Peter the Great
I HAVE written before about happy times as a reporter on my first newspaper, the Burnley Evening Star. Looking back, it never ceases to amaze me that a local rag could … Continue readingPeter the Great
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Beau: 1917 Revolution
Released as a single on Dandelion in 1969, a sweet track from the folkie born in Leeds in 1946 as Christopher John Trevor Midgley. He is still playing.
Mike Hart: Almost Liverpool 8
Wonderful stuff from his first Dandelion LP Mike Hart Bleeds, released in 1969.
Adam Faith: What Do You Want?
This was Adam Faith’s first No 1 (in Britain; I don’t think it was released in the States). It was written by Les Vandyke and arranged by John Barry. It … Continue readingAdam Faith: What Do You Want?
Tractor: All Ends Up
More Dandelionery, this time from the Rochdale duo formerly known as The Way We Live.
Stack Waddy: Meat Pies ‘Ave Come but Band’s Not ‘Ere Yet
Continuing a short season of Dandelion records, this is from the Timperley combo’s imaginatively titled 1972 album Bugger Off.
Medicine Head: When Night Falls
More than just a novelty band with a Jew’s harp, MH produced some lovely stuff back in the Seventies, championed by John Peel, whose Dandelion label released their first three … Continue readingMedicine Head: When Night Falls
Henry Thomas: Going up the Country
Original 1928 performance of the song best known for the version by Canned Heat 40 years later. Love it!
Frankie Miller: Mail Box
Another song featuring the brilliant Bob Andrews, former keyboards maestro with Brinsley Schwarz, and his fellow members of the band. This is from the 1973 album Once in a Blue … Continue readingFrankie Miller: Mail Box
The Wigan Kebab
TAKE a meat-and-potato pie. Slap it between two buttered halves of a barm cake (aka bap, teacake, stotty, roll or muffin). Et voilà, you’re about to eat a Wigan kebab. This defiantly unhealthy … Continue readingThe Wigan Kebab