Chas and Dave split !

[dipsydoodle]

and that is of considerably more importance that most of the other crap we seem to get as "news" these days. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQBSUjlMk1s&feature=related

[non sociopath skin]

1. And here's me thinking they already had!

I guess I'm just not giving ageing southern music-hall turns the attention they deserve these days ...

:evilgrin:

The Skin

[dipsydoodle]

2. They still sell out

at any venues which book them. Good dance music too......lol.

[fedsron2us]

3. Did a lot of session work in the 1970s

If you have any albums from that era then you might be listening to them without knowing it.

Apparently they played on Labi Siffre 'I Got The' on sampled by no less than Eminem on 'My Name Is'

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/hip-hop-trivia-fact

Chas Hodges was also part of Head Hands and Feet along with one Mr Albert Lee who is probably one of the best country guitarists of all time (even if the country happens to be Herefordshire England) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2XTXf4opM as well as the greatest British guitarist no one in the UK knows about (check out his playing on the Chris Farlowe/Little Joe Cook cover of Stormy Monday Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ56INueoac)

Hodges even worked with Joe Meek for fuck sakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Hodges

[fedsron2us]

4. Also played with Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers

who were a serious soul outfit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMRIEGgQA5w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GViapgwDYo

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cliff+bennett&search_type=&aq=f

If this is Southern Music Hall I am all for it.

[dipsydoodle]

5. They used to play

weekly at the Memorial Hall in Harrow Weald back in 1962 and a few years later we had Chris Farlow some weeks at the Fender Club / Kenton Cons Club on Friday nights. Memories of another day.....lol.