I remember this episode. I was DJ-ing for my works that night and asked my Mum to tape it (that is, microphone and cassette - not video because we were poor back then!). When I got in, OGWT was still on and I asked her "have they been on?" She said "I don't think so"(brilliant line Mum!). "Who's this" I asked? She said "I think it's "Ham"" It was actually Meatloaf! How we laughed! RS came on straight after and I still have the recording somewhere, bloody useless recording though!
But if there was a gantry, then he certainly would have jumped out of it. I won't even mention what he might have done in the pantry, if there were to have been one.
@@RadiantFutureRecords A-Ha, we may be onto something here that might explain the band's unusually high turnover of drummers In your initial incarnation. Come clean Mr. Gordon, how many of them spontaneously combusted, died in bizarre gardening accidents or choked on (Somebody else's) vomit? 😂😂😂
Well, I can assure your that almost no drummers were fatally injured during the band's brief existence (within the predictable margin of error, of course).
What a great band.Seen them support Eddie and the Hot Rods in Glasgow 1977 and they blew me away.Found out The Hot Rods were playing again in 1978 , i wasn't too bothered about it but when i found out Radio Stars were supporting again i got my ticket the next day.
Hugo Portion and his pals in the Radiant Future Ha! Ha! and all for £1.75. In fact they "blew me away" that much i forked out £2.50 to experience it again.Yep, i've still got my tickets. To be serious, ive been to hundreds of concerts in my life and it is the only time i've went to a gig to see the support act.
Hugo Portion and his pals in the Radiant Future Ive been on your site before and also looked at Radio Stars clips countless times over the years.One missed gig that i regret comes from 1975, i'm a big Ian Hunter fan and couldn't make the Hunter/Ronson gig that year. I believe the support act weren't bad there either.
I seem to recall the opening night in Brighton was cancelled, which peed me off my 21 year-old self. I was a twat and went off and got pissed up and shouted at people who smiled, some of them known to me and some of them not, amused at the dickheadishness. When I see mild mannered Cops on TV now taking 20 minutes to lead up to a handcuffing, all the while going, "Listen t'me Fella" - I think, "What is that idiot complaining about? Unexpected increase in his gym membership? Netflix asking for backdated £500 annual fee? Felix Dennis not letting on where his secret Crack Stash is? At least his Radio Stars gig wasn't cancelled!"
The radio stars were brilliant. Martin Gordon wrote such great songs and the band played them great live. And Andy was just a force unto Himself. The best track for me was 'From a rabbit', written about the guys from Squeeze.
Great stuff and a superb live band. I saw them on the Be Stiff Route 78 tour with Wreckless Eric, Lena Lovich, Jona Lewie, Rachel Sweet and the Records.
Thanks, but are you sure? Radio Stars were many things, but they were never Stiff. Do you have a date? Take a look here: martingordon.de/radio-stars-gig-list/
@@RadiantFutureRecords It turns out I’m half right. It wasn’t with the Stiffs but I think the date from your gig list was 31 March 1978, which is listed as Cork Arcadia, the night after Belfast. The venue was actually Portrush, Co Derry in the north. It was originally the Arcadia Ballroom but at that time was called Chester’s New Arcadia. I was a student at the catering college and worked there part time. It’s all a long time ago, but I remember Andy getting quite airborne. I may be confusing things again, but I believe he was waving a lighted fluorescent light around like a light sabre. We may have met but I don’t think so. I did various things there - humping gear in and out, minding the Green room, cooking & so forth. You were probably introduced by DJ Aluminium, Alan Simpson. Most bookings were through Paul Charles. At that time very few bands came because of the 'troubles', but Paul persuaded some because he was a local, from Magherafelt, and promised they’d be safe. One of the bosses, Brian Robinson, was at school with David McWilliams (Days of Pearly Spencer) and he would occasionally drop by. Chester’s became for a brief period an oasis where everyone came for the music and there was never any trouble. The biggest event by far was the Stiff Tour which had an entourage of 52 travelling in a coach. In England they travelled by train but that wasn’t possible to get to Portrush. We also had the Stranglers, the Undertones (our local band), XTC, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, John Otway, Marianne Faithful, the Darts, the Lurkers, the Damned (who were billed as the Doomed for some reason) and Racing Cars. I confused the Radio Stars with the Records - they both begin with R after all ;-) They were Rachel Sweet's backing band on the Stiff Tour and did a set of their own.
