(© Pam) |
I remember, back in the early 1970s, hearing Frank Ricotti at a pub in Cruddas Park which was, in those days, Newcastle's equivalent of Hell's Kitchen (I've since heard the area has been gentrified).
The music was excellent and, as a bonus, my car still had most of its wheels.
Today, this devotion to duty was again tested to the limit albeit in, theoretically, more promising surrounds. However, Beelzebub - who had provided the central heating in Cruddas Park - didn't inspire the man upstairs to do likewise in the pastures green of St James' & St Basil's church in Fenham.