Sandy Shaw, stussyboy, OakeyDokey, potentially others too? Petheads certainly know how to have a good time and help make sure everyone else does too! What an absolutely brilliant group of people. It was a pleasure to meet new PSB fans and In Depth listeners and put some faces to names and avatars. We literally had 18 year olds and a 69 year old, guests from Sweden and Ireland - and of course Andy the organiser was over from Australia.
Appreciate the timing wasn’t great for everyone given summer holidays and also the Dreamworld schedule which came out after the venue was booked - don’t they usually take August off?
There was dancing until 2am on the Saturday, making it a full seven-hour session for many. 18 year old Min was thrilled to win the signed Nonetheless vinyl in our PSB raffle.
The walk was a big hit - 27,000 steps across five-and-a-half hours as we visited 30 locations from PSB lyrics and history. Spirits stayed high throughout!
We even took the opportunity to do something long overdue: erect a blue heritage plaque at 203 King’s Road, where Neil and Chris first met back in 1981!
Thanks to everyone that came along and helped make it such good fun.
I took some samples from the old 1988 BBC 2 documentary That Was Then, This Is Now.