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Thread #36295   Message #2804634
Posted By: Will Fly
06-Jan-10 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
GUEST,eric the viking; my thoughts exactly! Perhaps there were times when all of us with those memories were in the same pub/club on the same night at the same time.

My pre-Cousins Allniter boozer of choice was the "Pillars of Hercules" in Greek Street. Sawdust on the floor, Younger's Scotch Bitter on draught, and Jansch and Renbourn very often getting pissed at a table on the raised bit at the back of the pub. Then over the road towards closing time to hit the Allniter. Al Stewart serving the coffee behind the bar, Alexis Korner and Duffy Power hobnobbing with Mox the harmonica player and offering little pastille boxes around. Karl Dallas in cowboy hat and beard chatting here and there. Then, later on, bodies lying around in and on sleeping bags, drowsily listening to Davy Graham do an extended ramble around some blues or other.

And was it around 4 in the morning when the kind lady rounded us all up and took us off to sleep at the Crypt until public transport was available?