Box and Fiddle
Year 36 No 06
February 2013
Price £2.70
44 Page Magazine
12 month subscription £29.70 + p&p £13.20 (UK)
Editor – Karin Ingram, Hawick
B&F Treasurer – Charlie Todd, Thankerton
The main features in the above issue were as follows (this is not a comprehensive detail of all it contained. The Club reports, in particular, are too time-consuming at this stage to retype).
Editorial
Hope you’ve all recovered from the excesses of the holiday season (and St Andrew’s Night and The Trads!) and have now launched head-first into Burns Night and Up Helly Aa! For those musicians who are traveling over seas, we would love reports and photographs of where you’ve been and who you played for.
Some stalwarts of our music scene sadly passed away recently: Betty Rutherford (Mo and Annie’s mum), who will be very much missed at musical events, Bill Easton, past Chairman of Teviotdale Club; musician Bobby More; and Wilbert Henry of Shetland, whose obituary we carry in this issue. Our sympathies go out to their families.
Don’t forget the NAAFC Festival in Inshyra Grange on Saturday 2nd March. We’ll see you there.
Karin Ingram
MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards
by
The Scots Trad Music Awards is an annual event……….
Recording – The Changes
by Derek Hamilton
I was looking for some
Lindsay Ross
A Life Less Ordinary
by Malcolm Ross
Black Watch Corporal George Ross was born right in the heart of Angus, on West Drums farm, Aberlemno, and at eighteen he was sent with his Battalion to fight at Ypres in Belgium. Being one of the lucky ones to return from WWI, he settled in ‘the wee red toon’ of Kirriemuir with his wife Ellen taking a job as a postman. Inside a few years the couple had five daughters and a son – Georgina, Elma, Irene, Nan, Marjorie and son Lindsay. Sadly Nan was to die aged five.
Having all these sisters around, the young Lindsay Ross was spoiled to the point that it was said “before his feet hit the floor in the morning someone had his shoelaces tied for him”. Money being tight in the period between the wars, their parents must be given credit for putting all the children to ‘proper’ music lessons – violin and piano for the girls and accordion for Lindsay.
Circa 1942 Norman Guild of Forfar was the teacher to go to, and he also taught Angus Cameron the violin and Davie Stewart the accordion. Encouraged to play by Polish soldiers billeted in Kirriemuir, the young Lindsay was soon proficient enough to form his own band, aged just 12, his sisters also playing a part with Irene in violin, Elma on piano along with her future husband Nor Barrie on drums, and eldest sister Georgina’s husband Harry Whittet on violin too. This line up wouldn’t change till the band’s first BBC Broadcast in 1951, with youngest sister Marjorie playing piano, her future husband Dave Barclay on bass, Jim Sturrock on violin, George Sturrock on drums and nineteen year old Lindsay on lead accordion.
Just prior to this period the family moved to just outside Friockheim in Angus, just along from Guthrie Castle and Lindsay served his time as a joiner with Will Rae of Letham, joiners and millwrights, a trade he would later have to give up as the band got busier. The 1950’s, right up to the ‘beat boom’ was a golden period for this band and many others, with engagements flooding in from London to Unst, Benbecula to Dundee. Twelve to fifteen broadcasts a year were normal and three in one month not unknown. Amazingly with the proceeds of a successful band Lindsay was able to buy four new Bedford ‘dormobile’ minibuses for the band at that time, collecting them from the factory each time, so that no-one would ‘hash’ them in the crucial ‘running-in’ period.
Deferred National Service in the R.A.F. from 1954-56 was problematic in the sense of trying to keep a successful band going. However Lindsay was luckier than most and got a ‘soft posting’ locally at Edzell Base in Angus, where he gradually exhausted all available excuses to get away to do gigs, including having teeth removed. Jim Sturrock’s mother had a smallholding called ‘the Knowe’ near Forfar and ‘helping with the harvest’ was used once too often. An inspector arrived from the R.A.F. and said... “if you hand me a sythe I will cut it myself in five minutes” Still, Lindsay looked back with fondness his two year stint as a wireless operator.
