Steve Robinson? Was he one of the two lads who compered at the Duke in the late 1970s? Mad on John Denver? The other lad was older with quite a line in patter.

The last time I went to the Stocks I thought I gave an acceptable rendition of a Jim Croce song, were it not for the house band smashing a couple of beer mugs: it was the club's last night. A couple of regulars from the Duke were there and somehow I became known as the man whose songs closed down the Stocks.

One night Ted Edwards (what Lancastrian folkie doesn't have a Ted talk? - and believe it or not, his dad Nathan was even madder than he was) anyway, one night he was the Duke of York and told us that he was going away and might not come back. Sure, Ted, we said, but got him to end his spot with "Coal Hole Cavalry". Then about six months later I'm switching TV channels and I hear this bloke saying "T'oreet, Tel?" - it was Ted on Wogan talking about his journey across the Sahara.

Anyone know what happened to Paul Sherratt, author of "The Lancashire Vampire" and composer of an extra verse for "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair"? I generally went with him to the Duke, but lost touch years ago.