by Tim Dalling | Dec 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Joe, more than most people, didn’t take long to fathom out because he was so clear himself aboutwho he was. He hated waste and was sensibly frugal. He once worked out that the cheapest key to play in for fiddlers is E, because your fingers hit the less frequently used...
by Tim Dalling | Dec 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
I thought I’d met Joe for the first time at Newcastle University in 1977 but it turned out that we’dplayed football against each other a few years before for our respective teams; Leek High school vs Leek College of FE. We had a lot of things in common – Leek...
by Tim Dalling | Dec 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The image below is from, We Don’t Want the Peanuts We Want the Plantation, Dance Band’s first cassette and booklet. The picture on the front was taken on 19th July 1982 (Joe had just turned 22) in Eldon Square Newcastle, at a rally in support of the...
by Tim Dalling | Dec 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
There have been a few tunes penned in tribute to Joe here’s two by Tom Oakes in a set done by the Auvo Quartet. And dots for second tune ‘The Topiarist’
by Tim Dalling | Dec 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Ieuan Einion, who was in Red Music with Joe, who sent this link to Joe singing and fiddling with The Country Pickets on the LP Which Side Are You On, Music for the Miners of the North...
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