Folk For Christabel
Keith Brincorn remembers..
Saturday 24th October 1970. Leyton Senior High School
for Boys
Bar a few A Level resits, school was out for the
Christabel collective. Your humble scribe had already
begun a university career. However, three years of
putting on school folk evenings was a hard habit to
break. Moreover, Keith Christmas was always a good box
office bet at this time, giving Folk for Christabel a
record profit of £20 and its first financial success
in about six months, particularly welcome following a
first foray into folk club running (at the Pied Bull
in Islington) which had been swiftly abandoned with
burnt fingers!
Keith's performance proved predictable but popular,
trotting out all the old favourites ( Robin Head, It
doesn't Pay to be Hip, Roundabout, Cats Squirrel,
Trial and Judgment), plus newer numbers The Fawn,
Fable of the Wings, and blues standard Oh Pretty
Woman.
Support acts were Oliver Pardigal (new stage name for
Cliff, Kev, John and Annick) and Colin & Terry. The
whole evening came across as being rather jaded and
routine. It felt like it was time to move on...