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Audioweb, Fireworks City.
https://youtu.be/5fXzgRQ5eX4
Love this album. Should have been bigger as a band.
https://youtu.be/5fXzgRQ5eX4
Love this album. Should have been bigger as a band.
Old stuff... this week SAVOY BROWN
(Band is still going today albeit as a 3 piece, latest LP released only a few weeks ago at the end of August appropriately titled!
A good friend had reminded me last week of a certain pub in Oxford (long gone) and a particular 1969 Savoy Brown song.
In 1970 I used to go with my girlfriend, and my mates with theirs, to this pub just before Magdalen Bridge if heading towards the city centre, in a short bit of street, still there today, called 'St Clements'.
Prior to this the pub had been called 'The Burton Ales Stores (since 1920 in fact), but by this point in time it had new owners and changed its name, very appropriately, to the 'Oranges and Lemons' (after the nursery ryhme). It was a great pub and scene among many around Oxfordshire at this time, and lots of current music was played, but one Savoy Brown song was inevitably playing as you entered. Not only was it so f loud you had to yell your orders at the bar, the floor literally shook under your feet!
The song was 'Train to Nowhere' - feels like we are all on it at this moment in time with covid!
This is a live version.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+savoy...
Then around mid 70s the punk era started the clientele and music changed to so we all went elsewhere. Punks took over the place and loved it, but it got a bad reputation and eventually the pub landlord had enough and quit after court action.
Today it's called the Angel & Greyhound (after old coaching inns in Oxford High St).
(Band is still going today albeit as a 3 piece, latest LP released only a few weeks ago at the end of August appropriately titled!
A good friend had reminded me last week of a certain pub in Oxford (long gone) and a particular 1969 Savoy Brown song.
In 1970 I used to go with my girlfriend, and my mates with theirs, to this pub just before Magdalen Bridge if heading towards the city centre, in a short bit of street, still there today, called 'St Clements'.
Prior to this the pub had been called 'The Burton Ales Stores (since 1920 in fact), but by this point in time it had new owners and changed its name, very appropriately, to the 'Oranges and Lemons' (after the nursery ryhme). It was a great pub and scene among many around Oxfordshire at this time, and lots of current music was played, but one Savoy Brown song was inevitably playing as you entered. Not only was it so f loud you had to yell your orders at the bar, the floor literally shook under your feet!
The song was 'Train to Nowhere' - feels like we are all on it at this moment in time with covid!
This is a live version.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+savoy...
Then around mid 70s the punk era started the clientele and music changed to so we all went elsewhere. Punks took over the place and loved it, but it got a bad reputation and eventually the pub landlord had enough and quit after court action.
Today it's called the Angel & Greyhound (after old coaching inns in Oxford High St).
Lots of Joy Division because of this Superb Art Work
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-mancheste...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-mancheste...
jonny142 said:
Lots of Joy Division because of this Superb Art Work
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-mancheste...
Excellent mural - I saw that myself earlier on the BBC website.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-mancheste...
Only really discovered Joy Division about 8 years ago.. Because of Ian Curtis's untimely death, Joy Division were gone before they had properly arrived.. I have Unknown Pleasures, Closer and Substance which I listen to a lot.
rjfp1962 said:
jonny142 said:
Lots of Joy Division because of this Superb Art Work
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-mancheste...
Excellent mural - I saw that myself earlier on the BBC website.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-mancheste...
Only really discovered Joy Division about 8 years ago.. Because of Ian Curtis's untimely death, Joy Division were gone before they had properly arrived.. I have Unknown Pleasures, Closer and Substance which I listen to a lot.
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