Albion Band on Pam Ayres Show!!

[fstix (Michael)]

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.

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

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

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.

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

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!

[StephenGiles]

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...

It's definitely Brian Protheroe - without moustache!

[Will S]

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.

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