we were blessed to have so much good music on our doorsteps, I missed the great Negro performers at the adelphi, i used to work shifts, so that limited to my enjoyment.Mike Cooper was the first person i saw and heard playing a National steel guitar. I learnt about the blues via British musicians!
    I was returning to Swansea on the train one afternoon, and Dave Kelly was on the same train. I had a brief chat with him, i was a bit shy in those days, and he asked me where the adelphi was. I pointed him in the right direction, and saw him play that evening. He had a really heavy cold, and the his nose was dripping onto his strings as he played... i also remember an excellent gig just up the road a bit at the "Buffs club"which was between the castle and where Walkabout is now. BRETT MARVIN AND THE THUNDERBOLTS, a gloriously ramshackle blues/goodtime band from the smoke.later to have a hit as TERRY DACTYL and the DINOSAURS("seaside shuffle")and John Lewis their keys player became JONA LEWIE , who had two chart entries, happy days, mike aldron