Jerry Hipkiss

Nutters you say Baz? You have to have been on a Gloucester/cheltenham coach to a niter to fully understand the phrase...come in Steve Smith... Hippo.

Martin, it was good to see you at Nige's memorial do, get yourself better quick - we can't afford to lose any more. PS hope you didn't get that pic of me and Denise... Hippo.

Didn't Paul Middleton live down by St. Erth? Remember staying over there after an all-dayer at the Penventon (we'd driven down overnight in Mac's van). If I remember rightly we were supposed to have a barbecue on the beach at Portreath (not that I had any appetite... ) but it started raining and we went, with records, to the Blue Lagoon in Newquay...then some record shop in Falmouth on Sunday morning, footie on the beach, back home to Cheltenham late Sunday evening absolutely shattered! Hippo.

Best get yourself to Smokin Tees at Stroud Rugby Club Friday week (October 6th) then Mikey - that sort of stuff is likely to get played along with more recent stuff and, as the night goes on and the beers sinks in, plenty Northern oldies as well. In fact, whatever goes! DJ's Andy Edwards, Meg, and some bloke called Hippo guesting

This is what I can never work out - that third "non-arrow" label is pretty amateurish, couldn't even curve the print at the bottom - and yet the mix of "SIMC" is completely different! Confused of Cheltenham.

Don't forget the mighty Alan Bown Set, or of course the Action! BTW the "Hand clapping" album might have been live...but in a recording studio, ATV if I remember rightly, not a club - whereas the Alan Bown/Jimmy James album from the same period was done at the Marquee. Geno's big track - has to be Que Sera Sera. That raised the roof, live or on 45! Hippo.

Great photos - mac in his regulation Salsoul T-shirt - and isn't that Rob Hurcomb on the left? Hippo.

I'm sure that this has been done before somewhere, but which of the two seventies releases of "SIMC" is the legal reissue? I always understood that it was the one with the instr. on the flip, but if that's so, where did the "Bongo" mix of "SIMC" come from? Hippo.

Agree "Save room" is great, but it'll have to go some to beat Alex's "Lord" as my 2006 favourite. Hippo.

Talking of Brum, mustn't forget Reddingtons (in their first location) - Sharpees "Do the 45" came from there, as later did "Landslide" which I thought was a boot but turned out legit! Hippo.

Yes Tone, that's the advantage/disadvantage of having the net on the screen in front of you - tend to get invoved in reading a thread just as the track starts to fade! Oooops, it's happened again...

Why thank you you young vixen - currently playing at onair at gloucesterfm.com as I type!

Reprise, issued in 1969 - think W/D's are fairly common, or more so then issues. Or is that just my perception? Hippo. PS Had this covered up as Carol Mason back in'77, when anything that wasn't immediately known by everyone tended to have a cover-up title. Ah, such innocence!

My first ever trip to Wigan in Pete emery's mums Hillman Imp...slept all the way there( I'd just finished a mobile booking), woke up just as we pulled into Station road. Great! Only problem was the next morning, as we pulled onto the M6 the gear lever came off in Pete's hand and we had to drive all the way back to Chelt. in second gear! got home about 4pm. last time I went to Wigan for Steve Whittles wedding do a couple of years ago, stayed overnight, problem was hanging around half the morning waiting for a rail replacement coach..got home about 4pm. plus ca change or something! Hippo.

Minor play for a short while, yes, it was on Gaiee. The other version was by Carl Bean on Ten/Virgin if I remember rightly. Hippo.

having just played it on air....P.P. Arnold "Everything's gonna be alright" - forgotten how good the intro was! Hippo.

have to say that I have great memories of t'Dome...from waking up on Flynny's floor (one hours sleep after reading record lists, remember that Mark George .)..and several magical car journeys home to Chelters with the rising sun gleaming on the nights vinyl purchases...yup, goes down in the top ten of good times for me! Hippo.

Too true Pete - I was there on one of the nights that they filmed, and most of the regulars, as far as we could tell, boycotted the dancefloor until the lights went out at about 5am. the atmosphere up till then had been pretty crap with all the lights, but the last three hours were brill as everyone made up for the lost time...and that was the real niter, not what ended up on film! Hippo.

Agreed - before he passed on I inherited your old copy of Jimmy and Vella Cameron "Lovin' you is such a groove" from him - one record that'll never leave my collection. P.S. Mikey - that's one of Dave's Yate spins that isn't on your list!

Two smaller label issues Tone - Jam or Art. And I agree the mix is slightly different, and pressed at a slightly different speed as well.? Hippo.

Didn't go to that one Mike - and that, I think, was a one-off as Kojak was still running the ICSC niters at the Baths until about a year later when the Southern Soul Club took over and moved us back to the Stirling Suite. To my mind, though I had good fun at the Baths, the SSC doos were the definitive Yate niters. Plus being a bigger venue it was easier to hide from Leon, Polly, Gabby etc. trying to crack everyone up

Waterley Bottom? That pub's hard enough to get to sober, and those lanes seem narrower in the dark! Still excellent beer though... Another memory - in the later days, after Mac had moved on, we were using Dave Taylors mobile kit, good but one night it just died on us. Credit to Dave, he made it from his bed in Dursley to the club in twenty agonisingly long minutes!

Greety might have had some strange rules for cards (don't think I could have handled that so I stayed clear ) but by God did he play some cracking sounds - as, I agree, did Tony, who gave Yate a musical depth most other niters at the time didn't have...yes, there were a few who couldn't get the Yate vibe, but it probably had something to do with the very dry sense of humour that was usually around! Suddenly remembered - watching Quatermass as the late film on TV at Dave Thorley's house before heading off for Yate... Hippo.

A memory yes, but never distant! Remember that snowy night only too well...the exhaust thing happened to us as well half way back up the M5...in those pre-mobile phone days when getting a lift home from Mac I'd ring the taxi company in Cheltenham from the services and the cab would be sitting on the motorway brige waiting for me (could have spent that money on another 45!)...so many great memories of good nights, still say a good 'un at Yate was as good as any other niter! Good times, good sounds, good mates and many a bad head on a Monday morning... Hippo.

Can any nice person give me a link to the "Come go with me" which JM auctioned recently? Y'know, the one with the definitive description of an original? Thanks Hippo.