Have never initiated anything on this site, but folk might like to know that the above band is being revived for a night at the Davy Lamp Folk Club, Washington, Co Durham on Saturday December 7.
It was the resident band at the Marsden Inn folk club in South Shields, which was set up early in 1964, after a few months at the Beacon pub in the town. The band played festivals in the north and Scotland from 1964, with occasional forays to the south, eg Cambridge festival in 1968, but was more at home at barn dances/ceilis all over Scotland and the North. There were a few recordings on LPs, and they were arguably the first of the 'English' revival bands, apart from maybe the High Level Ranters and the Rakes, even if their material was never 'English' in the modern sense, and nor was ours, even if we played with such as Oscar Woods and Scan Tester at times.
The original band was very much a 'moveable feast' with band composition often changing from week to week, and never had any hangups about whether the material was 'traditional' or 'folk' and often upset the 'folk police'.
most regular personnel- Jim Irvine (whistle & spoons the but fiddle and melodeon now) myself on melodeon & occasional piano, Trevor Sheridan (G banjo), my sisters Kath and Susan took turns on piano with John Lincoln, the 'phantom fiddler- all happy to burst into song!
That will be the band at the Davy Lamp, apart from John Lincoln, who can't make it- however there will be songs from Jim Sharpe who is a real original from the club's early days in 1963.
It'd be good to see a few old pals on the night- NB there will be no world tour to follow...