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Thread #141714   Message #4098746
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
22-Mar-21 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: Colin Irwin on Peter Bellamy
Subject: RE: Colin Irwin on Peter Bellamy
Carthy remembered it, when i reminded him.

Bob Williamson. I never saw live - though I met him at one point. he was part of that Bolton lot - Bernard Wrigley, Brownsville Banned.

Wrigley was on topic, Williamson was on the Sweet Folk and Country label with Downes and Beer. there were more than one or two awful folk comedians., I really liked some of them ( they were all better than sitting at home watching Rolf Harris and the Younger Generation!)- but such was the diversity of the folk scene - they could find them selves with really unsuitable audiences. If they could do music ( like Gary and Vera, or Brimstone) they could get by -it wasn't what they did but if the comedy was the only string they had to their bow - things could get unpleasant.