Damned Friday, John Otway Sunday

[Gumbo Robot]

..and who says Somerset is a cultural backwater.

Firstly, thanks to the crowd @ Cheese&Grain Frome for making me feel so YOUNG.

Secondly thanks @Sensible for not playing half the set with your cacks round your ankles like back in the day. Would have been a bit awkward as I had my teen niece in tow.

On to Otway @Rocky Mountain Garden Centre, nr. Wells.

Arrives on a Sinclair C5 opening line to crowd after 1st song "wow - let me just tell you what an honour it is to be playing this garden centre"

One of the best weekends I've had in ages...

[TestMangler]

Otway is a bleedin' superstar. Should have been much bigger than the cult following he ended up with.

Deep & Meaningless was up there with the best albums ever made.

[Doggy Styles]

Hi GR!

I don't suppose there were any sightings of Wild Willy there?

[TestMangler]

They did some stuff together again in 2009/11 but not sure if it's an ongoing thing or not.

[Gumbo Robot]

Hi GR!

I don't suppose there were any sightings of Wild Willy there?

Hi DS

No, but Nige and Brenda who run the cafe tell me they plan to get him in some time soon...

[cojak]

I love John Otway - I was a fan when he was a one-hit wonder.

I saw him at the Burton Beer Festival a few years back.

Does he still tear his shirts and leap off ladder steps and do somersaults while playing his guitar?

[stek]

I love John Otway - I was a fan when he was a one-hit wonder.

I saw him at the Burton Beer Festival a few years back.

Does he still tear his shirts and leap off ladder steps and do somersaults while playing his guitar?

Two hits surely!!

Or did 'Bunsen Burner' not chart?

[TestMangler]

Two hits surely!!

Or did 'Bunsen Burner' not chart?

It did, on the back of a 'fix' by his fan club, but as the great man himself said, it put the 's' on the right side of 'hit' for him

[darmstadt]

John Otway, legend in his lifetime. Just wish he would come over here...One that I nicked of my mum: