I can’t find any record of the band having played in Hull before, so what better time than when it’s the UK City of Culture? What did you think? Did they raise the level of culture in the city even further?
I can’t find any record of the band having played in Hull before, so what better time than when it’s the UK City of Culture? What did you think? Did they raise the level of culture in the city even further?
Idiots and pigeons
Gig was so awesome, I have decided to travel back in time to before it happened to encourage you all to attend! There is still time.
10 November 2017
Mr ed
Most enjoyable. Great to see the usual characters, glad that Ron is in safe hands. Next gig I will get a hotel closer to the venue.
Absolutely brilliant. The best way to spend two hours with my trousers on. See you in Bilston.
11 November 2017
Twistedkitemike
A gig that ticked many of the important boxes. The sound was good, the set-list sufficiently diverse and a well-informed-well-behaved audience. Ken was still MIA, but Karl was doing an excellent job from the subs bench. Nice venue with a very good range of beverages. Always good to have a break from the corporate nature of the O2 family of clubs and security obsessive brand of Nazism that they peddle.
Anyway, more will no doubt follow when the collective thought of the cognoscenti is back in focus. Nigel had been advised to visit “Historic Pontefract” and was slightly underwhelmed.
Here is the set-list for those who care: –
Fred T
Restless Legs
Squabblefest
Petty
Joyce
Bad Review
Numanoid
Look Dad
Bob W
Hornbeam
God Gave Us
DPAK
Bane
Bad Wools
27 Yards
Tommy Walsh
**reasonable stab at the opening third of Isolation (JD)**
Chatteris
Vatican
NSD
Trumpton
1966
JDOG
Light Tunnel
…………………………
Time Flies By
Bubblewrap
My Perfect Cousin (cover)
AOR
A good evening, regardless of the 200 mile drive home and the various cone-wanker activities and M1 closure. Occupational hazard, they call it.
Mike……………..
11 November 2017
Bad loser
Long time reader of the site and thought it about time I posted, especially as my tweets keep appearing at the side.
My fourth gig since June and an enjoyable one, not affected by the 120 mile drive home. Managed to get myself right on the front by the speaker so maybe that’s why the sound didn’t seem as good to me.
The unusual moments/Lyrical changes from the gig;
Nigel forgetting the lyrics to ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’, eventually getting a reminder from someone at the front.
Andrew Flintoff lost his well-deserved place in God Gave Us Life, but was replaced by Matt Dawson and ‘Tuffers Tufnell’. You can’t find places for everyone. God also gave us ‘Halloween Gobshites’, ‘Fireworks Gobshites’, Christmas Gobshites’, ‘New Year Gobshites’ and common or garden ‘Gobshites’.
Quite a few pacier numbers which led to a lively crowd near the stage, with the chance to chant about Crispy Ambulance, Slipknot and Midge Ure all helping.
11 November 2017
Jason Preston
Nigel mentioned both the Adelphi and Poly gigs when talking about his brother’s commemorative Barton on Humber mug. I have a vague memory of the Adelphi one on a flyer, but wasn’t there. The Poly gig was – from fading memory – 91. I was part of the Ents team that did the booking and was ancillary road crew as well. The highlight was Nerys Hughes. I can still feel the bile from here.
11 November 2017
Jon T
I was most impressed with the detailed knowledge of Hull folk displayed by Nigel, especially his linkage of Roy North and Hull City. Nice update of whom God also gave us, too. Who had the Joy Division oven gloves, though? This is the most important question of the night and needs answering.
11 November 2017
Creamcheeseandchives
Excellent show and delighted to be nursing an injury caused by over enthusiastic dancing. (Are footballers prone to ‘freak’ injuries anymore? I remember Ferdinand injuring himself with a tv remote control but it seems a long time since cuts caused by linement bottles laid down any of our footballing icons.) Set list elsewhere outlines the wide range of the night’s repetoire but cannot capture the euphoria with which it was welcomed.
Very pleasant stroll round Hull the following morning. The Wilberforce Museum a particular treat. Likewise the Maritime Museum . A great adventure all round.
11 November 2017
Telly savalas
Fantastic gig (my 3rd)
Big props to Nigel, he sounded rather hoarse, and struggling at many points. Still a trooper.
