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Here's some more
pics I took at 'Come Down & Meet
The Folks', on the weekend leading to Xmas. On reaching 'The Golden Lion', I was shocked to find
that it was well and truly rammed out with revellers looking to enjoy some festive rockabilly that evening and
they certainly weren't to be disappointed.
I saw Jairo & Nicoela (who'd invited me along for the evening) amongst the heaving
throng and we shoved our way down to the front (getting jellybeans from some bearded,
bespectacled bloke along the way) where the Fulsom Four were doing covers of songs by the
likes of Oasis and Benny Hill in the style of Johnny Cash (I now see 'Don't Look Back In
Anger' in a different having heard their version). Here's two of them in action while
doing their unique take of 'Ernie (him what "drove the fastest milkcart in the
West")'.
Here's a snap
of a bloke named Dave Phillips performing
a cover of 'Tainted Love', a
song originally recorded by
Marc Bolan's widow (and
something of a Northern Soul
classic, I'm told), but best
known by the synth-pop version
done by Soft Cell. Jairo played
me Dave's version when I
was at his and Nicoela's flat a
couple of weeks later.
One of the
Fulsom Four, accompanied
by Boz Boorer on double bass.
Here's a bloke
doing a song in the style of
country-rock pioneer Gram
Parsons, and
v.good he was too.
I got this one
of a bloke who had to fend off the attentions
of one of the pub's regulars the
last time I came along,
doing a lovely version of 'Blue
Xmas'. A little
underexposed, but atmospheric,
I'd say.
Here's the first special guest to put in an appearance down at the 'Golden Lion' that evening, the bloke that Vic n' Bob off 'Shooting Stars' refer to as the "50's throwback", Mark Lamarr (I'm certain he was v.much at home, judging from the quiffs and sideburns on parade that evening). Here we see him doing close harmonies with Boz.
Mark got da
blues! Expressing his soul through his
harp. As quickly as he came,
he'd disappeared.
