The Starting Gate in Wood Green was my 'local' club. Ashley Hutchings was a regular visitor, probably where I met up with him and the rest of Fairport I should think.. It was a folk club one night a week in a room above the pub and on other nights it had other music.. I remember seeing Rufus Thomas there once 'just a-walking the dawg'. The Fishmongers Arms in Wood Green was the local Jazz Club.. mostly trad jazz, but later had rock bands as well..

Those were the days eh?