Rusty played the folk clubs and pubs on either
side of the Mersey, acting as a musical
interlude at poetry evenings organized by
Harold and Sylvia Hikins or provided
background music to nervous conversation at a
lonely hearts gathering held in the RAF Club on
Bold Street.
We were paid exactly nothing for playing "Mary
Help Of Christians" -a Catholic girls school,
known locally as "Mary Feed The Pigeons" -and
-and opened up for the Natural Acoustic Band at
John Lennon's old school, Quarry Bank High
and then for the Irish duo, Tir Na Nog, in the
little recital room at St. George's Hall, where
Charles Dickens had once given a public
reading. That show was on the eve of my rainy
departure for the Bickershaw Festival at which I
contracted something close to trench foot while
watching the Grateful Dead in a sodden field.
Listen to Rusty here.
