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Otway and
Barrett Saturday June 16th 1973
Monday September 20th 1976
Saturday
March 19th 1977
Saturday February 20th 1982
John Otway
Thursday December 23rd 1971
Saturday 13th September 1975 Saturday March
20th 1976 Tuesday December 6th 1977
Saturday April
28th 1979 Thursday December 27th 1979
Sunday December 28th 1980
Saturday March 5th 1983
Willy Barrett
Monday June 16th 1969
Monday June 23rd 1969
Friday February 11th
1972
Steve Wright, writing for
the Friars Aylesbury website in 2009 said:
Many
congratulations on your 40th anniversary. Growing up through the late
70's Friars was a venue that my favourite band Radio Stars played on
numerous occasions. Thanks to singer Andy Ellison they had some wild
nights there !! It is a venue that I will always remember. Check out the
Official Radio Stars Website -
www.radio-stars.com
Andy Ellison, Radio Stars, writing for
the Friars Aylesbury website in 2009 said:
"I
do remember the gig very well, and the venue being one of the best on
the circuit, in the late 70's. Played there with EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS
and SQUEEZE, and then in our own right, on the first night of the RADIO
STARS never ending holiday tour, that went on for about 9 months,
starting at FRIARS, AYLESBURY, where we took a coach load of jouranlists
to the venue with a conjurer on board, and topless girls serving drinks,
i don't remember much about what happened later that night, but all i
remember it was a great gig, and i've got great memories of your venue,
Happily I'm still alive, and Radio Stars are up and running and could
play there again if you want. We recently played The Forum, London."
PTO on stage at this gig - courtesy of Andy Kinch
Otway is, was and always will be an
Aylesbury legend. After Really Free gave Otway his one hit wonder status
in 1977 which he regularly played on ('I'm now going to do a selection of
my hit'), he confounded everyone by being back on Top of the Pops in 2002,
25 years after last troubling the charts, with the entertaining 'Bunsen
Burner'. Plans for a world Otway tour where he took the audience with him
in a plane fell through in 2006. He's still gigging today, occasionally
with Wild Willy himself.
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