Albums To Be Rescued From The Dustbin of History

Nos 1 and 2 - Nicely Out Of Tune and Fog on the Tyne, both by Lindisfarne. Tonight, while I was having my curry I watched 'Folk on 4' on BBC4, which featured a lot of great stuff (Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham etc) and including Lindisfarne doing the title track of 'Fog On The Tyne'. Of course, that song has been tainted, probably irretrievably, by its association with Gazza and a whole load of other fat Geordie wasters, a-belching and a-farting their drunken way through a smash hit version which nauseated decent people for months. Nevertheless, the original Tynesiders who sang this song were actually a very good folk/rock gathering of hippies and dippies (drug of choice - Newcastle Brown), and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing them doing it one more time tonight. My mind drifted back to those hazy schooldays of about 1970/71 when Lindisfarne were briefly hip. This is a call for them to be restored to that position, and for these records to be recognised as the God-like works of genius which they really were. Mind you, it hash to be shaid that ash I write thish, I have had a little too much to drink, and it may all appear shlightly different in the morning.