Len 'Mr. Suzi Quatro' Tuckey, Bill 'him out of T.Rex' Legend, and a bass player, possibly from The Mindbenders. Regularly spotted in the pubs and clubs of East Anglia until quite recently under the name 'Legend', usually playing a lengthy version of All Right Now.
And them two out of Scarlet Party (101 Damnations - it was on the tip of your tongue, right?) will be at the Rose & Crown on Bramford Road in Ipswich this weekend in their guise as "Words and Music by Lennon and McCartney". You'll never guess what they do...

of I'm Gonna Stop Drinking Again hitmakers Paice, Ashton and Lord play a lunchtime gig at The Enterprise pub in London's swinging Chalk Farm. I have never seen so many beards and distended bellies in one room. Good gig actually...

And a couple of years ago I saw Robert Plant sing a few old chestnuts in a barn as part of Bob Harris' 60th birthday bash. He was accompanied by Bernie Marsden on guitar. Afterwards he told us about a ring he was wearing that he'd bought in Morocco; apparently it possessed magical qualities that made the wearer irresistible to women. And judging from the disorderly queue of young lovelies waiting to greet the leonine one, it certainly seemed to be working. Although 'being Robert Plant' may have had something to do with it as well...

But not far off -- almost legendary and definitely unusual "circs"... Wreckless Eric in a garden centre - just last week?

http://www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/

Haven't been as it's some way off my cabbage patch, but looks rather nice and - certainly - any relief from the stale beer & body odour whiff of today's pub venues is welcome. Not a keen horticulturalist, m'self, but I just *love* the smell of those places.

Two original members - John Steel and Hilton Valentine - plus Dave Rowberry who played keyboards on some of the band's sixties hits. They were great, especially Valentine, although the band seemed to be rolling their eyes at their singer, who had been in a Doors tribute act and hadn't quite cancelled his subscription to Morrison impersonation.

or Doc Cox as he prefers to be known, used to play at my sister-in-law's local a lot. He drew quite a crowd for his 'comedy' songs.

pitched up for a one-off appearance at our local (Milton Keynes)courtroom recently.

I am seeing Paul Heaton soon in a small pub in his Pedals and Pumps tour. Last time I saw him - Wembley Arena.

...out of the NOTBH (Number of the Beast Hitmakers) used to pop up in my friend Rachel's local in Chiswick with some regularity. Never when I was there, though, and I'm not at all sure they ever did an unplugged "reinterpretation" of Fear Of The Dark. Shame.

The singer from The Honeycombs is playing The Black Swan in Donington, Lincs next month. A better headline would have been "Honeycombs singer to play Donington" I suppose. Actually, having just checked Wikipedia to confirm his name I'm beginning to suspect that he's actually just a bloke who knew The Honeycombs and is banking on no-one knowing the difference and hoping to get away with his set of "50's-60's-70's classics".

But the best was at Bellshill Community Centre. He can be a touch quiet in the big venues (and bear in mind I saw him playing alongside Davy Graham at an Edinburgh fringe event a few years ago) but he was actually chatty and funny in Bellshill.

I saw two members of Shawaddy Waddy and a drum machine playing the Royal Oak in Loughborough, Leics.

With mullets that Knightrider would have been proud of and at the height of Britpop, they were surrounded by a baying crowd of Oasis fans warming up for Friday night antics.

They went down like a knackered lift.