@@aloysiussnailchaser272 Thanks for the copious info, which I will add to the copious gig-list. In fact Paul C didn't so much persuade us as book a gig and tell us that we were going. It all worked out fine. We had never had a hotel surrounded by barbed wire before, so that was a novelty. And there was indeed a light sabre. Don't tell anyone but it wasn't really a light sabre, more of a regular old neon strip light - it seemed to do the job, however.
They played at Birmingham Uni around that time - as headline band. I remember we panicked because there was a trap-door in the middle of our old stage - and Andy had a reputation as a dynamic front man with a habit of climbing the lighting rig and dropping on to the stage. The back stage boys jammed it up with scaffolding and no harm came to him. Great gig though!
@ Richard Shipman Funnily enough, I think I remember this. We had spotted the trap door, and has made plans to emerge dramatically through it. Imagine our irritation when we were unable to carry them out......
There was also another infamous local bastard a few years later in the Yorkshire area. Does anybody else here remember a certain Arthur Hutchinson in the early 80s and his Sheffield related shenanigans?
I remember this episode. I was DJ-ing for my works that night and asked my Mum to tape it (that is, microphone and cassette - not video because we were poor back then!). When I got in, OGWT was still on and I asked her "have they been on?" She said "I don't think so"(brilliant line Mum!). "Who's this" I asked? She said "I think it's "Ham"" It was actually Meatloaf! How we laughed! RS came on straight after and I still have the recording somewhere, bloody useless recording though!
This must be one of the few times Andy Ellison didn't jump out the lighting gantry. Great to see this again. Top band...
But if there was a gantry, then he certainly would have jumped out of it. I won't even mention what he might have done in the pantry, if there were to have been one.
@@RadiantFutureRecords Eating all the Macaroni n mice I guess..
Snorting all the boiled eggs and lice.
I was at the Brighton gig mentioned in the intro as support to Eddie & The Hot Rods - can't really remember much about it though
Great story! Anything else that you can't really remember, while you're here?
@@RadiantFutureRecords I have the ticket as evidence but suspect there was some alcohol involved hence the very limited memory! 😂
Actually you'll probably find it here: martingordon.de/radio-stars-gig-list/.
4:43 The guitarist going all Nigel Tufnell for a second there 😂😂😂
For a second? You're having a larf, right?
@@RadiantFutureRecords A-Ha, we may be onto something here that might explain the band's unusually high turnover of drummers In your initial incarnation.
Come clean Mr. Gordon, how many of them spontaneously combusted, died in bizarre gardening accidents or choked on (Somebody else's) vomit? 😂😂😂
Well, I can assure your that almost no drummers were fatally injured during the band's brief existence (within the predictable margin of error, of course).
What a great band.Seen them support Eddie and the Hot Rods in Glasgow 1977 and they blew me away.Found out The Hot Rods were playing again in 1978 , i wasn't too bothered about it but when i found out Radio Stars were supporting again i got my ticket the next day.
They blew you away, did they? And was that all part of the ticket price?
Hugo Portion and his pals in the Radiant Future Ha! Ha! and all for £1.75. In fact they "blew me away" that much i forked out £2.50 to experience it again.Yep, i've still got my tickets. To be serious, ive been to hundreds of concerts in my life and it is the only time i've went to a gig to see the support act.
scottyek
Nice one. We tried to please, back in those days.
Hugo Portion and his pals in the Radiant Future And you might like this, in that case: www.martingordon.de/Radio_stars_main.html
Hugo Portion and his pals in the Radiant Future Ive been on your site before and also looked at Radio Stars clips countless times over the years.One missed gig that i regret comes from 1975, i'm a big Ian Hunter fan and couldn't make the Hunter/Ronson gig that year. I believe the support act weren't bad there either.
I saw the Radio Stars on the tour Bob talks about, it also had Squeeze and Eddie and the Hot Rods
I seem to recall the opening night in Brighton was cancelled, which peed me off my 21 year-old self. I was a twat and went off and got pissed up and shouted at people who smiled, some of them known to me and some of them not, amused at the dickheadishness. When I see mild mannered Cops on TV now taking 20 minutes to lead up to a handcuffing, all the while going, "Listen t'me Fella" - I think, "What is that idiot complaining about? Unexpected increase in his gym membership? Netflix asking for backdated £500 annual fee? Felix Dennis not letting on where his secret Crack Stash is? At least his Radio Stars gig wasn't cancelled!"
andy was brilliant at Rebellion fest with an acoustic set 2024
Radio Stars were always predominantly acoustic, of course. Did Ramblin' SId Rumpo turn up and stick his finger anywhere?
The radio stars were brilliant. Martin Gordon wrote such great songs and the band played them great live. And Andy was just a force unto Himself. The best track for me was 'From a rabbit', written about the guys from Squeeze.
