Fact #141465
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Short story:
Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) by Paul Young, reaches No1 in the UK Singles Chart.
Full article:
Dave Kavanagh (Liffey Records) : Around the time of Wherever I Lay My Hat, John Giddings (booking agent) asked me to set up a handful of low-key gigs in Ireland, but not Dublin, for Paul Young. He wanted to play out of the way gigs where the band could just warm up before they set off on a major arena trek in the UK.
So I booked a few ballrooms in the middle of nowhere, where a lot of the audience would never even have heard of Paul Young. John turned up at the first of these in County Cavan, and the place was packed with about 800 drunks and shrieking females, a baying mob really, shouting for him to sing Brown Girl In The Ring. I think they thought it was one of his songs.
Paul was having a really hard time dealing with them. I think what John had in mind had been a nice little 2,000 seat venue, so John was standing at the side of the stage with me and he turns to me and says, "Dave, I said fuckin’ low key." It still makes me smile to think of it.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, April 2016)
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So I booked a few ballrooms in the middle of nowhere, where a lot of the audience would never even have heard of Paul Young. John turned up at the first of these in County Cavan, and the place was packed with about 800 drunks and shrieking females, a baying mob really, shouting for him to sing Brown Girl In The Ring. I think they thought it was one of his songs.
Paul was having a really hard time dealing with them. I think what John had in mind had been a nice little 2,000 seat venue, so John was standing at the side of the stage with me and he turns to me and says, "Dave, I said fuckin’ low key." It still makes me smile to think of it.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, April 2016)