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Thread #167219   Message #4030980
Posted By: Vic Smith
29-Jan-20 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: joby isobel sutherland groombridge .club
Subject: RE: joby isobel sutherland groombridge .club
You did play for us at The Laughing Fish, Jim, but that was at least a decade after that. In the meantime, we had booked you a couple of times at The Lewes Arms in the early 1970s and later on around 1978 when the club met for a year or so at The Brewers Arms in the High Street. Weren't you living in the Dover/Deal at that time?
Usually, you stayed with us after the club but one time you needed to get to London that night and I was concerned because the road from us would have taken you through Brixton and that was at the time when the riots were at their height. What year was that?

The first time that we booked you in Lewes, I had been building up your first appearance in the area. but I was surprised and delighted that we had a capacity crowd - over 100 - for someone who had not been performing in the area before.

You also gave us our only ever folk club booking in Ireland in Schull and we played with you on a number of your sessions including a wonderful trip to Sherkin Island.