MUSIC: LOUD ‘N’ TWANGY!
...WITH DISTORTION, FEEDBACK
AND JUMPING AROUND!!!
*Please remember, Mr Leatherbarrow is Scouser and you are not (probably). Do not try this at home without first consulting your Doctor.
More ramblings by Mr. Timothy Leatherbarrow*
When I were ‘nobbut a lad’ in the ‘swinging
60’s’(much as it pains me to admit it!)...Music to
me was the theme tunes to classics on the telly
like; ‘Supercar’, Fireball Xl5, Stingray and later
‘THUNDERBIRDS.And lest we forget DOCTOR
WHO and another personal favourite of mine
was Garrison’s Gorilla’s! The joys of Mersey
Beat were lost to me,except for the Cilla Black
show and for some very strange unexplainable
reason I fancied the pre-nose job Cilla something
rotten. Even more inexplicably I enjoyed and still
do enjoy some of her major hits. The other one
I liked was Petula Clarke... She had the voice of
an angel and when I heard ‘Downtown’ I loved
it and couldn’t stop whistling it. Even today, even
typing about it, I’m whistling the damn tune.
We went to see her last year in Manchester
and she was still good and I was whistling that
damn tune for weeks. The funny thing was when
I mentioned it to anyone a few minutes later
30
they’d be humming or singing it. Without doubt
it is the most infectious pop song ever!... Don’t
listen to it without ear muffs and a bio defence
suit on!
Years later I’d watch bands in pubs, even old
cellars in dingy back streets in the fair city of
Liverpool which gave me an idea of how it was in
a variety of pubs, clubs and dingy cellars in those
days where in that fine city the biggest music
explosion took place - and the world is still
shaking now! A whole heap of our own local lads
inspired by Bill Haley, Elvis and Lonnie Doneghan
and his home made ‘Skiffle’ band made their own
bands and started playing something called ‘Rock
‘n’ Roll’ clad in leather and Brycreem’ed hair they
played bloody awful stuff wherever they could. A
similar sister port to Liverpool was the naughty
red lights of Hamburg where a lot of the bands
served an apprenticeship playing