Good story Jim, here's another one, on my way to see the Dubliners at Halifax Civic Theatre, I guess sometime in the 1970s my girlfriend and I called for a pint at a well known town centre pub and bumped into the music correspondent of our local paper John Mitchel and sat talking to him, a few minutes later in walked Luke Kelly, Luke knew John and came over to talk, John asked Luke how he found this particular pub and Luke replied
that he got in a taxi at Halifax railway station and told the driver to take him to the pub where all the people who are not quite right go.

A beautiful man, much missed, eric