Mutter Slater Andy Davis Billy
Sparkle Jim "Crun" Walter James Warren Mike Evans
Paul Weir, writing for
the Friars Aylesbury website in 2009:
"I
Just looking at your
excellent website. I can fill in a bit about Saturday June 7th 1975.
The day before, I was moving permanently from South Mimms to
Cheltenham. Of course my Honda C90 got a serious puncture between Tring
and Aylesbury, so I phoned Dave and Budget who put me up for the night.
While there I wrote a happy birthday piece for the Friars mag, as did
Peter Gabriel who was scheduled to pop out of the cake on the Saturday
night. For some reason I thought Steve Harley might have been involved
as well...
I was a rock scribe at the time (NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Disc and
Record Mirror - sometimes writing under pseudonyms), and reviewed a few
gigs at Friars as well as making a couple of dodgy appearances at Friars
with Gryphon and Capability Brown.
Strange but true, the first time I ever visited Lands End (in 1972) I
found Dave Stopps there too "of all the places in all the towns...."!
Mutter Slater, writing for
the Friars Aylesbury website in 2007:
"I
think it must have been the 30th Dec '72 gig - I always remember it as
being 'New Year's Eve' celebration, but my memory could be playing me
false - when a large cake was wheeled onto the stage at the crucial moment
only for Peter Gabriel to pop out and wish everyone a Happy New Year.
Someone e-mailed me recently, who mentioned that he came up to buy me a
drink at a bar near The Friars before a gig. He butted in on a
conversation I was having at the time with someone he didn't recognise,
who turned out to be Peter. I think this must have been the same night.
Then again, there's no real way of being sure
Webmaster's note
Fair play to Mutter for even
remembering this, but it was actually at this June birthday party gig and
indeed Peter Gabriel did jump out of a cake and read "Now we are six"
Stackridge are still going strong in 2010
with mostly the classic line up above. James Warren was part of the Korgis
who had a huge hit with "Everybody's go to learn Sometime"
