Do I remember Cousins!! The memories below are as they come

I started playing at Cousins in 65 and I think then the youngest muso there (17) I played instrumental guitar and was introduced to Mox who was looking for a regular guitarist to play with we played at cousins most nights virtually lived there also taking out the rubbish for Andy's dad for a free meal upstairs in the kitchen. We had our own night on Tuesdays (like an open night) Jackson C Frank was a wonderful guy 'Blues Run the Game' and many more. He arrived all-of-a-sudden at the club in his Aston Martin DB5 which he'd just bought silver I think. I was amazed. So folk singers really make money (little did I know). Jackson and Sandy Denny hit it off at the time. I remember the first night Sandy came down to the club and was practicing in the passage and was very nervous.

Bert and John were my biggest influence at the time, John would invite me over for Sunday lunch to go over tunes that I was playing. They lived in a communal house with Les Bridger who had a Martin which Bert used on all his gigs and on his first album (and which Les used to busk on!). They had a reel-to-reel which they used to record all their instrumentals prior to going to the studio. Les Bridger and Noel Murphy used to alternate in running the all nighters at Cousins. At one time I played with a girl named Terry Redwing a blues singer we did a few all nighters at Ken Colliers and during the night we'd pop across to Cousins where Bert & John were playing and do a set whilst Bert & John would help us out at KC the all nighters were very long and we needed guest artists to make it to 7 in the morning at both clubs. We would then have breakfast in a cafe at Covent Gardens fruit & veg market, hitting daylight out of the club was the worst part!

I'll sign off for now if there are any old friends out there please get in touch
they were the times of my life

Steve Bromfield
Rochester UK
stephen.b@btinternet.com