Notable: he seemed to forget the 1st verse of ‘Light at the End..’ and crouched down to someone in the front row for a reminder. Said audience member seemed to misinform Nige, and he ended up singing the 2nd verse twice.
11 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Great gig.
Great to be in Hull(birthplace of my 1st hero Stuart’Pancho’Pearson)
Great fish with no chips at the Cave street fisheries.
Great to see great people again.
Great to see Ron and inflate him before he’s off to N.Y.
Great to hear two songs with Subbuteo in the lyrics.
Great moshpit.
Great to say ‘Course you can Malcolm’ to Nigel and being told it’s the wrong advert.
Not great losing my glasses.
Great trip all-round now I’m home among the smack heads on dirt bikes.
11 November 2017
EXXO
@ CC&C It seems you missed all the recent fun & games when Ultra Sur favourite Marco Asensio got injured shaving his legs & Phil Neville admitted the same thing had happened to him?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/weird-injuries-asensio-real-madrid-5266185
11 November 2017
Creamcheeseandchives
Can a footballer shaving his legs be classed as a freak injury? Is it not divine retribution for ludicrous narcissism?
Slightly off the subject but I was always impressed by Mark Hughes’ response to the question ,”Do you ever smoke?”
“0nly when I drink.”
Top athlete and top man.
11 November 2017
ERic t’viking
FFS… I’ve gone and missed the cover of one of my favourite teenage songs – My Perfect Cousin – which was just so true for me, back in the day. Still, it’s my own fault for not going to Hull; hopefully some kind person will put it up on Youtube..?
Nearly making up for that sad disappointment however, was the recent acquiring of two records: Let’s Not and Trumpton Riots – thanks to Alan at Five19 in Lancaster for putting them to one side for me. Now if I could just remember where we put the record player…
11 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Here you go Eric.
A big thank you to AndyBlueFox, Here is the encore from the Welly….
https://youtu.be/MbaIZhhcs7s
God bless you all….
12 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Jon the lovely lady with the Joy Division oven gloves is the Queen of Quick Wit and the good lady friend of the King of Hi-Viz.
12 November 2017
Carrie Anne
Roger Green’s reporting from the front line, disseminated from Gez’s website https://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/guest/index.htm
The Welly, Hull, Fri 10th November 2017
Roger Green:
At last, the highlight of the year of Hull: City Of Culture. All sorts had been going on during the previous months, street theatre, that kind of thing, but at last they saw sense and booked a decent band. A big Thanks to Eventim for charging Karen the usual admin fee for booking tickets, and then sending out tickets with a completely incorrect date on them. It didn’t strike us as particularly good admin, but maybe we have impossibly high standards.
Considering that I live relatively close to Hull, I disappoint myself when recording that this was only my third ever gig in the city. Both my previous visits were to see the excellent local act Fonda 500, both times at The Adelphi. I was on a pub crawl in the locality on the day that Hull City played in the FA Cup final. I was reminded of The Manchester and Ye Olde Black Boy as we wandered through the old part of the city. And the lowest scoring Rugby League game I’ve ever seen was in the city (a 2-2 draw between Hull KR and Featherstone). This was no good to the taxi driver who drove us to the gig. He was a committed Hull FC supporter. We talked about their great side from the early eighties (Norton, Leuluai, Crooks, Kemble) and the time when Featherstone upset the odds against them in the 1983 Challenge Cup final in the pre-Biscuit era. I had to get that one in.
Beyond all those events my knowledge of Hull remained sparse. Hence the need for Karen’s map when we took an afternoon stroll in order to find the venue. We meandered through the shopping area, noting that Superdrug Live is not a patch on Primark FM. While we were out, I bought a copy of the Hull Daily Mail, to assess the level of publicity for the show. Not a word as it turned out. Maybe they had already featured them some other time.
In the runup to this show Karen had wondered out loud if the band might play Rod Hull Is Alive -Why? The kind of clever link that the band would utilise. Hull? Get it? We also pondered the possibilities for cover versions. Everything But The Girl? Housemartins? Maybe something from the Spiders From Mars back catalogue? Or The Gargoyles would have been nice. There was a request for Happy Hour at the start of the encore. All were wrong as it turned out. Maybe there was a European Cities Of Culture link to The Undertones or am I reading too much into that?
