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Are we a Stackridge fan?

Sort of! I saw them years ago and bought the LP. I haven't thought of them in some while and you brought back happy memories! How about you?

I saw them once... or maybe twice - I can't recall exactly (but then I completely forgot that I'd seen Thin Lizzy at the Reading Festival in '74, and The Skids in Manchester in 78/79). I know for sure I saw them at the Roundhouse in Camden, probably around 1974/75. I had a friend at school who owned 'Friendliness', which I went out and bought. Then I bought their next LPs all the way up to and including Mr Mick, and then their 'Best of', which I think was called 'Do the Stanley' I still have it - I still have all of them.

I've got one Stackridge CD - Radio 1 In Concert. "Recorded 21st July 1972, 15th February 1973 and 7th January 1975 at the Paris Theatre", it says here. The friend who turned me on to the band went to the New Year's Eve Stackridge/Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra show at the Dagenham Roundhouse http://www.stackridge.com/story_three.htm , but that was before I knew about them

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I would have been singing 'Do the Stanley' all evening, had it not been for thef act that it was my son's school play and they were doing 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat', which competed well with it. 'Do the Stanley' is one of those tunes that once I have it on my mind, it's hard to think of anything else. I'm told the German for that type of thing is an 'Ohrworm' = ear-worm. Neat phrase, don't you think!

I remember them doing things like 'Purple Spaceships over Yatton;. Not looked at the LP in years. Might go looking for it ... but not this weekend; I've other plans.

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Purple Spaceships Over Yatton is on their first album isn't it? That's the only one I never bought - it always seemed to be out of stock or out of print But some of it (including PSOY) ended up on Do The Stanley And a live version of Let There Be Lids

Oh, you've heard of an earworm! I'd only ever heard it in German - and even then not until recently (I did part of my degree in German many years ago) - via someone telling little .

The LP I have is 'Do the Stanley' http://www.softshoe-slim.com/lists/s/stackridge.html

I'm in the middle of applying for a job at the moment, so I don't want to get sidetracked, however I'll go through my LPs (which need organising properly) and I'll give DDS a play when I find it.

*Was* there actually a dance called the Stanley? I remember a lot of stomping.

That's the Stanley If you look at the front cover of the LP there are instructions for how to do it, with warnings against doing it with both legs at once