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Maggs, I'm very jealous, as we tried to get tickets, in vain for Sting's "The Last Ship", but went along on Friday to see the girls in Hall 2. Have you seen the Sting review by Alan Harrison on ND, put this link into your search engine and check it out : http://nodepression.com/live-review/sting-last-ship

HPW, you are a walking encyclopaedia on Coal Mining. Fascinating threads wherever you post them. Keep them coming, bonny lad.

Found a live version of Pirate Radio :- https://youtu.be/2K2_1G-6XaQ

Malcolm, Mr. Hiatt is one of my old time favourites, I have most of what he has recorded and seen him live a couple of time too. I just thought the girls did justice to a very good song and I'm glad that you liked it. Lincoln Town is another very good Hiatt song. My favourite album of John Hiatts is "Little Head" with the fabulous line in the song "Pirate Radio" that goes something like "One star in the sky, so I named it Otis Redding, just like Marvin Gaye searching for his Tammi Terrell". Magic.

Saw these 3 girls at The Sage on Friday, excellent stuff from Sarah Watkins, Sarah Jaroz and Aoife O'Donovan https://youtu.be/BTDUDRIEifQ

Interesting, good even, but not really my sort of stuff.

Better the devil you know than the ................

Happy birthday Brett

More bliddy adverts, methinks

Tom Foolery = Jewellery, I'm guessing the old Cockney Rhyming Slang, but not certain.

Been listening to the new Mark Knopfler album - Tracker, and it's very good, but the stand-out track (for me) is the duet with Ruth Moody (of the Wailin' Jennies, a Canadian based trio of ladies). https://youtu.be/WFad2HC2C

Thanks Eggy 1948, I'll try and follow the GeoCities thread and see if I can get to the original posting of this football team. In regards to Brian Dixon, yes he was a year younger than the rest of the team, as was Derek Jefferson, I think! Brian Dixon s dad was called Norman and they were Salvation Army. But (and here's another link) Norman worked for T. James & Sons (haulage Contractors & Coal Merchants) at Bedlington Station and that is where i had my first ever job (in September 1964). Norman was the garage foreman and ensured all the lorries were serviced and roadworthy. I was the office Junior!!!!

The names of the team members are :- Back Row L?R Brian Dixon, Allan Laws, George Chaplehow, Robert Wilson, Melvyn Dodds. Front Row, Mr. Matty Hall (as you would expect), Jack Kidd, George Wilkinson, David Gray, Derek Jefferson, John Hedley, Thomas Reddell. If I remember correctly, Derek Jefferson played professional football for Ipswich and the Wolverhampton Wanderers

Below is a printed copy of a photograph that I have just found in an old box of papers & photos. I think I printed it off the GeoCities site in 2001 (14 years ago). I used to have an original photo of this football team, but can't remember where it went. I've tried to get back onto the GeoCities web-site but this doesn't exist anymore. Then Yahoo (who owned GeoCities) destroyed all of it's history in 2009. So I'm struggling to get a clearer image of the team. Some of the lads in the team are slightly familiar to me and I recognise them and some I'm aware of some of their life since the photo was taken, but mostly I haven't a clue what became of of them. So, does anyone have any knowledge or experience in retrieving stuff out of their archives or is it something I should forget. Or, even better, does anyone know of anyone who might have a decent original photo of this team?

LION TAMER WANTED A circus owner runs an advert for a 'Lion Tamer Wanted' and two people show up. One is an old golfer in his late seventies and the other is a drop-dead, gorgeous brunette with a killer body in her mid-twenties. The circus owner tells them, "I'm not going to sugar coat it. This is one ferocious lion. He ate my last tamer so you two had better be good or you're history." "Here's your equipment -- a chair, a whip and a gun. Who wants to try out first?" The gorgeous brunette says, "I'll go first." She walks past the chair, the whip and the gun and steps right into the lion's cage. The lion starts to snarl and pant and begins to charge towards her. As he gets close, the gorgeous brunette throws open her coat revealing her beautiful, perfect naked body. The lion stops dead in his tracks, sheepishly crawls up to her and starts licking her feet and ankles. He continues to lick and kiss every inch of her body for several minutes, then lays down and rests his head at her feet. The circus owner's jaw is on the floor!! He says, "That's amazing! I've never seen anything like that in my life!" He then turns to the old golfer and asks, "Can you top that?" The tough old golfer replies, "Possibly.......but you've got to get that lion out of there first."

welcome Giffo

Welcome to the forum Jmagic, "just like that"

welcome Alan

Not heard that people from Bedlington were called "Mud Slippers" !!! And you'll not get me pontificating on politics.

It always was a catchy tune, from 1961. Dion is still growing strong and had a well received blues album (Tank full of blues) out in 2011.

check this out from a band from the deep south, playing Soul Music like it use to be......

Very atmospheric, Brett

Sorry I can't help, but welcome and good luck

Is this the same as Charlie Daniels and Georgia????

God was a Muso, surely..... with all that's available via this digital age, the old boy must have been a Muso