The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #40148   Message #573211
Posted By: Arnie
16-Oct-01 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: 'Swan Arcade' what happened to them?
Subject: RE: 'Swan Arcade' what happened to them?
Reading this thread, I've just made a fascinating connection (well, fascinating to me anyway). I was taught German at Bradford Poly in the early '70's by a lecturer named Heather Brady! Lovely woman and more like one of us students than a lecturer - she was only a year or two older than most of us. I met her husband on just one occasion in the Uni bar and recall him as a big bearded one-armed bloke. I was more into Led Zep etc at that time and wouldn't have known a folkie if one had come up and stuck their finger in my ear. Now of course I know better! I have a few illicit recordings of Swan Arcade taken from Reading Radio's folk slot (Mike Saunderson) in the '80's , and had never realised that they were Heather and her hubby until today! That's the wonder of Mudcat I suppose. I can testify to the fiery curries in Bradford - chappatis were good for mopping the brow as they were free at that time - which is why they were used as frisbees in many a curry house by the usual crowd of drunken students - Happy Days indeed!!