Martin Gordon - dat bass tone.
Gotta have tone, let's face it...
@@RadiantFutureRecords shame no one told the Maels lol
Oooh, controversial. You will be cast out from the faithful masses for that!
Great stuff and a superb live band. I saw them on the Be Stiff Route 78 tour with Wreckless Eric, Lena Lovich, Jona Lewie, Rachel Sweet and the Records.
Thanks, but are you sure? Radio Stars were many things, but they were never Stiff. Do you have a date? Take a look here: martingordon.de/radio-stars-gig-list/
@@RadiantFutureRecords It turns out I’m half right. It wasn’t with the Stiffs but I think the date from your gig list was 31 March 1978, which is listed as Cork Arcadia, the night after Belfast. The venue was actually Portrush, Co Derry in the north. It was originally the Arcadia Ballroom but at that time was called Chester’s New Arcadia. I was a student at the catering college and worked there part time. It’s all a long time ago, but I remember Andy getting quite airborne. I may be confusing things again, but I believe he was waving a lighted fluorescent light around like a light sabre. We may have met but I don’t think so. I did various things there - humping gear in and out, minding the Green room, cooking & so forth. You were probably introduced by DJ Aluminium, Alan Simpson. Most bookings were through Paul Charles. At that time very few bands came because of the 'troubles', but Paul persuaded some because he was a local, from Magherafelt, and promised they’d be safe. One of the bosses, Brian Robinson, was at school with David McWilliams (Days of Pearly Spencer) and he would occasionally drop by.
Chester’s became for a brief period an oasis where everyone came for the music and there was never any trouble. The biggest event by far was the Stiff Tour which had an entourage of 52 travelling in a coach. In England they travelled by train but that wasn’t possible to get to Portrush. We also had the Stranglers, the Undertones (our local band), XTC, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, John Otway, Marianne Faithful, the Darts, the Lurkers, the Damned (who were billed as the Doomed for some reason) and Racing Cars.
I confused the Radio Stars with the Records - they both begin with R after all ;-) They were Rachel Sweet's backing band on the Stiff Tour and did a set of their own.
@@aloysiussnailchaser272 Thanks for the copious info, which I will add to the copious gig-list. In fact Paul C didn't so much persuade us as book a gig and tell us that we were going. It all worked out fine. We had never had a hotel surrounded by barbed wire before, so that was a novelty. And there was indeed a light sabre. Don't tell anyone but it wasn't really a light sabre, more of a regular old neon strip light - it seemed to do the job, however.
Now added to the gig list - thanks for the background info!
Great stuff!
Looking forward to getting blown away again on the 17th March 2017.......
I hope you will be, with some added oriental flavouring.
and now it's not happening, sad news.
Excellent live presence.
Where are they, then?
How would I know!
I assumed you knew where the presents were, my mistake.
I have discovered 'Barbecutie' lately. It is really good in a decadent fashion!
Then you might be amused by this: th-cam.com/video/5omWlWySVKE/w-d-xo.html
They played at Birmingham Uni around that time - as headline band. I remember we panicked because there was a trap-door in the middle of our old stage - and Andy had a reputation as a dynamic front man with a habit of climbing the lighting rig and dropping on to the stage. The back stage boys jammed it up with scaffolding and no harm came to him. Great gig though!
@ Richard Shipman
Funnily enough, I think I remember this. We had spotted the trap door, and has made plans to emerge dramatically through it. Imagine our irritation when we were unable to carry them out......
Hugo Portion and his pals in the Radiant Future Gutted mate!
@Allan Russell
Beard or no beard, ole Bob knew what he was talking about.
@ Larz
Thanks, Larz baby!
@ccfcramone
Quite right, you DO remember this.
The "Beast of Barnsley" is presumably the Yorkshire Ripper. All the salient detail.
Nah, Reg Chapman, innit: martingordon.de/the-beast-of-barnsley/
Obviously, and anyway it wouldn't scan.
No the beast of barnsley was a different bastard from the 1970's.
There was also another infamous local bastard a few years later in the Yorkshire area.
Does anybody else here remember a certain Arthur Hutchinson in the early 80s and his Sheffield related shenanigans?
No, but he sounds promising...
@ John Ashdown
See, your Mum was being cross-textual and self-referential before we even know what it was. As for 'Ham ' - she was right again, IMHO.
beast of barnsley is obv about the yorkshire ripper
The Beast of Barnsley is obv about the Beast of Barnsley: martingordon.de/radio-stars/the-beast-of-barnsley/
this rips!
Hope you get a new gusset!
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