Good to see that so many people still remember The Adelphi....so much excellent stuff around at that time.

I wonder if anyone can confirm/deny whether my memory is playing tricks...I saw Dave Kelly at The Adelphi more than once (talking to him after a gig a couple of years ago and he still has very clear memories of the club and of Dave Yoxall)....and of course his sister the late and wonderful Joanne Kelly played The Adelphi regularly...and this is where my memory might be playing tricks...I'm fairly sure that around early 68-ish Joanne was booked and she brought Dave with her and they did 3 or 4 numbers together...there was certainly one occasion when Joanne was booked and couldn't make it and sent Dave in her place....but I can picture them together and although it could have been somewhere else I can't get away from the feeling that it was The Adelphi.

It's good that Dave Yoxall is getting so much acknowledgement....I'm afraid that when we were running the Swansea Uni club 67-71 we didn't always appreciate him....being 18/19 year-old bolshie students in the late 60's we thought we knew it all which of course we didn't..and Dave did.....he was way in front of us in his knowledge of the music, his ability to organise and put it in front of an audience....and of course in his ability to play it.

I was in Swansea last Autumn ...good to go to The Brunswick and see some familiar faces from The Adelphi in The String Button Band !

                                          Bob Hazelwood