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RIOT ACT The other day Stu Knapper contacted Hobo having discovered a tribute I'd put on the site to his late Brother Phil Knapper who was a fellow musician and mate of mine. I'd been intending to put a blog on about his own band Riot Act for a while and here it is. Meanwhile Stu has been blogging...

Rotating the songs -I'll SING FOR MY SUPPER - THE MOUNTAIN ASH BAND This song from c1975 is from the now cult folk/ rock concept album by The Mountain Ash Band called The Hermit and although it was written about Job Senior - a Hermit from the Ilkley Moor, lyricist Ray King was from Willenhall in Cov and both composer / guitarist Colin Cripps and singer / recorder (ist) Lynda Hardcastle were resident in Coventry in the mid 70's and were involved as musicians with the Hobo Workshop. They recorded this on their move to Yorkshire - for more info and to listen to some more of the tracks click the index and look for the Mountain Ash Band entries. CLICK HERE FOR THE NEW HYPERLINKED INDEXThis Post stays on top like homepage.You can scroll down for posts but...I recommend you use the above index as there are a lot of posts on here and they are all organised in categories in the index but not if you scroll down!This post updated 1st FEB 2008L_839992a35fe4639582a857e37789b56fDAVE PEPPER (formerly of the X CERTS) and his band have embarked on their tour of the US and their first gig in at the Ritz in Detroit sounds like it was amazing. Read about it and view the photos on this site HERE

NEW NEW NEW - New versions of the Phil's songs uploaded 9th Feb. The first ones were second generation - I found the original tape so they are a bit clearer I think. Having said I recorded Phil Dec 1978 on a mono cassette player, so the sound quality isn't top class. However, it's the only record I...