Dave is a singer-guitarist from the past,now living in Suffolk. He doesn't play any more, but still remembers the 1970-1980 Folk era in Coventry with great fondness. I've been been chatting to his son, Mark recently. Mark is very interested in acquiring a vinyl copy of our mini-album "Roll It Up and Eat It" for his dad. ( He already has a copy of our latest CD and some radio interviews). Anyone who has a spare vinyl copy-Mark's prepared to pay good money for one. Please email me if interested.
Mark and I have also had a good reminisce about Steve Adams, and his album, which both of us have. Parrot once recorded some stuff with Steve at his place near Tamworth long ago. Wonder what happened to that? Mark and I are agreed that Steve's "Please Don't Leave Me " was a great favourite of ours.
Mark's been very busy shipping BPS stuff onto U-tube. You might enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWhx251CSq4
- it's one of several video clips loaded by various Parrot-minded folk. Some good, and some not so good.
( Also doing the rounds on Facebook at present is a clip of a BPS-Borderline Crossing collaboration " Bring It On Home," which is a real collector's item, filmed at Bedworth Rugby club only a few weeks back).
Mark's dad used to be a regular at The Pitt's Head Folk Club in Far Gosford Street, which was one of Pete Willow's many folk initiatives. There's a poster featuring this somewhere on this blog and also on our website. Dave remembers sitting in on some of our songs during Black Parrot Seaside's Christmas pantomimes there, which makes him an honorary Parrot. In particular he remembers that song we used to do about dysfunctional field mice sitting under trees. Very Dadaesque, that one. Another Christmas song featured lyrics about Dave himself and Pete. Utterly defamatory, of course. Happy Days. There's a line about "wallpaper" in "Septic Monkey" that goes right back to that room upstairs at The Pitts!