The Challenge TV channel have been showing some old Bullseye repeats for some time now. It’s useful to see how the players looked thirty years ago. And there’s the heartbreak when somebody misses out on winning the speedboat because of a stray last dart. That’s the gamble. One of the sections of the programme included a celebrity throwing darts, with their score being converted into pounds to be donated to a charity. Karen and I were both, frankly, shocked to see the appearance of Lionel Blair in this spot. Tap dancing on the oche! It wasn’t very Leighton Rees. What did God give us, Neil?
We were at the venue about half an hour before the doors were due to open. Even so, we had been beaten to the punch by Andrew, Matt, Graham and Sam, who was making his debut at a HMHB gig. He had even brought his family with him. I have often wondered how my family members would have taken to HMHB. My Mum and Dad once took me to see Morecambe And Wise perform live. That’s as near as I ever got to going to a gig with them. I met another HMHB debutante later on, when Nigel and Jo introduced their daughter Charlotte. Sorry I didn’t hang around to find out what you thought about it all. Jordan and Emily were also in the queue experiencing the brisk sea air.
When we got inside, I had a chat with Geoff and Zinny who were manning the shop. I got a good catch-up with all things Biscuit and Sonnenberg, and then into the hall. I had heard a lot of mention of The Welly down the years. In much the same way as with The Adelphi, I had expected a bigger space. But that’s not a problem. A lot of the atmosphere gets lost in bigger venues. Tonight everything was just fine.
We exchanged pleasantries with John, Elizabeth and Postman Tony, in particular comparing notes about the current state of health of Mr Mark E Smith. Later on, I got a tap on the shoulder from Pete. I also caught up with Katharine and Karl, who would have appreciated Nigel’s references to Historic Pontefract. Mike waved Hello, and Howie, Neil and Daz battled their way to the front. Apologies from the heart to Mariana for causing her to spill some beer as I clumsily made my way past her and Ian.
Support was from Mike Badger, who was apparently an original member of The La’s. We might have expected There She Goes, but this was a long way from that. The first thing I wrote down about him was “Rockabilly”, a word which actually appeared in his second song. I’m guessing at some of his titles… Growing Old Disgracefully, Ten Commandments Of Rock, and there was one that seemed to be about being a protest singer. I wonder if he knows John Donaldson from JD Meatyard? I also spotted a reference to the obligatory bottle of whisk(e)y. And I’m afraid I was too busy making notes to join in with the hand-clapping when that happened at one point. Great stuff from Mike, but I’d like to see how it works with a band behind him. For those who note these things, he was playing a Bonneville TT Special.
HMHB walked onto the stage in relative silence. “Another one of our dynamic entrances,” said Nigel. “The weekend starts here.”
“We were told to stop off at Historic Pontefract,” said Nigel. “It’s all liquorice and a racecourse.” I suggested to him that there’s a castle there as well, but he wasn’t having it. “You can get too much history. We made do with a can of Fanta at Hartshead Moor services.” Later Nigel came back to the stop-off at Hartshead. He had seen a lorry driver who was an Otto Klemperer lookalike. Nigel has always claimed to know every Coronation Street actor from the 1970s and 1980s, along with the name of their character. When challenged, Nigel ended up following the lookalike back to his cab shouting “Margot Bryant! Margot Bryant!”.
There was a slight variation to the lyrics in Petty Sessions. The hymn number was 242. Nigel got mixed up with the running order. “This one’s Bad Review,” he announced before realising that Ode To Joyce was actually due up next. “I was still thinking about Pontefract. High on liquorice.”
Another tale came later. “In 1986 we went to Barton On Humber. We visited Barton Claypits.” (Helpfully there was a shout from the crowd, advising that this is now a tea shop.) “My brother bought a clay mug from there. Whenever I go round to his house for a cuppa, we always look at this mug with much melancholy.” Nigel said it was OK being a tea room now, as long as you could still have a mug at the end.
At one point the stage looked like what you might expect for the Sisters Of Mercy. “You look very atmospheric with the dry ice,” said Nigel to Neil. “Although actually it’s not dry ice. It’s stage smoke.” Nigel suggested that maybe there was enough smoke on stage for the time being, and asked the crew to leave it for about twenty minutes. “But maybe the dressing room is on fire. I hope not. My jacket’s in there.”
