatles did not play but did the rest of the bill happen and what took place on the 3rd December?

Archie Lauchlan… Mysterious! And very intriguing

Jim Breeds… Doesn’t the story go that Epstein pulled them from the pier gig because they were asked to be on a TV show?

Stuart Huggett… Doesn’t look entirely convincing to me, slightly doctored? Here you go https://www.beatlesbible.com/…/live-another-beatles…/

Jim Breeds… December 3rd fell on a Saturday in 1960 (too early?) and 1966 (too late?).

Andrew Bantock… Fakey fakey fake fake!

Peter Fairless… Yawn! We’ve had this before. It’s a fake. The poster was for a Christmas show, somewhere, I forget. Someone added the Pier – for a joke, or as a fraud, who knows, or cares? The Beatles were booked for the pier, they got famous, Epstein didn’t honour the booking but sent other acts in their place. Have a nice Beatles Day!

Jim Breeds… They didn’t show because of a rift in the space/time continuum that doomed them to forever search for a Saturday 3rd December in 1966 in a parallel universe. It inspired their song “I’m Cross Across The Universe”.

Gavin Martin… Probably this was a gig promoted by Jeffrey Archer, just before he discovered Joe Cocker.

Mick O’Dowd… What a show line-up if it had happened!

Peter Fairless… It did, Mick, just not here – and not in 1966!

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Mick O’Dowd… Didn’t we get Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas as a consolation prize?

Alan Esdaile… Did anyone see The Beatles?

Tickets supplied by Jenny Power

Jenny Power… The line up for the pier is exactly the same as the beatles christmas show that i saw at hammersmith Jan 16th 1965 (can be verified by googling..although i always thought i saw the Tornados and not the Yardbirds but everyone else is the same)so i reckon the pier poster was for dec 1964

Robert Searle… I saw this show at the Hammersmith Odeon. Great show, great lineup.
Yardbirds with Eric on his red Telecaster they were brilliant

Mike Raxworthy… Those were the days – lots of top acts on one night – now we get one big star and a support that plays to half the audience while the other half wait in the bar!

 

Who remembers Graham Kerr The Galloping Gourmet?

Nick Prince… Yes, he ended up in very poor health from eating far too many of his own recipes…. didn’t he cook everything in butter or brandy? Lol

Chris Jolly… Floyd as well! Let’s have a little splash of wine, haha…

Nick Prince… Floyd just died of drink. It made great television though.

Jan Warren… He liked a drink!!

Heidi Snape… Oh wow! That has just taken me right back to my childhood! Loved watching it! X

Andre Martin… I was told that he served with the British Army at one time in The Army Catering Corps [ACC] and then later he moved to Canada. Those were the days when you did not wall to wall cooking programmes in the schedule and he was always a very flambount character.

Andy James Long… ‘a quick slurp’ was his catch phrase as I recall!

Will Cornell… He pronounced his name “Care”, right? Deborah pronounced it “Car”, and everyone else I know with the name, it’s “Cur”. Go figure.

Chris van Rock… Yes …. he promoted vegetarian health back when it was virtually unheard of , turning his back on his style of cooking on his tv program full of fats and creams and dairy…his beliefs were laughed at even by his producer wife who suffered from ill health in later life …. he was groundbreaking in healthy eating and veganism

Jonathan Mendenhall… I remember him on TV very well…I was only very young even then thought he was a bit too smarmy..use to grab someone out of the audience and he almost “oiled” every time he took a taste of his completed dish…one of those 1970 TV “gems..”

Carol Ann Bolton… He was SO annoying.

Gerry Fortsch… He liked a drink so he can’t have been all bad.

Tara Reddy… I used to watch this with my grandma and wish I was in the audience and that I would get picked to taste the food!! X

Kev Carleonis… Yep. I was a kid then.

Nick Webb… I have one of his books lol

Jenny Morgan… I remember him drinking a glass of wine and picking a woman from the audience to share his meal- what a flirt!! Great though..

SMART Coffee meet 49 report

 