Appearing in the Jimmy Logan Show for a season at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen in 1957 and being on BBC TV’s ‘The Kilt is my Delight’ in 1960, were two of the highlights for the band in this era. Interestingly too, the band played at the Glasgow Islay Association Annual Gathering in 1957 at the St Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow – definitely a case of ‘East meets West’ it could be said.
Around this time Lindsay had two music shops, one in Brechin and one in Forfar and in 1960 he decided to buy a new Hohner Gola for the sum of £330, a large sum at that time as a modest new bungalow could be had for £1,100. However this was to prove to be a great decision as at last it gave him his signature sound. Forever experimenting with ways to ‘mellow’ the sound of earlier accordions he believed that in ‘instrumental’ music the ‘voice’ of the instrument was crucial, hence blotting paper was placed inside the grill and on one occasion he even pawkily placed a front page from the Oban Times behind the grill to get the ‘West Coast Sound’ he was often asked for!
Allowing the violin to be heard created a nice blend, he was renowned for his ability in flat keys, and recording with the likes of Angus Cameron, Ron Gonella, Angus Fitchet, Syd Chalmers and Ron Kerr made great pairings. Lindsay credited Will Cameron (father of Angus) for teaching him how to play strathspeys, Syd Chalmers for pushing him to play tricky reels and Angus Fitchet for stealing coal. (As a teenager Lindsay would play with the Fitchet Band and they would be in freezing digs, so the youngster would be sent to nab a couple of lumps of coal when the landlady had gone for a quarter of spam for the tea!
During the early sixties the band recorded over a dozen singles with ‘Parlophone EMI’ with Sir George Martin, some in London and some in Dundee at the old Palace Theatre. The Lindsay Ross Band met the ‘Beatles’ before Sir George, when at the Northern Meeting Rooms, Inverness, on 21st May 1960, when they played to over 600 revellers downstairs, while upstairs the Beatles played to penny numbers.
Players who recorded with the band over the years were, on bass, Dave Barclay, Billy Craib and Alec Cameron (brother of Angus) who did all the broadcasts from 1963 to 1974. Billy Craib made the 1967 Polydor album. Will Cameron, Angus and Alec’s father, died a few days before this recording and Billy Craib and Ron Gonnella stepped in at the last minute. Drummers were George Sturrock from 1951 to 1965, Bill Jarvis 1965 to 1971 and myself from 1971. My Aunt Marjorie was on piano on all the recordings.
As the sixties progressed however the ‘beat boom’ took hold and this spelled the end of having a large band on the road for Lindsay. Places like the Spa Pavillion, Strathpeffer where the band had been a regular hit, now had the popular ‘Melotones’ etc playing. Being a professional musician for some time now, Lindsay had to diversify into running shows, dances, bringing the Bertram Mills Circus to Arbroath, famous ‘Twist Marathons’ at the Aberdeen Music Hall, putting on weekly dances at Killin, Edzell and Largoward (still remarkably going after 50 years).
A new era came with the ‘Cordovox’, his good friend Andrew Rankine and himself being among the first to have one. Lindsay’s one I can date to February 1966 and I recall sitting on the power pack watching ‘Blue Peter’ when a guy came on playing one. “This is the only electronic accordion in the UK” John Noakes said and a great sense of injustice was felt by this six year old. The Scottish Dance Band was now just something to be revived for the odd broadcast and recording, and in 1967 Polydor gave the band a chance to record an album, which thrilled Lindsay since he was a fan on one of the directors, the band leader Bert Kaempfert, Bert’s music was always on at home. The decision to make the band a six piece using the talents of Davie Stewart on second accordion, was one that took a long time to consider as he felt that the 5 piece was his thing, however he realised that the second accordion modernized the band and Davie did a sterling job. Back then this album would often be played on national BBC Radio 2.
In 1969 Lindsay formed a duo with Dundee based guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Mathers and completed a summer season at Silver Sands, Lossiemouth, playing mostly modern music and this would be the start of a new direction. In order to keep working a more versatile trio to do gigs like weddings, dances and shows with dad on accordion, myself on drums and we were privileged to have Nigel Jelks, originally from Ilford, on guitar, mandolin, vibes and lap steel guitar and finally Jamie Hutchinson on guitar and vocals. Phil McLeod followed Nigel and was guitarist /vocalist for around 4 years in the seventies. We opened the new British Legion in Kirkwall in 1975 with that trio.