It often helps if you know your vintage TV adverts. Nigel had a snort on a Vicks inhaler. There was a shout of “Eight hours!” referring to the advertised protection offered by this product. Nigel said he had won a bet because he knew someone was going to shout that out. Normally someone shouts “First class ticket to Nottingham!” But of course that’s from an ad for Tunes.
God Gave Us Life got off to a slightly cocked-up start before getting going properly. I might have missed someone out here, but I reckon God also gave us Matthew Horne, Len Goodman, Paddy McGuiness, Jack Whitehall, Jack Whitehall’s dad, Halloween gobshites, Fireworks gobshites, Christmas gobshites, New Year gobshites, A load of gobshites, Matt Dawson, Phil “Tuffers” Tufnell and Lionel Blair. There was a similar false start to The Light At The End Of The Tunnel. Martin was able to help Nigel out with the opening line.
Nigel confirmed that he had not been able to see the Turner Prize exhibition at the Ferens Gallery, and wondered if that and Ferensway was named after someone from Hull. I didn’t catch it all from him, but in the course of the conversation he started singing the theme to Get It Together. Another one from way back when, featuring Basil Brush’s erstwhile sidekick Roy North.
Someone asked if they could take their dog on a bat walk. “No!” was Nigel’s answer. (Yet again, the new song dealing with bat walks, Renfield’s Afoot, was missing tonight.) “We’re all in agreement about this, so let’s see what happens,” he said ahead of Tommy Walsh’s Eco House.
Neil started playing a bit of Joy Division. “Don’t encourage him,” Nigel said. There was a shout for Isolation. Nigel said to Neil “That’s put you on the spot”. Neil’s response was to play the tune in question. There was also an impromptu intro involving Nigel and Carl. Sorry. I didn’t recognise that. Nigel pointed supposedly in the direction of the shop when he sang the Milletts line in National Shite Day. Fans of Philip Larkin will have noted his line “This be the verse” ahead of Look Dad No Tunes. This prompted a shout of “They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad”, to which Nigel replied “They buck you up, your Mum and Dad – except they didn’t come to school sports day”.
Ron Seal returned to the stage. Nigel examined him close up. According to Tony, Nigel noticed that Ron looked a bit like Kenneth More’s mate in A Night To Remember.
As with the Glasgow show a month earlier, Karl was playing lead guitar. All seemed well on stage with he and Nigel getting involved in a nice Parfitt/Rossi moment. Ken now hasn’t played since the Sheffield show in August. We’re all hoping he is going OK.
Tonight’s songs were:
Fuckin’ ‘Ell It’s Fred Titmus
Restless Legs
Running Order Squabble Fest
Petty Sessions
Ode To Joyce
Bad Review
Numanoid Hang-glide
Look Dad No Tunes
Bob Wilson Anchorman
Stuck Up A Hornbeam
God Gave Us Life
All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
Bane Of Constance
Rock ‘N’ Roll Is Full Of Bad Wools
Twenty-Seven Yards Of Dental Floss
Tommy Walsh’s Eco House
For What Is Chatteris?
Vatican Broadside
National Shite Day
Trumpton Riots
1966 And All That
Joy Division Oven Gloves
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train
And in the encore they played:
Time Flies By When You’re A Driver Of A Train
Give Us Bubblewrap
My Perfect Cousin
Everything’s AOR
For auditing purposes, I obtained Karl’s set list. Only a couple of alterations. Time Flies By had originally been scheduled for the main block of the show. And We Built This Village was dropped altogether.
Massive, massive thanks to Graham for the lift back afterwards. Hope you got back home OK, and best wishes for the forthcoming addition to the family.
The day after this show we headed to Leicester to see Brix And The Extricated. The ticket inspector at the station spotted Karen’s Stony Ground tshirt. He said he was from Derby and said he was disappointed that they had never played there. I told him that was not the case. I was at The First Floor Club in February 2006. He obviously missed that one.
We were not too far away from festivities at the end of December. I spotted An Evening Of Christmas Swing advertised at the Corn Exchange in Leeds. We would have booked, but it is certain to be cancelled.
So that looks like it for HMHB for 2017. I never quite know how to compare one show against any other. But this one certainly seemed to tick a lot of boxes. More of the same please in 2018.
