[azabrown]

Hi everyone,

Sorry to crash the Spireite Debate, but the not-so-tenuous footie connection is having the absolute banger from the 1997 FA Cup run on there - "We Can Build Our Dreams" by Danny Charity, and performed by the CFC Players (including Dychey, Kev Davies, Jamie Hewitt, Andy Morris et al) and Kaught in the Akt.

We're holding a FREE launch party at Real Time Music (Marsden St, just off Saltergate) tomorrow (Sunday 8th December) from 3-7pm, with a listening party, a few live performances and interviews with musicians and leading proponents of the Town's music scene over the years.

There's a 40-page booklet with a double CD pack in the back, but we'll also be releasing it on flash drive, vinyl and Bandcamp next week, and CFC have kindly said they'll stock it in the Club Shop as of next week.

Both directors of S40time C.I.C are massive Spireites, Season Ticket Holders, and love the Club to our very bones!!

Included on this first release is music by The Thompson Twins, Mybe, The Dazy Age, Shape of the Rain, Take the Seven, Fixer, TRASH, Worm, The Spasms, The Bland, Ruberlaris and many, many more...

Hope to see some of you there...

Aaron

This post has been edited by azabrown: 07 December 2024 - 02:16 PM

[stokey]

Ah brilliant - a great stocking filler coming at the right time of year, but also a good opportunity to celebrate the music scene here. Been following this on Facebook

[Walton Spireite]

stokey, on 07 December 2024 - 05:38 PM, said:

Ah brilliant - a great stocking filler coming at the right time of year, but also a good opportunity to celebrate the music scene here. Been following this on Facebook

Very good Aaron

[HoneyTrippa]

Great to see the Spasms in there Aza...... I followed them in their early post punk days back in 79 and have great memories of gigs in and around Chesterfield. Would also like to see a track from "Jah Boo" in there also (another great Chesterfield band) not forgetting "Thought Crime" also, who played a few times at the Fusion supporting the Spasms.

[jack bauer]

all the best with this aaron, some blast from the past names there, some great bands kicking around the chesterfield scene some years ago, saw mybe as a really raw new band way back in '95, great set of lads who wrote some top songs.

[eddymelt]

Good write up in the D.Times

https://www.derbyshi...history-4893161

[azabrown]

HoneyTrippa, on 07 December 2024 - 10:25 PM, said:

Great to see the Spasms in there Aza...... I followed them in their early post punk days back in 79 and have great memories of gigs in and around Chesterfield. Would also like to see a track from "Jah Boo" in there also (another great Chesterfield band) not forgetting "Thought Crime" also, who played a few times at the Fusion supporting the Spasms.

Yeah, they were a great band - Stuart Smith (now at Zebra Clothing) - who ran the Fusion Club in 1979 has a 2 Page spread in the accompanying booklet, where he speaks about all the bands who came through - including Jah Boo - wasn't a very young Ben Miles (from The Crown) a member of that band?

In 6 months at Fusion, they had The Cure (twice), The Thompson Twins, Spasms, Def Leppard, The Human League, The Specials, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Selecta and many more - what a time to be a music fan in Town!! I've spoken about the 90's in detail, which was booming for live music in Town.

There're also contributions from Pete Dodd (Thompson Twins), Keith Hudson, David McPhie, Didz (Drop Out/Planet X), Dave Palfreyman, Graham Blankley (Queens Park Hotel Folk Club and Stainsby Festival), and a whole section on producer Paul Hopkinson, plus Phil Bramley and Gay Bolton of The Derbyshire Times have both written a piece for it.

David McPhie and I are on BBC Radio Sheffield this morning about 11ish, so hope you can all tune in...

[HoneyTrippa]

azabrown, on 08 December 2024 - 10:19 AM, said:

Yeah, they were a great band - Stuart Smith (now at Zebra Clothing) - who ran the Fusion Club in 1979 has a 2 Page spread in the accompanying booklet, where he speaks about all the bands who came through - including Jah Boo - wasn't a very young Ben Miles (from The Crown) a member of that band?

In 6 months at Fusion, they had The Cure (twice), The Thompson Twins, Spasms, Def Leppard, The Human League, The Specials, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Selecta and many more - what a time to be a music fan in Town!! I've spoken about the 90's in detail, which was booming for live music in Town.

There're also contributions from Pete Dodd (Thompson Twins), Keith Hudson, David McPhie, Didz (Drop Out/Planet X), Dave Palfreyman, Graham Blankley (Queens Park Hotel Folk Club and Stainsby Festival), and a whole section on producer Paul Hopkinson, plus Phil Bramley and Gay Bolton of The Derbyshire Times have both written a piece for it.

David McPhie and I are on BBC Radio Sheffield this morning about 11ish, so hope you can all tune in...

Cheers AZA - I have PM'd you as I am aware that this is a "footie forum" and we could get bogged down forever talking music !!!

[Brimington spireite]

azabrown, on 08 December 2024 - 10:19 AM, said:

Yeah, they were a great band - Stuart Smith (now at Zebra Clothing) - who ran the Fusion Club in 1979 has a 2 Page spread in the accompanying booklet, where he speaks about all the bands who came through - including Jah Boo - wasn't a very young Ben Miles (from The Crown) a member of that band?

