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RANDOM SHOW OF LOCAL SPORT AND CLASSIC TRACKS · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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Kevin Daidy here with a bit of sport and a bit of music. This
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is the normal time for the folks on the High Sports Show, but I've
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been away most of the week and so I've switched off from radio. Do
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you know until about five minutes ago. I haven't done much research, so
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we're just gonna make up as we go along. But we're gonna have two
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hours of great music and to keep you occupied, and we're chucking a bit
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of sport in between. I've been away, just got back this morning,
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so please bear with me if the sport content is a bit light. But
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coming up starting the show from nineteen seventy two, a classic track from t
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Rex Telegram Sam and some of the local music from the Alex B. Harreld
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band. So let's start the show. That's she there and the luf Freak.
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Well, this is Kevin Day and today we're doing well, a little
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bit of sport but lots more music because I've been away, went away for
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a few days. I had a lovely little break down in Hastings and Eastbourne,
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and I'll tell you about that later. So I haven't had much time
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to do some research. I did a little bit this morning, and so
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got a little bit of sport for you. And but so coming up,
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I've to track down reports on a bit of football, a bit of hockey,
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a bit of wheelchair basketball. Got some little latest on a netball.
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I've got a little report on the fourth coming folks to ten now that's happening
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tomorrow actually, so that's good news. And I'll tell you what I did
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notice while I was relaxing on holiday looking on my computer, not at a
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sport, but it's there's only the oldies will know about this. Remember this,
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it's sixty years since the launch of Pirate Radio. Now probably some youngsters
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don't even know what pirate radio is. So we'll be having a little chat
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about that. And then, as I say, I'll be telling you a
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little bit about the Hastings Half Marathon which me and missus Ferrett went to,
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and then we moved up the coast to Eastbourne. We'll be caught up with
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an old Academy FN presenter, Bobby C. Remember Bobby C. Great voice,
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sounds like a in cat. But he's moved up up the coast there.
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He's still active on radio around that area. So I'll be telling you
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about that later on as well, So let's start with a bit of football
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now, So usual stuff folks in Victor who or last Saturday they beat Craig
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Wanderer's one nil fixtures well, with an Easter period, there's normally a pretty
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jam packed fictionalist so they've got good Friday, which is tomorrow. They're home
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to Lewis with a three pm kickoff and Lewis are actually eleventh in the league
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out of twenty two twenty two teams in the league and they've got fifty one
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points and then Easter Monday in Victor are away to Hastings, also with a
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three pm kickoff. Hastings are ninth in the table with fifty three points and
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Hastings get a really good local home support, you know, and it wouldn't
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surprise me this would be a four figure gate, especially being an Easter Monday
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fixture, and that's going to be a cracking game. I reckon now focused
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on the sixteenth with forty two points, the drop zone is nineteenth position and
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below now Margate are nineteenth with twenty nine points, so in effect in Victor
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are thirteen points clear. They've played thirty five out of forty two games,
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so they've got six games left, but they've got three of the top teams
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that are going for a playoff places that's Chatham who are second, Horseham and
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Dullich Hamlet. But all said and done, it looks like hall Church on
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current form we're going to be the champions. They seem to be running away
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with the table there so the little run into the season. Only six games
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left, so that this should be interesting and let's please hope that they stay
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out. Folks in a victor stay out of the relegation zone. Moving on
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to Hivetown now now they've got a real fixture backlog which sees them playing Saturday
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and Tuesday night to the end of the season. Last Tuesday they were beaten
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three to one by Herne Bay and on Saturday there are home to Mersdam Eastern
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Monday is a way to Shepper United, then the following Saturday away to Beckenham
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who recently beaten to one the Beckingham at the bottom club by the way,
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Ie are currently in knight spot, four places and twelve points away from the
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playoffs, so it might be just a bit too much for Steve watts Men.
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Hawkinstown had an excellent six to one win against third place idle Hill,
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and it was good news in fact, because their rivals hals AFC only drew
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with Tendeddon so they have now played the same amount of games with just three
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points the difference. Hawkins, you have two games over the easter period.