Another packed afternoon for our 49th meeting. Too many people to mention but will try to recall the new people and those who took the trouble to bring some bits along. Among the newbies this time were Alan Vale, Brian Setchfield, Paul Huggett, Jenny Power, Lucy Pappas, Ian Quinnell, Helen Smith, and Wendy and Jeff Belton. Alan Vale was talking about the band Sidewinder and the Battle of The Bands competition. He was also talking about the amps he sells and collects and has sold an Orange overdrive amp to Eddie Van Halen, as well as a Vox AC30 going to Bryan Adams.  Alan had with him the Vox AC30 valve amp service engineers guide and The British Amp Invasion books. Brian Setchfield was talking about the groups he was in, including Boulder, Footloose and Slack Alice. Jenny Power had with her a record box of singles, as well as autographs of The Walker Brothers, The Fourmost and Unit 4 + 2. She was chatting about when she saw The Beatles at The Odeon Hammersmith in 1965 and had the tickets which cost one pound each.  Pete Houghton arrived with bags of autographed records with lots that were signed by bands from the pier.  He also had some very rare autograph photos of Queen, Free’s Fire and Water signed album, Sex Pistols God Save The Queen reissue single on A&M, photo of him with The Clash, The Mobiles Drowning in Berlin autographed single, photo of Oliver Plunkett’s disco lightshow, and a photo outside UFO Records on the Pier with Corrie’s Billy Walker. Pete Prescott arrived with a pile of Classic Rock magazines and Roger Carey had a photo write up on his 1983 group called The RC Band who featured him and Phil Thornton, Den Wootton and Faye Wright.  Barry French had a number of rock singles with Disc Jockey record shop stickers on, albums from Duane Eddy, The Hollies, The Lambrettas, Dave Mason and Cass Elliot and Tony Sheridan and The Beatles. Of local interest he had a cd of Bushman Brothers and also the Rhythm Doctors Warts ’n’ all.  Nigel Ford had with him lots of cuttings and tour programmes from Van Halen and AC/DC Highway to Hell tour 79. Sorry I didn’t get chance to speak to everyone and this is just a very small bit of what I remember, anyone who wishes to add anything interesting you were talking about, then please feel free to do so.

Lucy Pappas… Lovely to catch with friends from years ago. Thanks for organising it, Alan.

Yvonne Ellis… Sorry I missed it this time hope to come to the next one x

Jon McCallion… Sorry we missed it Alan hopefully will be there for the June meeting.

Wendy Weaver… Sorry we missed it. Will try to be at the next one.

Pete Prescott… One of the best ! It was so nice seeing everyone !

Robert Searle… One of these days………

Neil Steadman… Sorry I couldn’t make it Alan.

Geoff Peckham… Lovely to catch up with folks and meet new old ones!

Paul Huggett… Good stuff, thanks. Time went fast

Andre Martin… Good coverage Alan, now go and have a lay down in a dark room to recover. Yes it was a very busy afternoon, people arrived when you were have a chat with me and eating your lunch – you had a feeling this was going to be a busy day.

Mick O’Dowd… What an afternoon! Must rate as one of the best Meets ever! Loads of newbies and loads to talk about. Well done Alan and here’s to the Big 50 next time.

Pete Houghton… Well done it was a great afternoon meeting friends you have not seen for ages thanks. Alan it takes a lot to organise and you do a grand job here’s to the next one.

Tony Davis… Another good meet. Nice to see old friends and make new ones

Iain Cobby… Sorry I wasn’t there. apologies to Brian S after meeting at my mum’s funeral the other week. I had been working on elections till 11 the night before and was out of it the rest of Friday. Will catch up with you soon .Saw a great gig last night in Rye, the amazing Jimmy Web. Wow.

Alan Vale… Alan when will the next one be?

Alan Esdaile… The meetings are usually about every 6 to 7 weeks Alan, waiting for confirmation of a free date from the White Rock Hotel.

Vox AC30 Valve Amplifier service guide and The British Amp Invasion book

Supplied by Alan Vale

Harry Randall… Anyone with an AC30 that wants to know about the innards should get this book!

Tim Moose Bruce… I got this book. Its excellent

Alan Vale… So have I

Colin Fox… I had one of the originals back in the early 60s. The colour was fawn in those days.

Hastings Rock FM radio – back on 4th May 2019

Nigel Goodman… Ace can’t wait

Robert Searle… Fantastic

Janet Rennie… Yay

Robin Mayhew… My name is Robin Mayhew I had a rock band in the 60s called The Presidents signed to Decca Records and released a single Let the Sun Shine In with the ‘B’ side Candy Man and in June last year on a compilation by Ace Records a track titled She Said Yeah which was recorded in 1965 and somehow lost for 53 years!. I managed to get all the band back together and make a video for YouTube which was great fun. I was a music professional in the 1970s and worked with many top acts of the decade starting with the whole of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust project engineering concert sound. I gave up touring in 1980 and have been doing a variety of things since then and at 78 have now retired and got back into my great love which is music and produced my own album CD of original songs which is titled Shallow and Deeper and I will release it in May this year. Any chance of a play for She Said Yeah or a track or two from my album.

more information… https://www.spiritfm.net/news/sussex-news/2649113/the-west-sussex-band-with-a-combined-age-of-380-making-a-comeback/

Have passed on the information to Sarah Harvey at Hastings Rock

Leigh Wieland-Boys… Fabulous…you must give them air time xx