My blues band, the Bo-men, had a residency at the St Moritz Club in Wardour Street in 1965. We played on Thursday and Saturday nights from ten until two in the morning, for next to no money, and never quite knew who we were playing for as it was a maze of dark cellars under there.

Round about midnight the ladies of the night used to arrive down the back stairs, which livened up the last couple of hours. I believe the club is now a fashionable yet squalid blues disco run by Gaz Mayall, son of John.

To put this in a Mudcat context, our drummer Bo Bower later changed his name to Bo Foakes, moved to Cornwall, and became a leading light on the folk scene down there. I once asked him to find me a nice friendly pub session, and arrived to find that I was opening for Gordon Giltrap.