Nigel later kindly put together a book of dad’s compositions. Despite being away from the traditional Scottish dance band genre, Lindsay would have loved to make a traditional six piece band record again but many attempts to interest some of the ‘lower league’ record companies fell on deaf ears. Nine years later Polydor came up trumps and in 1976 the record was made with the tracks that got so much airplay, such as The Gold and Silver Waltz, the Stein Song and the Whistler and his Dog, Donald Iain Rankine and the Wind that Shak’s the Piggery and many more. The set of jigs made it into the BBC Scotland top 100 Traditional tracks in 2007.
Away from the music, Lindsay restored four Grade B Listed cottages in the historic village of St Vigeans, on the outskirts of Arbroath, under the auspices of Historic Buildings Scotland and for which he received a Civic Award, posthumously, as he passed away aged 48 in August 1980.
Wilbert Henry – Obituary
by Peter Leask
It is with great sadness that the Shetland A&F Club has to report the untimely passing in November of Wilbert Henry after a short battle against cancer.
Wilbert was a staunch member of the Shetland A&F Club Committee for 15 years and was Secretary for the last 10. His contribution to the running of the Club and the Shetland Festival was invaluable and he will be greatly missed. Never one to seek the limelight, he worked away quietly and efficiently at whatever task he was involved in.
Although not a musician himself, he loved our music and also had a particular liking for Scandinavian music. Wilbert was known to the many artistes who have attended the Shetland Festival over the years as the first point of contact when making travel and accommodation arrangements.
Wilbert is survived by his wife Kathleen and daughter Elaine and family to whom we extend our deepest sympathy.
The Shetland A&F Club proposes to make their Local Night on 7th February a tribute to Wilbert and the proceeds of the raffle will go to the charity of Kathleen’s choice.
Keith Dickson’s Orchestras 25th Anniversary
by
Webwatch
by Bill Young
www.
See Hear! with Bill Brown
CD Reviews
Roses in Bloom – Alex McIntyre – SMR167CD
West is Best – The Anna Fraser Band - Independant
Take the Floor – Saturday Evenings 19.05 – 21.00 with Robbie Shepherd (repeated on Sunday’s 13.05 – 15.00)
2nd Feb 13 – OB from Celtic Connections, Tom Orr SDB
9th Feb 13 – Wayne Robertson SDB
16th Feb 13 – tbc
23rd Feb 13 – The Pentlands Ceilidh Band
30th Feb 13 – Alexander Lindsay SDB
CLUB DIARY
Aberdeen (Old Machar RBL) – 26th Feb 13 – Lynne Christie SDB
Alnwick (The Farrier’s Arms – Shilbottle) Feb 13 -
Annan (St Andrew’s Social Club) - 17th Feb 13 – Stuart McKeown Trio
Arbroath (Viewfield Hotel) - 3rd Feb 13 – Marian Anderson SDB
Balloch (St. Kessog’s Church Hall) – 17th Feb 13 – Pentlands Ceilidh Band
Banchory (Burnett Arms Hotel) –
Banff & District (Banff Springs Hotel) – 22nd Feb 13 – Iain Stewart Trio
Beith & District (Anderson Hotel) –
Biggar (Municipal Hall) – 10th Feb 13 – Adam Gibb Duo
Blairgowrie (Moorfield Hotel) -
Britannia (Arden House Hotel) -
Bromley (Trinity United Reform Church) -
Button Key (Windygates Institute) – 14th Feb 13 – Ian Cruickshanks & Friends
Campsie (Glazert Country House Hotel) - 5th Feb 13 – Andy Kain Trio
Carlisle (St Margaret Mary Social Club) -