12 November 2017
EXXO
Curse those in charge of train timetables, to hell and Hull and Halifax may the good lord deliver them, but thank all that is courageous and true for the spirit of Roger Green, embedded on the front line, reporting the simple truth so honestly that we can smell the smoke and hear the cries of those around him…lest we forget.
12 November 2017
Chris The Siteowner
I’ve just studied the setlist and I can’t believe nobody has yet mentioned it.
Give. Us. Bubblewrap.
Apart from a couple of goes soon after the album was released, that’s the first time. All that cutting up and distributing by Dr D finally pays off.
12 November 2017
dr desperate
Damn right, CtSO. I’d almost given up hope, but still had a pocketful of bubblewrap ready to distribute to those down at the front at the appropriate moment. And since you mention Hull gigs, the band has played there at least once before, at The Adelphi on 17.8.95 (I’ll send you a pic of the ticket stub). Support was Popchrist (with R6M’s Shaun Keaveny on drums), and VofQN reckons they did a cover of ‘(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais’. Further proof, if proof were needed, comes in the form of a stencilled list of previous performances on the backdrop there. I recall Thurston Moore noticing their name in 2013, giving me the opportunity to inform him of his claim to Biscuit fame. He was gracious enough to reply, “I love Half Man Half Biscuit!”
Following pre-gig visits to The Station Inn (Dougie, Scots Andy and Martin in attendance) and The Piccolo Polish Pizza Parlour (Postie Tony and Ron ditto), we arrived at The Welly just in time for Mike Badger’s set. I told him the tuning on his red Gretsch Electromatic (emblazoned with the legend ‘Bonneville TT Special’ was close enough for rockabilly, but to be frank by the end of his set(t) it had become less so.
For once I have much to add to Roger’s definitive review above, embarrassingly mostly to do with the stage/crowd interactions he mentions:
1. The requester of ‘Happy Hour’, that was me that was. They didn’t play it, happily, as ‘My Perfect Cousin’ turned out to be a much better choice.
2. The bet-winning “8 hours” shout after Nigel used his Vick Nasal Spray was me too, referencing the classic “Course you can, Malcolm” ad.
3. The query about visiting the Turner Prize exhibition: me. Thomas Ferens, after whom the Gallery and Ferensway were named, was John Prescott’s predecessor as MP for Hull East.
4. “They tuck you up, your mum and dad” (Adrian Henri’s parody of Larkin’s ‘This Be The Verse’) after ‘LDNT’. Guess.
5. The information that Barton Claypits is now a tea-shop wasn’t me. That was m’ladyfriend Elizabeth.
6. The call for ‘Isolation’ (neither of us) came after Neil had played the opening chords of ‘Ceremony’, and Nigel described their subsequent mini-cover as being “the real Joy Division version”.
7. Nigel misheard the bloke who asked if he could bring his dog on a bat-walk as saying “platform”, so he then asked if he could bring it on a platform. I don’t think he has a dog.
In other news, no celebrities were spotted, though Hullite Norman Collier did replace Kathleen Ferrier in ‘TWEH’. Kenneth More’s mate in ‘A Night To Remember’ was Richard Leech.
No ‘first man in Wallasey’ (obvs).
For those who note these things, Karl’s t-shirt advertised ex-Hawkwind Nik Turner’s Inner City Unit and Neil’s trainers were blue and yellow Adidas Originals.
Martin has now been relieved of custody of Ron, whose next trip will be to Broadway (New York, not the cinema in Nottingham).
On to Bilston!
12 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Thanks Dr.Desperate, So it was Nigel who got his classic adverts wrong.
https://youtu.be/wrr0OBcsEeM
I forgot it was a young Ethel Skinner of Eastenders(‘where’s my Willy’)what said ‘ CYC,M.
The Tunes Ad was ‘1st class return to Nottingham, Please’
12 November 2017
EXXO
So Roger’s version – where Mr. B says that you got it right but usually people get it wrong, is wrong?