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On Saturday they're a way to Burmasey who are second from bottom. Then on
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Monday it's at home to Minster who are nith so it's up to it's in
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their own hands really at Hawkins. It's just got hope that idle Hill slip
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up again and they can take the championship. So good exciting stuff because they've
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slowly, slowly crept up the table. Hawkins. You know, if you
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remember, they were like fourth and fifth and looked sort of mediocre, but
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they've strung a set of results together and who knows, they might just win
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that league. Righty ho, time for a bit of music now, and
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I'm just going to try and find out some more sport later on. So
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let's have a little listen to swing Out Sister and Breakouts Academy FM, Folcus
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Focus nineteen eighty eight. There m people and angel streets. Okay, well
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I've managed to because the optimist hockey of a great media guru in Amy,
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and when I got home and checked my emails, there was an inbox there
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with just loads and loads of scores, which she does. It's always in
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there by Sunday night or Monday morning. So we'll tell you about how the
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hockey went on last weekend, and I've got to start with the state because
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these are amazing this week now, as usual, they've played twelve games.
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They won eight, drew three and lost only one. But the goals four
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was forty five and the goals against was only twelve, and for as long
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as I've been doing it this season, I'm sure that is the most they've
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ever scored and the least they've ever conceded. Unfortunately, the team that did
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lose was the men's first team. They lost two to one to Cliftonville.
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The men's seconds beat BBHC five to two, which means that when the final
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whistle came that Folkston were confirmed as league champions. So well done to the
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second team. The goals there came from Ben Allen, he got to Isaac
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Hopkin got two and Nick Hopkin got one, so that they are champions and
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they're still another game to go yet the men's third they drew one all with
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Hulcombe the men's fourth. Now listen to this, this is why the stats
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are so good. They beat Blackheath eleven nil. Now I've never known the
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score that high since I've been reading our hockey. We've had a few sixes
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and sevens, you know, but eleven and so we have to give the
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goal scorers a mention. Jack Dixon got four, Jack Timmin's got two,
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Joe Thresher got two, Connor Flood, Alfie Ball and Ben Williams got one
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each. So well done to the fourth team, the men's fifteen they beat
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hulkhambe for one. The men's sixteen they drew two all with another Hulcomb side
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the goals there from Harry Row. Remember that name. Yes, I think
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it might be one for the future, that Harry Row and Tim Wesley.
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And the seventh team they beat herne Bay by four goals to two. Switching
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to the ladies now, the ladies first team beat Aldershot and Farnham three to
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one. The Ladies seconds beat BBHC four nil. The Ladies' thirds drew and
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Neil Neil with burnt Ash and the Ladies' fourth team they beat sorry. The
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Ladies fourth team beat burnt Ash five to one. That's it. And the
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goals there from Janet Foruller, Bekashaw, Sarah Andrews and Michelle Phillips and the
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Ladies fifteen would they beat k Sports five neil. So a great weekend,
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one of the best weekends that I can ever remember overall for the Optimists.
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So they got the Easter break coming up. Back in the day there used
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to be an Easter Hockey Festival, which used to be absolutely manic. But
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that's kind of I don't know. I think the festival's gone a little bit
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out of the window these days. So they're not back until the sixth of
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April when they all play their final games. So we're going to play a
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bit of music now, and I've got this one out, especially in case
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there wasn't much sport about. It's a Barry White and let the music play.
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One ticket through that was not Robbie Williams there. Now. It's interesting
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because he's hoping that he's are before he dies, but I remember the who's
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singing hope but before get old? A bit of a contrast there. Anyway,
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Let's do a good track. You can't help but am I Robbie.
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He did make some great with great songs. Okay, So it's funny.