Castle Douglas (Urr Valley Country House Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Steven Todd SDB
Coalburn (Miners’ Welfare) - 21st Feb 13 – Lothian SDB
Coldingham (Crosslaw Caravan Park) -
Crieff & District (Crieff Hotel) 7th Feb 13 – Clappt Doo Ceilidh Band
Cults (Culter Sports & Social Club)
Dalriada (Argyll Inn, Lochgilphead) - 19th Feb 13 – Ryan McGlynn Trio
Dingwall (National Hotel) – 6th Feb 13 – Michael Philip SDB
Dunblane (Victoria Hall) – 20th Feb 13 – Susan MacFadyen Trio
Dunfermline (Headwell Bowling Club) – 12th Feb 13 – Gary Sutherland SDB
Dunoon & Cowal (McColl’s Hotel)
Duns (Royal British Legion Club, Langtongate) 18th Feb 13 – Nicol McLaren SDB
Ellon (Station Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Ian Thomson SDB
Fintry (Fintry Sports Centre) – 25th Feb 13 – Stuart McKeown SDB
Forfar (Plough Inn) - 24th Feb 13 – Rosely Ceilidh Band
Forres (Victoria Hotel) – 13th Feb 13 – Graeme Mitchell SDB
Fort William (Railway Club, Inverlochy) -
Galashiels (Abbotsford Arms Hotel) – 7th Feb 13 – Gary Sutherland Trio
Glendale (The Glendale Hall) - 21st Feb 13 – Charlie Kirkpatrick Trio
Glenfarg (Lomond Hotel) -
Glenrothes (Victoria Hall, Coaltown of Balgownie) -
Gretna (Athlitic & Social Club) - 3rd Feb 13 - tbc
Haddington (Railway Inn) - 17th Feb 13 – Liam Stewart SDB
Highland (Waterside Hotel) – 18th Feb 13 – Cameron Kellow Trio
Inveraray (Argyll Hotel) - 13th Feb 13 – Dochie McCallum & Friends
Isle of Skye – (The Royal Hotel, Portree) - 7th Feb 13 – Gordon Pattullo & Gemma Donald
Islesteps (The Embassy Hotel) – 5th Feb 13 – Jim Gold Trio
Kelso (Cross Keys Hotel) – 27th Feb 13 – Willie McFarlane Band
Kintore (Torryburn Arms Hotel) –
Ladybank (Ladybank Tavern) - 21st Feb 13 – Pentlands Ceilidh Band
Lanark (Ravenstruther Hall) - 25th Feb 13 – Neil Hardie SDB
Langholm (Eskdale Hotel) – 13th Feb 13 – Eric Goodfellow SDB
Lauder (Black Bull Hotel) -
Lewis & Harris (Stornoway Legion) - 7th Feb 13 – Alasdair Whyte
Livingston (Hilcroft Hotel, Whitburn) 19th Feb 13 – Jim Cleland SDB 22nd Feb 13 – Dance to Willie McFarlane Band
Lockerbie (Queen’s Hotel) - 8th Feb 13 – Dance to Ian Muir Trio 26th Feb 13 – Gordon Brown SDB
Maine Valley (Ballymena) -
Mauchline (Harry Lyle Suite) - 19th Feb 13 – The Occasionals
Montrose (Park Hotel) – 10th Feb 13 – AGM + Johnny Duncan Duo
Newburgh (Adbie Hall) - 28th Feb 13 – Marie Fielding & Duncan Black
Newmill-on-Teviot / Teviotdale (Buccleugh Bowling Club) 20th Feb 13 – Alan Gardiner Trio
Newtongrange (Dean Tavern) – 25th Feb 13 – Gordon Clark SDB
North East (Royal British Legion, Keith) – 5th Feb 13 – Jock Fraser SDB
Northern (Lylehill Suite, Templepatrick, N.I.) - 6th Feb 13 – Harry Hussey
Oban (The Argyllshire Gathering) – 7th Feb 13 – Susan MacFadyen Trio
Orkney (Ayre Hotel, Kirkwall) –
Peebles (Rugby Social Club) – 28th Feb 13 – Iain MacPhail SDB
Perth (Salutation Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Davie Stewart Trio
Premier NI (Chimney Corner Hotel) -
Reading Scottish Fiddlers (Willowbank Infant School, Woodley) -
Renfrew (Masonic Hall, Broadloan) – 12th Feb 13 – Iain MacPhail SDB
Rothbury (Queen’s Head Hotel) - 7th Feb 13 – Judith Linton Trio
Scottish Accordion Music (Banchory) -
Seghill (Old Comrades Club) -
Selkirk (Angus O’Malley’s) -
Shetland (Shetland Hotel, Lerwick) - 7th Feb 13 – