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Welcome!
I have
consolidated my various websites nurtured over the years
since posting three
pages of hyperlinked text
together in 1997, which constituted my cricket
club's very own website - WECC (West
End Cricket Club) - which amounted to "hello world", "who we are"
and the mighty "fixture list", all lovingly crafted using Netscape Composer. |
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Since
then I've planted more into their own little corner plots including
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
- simply because no-one else had done it!
I also had the pleasure of looking after The Pirates (Johnny Spence,
Mick Green and Frank Farley) for a while, for their then manager
Bernard Futter. Once Ray "Big Bloke" Gomm took the reigns,
he completely expanded it, including Johnny Spense's dalliances
with "Doctor's Orders". Many thanks for all his hard work,
which
I am proud to host here.
These were hosted on Geocities
before Yahoo pulled the plug on that, so I moved to where they
are now, safe for ever one hopes. (That's when I
started paying for enough space to lose the internet in and
never looked back.)
I
somehow found the time to add Shane Fenton and the Fentones -
one of those forgotten bands who pre-dated the British Beat
Boom, paving the way for the tide of bands that covered the
country in the m id 1960''s.
My
goodness - that venerable "Home on the Web" hosting service goes back a long, long way in terms of Web
history, before Yahoo was big enough to take it over. When I
started out they offered free website space totalling a grand 2Mb filespace - Wow! There were
times when I got dangerously close to filling it too, only 1mb
short. Crikey. Sometimes I nearly had enough time to
browse through it all before the tiddly copper cable fell over,
first at 33kbs, later 56kbs. We'd never had it so
good. That the WWW was growing co-coincided with cheaper
storage and servers, so when the website allowance magnified
over time to 25Mb, I was so grateful to Yahoo! I saturated the West End Cricket Club site with more pages, photos and even a few
small videos of the fun we had. A couple of seasons later
I was gasping for more.
So what's next? I might add some of my boring
photo collection, or add other ideas rambling through my
disorganised brain (ooh Matron, it hurts) as a bit of fun,
experimentation, or purely for the hell of it. It's my plot and if you don't like it I'll
take the ball home with me. Anyway, in the meantime, click
on one of the links to view one of the copious sites I rescued
from oblivion which current versions now reside here. Drop
me a line if you're really that bored, that is...!
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Remember
"Shakin' All Over"? This original Brit
Rocker did a hell of a lot more than just that
classic number one; his soulful voice was
ahead of its time, wrote his own songs when
unfashionable to do so, helped crystallise the
"Power Trio" format, influenced the Who among
many other groups with his powerful line-ups
of backing combo the Pirates. Add to all
that Mick Green's style influencing a
generation with his economical but powerful
guitar playing. Sadly, Kidd never really
capitalised from it all but is now recognised
as a great in Rock. And there's more
where that came from! |
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Or
how to make village cricket quite interesting
with laughs along the way! This site
stagnated after the club drifted apart,
however all that was ever uploaded remains and
has been subject to slight re-jigging here and
there. |
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Read
about the origins of Shane Fenton. Of
course you know him - this was the original
stage name for the star we currently know as
Alvin Stardust! He and his group the
Fentones produced a series of minor classics
of early 1960's Brit-Pop. |
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