About a comment a few postings ago: that was actually my one and only solo gig, not a Helen and the Horns one (and Helen and the Horns never got to play the Moonlight Club; that was the Chefs. Brilliant venue!)
After that gig, Alan McGee asked me to sign to Creation, which he had just started up. I said no, because I had always been in bands and didn't want to be a Joni-Mitchell-a-like, as I thought she was soppy. Don't forget, I was an ex-punk rocka and dreamy ladies behind big guitars were not my scene, which now is rather ironic, ha ha!
Looking back, it was a great vote of confidence from him, and he was surprised and a bit grumpy that I said no. I hope he has forgiven me now! Wouldn't it have been funny t have shared a label with Oasis, those subtle and sensitive purveyors of Dadrock?
I wrote songs especially for that gig and I still have them somewhere; I never recorded them or transferred them to another group. Six months later, Helen and the Horns were on their way and I was very happy with that.
The Nightingales were fantastic that night, by the way.
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I stand corrected. Although I am now straining the old brain box trying to recall the night. Cos I'm sure I saw you at the Camdem place with a band. Agreed not the Chefs. Skat maybe?
I saw the Chefs at the Moonlight a good half dozen times, maybe more, and I'm sure I saw Skat somewhere. I just don't recall ever seeing you 'by yourself' solo (which I shall rectify asap). It was, of course, a Very Long Time ago
wilky of st albans
Ah, Skat! Ha!
I used to have the cover of 'Femme Fatale' from the Johnny Plee session on tape.
That means I owe Ms McC some money, probably. Sorry.
O dear Anonymous Wilky, you may be right... it could have been the country and westerni night, with Mike Slocombe on drums (he of Urban75 fame) and Lester Square on guitar; although that night at the London Musicians' Collective, everyone was country and western and it wasn't the night the Nightingales played.
How mysterious!
And Chimesey, I wouldn't worry, you probably owe millions to the Velvet Underground, but I won't tell them if you don't!
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