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Borough Assembly Hall, Market Square,
Aylesbury
Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers
Saturday August 16th 1975
see also Family at Friars Dunstable Wednesday January 26th 1972
Roger Chapman Charlie Whitney
Bobby Tench Jon Plotel Nicko McBrain
Clemen Pull
Unknown
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Mark Sims (Clemen Pull), writing for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2007:
"Roger Chapman was originally from a group called Family, which had a couple of minor hits, but toured on a regular basis. In fact, Family was a personal favourite of mine, so playing support to Streetwalkers was something of a dream come true at the time. As I remember it was well attended, as you would expect with Roger and the boys top of the bill. Streetwalkers and their Roadies were encouraging to us in the group, and helped our Roadies. Streetwalkers even allowed us to use our pyrotechnics. It was a great gig, with both bands going down very well. The organisation was superb. There was no hassle and the organisers even mustered up a few people to help our Roadies get the gear squared away in the van. This is a real blast. Not only did I play at Friars, but occasionally would go to watch various groups. I seem to recall going to see The Pink Fairies. There were other groups but I can't remember their names".
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Gary Leeson, Friars fan, writing for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2008:
"I remember this night as being a memorable night of great music with CWS crashing out storming versions of Family classics along with their own material. During the set Roger Chapman punched his way through a tambourine then threw it out into the audience, a sea of hands reached for it and to my surprise I caught it. My mate immediately hoisted me up onto his shoulders and there I was bashing the tambourine in time with the band with the audience clapping along, I cant remember the number but a great moment I shall never forget.
After the gig we all milled about in the Market Square chatting about the gig and studying the hand out when a little toe rag ran past and snatched the tambourine out of my hand and disappeared into the night, there were cries of “lets get him”, but as the peace and love era was still hanging around particularly at Friars we decided to let it go, shame it would have been a great souvenir of a memorable night"
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Sights and sounds - Family - In My Own Time
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