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Thread #89880   Message #3315133
Posted By: GUEST
29-Feb-12 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: The Adelphi folk club,Swansea
Subject: RE: The Adelphi folk club,Swansea
Have just re-read Bob Hazelwood's post. Sorry, a case of more haste, less speed. I know see that the query didn't relate to the solo gig, Bob, which was what I recalled in the post I just sent, but whether Dave appeared with Jo-Ann. I am not 100 percent certain, but pretty sure that they did play together at the Adelphi that night. I probably had a recording, but fear it is on one of the reel to reel tapes that has long disintegrated (I have some transferred to cassette by my great friend Hans Fried of Colletts Record Shop and so much else fame). I still have some material from one of Jo-Ann's gigs. I also have my recording of an epic 1966 session by the Young Tradition, and some later recordings made when I lived in Hans's flat in Islington, London. of Paul Darby and John Makin, and me singing with Jim Harper (we used to practice songs in the downstairs bogs at the Adelphi, great acoustics!)
And I would like to add, too, how sad I was to learn of Dave Yoxall's death: he was truly a great performer with great knowledge and integrity and a really good bloke.
As to the University club, even though it inevitably lacked the smoky, down-home atmosphere of that unique Wind Street location, I enjoyed many nights there, recalling particularly Martin Carthy, Barry Dransfield and Shirley Collins, and also singing now and then.