I wanted a song about bicycles because my number one bike “Merlin” suffered a mishap yesterday the bike is black not silver. However the Hawkwind classic will do for today’s  title.

Talking about Hawkwind it did trigger a memory. So I thought I would once again revisit my youth in this blog. In my home town Hitchin there was a ballroom called The Hermitage affectionately called “The Herm” where many bands played at weekends. Hawkwind was one of them. When I was in the sixth form my pal Nick and I couldn’t usually afford the cost of the ticket so we had to be imaginative. We would go round the back of the venue when bands arrived and offered to help carrying in the equipment (a sort of roadie), it worked a treat and got into many gigs. One memorable night was when the Afro/Caribbean band Osibisa  came to play they unusually had two white roadies that night and no one questioned us! I was lucky growing up in Hitchin at that time because music was very much centre stage of youth culture and we would have rock bands playing at The Herm and had a fantastic folk club in another part of town that is still going! So I saw many up and coming bands and singers of both genres! Picture from below has just been sent to me even though it is cricket ( a house match at school) the hair goes with era I’ve written about-compare that hair style with the one in the recent picture of me playing cricket (well about 12 years ago) in a previous blog!!!!!

News on the Podcast -will take quite a bit of time now on editing (Dan is doing this). We have a couple more bits of recording to add as well.

Quiz for today are all  music lyrics (name the song and the artist/s)

a) “What’ll you do when you get lonely and no-one’s waiting by your side?”   b) “There must be some kind of way outta here, said the joker to the thief”   c) “Nice girls not one with a defect, cellophane shrink-wrapped so correct….”.d) “I’ll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright…...”e) “She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge….”