Yes Al Stewart did play in Bunjies in his early days he shared a flat with Paul Simon who actualy lived at one time in Litchfield Street(dunno if it was the same flat though)

Their is a realy nice little booklet about Bunjies called "Nights in the cellar" by singer songwriter Peter Cadle(he apparently wrote one song that well known,cant recall what its called now,I think Christy Moore covered it)

Its surprising who had played at Bunjies over the years.Bob Dylan apparently got shown the door after insisting on playing more than the 2 songs permitted to floor spotters (you had to be a headler to play for longer unless it was a slack night without many players waiting to perform) I believe Rod Stewart had played there in his acoustic blues days.

What brought me to Bunjies was a tape a musical mate had got me listen to an amazing performer called Dave Russell,Dave had been playing on and off at Bunjies since 1962 I had never heard anybody like him or seen anybody play the guitar like him I was and still am that anybody who could mix music with poetry like he does is a genius. A lot of folks who are into bog standard conventional acoustic perfoance dont ubderstand what Dave is all about. Dave plays guitar and performs songs and poems from the blues through folk to popular and classic and his own original poems and songs,but he does so with his own Merlin like wizardry here he is performing his beautiful almost ye olde English folk take on the Madonna song "This used to be my playgound"

Dave Russell at Bunjies

I am interested in hearing about any performers Mudcatters can recall seeing at Bunjies,but does anybody have any memories they can share about seeing Dave Russell or Bottleneck Bill (Who told me Joanne Kelly had been very kind to him helping him with getting gigs. I have recorded Dave Russell since first meeting him at Bunjies in 1997 in some detail at qiute a few sessions at my home and other venues. I have recorded Bottleneck Bill at over a dozen sessions at mine and his home and at a few gigs and filmed him walking and talking around Central London where he used to play and in Eastbourne his home town in Sussex.

Acousticaly yours

Jim Clark (vidlad at youtube)