TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZuVmSJxDy0

Wow, so rare I couldn't even find a reference to it in AH's biog (vol 2)!  On Facebook, Simon contends there are some "other musical items from later in the show", so hopefully they might appear some time too.

Ashley is miming to another voice on this, I assume.  And that's a rather hairy young Ric Sanders, too.  Wonderful stuff, if not their finest moment.   ;)

Thanks for passing it on.

Good Lord! That was....different! ;D

I feel as if I've just had a really weird dream ....

My gob is smackered.

I recognise Ashley, John Tams and Simon but who is the fourth man who later plays piano? Also, anyone know the drummer?


Katy's Mum

No need to reply - Katy's Dad reckons Pete Bullock and Michael Gregory.

it was definitely Michael Gregory on drums but i dont recognise the pianner player
and Ric sneaked in there as well

Umm... yes...  Certainly not a guise I have imagined them in before  :-X

Well, that was weird.

Doesn't look much like Pete Bullock (or at least his pic on Rise Up).

I reckon it's Brian Protheroe - he was involved with the Albions/National Theatre...

Wonderful - hope more of this surfaces...

i agree with you, Paul , having googled mr P ,its the nose that gives him away

Thanks chaps - Brian Protheroe it is. I knew I'd seen his face before on the telly - he played Mr Bell in North and South and more recently was in Spooks. Wiki lists him as a member of The Albion Band. Personally, I think it is the mouth that clinches it.

Out of interest, remembering the Ashley Hutchings/Pam Ayres connection from The Guvnor Part 2, I've just looked it up and the story of this TV show is referred to in the biog. Pam had seen The Albion Band somewhere and asked them to guest on her show, they played the number in this clip, Postman's Knock and a couple of others.

I'll have to look for that.  Which year was it?

If you have The Guvnor Part 2 : Always Chasing Rainbows cd-rom, the story's in Act 1, page 223, and the year is 1981.

Well!...That was pretty unexpected...but great fun!...Thanks for posting!

Familiar territory...I used to go swimming there as a kid (not in the river I might add ! ;D), and went to school just down the road!

is he the one who sang Pinball? There really is no end to the FC connections, is there?  :)

Yes,he's the same one.Great single

Perhaps it might have helped if I'd spelled Ayres correctly when searching......  ;D

Now this is what TAW is all about! Following this post I did some investigation on the interweb, the result of which is I've ordered a Brian Protheroe album from Amazon - a compilation with all this on it:

1. Pinball  
2. Goodbye Surprise  
3. Money Love  
4. Changing My Tune  
5. Fly Now  
6. Monkey  
7. Enjoy It  
8. Oh, Weeping Will  
9. Running Through The City  
10. Sof Song  
11. Pick-Up  
12. I/You  
13. Dancing On Black Ice  
14. Never Join The Fire Brigade  
15. Hotel  
16. The Face And I  
17. Thick And Creamy  
18. Cold Harbour  
19. Holyoke Hotel  

Thank you again for (mis)leading me in the right direction  :)  Happy days!

It's definitely Brian Protheroe - without moustache!

Thanks.  I hadn't remembered that from when I read it before.  And another interesting sidelight into the complicated love life of AH!