On the subject of Scottish bands and music trivia, the pre-cursor to Big Country was a band called The Skids, which featured a man called Paul Wishart. Stuart Adamson went on to form Big Country with Paul's brother, Pete on keyboards, who later went on to play for a number of years with Runrig before becoming an SNP MP.
My first "festival" was a free festival, at a village called Wick, just outside Bristol. A kindly farmer laid on a few fields (much to his neighbours chagrin!) to all and sundry! The year was 1988. Two of Hawkwind's line-up were on the bill for the Friday...
There we were, waiting for stuff to happen, me and my four mates that were sat about 10 rows back from the stage (there wasn't enough people to worry about standing up yet), when someone decided to climb the wooden pole at the front of the canopy, which covered the stage. He got almost to the top of the pole before it collapsed...!
... We didn't actually see any of their gig, because they ended up playing on the following night and we'd all dropped an acid tab each by then...
This one's called Motorway City! (this being a motorsport site is quite funny! .. )
Good song...................it could also describe how Helio Castroneves probably feels after getting hit with a fine and probation following his outburst at Edmonton back in late July............
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