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I know I've noticed the next track on the playlist. I won't tell you
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what it is, but it's funny. It should be in there because I've
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got a little story to tell. And now, last week, for a
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couple of days, me and Missus Ferrett were in Eastbourne and we caught up
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with a former Academy FM presenter, Bobby c. You remember Bobby. He
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used to be on in sort of mid morning show and I just said before
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he's got a voice like a purring cat. He sounds so soft and genteel
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and got a great voice for radio. But he's now down living in Eastbourne
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and he's got a show there with a radio station called Cea Haven FM,
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and it really is a big station. It covers areas from he's born right
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along the coast nearly to Brighton. So we started having a chat and it
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was funny. When we do radio, you don't get long to do a
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handover with your colleagues. You might get in ten minutes before there's a song
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playing, You have a little chat and then he goes ten minutes afterwards.
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So this is the first time after handing over on and off over the years
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from Bobby c that, so we've had a proper catch up. So I
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started asking him about his early career in radio and he really staggered me.
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You know, he's done so much in radio and he worked on Radio BBC
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Radio Radio three. He started off producing classic classic music songs and they got
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away with that. He said that they asked him if he could do it,
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and he said his classic phrase was I'll give it a go. Anyway,
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he did shows on Radio two, Radio one. He helped produce Tony
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Blackburn Show, which was then on Radio London, and I said to him,
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what's Tunny Blackburn really like? He said, he's just the same as
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what you see him or hear him on the radio if you have a chat
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with him. He said, I used to produce this show and we used
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to go down the canteen and have a coffee and a sandwich, he said,
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and he couldn't help it. After he threw a cup of tea or
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a coffee, he goes, oh, I must tell you this joke,
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and that's just what he was like all the time. Anyway, Bobby was
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telling me about one of the media projects that he did when he was quite
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young, and there were a little group of them and they had this idea
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about putting a music video on and actually Bobby so did go on to work
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on Top of the Pops. So he told me that there was three of
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them. One was a camera man, one was a sound engineer and one
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was a producer. But what they needed they needed a group, so they
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could video a group and put it all together and send it out as a
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sort of a demo. So one of the lads said, well, he
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said, I know, I said, I know a group. You see,
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I've got some of my mates. They live in Surrey, and so
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it was only for the experience, you know, there wasn't any money involved.
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So he gotten down there. They did two or three takes and then
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it turned out that the group were called Genesis, and that was the first
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ever music video they made. Bobby says, oh my word, I wish
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I'd kept that video, that recording, and speakly enough, I've got Genesis
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here and the brilliant track I can't dance the Genesis there, I can't dance,
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and immediately springs to mind. Four of them are coming across the dance
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floor all out of sequence, you know what I mean, sort of Dad's
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dancing type thing. And if you get a chance, groups like Genesis supergroups
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now they are slowly fading away, aren't they. But the tribute acts are
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out there, and some of them are really top dollar. Now, if
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you get a chance, if you ever see a group called I Thing,
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I'm sure I've got this name right, No jacket required, right, go
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and see them. The lead singer sounds just like Phil Collins and the guys.
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They are so good it almost you know to every single musical note.
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And so if you do see that, no jacket required. They've been down
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here before. They've been to the Leagally Fall and to the Tower Theater.
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So keep your eyes peeled for that one. Right. So, as I
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say, we're bluffing it a little bit because I haven't done much prep for
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the show, so you have to bear with me. But so we got
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a track coming up now from Ario Speedwagon and from nineteen eighty one here we
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go, Take you on the run? Who from a Friend? Who?
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Rudi from a Friend Brown nineteen eighty one, Ario Speed Gwin, Rio Speedwagon,
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Take it on the run. Now, while I was down with Bobby
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c there. He reminded me that because he's doing a feature on his show
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down there in Sea Haven. He said, did you realize it's sixty years
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since the Pirate Radio started. Now you youngsters won't understand what pirate Radio is
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all about, because now you just say Alexa play this or Alexa play that.
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So in the second half of the show, we're going to talk a
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little bit about Pirate Radio, how it all started, how they fell out
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with the BBC, and then the government brought in a that I made it
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up almost so that they could get him off the year, and an a
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Ministry of Broadcasting something or other, and anyway, it was all complicated back
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in the time. It calls the rights to Radio one, two, three,
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and four all rebranded themselves. Radio one sounded just like the Pirates did.
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But this is the sort of song that was around at that sort of
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time. And when I saw this on the playlist, actually it immediately reminded
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me of if you've ever seen a film called The Boat That Rocks. It
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was kind of a little cheeky tongue in cheek mickey take a serious part that
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was trying to compare the Pirates and the film was a great film with some
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great music on and this was certainly in it with the Rolling Stones and Get
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Off of My cloud from nineteen sixty five there Rolling Stones to get off of
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my clouds. Okay, it's nearly time for the news, so I'll way
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back after the news. I found a bit more sports to tell you about.
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Got some wheelchair basketballs and netballs and road running them. I'll be catching
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up, bringing up to date with my little trip to Hayes things. In
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the meantime taking this up to the news. I've just got a minute or
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so of this lovely song I just found in the playlist that justin Haywood,
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and it's from my granddaughter Forever Autumn, and my granddaughter is Autumn and she'd
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be three very soon. The sun Speed has the roscast every local sports across
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the district. Kevin Daily here bringing you a bit of sport and a bit
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of music. I'll say a bit of sport because if you missed the first
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hour, I've been away most of the week and so i haven't been doing
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any research. So I'm fine, flying a bit blue at the moment.
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I did a little bit this morning, just made a few notes, so
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trying to wing it but bring you up to day with all the sport is
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going on locally coming up in this hour. Managed to find some reports on
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wheelchair basketball and some netball and talk a little bit about the folks to ten
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which is taking part tomorrow. Sold out. I'm afraid Runners sold out,
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and we'll be chatting a little bit about Pirate Radio. What's that these youngsters
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saying pirate radio. You don't know how lucky you are have all these digital
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stations. You just go ALEXA, play such and such. We used to
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have to tune in and hold the transistor radio at sirn Angle so you could
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get some but we didn't care. We loved it. The first song with
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this out is the song that's definitely definitely up for Runners is mister Springsteen and
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born to run local music. That love is the key, Tisha Kent Okay.
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Now, a bit earlier on, we've talked about my visit to Eastbourne
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and bumping into Bobby c and he reminded me that the Pirate radios are sixty
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years old. Round about either today or tomorrow. Was the first broadcast prior
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to Pirate Radio. Some of the oldest amongst us well remember this Radio Luxembourg
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right now. Radio Luxembourg was a station that played pop music and there weren't
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many of them around in England. There were loads of them in America,
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but nothing in England. The equivalent to Radio One, well before Radio one
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is a program. It was called the Light Program and they just didn't play
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pop music at all. So Radio Luxembourg was something you could listen to.
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It used to go to bed with a transistor radio and tune into two eight
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and I listen to some great music. Very you'd lose the signal, fade
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in and fade out. But it really was a revelation in its day.
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I mean because of the music where it is, the industry and the technology.
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You have to start somewhere, and Radio Luxembourg was one of the pioneers
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of pop music in the day. I always committed a schoolboy era. I
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used to put my transistor radio or switch it off directly tuned into two eight
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meters on the medium wave band. I'll get up in the morning and switch
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it on without touching the dial and I couldn't get a signal. I didn't
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understand it for ages and ages. But it was only until someone told me,
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look they only broadcast in the evenings. They didn't broadcast during the day
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anyway. After the start of Luxembourg, the pop music changed, It absolutely
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changed, and the youngsters were getting a little bit fidgety and pirate radio was
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started and it was a music stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London where
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they started to broadcast on medium wave to the UK from offshore ships or disguised
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disused seafaws. They weren't illegal because at the time if they were three miles
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outside the coastline, they were in international waters, so that kept them safe
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from the powers that be. The stations were set up by people with a
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few businessmen, entrepreneurs, music enthusiasts and because the music that they played wasn't
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played on BBC. Radio Carolines was the first one really and that was broadcasting
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in nineteen sixty four off the Essex coast. But by nineteen sixty seven there
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were ten pirate radio stations and some of these names might be familiar because they
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cut their teeth on local pirate radio. John Peel, Tony Blackburn, Kenny
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Everett, Johnny Walker, Tony Prince, Emperor, Roscoe, Dave Cash and
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many many many more. Now a friend of mine. In later years he
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became a DJ on Radio Caroline, not so much in the pirate days,
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perhaps more when it was getting a bit more legal, when they had a
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license. But I said to maw, did you get a job on pirate
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radio? And his name? You might know the name is, it's a
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popular name around this part of the country, Johnny Lewis. I worked with
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Johnny Lewis on a certain radio station or two, and he told me that
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in the early days he was like a diesel engineer, a diesel fitter,
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and he saw this job on Radio Caroline, someone to look after the engines.
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So he thought, oh what great. He loved his music, so
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what a great way to get onto a pirate radio station. He got the
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job, and he'd been successfully keeping his eye open and looking at the DJs.
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Then one day a storm brewed up, and this storm lasted all week,
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and all the DJs were like throwing up over the side. They were
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ill. They just couldn't work, couldn't stand up, just retire it to
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their beds. But Johnny Lewis didn't suffer from sea sickness, and so they
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said, Johnny, you're the only one left. Could you do a show,
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so he said, I'll give it a go, lad, and he
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had a go and he was pretty good. And then he did a show
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the next day and the next day and he got a permanent job as a
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DJ on a radio Caroline. So what a great story that is. Okay,
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so tire enough chat this turn for a bit of music now, but
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this always this will make you juggle as well. Smash you nicey, right,
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great, two great characters, two great mickey take characters from that era,
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from the sort of Tony Blackburn and Kenny Everett type of style. And
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they always used to play this song when they had a letter come through.
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There's a great track, grade mate. Here we go black Man Turner oversdrive,
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black Man Turner Oversdrive, grade Mate. And you just got to remember
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those DJs did a lot of work for Chair. Really. Yeah, as
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soon as that song's played, smash a nicey pop into mind. Okay,
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So I was trying to think, I've looked it up. Now. The
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politicians brought out a Marine and Broadcasting Offensive Act in nineteen sixty seven, which
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was just they made it up and so that the pirate ray stations were a
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break in the law. So they had a choice some of them did jump
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ship because also in nineteen sixty seven the Light program went out the window and
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the BBC were restructured BBC Radio one, two, three, and four at
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the time, so Radio one. In the early days of Radio one,
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it was trying to be just like the Pirate radio stations, with people like
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Tony Blackburn headlining the shows. And it took a long long time, but
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it did work, and unfortunately the Pirates disappeared. But nowadays we've got music
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radio. It's just like for every genre, there's reggae stuff, there's country
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music, it's classic music. You are so spoilt for choice. Whereas back
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in the day, you know, it was a shame that it was made
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illegal to listen to the radio. Okay, So another song from that era
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was in This was a group that was really really popular in the sixties,
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and this was a Small Faces and Lazy Sunday well five point nine Academy.
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I wouldn't it be nice that one there from nineteen sixty eight, Small Faces
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and Lazy Sunday. But that takes you back mashing grumble, mashing grumble.
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But now last Sunday we were into Hastings. We did go and watch the
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half marathon, which I'll tell you about later. But when it was all
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over, we bumped in soon at my missus ferret and we bumped into a
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friend of ours called Gary. Now he took us for we was lovely Sunday
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was a lovely day, wasn't It was a beautiful day. So you couldn't
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help but you want to walk along the seafront And we went for a little
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walker up the Hastings Pier. Now it's a it's a new pier, right,
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and it's pretty, to be honest, it's pretty soulless, you know,
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not like the old fashioned pier, especially the one at Eastbourne. I
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love peers, love go. If we go to a seaside town and there's
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a pier, I've got to go up here. There. We were walking
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along the new pier and we started talking about the old days of the old
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piers and when the groups that are coming down from London back in the sixties
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were really making their name. And Gary was saying that he used to go
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to a lot of concerts. He loved his music, and he saw people
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at the end of the pier, people like the Beatles, Roy Orbison and
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the Who, and one particular story he told us about the Rolling Stones.
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He was pretty sure it was the Rolling Stones. But the Rolling Stones arrived
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late for their concert, and you can imagine being a peer, all the
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youngsters were there. The place was absolutely mobbed. So they thought, how
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are we going to get down to the end of the pier to do our
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show with that being rullered? Really, so the idea that they came up
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with the local ambulance team helped them out. They piled them all into an
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ambulance, which obviously the wind were all blacked out. They started ringing the
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old bell and the crowd opened up and they drove down to the end of
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the pier to where the show was and they got to the stage that way,
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so it'd be a quick thinking there. So that was that was the
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about ninety sixty four, I think, because I've been googling the old stuff
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and I found a ticket of that concert that night and it was in old
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money. It was six and six a ticket if you bought a ticket before
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the show, but it was seven and six on the door. Outrageous,
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wasn't it. And another thing they did that Gary told me, which I
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didn't realize, is said, sometimes some of the groups. They couldn't get
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out, you know, there's like a big COLDI sack. They're stuck.
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They're down there at the end of the pier. But a lot of the
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piers in those days used to have the pleasure boats that go up and down,
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didn't they. So what they used to do was put the famous groups
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into the little pleasure boat and take them up to a pier up the coast.
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Okay, So another song now is kind of it feels like it's that
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old era, but it's just modern as nineteen seventy two, and it's not
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the hoopo. I'm not the hoop of the nineteen seventy two all the young
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dudes. Great song, love the old Hello, love the old songs,
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don't we? Okay? So I just want to say hello now to three
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people that have just liked my picture on the Facebook as a picture of Smashie
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and ninety I put up. So hello to Mark Kadia, Peter Welsh and
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Jeane Stone. Thanks for liking the picture. Right, I suppose we've bed
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bit in a war now an what should we do some sport? Yeah?
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Okay. Now, tomorrow sees the fortieth anniversary of the Folks to ten organized
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by the folks And Running and Athletics Club, and the guest of honors starting
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the race is the nineteen eighty three London Marathon winner Mike Granton. Now Mike
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as a local lad and back in nineteen eighty four he won the very first
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Folkson ten. A year later he came back and retained his Folks In for
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ten title and set a course record of forty eight minutes forty five seconds for
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ten miles. So that's well four point eight minute miling almost, isn't it.
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That's pretty and fifty now that record still stands today. Now the race
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these days starts on the green ut Hive. It goes to focus on the
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back along the prom but it used to start at the Rotunda and then I
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went to hide them back. But sadly when the Rotunda was like being demolished
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and they changed it all down there and they had to get out of that
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headquarters which they used. But the course it's been that way ever since now,
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from Hive to Folkeston. And also back in the day, the race
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used to start depending on the tide times. Now this sounds a bit random,
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but if the tide was high in the morning then they put the race
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on in the afternoon and vice versa. But one year nineteen ninety exceptional high
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winds and tides and then those days the sea defenses weren't like they are now.
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When you see those great big monster trucks down there, you know,
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just trawling up and down down the beach there they're sorting out. But it
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does work. It does keep the sea at bay, and they built a
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wall along the side there, so the old Sandgate seafront used to get flooded.
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And you must remember the sea used to come across Lever just a melee
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of stones when it went back, and so one year they really really had
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a bad time. Now I was looking through the results actually, and I
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found that I did the run back in nineteen ninety one and my time was
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ninety minutes and forty three seconds. So don't worry, Mike, your record
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is safe. And so we got eight hundred runners coming along tomorrow. As
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I said, Mike Gratton is an ex London Marathon winner and he's got his
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own business now called two oh nine Events, and he's going to start the
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race. But I hope to have a little word with him quickly, just
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in front of all the runners have a little chat and then I really am
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hoping that I can get a little interview recorded and play on the show next
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week. So unfortunately Runners is sold out the race, so you'll have to
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get in quick for next year. In the meantime, time for a bit
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of music and Tom Pe and the Heartbreakers from nineteen eighty two to mar eng
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Gay Sexual Healing. Okay asked just time to tell you a little bit more
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about my mini break that to me and missus Ferrett had the last few days,
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so someday we went down to Hastings. We went and they're on purpose
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to watch the Hastings half Marathon. A lot of friends of ours were helping
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with the organization and a lot of friends were running running wise, I bumped
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into mel and Royd Powell and Neely and Steve Satchel. Now those four running
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the London Marathon for children with cancer. So meil I was running with a
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daughter Neely and Royd was running with Steve. So they all got around safely
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and it was good practice, good training because it's not too long now to
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the London and it was really really nice to see them. Now there was
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over I think there was at least three thousand, five hundred runners and that
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is an awesome site when to be fair, I'm used to dealing with perhaps
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up to one thousand, sometimes fifteen hundred, but this was like a big
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city marathon. It was a registration tensely huge, baggage drop was huge,
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lots of suppliers and supporters of various companies and sports kit and boughts, drinks
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and stuff like that. It was really really really interesting and can tell you
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what, it was a lovely day as well. So what I did,
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I took some PA equipment down there myself. I just stashed a little bit
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in the car and with a music stick, and I set up an unofficial
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cheer station about half a mile from the finish. We watched the starts and
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that was really good, and so we set up this unofficial cheerstation. Just
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a little bit of music, got the microphone out you runners as they came
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in, and there was loads and loads of people just playing a bit of
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music giving them a bit of encouragement. So it's nice to see mel Royd,
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Neelie and Steve and one of the lady that deserves a special mention Natasha
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Slow. Now Natasha, what a great name for a runner. First time
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I met Natasha was back in Cyprus or many years ago, and she said
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I've got a great running name. I said, what's that. She said,
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Natasha slow. Well she at this time around. To be fair,
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she was slow, but she was carrying what they call a bergen. It's
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an army backpack on her back which weighs fifteen kilograms and to you and me,
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that's thirty three pounds. But she did it. She was running for
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a charity. And I should have looked up with charity. I'm sorry,
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Natasha, but she did it, and she looked good at the end,
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and she did say that the music cheer up a little bit. So that
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was a really, really good day. So that was when we met up
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with Gary and went for a walk along the Hasting Seafront and he gave us
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a little history lesson about the old days of Hastings. And then when we
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went on to Eastbourne, and there I met up with two old school friends.
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And I mean old school friends in the sense of the word that we're
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all old now because I first met these two fellas sixty years ago. I
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met John and his wife Sue, and Patty and his wife Jean and we
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went out for a lovely meal and swats some stories back on the old days.
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Because our school was a tough Roman Catholic school with priests, and there
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was no health and safety. If you like, if you was doing the
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dym exercise and you weren't doing it properly, you've got a wat round ero.
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There was corporal punishment, but it didn't harm us, you know,
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we still come out of it all right. Right time at a bit of
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music. Now, we've been talking on about pirate era, of course,
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when the pirates packed up. Now, this is a question that always pops
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up on a quiz night, and I'll give you just a few seconds to
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answer it. What was the first song ever played on Radio one? Sorry?
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Your times up? What's up? One? Linings sleep with harm bankins
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and roses scattered up around? Turning the clock back to nineteen sixty seven.
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Scott McKenzie, San Francisco. I mean the flower power was a bit bigger
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in America than it was over here with the big festivals and that. But
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still a nice light summary song, isn't it? And the first record played
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on Radio one? Did you get it? Of course? The move flowers
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in the rain. Remember that for the next music round on the quiz night.
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Well it's time for a bit of sport. Well this morning, yes,
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this morning I had an update on last night's netball, so big thank
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you to Hannah there, Hannah Palmer. So I'm going to do it again.
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You get the hang of it. Now, I'll read out the scores
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and then I'll call out a girl's name because she was the player of the
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side. Right, So here we go. You soon get the hang of
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this. Panthers forty three, mes Jets thirty, nat Ice twenty three,
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Katie Scorpions twenty seven, Annie Woodpecker's fifty two, Karen Vipers seventeen, Amy,
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Rough Diamonds twenty one, Joe and Tigers twenty three Casey. So I
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mean I've got a little bit of stick because of Rough Diamond's got a bit
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of a hammer in last week. But speaking to Hannah, Hannah she said
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that the Rough Diamonds had a great game and they only lost by two points,
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which is nothing in netball, so perhaps it did him Auld be good.
