We spent the day being happy tourists in sunny Chester today. One part of this pilgrimage was to visit THIS on the old Bellamist trail. Thanks to PB, I've become a huge RC fan, collecting many originals, including The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate, which furnished the art for PB's album of the same name which, for shame, gets short shrift on the otherwise very welcome Fair England's Shore CD reissue.

Talking of PB albums, my favourite is Keep on Kipling in its original vinyl form as the CD re-issue messes up the continuity with various extraneous session tracks with mess with the original sequence. They would have worked better as extras! Anyhoo - I won the album off PB at a gig as part of the raffle, and asked him to make the choice for me. He have me KOK saying it was the best thing he'd ever done. Both Sides Then runs it a close second, CD re-issue included. which features Maid of Australia, one of PB's near perfect duets with Swarb. Shame they didn't do more together really.

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