Very alive and looking very well earlier today. I would have loved to ask him for a quick photo but he was having lunch with friends and it wouldn’t have been right to disturb him. His records and a certain young lady got me through my early teenage years!
Likewise brother. My dad had an old casette tape (in 39!) of Mike live, and the sound quality, as I remember it, was flawless for the old caette tapes, and it had on some mike Harding songs which i havent heard before or since. Some sad ballads about northern milltowns, one of which I come from in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and some about, another song with lyrics "my mam told me when I played on the grids with the other kids, like we always did, I'd catch scarlet fever and I'd drop down dead, I'd be brown bread, that's what she said. And then one night she chased me, when I wa' coming home from't Cubs, Wearing nothing but a flap cap and a rain coat and a tube o' smarties." It was an incredible record of brilliant mike Harding songs and stories, and to my shame I lost it when I left it at a friends who didn't have the same appreciation of his comedy as I did and my dad, and the tape was lost to time. Gutted. It broke my dads heart to lose that tape.
YAAAAY bloody great! SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN HIS OWN SERIES.....NETFLIX.......AMAZON......COME ON Mike is the comedian so many young stand ups all copied years ago!
Gary Lloyd Mike is still alive and well. He recently toured again. He's broadcasting his own Folk Show online and can be found at www.mikeharding.co.uk
@@TheBarStewardSonsofValDoonican Also known as a resonator guitar. The circular grill beneath the strings is a metal "tin" which resonates at certain frequencies, giving it its unique sound.
This man is one of the comic geniuses of all time. Real talent and wit. two hours plus of side aching hilarity. He should never be forgotten.
And still going strong into his 70s
Very alive and looking very well earlier today. I would have loved to ask him for a quick photo but he was having lunch with friends and it wouldn’t have been right to disturb him. His records and a certain young lady got me through my early teenage years!
Very talented musician and comic... never got to see him in concert...I think he's retired now
im one of the rochdale cowboys lol
we dont wear spurs dont rite on us clogs lol
I've loved Mike Harding for 40 years❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have just found this, I really like Mike Harding.
loved this guy's material ever since my dad introduced me I'm only 23
Likewise brother.
My dad had an old casette tape (in 39!) of Mike live, and the sound quality, as I remember it, was flawless for the old caette tapes, and it had on some mike Harding songs which i havent heard before or since. Some sad ballads about northern milltowns, one of which I come from in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and some about, another song with lyrics "my mam told me when I played on the grids with the other kids, like we always did, I'd catch scarlet fever and I'd drop down dead, I'd be brown bread, that's what she said.
And then one night she chased me, when I wa' coming home from't Cubs,
Wearing nothing but a flap cap and a rain coat and a tube o' smarties."
It was an incredible record of brilliant mike Harding songs and stories, and to my shame I lost it when I left it at a friends who didn't have the same appreciation of his comedy as I did and my dad, and the tape was lost to time.
Gutted.
It broke my dads heart to lose that tape.
I love super drunk funniest story by any comedian. No-one can hold a candle to this bloke
cheers for uploading i have always been a fan and got to meet mike five years ago in Stamford great night great down to earth chap
Absolutlyfabulous
Bring these days back
YAAAAY bloody great! SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN HIS OWN SERIES.....NETFLIX.......AMAZON......COME ON Mike is the comedian so many young stand ups all copied years ago!
He mentions my hometown a good few times, so cool.
met mike some time ago true gentleman and brilliant at what he does xxxxxxx hes more like a mate when you meet him had a beer and nice chat to him
21 years after briefly singing Ding Dong The Witch is Dead, this reached #2 in the UK charts following her death.
Great stuff from a guy who loves life and tells it like it is. Maybe that's why he got shafted by his 'mates' at the BBC.
heart goes out to you bro
Whatever happened to Mike Harding, is he still alive, because he was one of my favourite comedians along with Russ Abbott.
Gary Lloyd Mike is still alive and well. He recently toured again. He's broadcasting his own Folk Show online and can be found at www.mikeharding.co.uk
He'll actually be 80 on the 23rd of October & still going strong !!, a real living legend & true comedy genius 😃💕🍺👍
What type of guitar is he playing at around 43.00 Minutes, as he seems to playing it with a plectrum and not normally like you would a normal guitar.
Gary Lloyd It's a dobro lapsteel guitar
@@TheBarStewardSonsofValDoonican Also known as a resonator guitar. The circular grill beneath the strings is a metal "tin" which resonates at certain frequencies, giving it its unique sound.
Brilliant so funny
I bought his cassettes
quality..what happened to comedy
Now I can see where Justin Moorhouse got his act from.
Still funny
Not a bad guitar player either