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So we're done to you, are Rough Diamonds, and we're done to
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you Joe. Now the weekend on Saturday, there's a netball tournament up at
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the Three Hills. There's ten teams taking part, so there'd be loads of
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games and mini games. It starts at nine point thirty and we'll finish about
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three o'clock. Bit of a job to tell because of how the games go
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and the handover and that sort of thing. So a big thank you to
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Hannah Palmer there for keeping me up to date with everything at netball, and
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I expect Rachel Hayden will be up there as well. So we're going to
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play a bit of music. Start watching the clock now as we've got a
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countdown, but I think we'd do a bit of wheelchair basketball. Yeah.
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Now, Folkston Arrows traveled away too very near to Cambridge last Saturday, but
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the long journey was worthwhile as they beat Herolwind Heat by forty nine points to
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twenty seven, keeping them top of the league. So the last two games
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are against second place Cardiff met Archers, who unfortunately have two games in hand,
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so there's a bit of pressure then on the Arrows, that's for sure.
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The first of those two games is at home on the sixth of April,
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then their final game of the season is away in Cardiff on the thirteenth,
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So that really is once again setting it up for an exciting end to
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the season and news from the Saints. Folcusedon Saints basketball team here now this
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Saturday and Sunday sees Welsh and international side coming to Folkston. It's the national
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under fourteen teams and they take on the Saints under fourteens in a couple of
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friendlies, exhibition type games. So why not go down there to the Three
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Hills and have a look. Go to the Folks Folks and Scenes at Basketball
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facebook page for all the information. The matches start at eleven thirty and they
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do carry on over Saturday and Sunday. So if you want to get in
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touch with Mark Kinson and the team, perhaps you've got a lad or even
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a young young daughter that is interested in playing basketball, then please please are
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taken down there. And I think that's about it for a moment, so
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I'm just going to check my notes. In the meantime, we're going to
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play a bit of a paulse Armn You can call me out one oh five
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point nine Academy the Folks Done Hide Squads podcast. A man walks down street
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and he says, why am I safter in the middle. Now, why
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am I safter in the rest of my life is so hard? I need
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a four hut. I wanna shot a redemption. Don't wanna end up a
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cartoon in a cartoon graveyard, bone a bone, there dogs in the light
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long way, my will that do? Mister Beerom down up beer? Now
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I get these months away from me. You know I don't find this stuff
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of music anymore. If you be my bodyguard, I can be along a
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spell so I can call you betty, betty, when you call me,
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you can call me out side. A man walks down the street. He
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says, why am I short of attention? Got a short little span of
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attention? And wo on my nights so long? Where's my wife and family?
41:45
What if I die here? Who'll be my role model? Now that
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my role model is gone? Gone up back down the alley with some roll
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your pony, little back faced girl. All along long the incidents and accidents,
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there were inns and allegations. If you would be my bodyguard, I
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can be along lost ball. I can call you betty, Betty, when
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you call me, call me, call me yeah. Mayor walks down the
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street. It's a street in the strange world. Maybe it's the third,
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maybe it's just first time around. Doesn't speak. Glad holds no currents.
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He is a farm. He is surrounds about sound. Cattle in the market,
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please, scatterings. As he looks around and around his angels in the
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architect spinning, he says, Halla, what do's it from me? For
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another week? It was a bit of make it up as you go today,
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but you enjoyed it. It was a bit of a fun, wasn't
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it. A few random subjects there. So what we're going to do now
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is we're going to play out another classic track, which one was from nineteen
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seventy one, and don't forget I'll be on the mic at the Folks and
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ten down on the high Green there, so come along a sailor. In
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the meantime, we're going to finish the show with the Who and won't get
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forward again, No, no, no, no. We