12 November 2017
dr desperate
In point of fact Nigel was acknowledging that I was right; Tony unfortunately fell into the Nottingham trap. For the sake of extra correctness, it was a second-class return, and Tunes were recommended by Jane Freeman (Ivy on ‘Last Of The Summer Wine’ and Emily Burrrell on ‘Crossroads’ (q v)).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZpLmeTdcBA
I should have mentioned the splendid fanzine ‘Urge To Waffle’ from those wonderful folks at Ribchester Times International (anybody here?) which was circulating at the gig. It contained back-stories for ‘Westward Ho!’, ‘Gwatkin’, ‘False Grit’ and ‘Teenage Bride’, as well as some nifty drawings of the band.
“Did you know? There’s a sandwich shop in Hoylake that’ll sell you a ‘baguette for life’.”
12 November 2017
EXXO
Brilliant. Doffs actual Norn Iron international cap 1950-51 (which I’m still wearing after gloryhunting for the last 2 hours – I really thought it was going to happen there).
12 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
I’m sorry John, I did not fall into the Nottingham trap.Just after you shout 8 Hrs. seconds later I shout ‘Course you can, Malcolm’ only to be told by Nigel that’s the Tunes Ad. making me feel like a right lemon.
In my last post I used the word wrong instead I should of used the term mixed up.
But who gives a toot anyway it was a Great gig.
On to Bilston….
12 November 2017
dr desperate
Quite right.
12 November 2017
SteVE
Adding to the Vicks pedantry: It looked like a stick to me, not a spray. The 8 hour promise came with the spray.
One other point of note not covered yet…
Neil stuck to his bass for Bane of Constance. And boy did he give it a good thrashing!
13 November 2017
transit full of keith
Sounds like a great gig that, sorry to miss ‘Ode To Joyce’ live, a bit of a favourite. After umming about it, I’ll be getting Bilston tickets today on the strength of reading the reviews above. Sincerely hope Ken gets well soon.
13 November 2017
dr desperate
Don’t believe anything they tell you about ticket availability: The Welly posted on their FB page that they had only 30 left on the morning of the gig, but when I checked it out on the night there were 74. Your Golden Bubblewrap time in the encore: [3.30].
13 November 2017
Chris The Siteowner
So pleased Bubblewrap was captured for posterity. Would love to have seen Dr. D’s face, but at least the excitedly-waved bubblewrap is all present and correct.
13 November 2017
dr desperate
The Barton Claypit (now tea-room) mentioned by Nigel was the scene of the climactic shoot-out in Ted Lewis’s novel ‘Jack’s Return Home’, later filmed as ‘Get Carter’.
Lewis lived in Barton-on-Humber, and before becoming a writer worked as an animator on ‘Yellow Submarine’ and BBC’s Saturday morning kids’ show ‘Zokko!’, which featured Ali Bongo (q v).
13 November 2017
ERic t’viking
What an excellent encore!
Many thanks to Hendrix Tattoo and AndyBlueFox for the link to the Youtube clip – it’s above at comment #13 for anyone (like me) who didn’t go to Hull…
13 November 2017
PeeJaygee
I can’t remember a show called “Zokko” , but I have vague memories of a show called “Outa’ Space” . I think that included appearances of Ali Bongo . But that might have been a later show to “Zokko” ?
14 November 2017
dr desperate
‘Zokko!’ was late 60s, ‘Outa-Space!’ was 1973; IMDb lists him appearing as ‘Magical Magician’ on the former but not on the latter.
He was a guest on ‘Crackerjack!’ (consults watch).
15 November 2017
GIpton teenager
Crack-urr-jaaack!
16 November 2017
dr desperate
30 hours, not bad.
16 November 2017
GIpton teenager
Within 30 seconds of seeing your post though Dr.D. Whoops! there goes my cabbage.
16 November 2017
dr desperate
And I spilt my drink over myself while consulting my watch.
17 November 2017
Creamcheeseandchives
Further to earlier post about freak injuries, I hear this morning that boxer David Haye suffered such during a stair conditioning session. One would assume that a Stannah session would be risk free.
21 November 2017
EXXO
Anyone got Mike Badger’s book? It hasn’t yet reached the ’16 available from £1.23′ stage on Amazon yet. far from it.
Even less so that ‘Secret Liverpool: in Search of the La’s’ book, which is an exorbitant price. Maybe Lee Mavers has been buying them up and burning them ‘cos its a real rarities price.
Might have to renew my membership at Liverpool Central (the library, not the station).
23 November 2017