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  • rest in peace

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    you had a motorbike that thundered down the terrace in the meadows! we were little kids but can still recall the sound now.

    A very belated rest in peace.

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    By Denise on 13th Nov 2011

  • goodbye

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    I've onlyjust found this site, and it's too late now to tell him how I loved his music and his wicked sense of the ridiculous. I used to help run afolk club in Derby in the late 60's,(Peasmouldia), and I remember two of his songs; 'There's a dalek at the bottom of my garden', and 'Teenage Cremation'. Back then we didn't have political correctness,but we knew how to laugh! So sorry he's gone, I'm sure he's missed by so many people. X

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    By barb on 7th Nov 2010

  • Railway Hotel Sale

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    used to run a folk club on Sunday nights in the 70s. It was a lovely old cosy dark-wooded boozer before Robinsons 'modernised' it. I am eternally grateful to the landlord who turned a blind-eye to this 14 year-old so that I might be introduced to the wonder and tradition of British folk music, which works so well in that setting. Most of the turns were enthusiastic and entertaining, if unremarkable, but it was free after all, just a pint pot handed round at the end of the night. When Dave Turner appeared one Sunday (and I'm guessing it was the same Dave Turner), I thought, OK another guy with an acoustic, here goes, probably a song about the navigators or something. Little did I know I was in for amazing picking, ragtime and slide, and the funniest, truly side-aching, gasping for breath, crying laughter. I have never forgotten it. Now I see the association with Connolly, Jansch et al it all makes sense. How lucky I was to see him in Sale on a sleepy Sunday night. I was just getting into guitar and it was inspirational to say the least. A belated Thank You Dave, God bless you.

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    By Rob Page on 15th Oct 2010

  • I was a founder...

    I was a founder member of The Beggarmen.When the band split in 1970,my partner Terry Walsh and I set up as Kelly & Walsh. Apart from our own club in Glossop where Terry lived,we landed ourselves the residency at the famous MSG on Longmillgate in
    Manchester centre working for the infamous Lesley Jenkins who became our agent.

    Without a doubt the funniest act we had the pleasure and privilege to work with was the fabulous Dave Turner.A great wit,superb musician and a gentleman by all definitions.
    "The Nottinghamshire corporation diesel engined jackhammer blues", still makes me smile just for the title alone.We also booked Dave for our little club at the Commercial Inn in Glossop. He did not disappoint. His inventiveness was trailblazing and as the creator of the "Hippopoterhinostrac ow" aboard Noah's Ark,quite remarkable.

    I had not realised the sad fact of his parting and it was purely a fluke that I googled him to see if I could find out about him.The world is a sadder place for the departure of truly great comedians and wits and musicians.We particularily need them more than ever now.A lot of people owe much to the inspiration of such a man.

    Tony Kelly

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    By Tony Kelly on 12th Jan 2009

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