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a funny thing happened on the road to...: June 2011
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Wednesday, 29 June 2011. Gettin' down and funkin' it with Koke roadshow! Koke Roadshow funkin' Fife! I've recently taken to putting some compilation CD's together of sounds from that period we either played, tried to play or were told to stop playing! Try playing 'Funky like a Train' to a bunch of well oiled factory girls screaming '.play the birdy song or we'll rip your b*ws aff! Whenever possible the opening sound was forever Machine Gun by the Commodores. Check o...
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a funny thing happened on the road to...: July 2011
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Sunday, 10 July 2011. As we drifted aimlessly along Victoria St one fine evening after leaving the design studios at college, the call of a swift half dragged us in to the basement bar of what latterly became Ned Kelly's on the junction with Sir Thomas Street. The start of my subsequent life as a P-Funkateer.welcome to the crazy world of George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell et al. Funk is it's own reward, Starchild! So putting that glide in. If you got fun...
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a funny thing happened on the road to...: ......compiling a random 10 tracks from Eric's........
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Sunday, 5 June 2011. Compiling a random 10 tracks from Eric's. Waylaid as ever, I happened to come across a couple of compilation CD's I did relating to my early life as a student in Liverpool. The opening of Erics club coincided with my arrival in the City in 1976 and just happened to be round the corner from college in Victoria Street. It was an exciting time for me - a new life in a big City (I'm a small town boy by birth! You bet we did! White Riot: The Clash.
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a funny thing happened on the road to...: Africa Oye!......
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Sunday, 19 June 2011. Well it wasn't really that funny actually. With our usual sense of bad timing we'd manage to arrange for my in-laws to visit this Sunday. I knew that there was something that I had planned to do and it was only when I could hear the music bouncing up into the back garden on Saturday afternoon that the penny dropped.if only I'd made it to the pub on Friday to meet the other grumpy boys.if only. Covering The Clash's "Guns of Brixton". Kurt Kobain...
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a funny thing happened on the road to...: ...see the plywood superman!
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Sunday, 12 June 2011. See the plywood superman! A strange title perhaps and a curious means of introducing you to my latest list.but if you hang in for a minute or two it may all become clear. Recently I've been downloading a load more live performances from www.archive.org. An amazing resource it has to be said. As usual in no particular order the contenders are:. Having said in no particular order, Get yer ya-ya's out. I've added Hull after hearing the recent rele...
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a funny thing happened on the road to...: P-Funk
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Sunday, 10 July 2011. As we drifted aimlessly along Victoria St one fine evening after leaving the design studios at college, the call of a swift half dragged us in to the basement bar of what latterly became Ned Kelly's on the junction with Sir Thomas Street. The start of my subsequent life as a P-Funkateer.welcome to the crazy world of George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell et al. Funk is it's own reward, Starchild! So putting that glide in. If you got fun...
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a funny thing happened on the road to...: gettin' down and funkin' it with Koke roadshow!
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A funny thing happened on the road to. Wednesday, 29 June 2011. Gettin' down and funkin' it with Koke roadshow! Koke Roadshow funkin' Fife! I've recently taken to putting some compilation CD's together of sounds from that period we either played, tried to play or were told to stop playing! Try playing 'Funky like a Train' to a bunch of well oiled factory girls screaming '.play the birdy song or we'll rip your b*ws aff! Whenever possible the opening sound was forever Machine Gun by the Commodores. Check o...