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MY WEB SITES -
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
Shane Fenton & The Fentones
West End Cricket Club
Me on Blogger.com
 
 
 
 
Welcome to my website.  At last I have my own plot on the World Wide Web, a sort of virtual allotment.  In time, I will add more once I have dug it around and decided where to plant it all. 

For a start though, I have consolidated my various websites have nurtured over the course of the last 12 years on their own little cornet plots somewhere in the far-flung reaches of the WWW (all linked to on the right) and which faced extinction once Yahoo decided to pull the plug on Geocities.  The venerable Geocities website hosting service goes back a long, long way in terms of Web history - I remember when they allowed free websites like mine up to 2Mb total filespace - Wow!  sometimes I nearly had time to see it all before the tiddly copper cable fell over at 33kbs, later 56kbs.  We never had it so good.  The website allowance did magnify over time, indeed The West End Cricket Club site alone grew to 25mb just a few seasons later....!

I also recall my first three pages of text hyperlinked together which constituted the WECC website, which amounted to "hello world", "who we are" and the mighty "fixture list", all lovingly crafted using Netscape Composer from the Navigator suite you once paid for.  This was before the mighty Microshaft bludgeoned it to death by first giving IE away, then incorporating IEv4 into Windoze 95 OSR2 onwards.  The blighters!  At least Firefox remains a highly useful browser (no bias then - ed).

So what's next?  I might add some of my boring photo collection, or add other ideas rambling through my disorganised brain (ooh Matron, it hurts) as a bit of fun, experimentation, or purely for the hell of it.  It's my plot and if you don't like it I'll take the ball home with me.  Anyway, in the meantime, click on one of the links to view one of the copious sites I rescued from oblivion which current versions now reside here.  Drop me a line or leave a message on my Blogspot page - If you're really that bored, that is...!

Remember "Shakin' All Over"?  This original Brit Rocker did a hell of a lot more than just that classic number one; his soulful voice was ahead of its time, wrote his own songs when unfashionable to do so, helped crystallise the "Power Trio" format, influenced the Who among many other groups with his powerful line-ups of backing combo the Pirates.  Add to all that Mick Green's style influencing a generation with his economical but powerful guitar playing.  Sadly, Kidd never really capitalised from it all but is now recognised as a great in Rock.  And there's more where that came from!
Or how to make village cricket quite interesting with laughs along the way!  This site stagnated after the club drifted apart, however all that was ever uploaded remains and has been subject to slight re-jigging here and there.
Read about the origins of Shane Fenton.  Of course you know him - this was the original stage name for the star we currently know as Alvin Stardust!  He and his group the Fentones produced a series of minor classics of early 1960's Brit-Pop.
     
"adiebarrett.co.uk" is masterminded by a professional idiot with too much time on his hands.  So there.  If you really must email him, please use this email address - adie_barrett@yahoo.co.uk (at least Yahoo aren't stopping THAT lark just yet!).