Chris 's Card

My Birthday today !

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Ventolin & Fostair Inhalers hang from the head of the mule........♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

Los Angeles 1974

Blue Orchids at The Hebden Bridge Trades Club.

 

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A photo of them backing Nico in the Olden Daze.

Blue Orchids & Bingo Harry

 

Friday night I went to my first gig since March 2020 ( that was at Bury Met with Don & Margaret) https://everton.blogspot.com/2020/03/just-before-boris-closes-all-our.html 

Tonight I went to see Manchester band Blue Orchids at The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.. They have been going since 1979 . They started life supporting Nico during her "Manchester Period" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Orchids 

Great Music ! 

Ken is mates with 2 of the support band Bingo Harry ( pictured)

A Curry

C S & N 1990

"The Blind Pig" in Sowerby Bridge

As a coda to my previous post. Here is Julie Mareth Hall the landlady of "The Blind Pig" in Sowerby Bridge being screened ( the same night) on BBC Look North.

A Photo I took of Julie . Plus , here is the pub's website The BLIND PIG

Hemmingway in Halifax

This is Phil the Ex-Fireman in front of an advertising hoarding in Halifax town centre.

 He looks a bit like Ernest Hemmingway.Non?

 Phil is my oldest friend. We first met at secondary school in 1963. We went to stay with  his family  on the Shankhill Road in East Belfast in 1968 and, later, hitched around Ireland ,the same year, meeting Beach Boy Mike Love and spending a morning with him  ! True! not bull shitting!

Plus a million other things later (n.b.  I am a Grand Parent to his children) 

A Sound Gezzer! I Love the bloke.We are Solid.

 Anyway.We went in Halifax for our first evening drink in 18 months tonight . Ken & Phil wanted to go in the afternoon , but I'd booked a Sauna/Gym & swim today so it had to be late. 

Very dead in Town .Lots of tumbleweed !. Ken bumped into a friend called Julie .... she's the landlady of "The Blind Pig"  in Sowerby Bridge . It was her birthday on Thursday ... .[Pictured below on the right.....]

The audio is Eric Clapton .

 

movies

 

Manchester :with John Thompson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomson_(comedian)

 

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Manchester-8th-Jully-2021/ x

The dog's called Lulu

So I went up To Bob's in Bacup this week. 9 of us go for a Curry in Hebden Bridge in a couple of week's time.

On Thursday I meet Martin & Ken for a look around Manchester,

3 Saunas: extra Swims & Gyms this past week. So pretty chilled!

 

Audio is Live at the Calavaras County Fairgrounds, Angel’s Camp, CA; August 23, 1987. Grateful Dead (of course!)