Angel Pavement

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We can’t all be reading everything that people used to think was the bee’s pyjamas and the cat’s toboggan, or whatever the saying is.

In May 2013, a two-episode dramatisation of the novel was aired on BBC Radio 4, directed and produced by Chris Wallis. The story of pavement artist Sid Bunkin and his two angelic friends Corky and Loopy (who are not always best friend with each other) and the marvellous journey they take him on with a set of magic pencils. It was a time when the loss of one’s job was not merely a blow, but a disaster from which it might take years for a person to recover. Two other books that were similarly immersive and with an array of interesting characters, and to whom I was very sad to bid farewell.g. Pete Stringfellow, who at that time was based in Wakefield and the gigs on offer were increasingly becoming nightclubs – he even tried to persuade them to take a booking at Batley Variety Club!

That period between the greatest Queen – Victoria – and the end of the Empire heralded by two world wars. We have what amounts to a large-cast Dickens or Trollope outing, complete with competing narrative threads and class discordance. A must read for anyone interested in London and a London working life that has mostly disappeared for ever.Sid the pavement artist is sad because he wants to take part in the drawing competition but wonders how the judges will ever get to see his work? No need here to summarize the proceedings; best to say that things will not go according to plan, nor will there be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover by the end. to be replaced by Paul Smith (no relation to Dave) on vocals (also previously with Machine), followed by Alan who was replaced by Mike ‘Candy’ Candler on drums (ex-Machine and Roll Movement).

After all the grasping of empire, Londoners were left with their days in the office, their evenings at the ‘talkies’, their flirtations, a few dinner parties and a double whiskey with soda at the club.Priestley, through the publisher, got a sight of Greene’s proofs, in which he was portrayed as ‘Quin Savory’, a vulgar, fourth-rate Dickensian, ‘Sold a hundred thousand copies .

By now it was 1968 and the only studio experience the group had was in 1967 at Dewsbury and Leeds, where they made two demo acetates, four songs in the former studio and a further two in the latter viz.The band quickly gathered a local fan base after developing a good and varied stage act, using effects such as light shows and a smoke generator (not popular in all venues! As it turns out, there are 2 of them - one from the 50s and one from the 60s (unfortunately nowhere to be found for downloading).