Rod used to play my folk clubs in the 1970's. Hair flying, platform shoes stomping - he was like a character from a fairytale - the pied piper.maybe. he was also one half of the Modern Idiot Grunt Band alongside Rob Armstrong. The songs I remember were Lady Baby Gypsy Queen, and Curly.

He was another victim of the disintegrating folkscene. When I was eighteen, it looked as though the performers on the folkscene had a job for life - by the time I was twenty five - the venues were decimated by the traddie/contemporary conflict.