About a Comment a Few Postings Ago
About a comment a few postings ago: that was actually my one and only solo gig, not a Helen and the Horns one (and Helen and the Horns never got to play the Moonlight Club; that was the Chefs. Brilliant venue!)
After that gig, Alan McGee asked me to sign to Creation, which he had just started up. I said no, because I had always been in bands and didn't want to be a Joni-Mitchell-a-like, as I thought she was soppy. Don't forget, I was an ex-punk rocka and dreamy ladies behind big guitars were not my scene, which now is rather ironic, ha ha!
Looking back, it was a great vote of confidence from him, and he was surprised and a bit grumpy that I said no. I hope he has forgiven me now! Wouldn't it have been funny t have shared a label with Oasis, those subtle and sensitive purveyors of Dadrock?
I wrote songs especially for that gig and I still have them somewhere; I never recorded them or transferred them to another group. Six months later, Helen and the Horns were on their way and I was very happy with that.
The Nightingales were fantastic that night, by the way.
After that gig, Alan McGee asked me to sign to Creation, which he had just started up. I said no, because I had always been in bands and didn't want to be a Joni-Mitchell-a-like, as I thought she was soppy. Don't forget, I was an ex-punk rocka and dreamy ladies behind big guitars were not my scene, which now is rather ironic, ha ha!
Looking back, it was a great vote of confidence from him, and he was surprised and a bit grumpy that I said no. I hope he has forgiven me now! Wouldn't it have been funny t have shared a label with Oasis, those subtle and sensitive purveyors of Dadrock?
I wrote songs especially for that gig and I still have them somewhere; I never recorded them or transferred them to another group. Six months later, Helen and the Horns were on their way and I was very happy with that.
The Nightingales were fantastic that night, by the way.
posted by Helen McCookerybook at Wednesday, March 11, 2009
3 Comments:
I stand corrected. Although I am now straining the old brain box trying to recall the night. Cos I'm sure I saw you at the Camdem place with a band. Agreed not the Chefs. Skat maybe?
I saw the Chefs at the Moonlight a good half dozen times, maybe more, and I'm sure I saw Skat somewhere. I just don't recall ever seeing you 'by yourself' solo (which I shall rectify asap). It was, of course, a Very Long Time ago
wilky of st albans
Ah, Skat! Ha!
I used to have the cover of 'Femme Fatale' from the Johnny Plee session on tape.
That means I owe Ms McC some money, probably. Sorry.
O dear Anonymous Wilky, you may be right... it could have been the country and westerni night, with Mike Slocombe on drums (he of Urban75 fame) and Lester Square on guitar; although that night at the London Musicians' Collective, everyone was country and western and it wasn't the night the Nightingales played.
How mysterious!
And Chimesey, I wouldn't worry, you probably owe millions to the Velvet Underground, but I won't tell them if you don't!
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