They were the only pop musicians I knew, I worked in the music shop they regularly visited and did the occasional little performance for us there. Lovely bunch.
Ah yes, all those dreams of a riverside oasis of flowers and beauty. This was the mid 1980s ... promoting the International Garden Festival in Liverpool. Sadly the dream didn't last. Nice to see and hear The Spinners again though.
I remember Mr Heseltine promising that the Garden festival would bring us untold wealth, employing local people and using local suppliers......And we fell for all that bullshit hook line and sinker! I was one of the few locals working on that folly installing water mains and by the time we finished we all had pronounced Irish accents! Brown envelopes ruled the day then and still do now!
Nothing is perfect but Hezeltine had a go. They took an un-used area of derelict land and put it back into circulation (Garden Festival) and the Albert Dock was similar and that has been quite successful as all the under-used dock system is slowly being re-purposed. It won't be perfect (things this complex seldom are) but unless you can show Tarzan as corrupt, etc, I think he's done OK. (I'm born & bred Labour who hated Thatcher and her ilk and all they stood for but the current Tory politicians make Thatchers cabinet seem positively statesman-like) I worked at both, a housing estate just south of the festival perimeter and on the Pier-masters house at the AD. These projects always over-promise on employment than they provide.
I can remember going on a primary school trip there. Coming from a quiet village in Cumbria and travelling through burnt out areas of Toxteth was quite an eye opener for us youngsters.
Scouse sailors taught me this at sea in '72. They were a rum lot. Without them we wouldn't need fingerprinting and locking wheel nuts. Love from down the East Lancs.
I wunder if there is a slightly dirty version of this song. or a funny version of this song somewhere.? I love the track ofcorse. the Spinners r really good. But I will rank the Human League and The Jam. above the Spinners. But I love the Spinners 2.From Paul Eyles from Portsmouth
Loving looking and listening to my all time favourite group, The Spinners! I am over fifty and loved them as a kid and have missed them.
They were the only pop musicians I knew, I worked in the music shop they regularly visited and did the occasional little performance for us there. Lovely bunch.
Dear, wonderful Spinners. Where have all the years gone?
I think the same at 71 it seems no time since I was bombing round in hot mini with a sexy girl in the passenger seat way back in the 1960s
Ah yes, all those dreams of a riverside oasis of flowers and beauty. This was the mid 1980s ... promoting the International Garden Festival in Liverpool. Sadly the dream didn't last. Nice to see and hear The Spinners again though.
I remember Mr Heseltine promising that the Garden festival would bring us untold wealth, employing local people and using local suppliers......And we fell for all that bullshit hook line and sinker!
I was one of the few locals working on that folly installing water mains and by the time we finished we all had pronounced Irish accents!
Brown envelopes ruled the day then and still do now!
Nothing is perfect but Hezeltine had a go. They took an un-used area of derelict land and put it back into circulation (Garden Festival) and the Albert Dock was similar and that has been quite successful as all the under-used dock system is slowly being re-purposed.
It won't be perfect (things this complex seldom are) but unless you can show Tarzan as corrupt, etc, I think he's done OK. (I'm born & bred Labour who hated Thatcher and her ilk and all they stood for but the current Tory politicians make Thatchers cabinet seem positively statesman-like)
I worked at both, a housing estate just south of the festival perimeter and on the Pier-masters house at the AD. These projects always over-promise on employment than they provide.
I can remember going on a primary school trip there.
Coming from a quiet village in Cumbria and travelling through burnt out areas of Toxteth was quite an eye opener for us youngsters.
Scouse sailors taught me this at sea in '72. They were a rum lot. Without them we wouldn't need fingerprinting and locking wheel nuts. Love from down the East Lancs.
Happy days.....really happy days.
Thanks for sharing. Haven't heard them in a long, long time.
They've been with Jenny! 🙂
One of the best bands ever to come out of liverpool will never be forgotten
what world are you from
@@bobmiller7502 a much happier and care free time so glad am that older I can remember all this lol Bobby
Excellent!! Please keep them coming - There is a major lack of video /TV footage of The Sinners! Cheers!
+Chris Stainton "The Sinners" ? :D
Nice
Hey, its, "in ME Liverpool home"
Well done mate, where do you get them from. Brings back lots of memorys.
I wunder if there is a slightly dirty version of this song. or a funny version of this song somewhere.? I love the track ofcorse. the Spinners r really good. But I will rank the Human League and The Jam. above the Spinners. But I love the Spinners 2.From Paul Eyles from Portsmouth
Paul Eyles Russ Abbot done a parody of The Spinners.
I think several other football club's supporters had "alternative" versions !
@@christopherdrennan3511 True.
When did Trevor MacDonald join the Spinners?
I didn't know Alan Carr was in this band!