The Metro - thanks Harvey. I didn't realise that it operated a folk club as well.

>>MacDonalds folk club at the Australian bar Hurst Street, so named as a slap in the face to the Campbells and the Jug Of Punch folk club. I think the residents were dissident rejects from the Jug.<<

They just weren't able to sing new song each time, like a certain young Mr Andrews :-)

>>Anybody ever go to the Roebuck in Erdington for the Jazz Club.
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Well a very young student called Spencer Davis used to sing for now't in the interval - what did he sing - why Lonnie Donegan songs of course. He almost turned me off Lonnie Donegan :-)

Harvey - you might know this one.
At the age of about 15 when I started work, I never got to see anything of Steve & Muff Winwood who were neighbours (well 100 yards away) after that. Played football with them and went to same youth club etc. I knew of Specer Davis's existance through the Roebuck, but was really surprised when Steve & Muff joined up with Spencer Davis.
Did that come to fruition through the Jug of Punch or The Eagle.
It always intrigued me how they got together. Steve & Muff played skiffle at the youth club, and I know from what you told me, that Steve played at the Jug of Punch.
Sounds like a daft question but with your wealth of knowledge and finger on the pulse on the scene at that time, thought you might just know.