In 6 months at Fusion, they had The Cure (twice), The Thompson Twins, Spasms, Def Leppard, The Human League, The Specials, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Selecta and many more - what a time to be a music fan in Town!! I've spoken about the 90's in detail, which was booming for live music in Town.

There're also contributions from Pete Dodd (Thompson Twins), Keith Hudson, David McPhie, Didz (Drop Out/Planet X), Dave Palfreyman, Graham Blankley (Queens Park Hotel Folk Club and Stainsby Festival), and a whole section on producer Paul Hopkinson, plus Phil Bramley and Gay Bolton of The Derbyshire Times have both written a piece for it.

David McPhie and I are on BBC Radio Sheffield this morning about 11ish, so hope you can all tune in...

I can't remember Def Leppard playing at the fusion as a lifelong metal fan I would have remembered that

This post has been edited by Brimington spireite: 08 December 2024 - 04:51 PM

[dart in the crossbar]

HoneyTrippa, on 07 December 2024 - 10:25 PM, said:

Great to see the Spasms in there Aza...... I followed them in their early post punk days back in 79 and have great memories of gigs in and around Chesterfield. Would also like to see a track from "Jah Boo" in there also (another great Chesterfield band) not forgetting "Thought Crime" also, who played a few times at the Fusion supporting the Spasms.

It was 'Yah Boo' rather than Jah Boo. Great band.

I recall seeing a punk band - then again it might have been a punk 'disco' - at the Rugby club building on Sheff Road. I reckon that it would have been 1977 or 1978. I've no idea who it was etc. There was a lot of gobbing and pogoing, is about all I remember.

This post has been edited by dart in the crossbar: 08 December 2024 - 05:39 PM

[Osborne again]

Some great bands that have played in Chesterfield, The Kinks,The Who and Elton John to name three.

[Westbars Spireite]

Aswad.

[dart in the crossbar]

Jimi Hendrix Experience

[Osborne again]

dart in the crossbar, on 08 December 2024 - 05:52 PM, said:

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Yes, at the old Vic I think.

[dart in the crossbar]

Osborne again, on 08 December 2024 - 05:54 PM, said:

Yes, at the old Vic I think.

ABC

[Osborne again]

dart in the crossbar, on 08 December 2024 - 06:19 PM, said:

ABC

Oh right,you learn everyday. Was it around 1970, because it was my eldest brother who told me he saw them in town. I was still trying my luck at beer offs at that time 😁.

[Holmesc1]

I hope the launch went well, i would have come but waited in for a decorator to give me a quote who never turned up! Only been here 9 year so know very little about the local bands in days gone by so this is a intresting project. Ive spoken with yourself before and that dave mcphie sure has some interesting tales about the music scene and appreciated the scene in my native north east which in days gone by has produced some excellent musicians: mark knophler, sting, david coverdale, paul rodgers, andy taylor, chris, janick gers (iron maiden), brian johnson to name a few. Chesterfield seems a backwater for some of the names original bands sadly. The biggest bands i have seen here are gun at real time live or skindred at that avenue

This post has been edited by Holmesc1: 08 December 2024 - 07:03 PM

[dart in the crossbar]

Osborne again, on 08 December 2024 - 06:31 PM, said:

Oh right,you learn everyday. Was it around 1970, because it was my eldest brother who told me he saw them in town. I was still trying my luck at beer offs at that time 😁.

It was in April 1967 as part of a package with Cat Stevens, the Everly Brothers and a few other MOR artists. There were two shows on the same day apparently. My old girlfriend went to the afternoon one with her family to see the MOR outfits and said that she remembered Hendrix as being very scary and very loud. She was 6 years old at the time and wasn't impressed by him at all.

[dart in the crossbar]

Something else that was a bit good in Town in the punk era was the Some Kind of Mushroom shop. It had loads of great stuff as I recall. I used to spend a good while in there thinking about buying punk stuff and, regrettably usually deciding not to. I also recall looking at the Buzzcocks first EP in the market hall music stall and, also regrettably, deciding not to get it. Hey ho.

[azabrown]

There were 2 versions of Some Kinda Mushroom - the original was David McPhie's (who recorded Joe Cocker and got him his deal in 1967, and brought Pink Floyd et al to Town, and who I co-authored this book and release with) at the bottom of Newbold Road. Then Stuart Smith took it over and it was in The Shambles, I believe, but I was only young then, and was only 7 when Fusion Club was in full swing. Yes, it was Yah Boo, although I had to ask Stuart about that 'cos I could read his writing! (Memoirs written in 1983).

It went really well thanks, Chris - probably would have been better if the storm hadn't been so bad, and the record fair was cancelled (the whole reason we held it on the 2nd Sunday in December)

Representing CFC, Dave Radders was there, Howard B was interviewed by David McPhie, but refused to sing "We Can Build Our Dreams" (!!!!), and Ed Fordham (Rainbow Spireites) came along and took a Chesterfield version of Sgt Peppers (kind of!), that made it into The Derbyshire Times

https://www.derbyshi...f-music-4901047

It's in Tall Bird and Vanishing Point Records in Town, The Chesterfield Arms, Waterstones (once we get through the Red Tape), and most importantly, I'll be dropping some off at the Club Shop tomorrow afternoon