are all part of my latest blog and the story of Sarm West Studios.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/the-studios-of-london-sarm-west/
A boy from Hetton-le-Hole, Band Aid, Buggles and a tragic accident
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Trevor Horn assembled most of the ZTT team prior to Buggles…
https://www.discogs.com/master/277296-Chromium-Star-To-Star
Wonderful, as ever. I didn’t know he was from Hetton.
HOWAAAYYYYYYRELAXDIVVENTDOITYABOOGAMAN!
….no wonder FGTH were so keen on everyone wearing t-shirts. Wor Trevvah probably thought it was appropriate winter clothing.
Why-aye, well-hoard.
Aye but those t-sharts were too baggy in the sleeves, like
Neewhere to keep ya tabs though but.
Keep them in ya leather jockstrap bonny lad!
But that’s where ah keep me pease pudden stottie, man.
Posted by The Korgis yesterday.
Trevor produced our 1982 hit ‘Don’t Look Back’. When we say hit we do mean hit, it was a huge hit for us in Brazil where it was used in a Brazilian soap opera ‘Sol de Verão’.
Brilliant!
I don’t know what “a progress chaser in a plastic bag factory” is, but it sounds pretty dull, even by my standards.
Get on and publish the book, Niall, for gawd’s sake!
Great stuff yet again, Niall.
As one who grew up in an adjoining pit village, I feel it’s incumbent on me to point out that locals pronounce the ‘le’ in Hetton-Le-Hole (and also in nearby Chester-Le-Street and Houghton-Le-Spring) as ‘Lee’ rather than the French masculine article you’d expect.
Hetton-Le-Hole alumni include Horn, Liverpool legend Bob Paisley, Spurs’ combover hotshot Ralph Coates, and Newcastle’s combover hotshot legend Bryan ‘Pop’ Robson.
I used to live in Holton-le-Clay in Lincolnshire. There was no consistent pattern about people saying “Holton luh Clay” or “Holtonly Clay”, but my wife’s sister used to live in Chester-le-Street and as you say it is definitely Chesterly.
Hm, chesterly. I think I’ve just coined a rather interesting adjective.
Oh lord, Chester-le-Street. Terrible nightclub there, Togo’s, which was shut down when someone was kicked to death.
There’s a huge housing estate, Newton Hall, between Durham and CLS, and it gave rise to the only plaintive, meaningful song The Toy Dolls ever did.
I’ll see your Newton and raise you a Darras Hall
Home to the North East’s footballers of note and Titans of local industry. All showing off with their inside toilets and mugs of Sherry while the residents of the adjoining village and my place of birth can only look in the window of Waitrose and dream.
Peter Beardsley and Ant’s mam shop there. Eeeee!
Worst Hall in the NE? Sir John Hall.