This link contains some clips of a band I used to watch in a pub in some waste land between Dalston and Shoreditch in 1978 and 1979. Play the Swanee clip because that's closest to what they were doing at the time. On Tuesdays, Chas & Dave, a Rockney act, supported by Diz and the Doormen. On Thursdays it was the other way round. C & D used to drink in a Canonbury pub, which also had live music but not them and that was my local, so I knew them but I walked to Dalston on Thursdays instead, if I could, preferably with a pretty Swiss student called Pia, who lived in the house we shared.
I got a pile of vinyl from a friend three years ago and one of them is a black lable 12 inch single and when I played it, it was jazz blues and I was certain (a) that it was Diz and the Doormen and (b) that I was there when they recorded one of the two tracks live. They asked us to keep the noise down while they were playing because they were making a recording. There wouldn't have been much noise. The typical audience on a Thursday was a bowler hatted and besuited man from the City financial sector, a skinhead, three hippy-types, me and whatever friends I took as well as five or six assorted others. And it was possibly the best music in london at that time. https://www.acerecords.co.uk/bluecoat-man
i like london bc it's crowded
you make soo many friends bc of it.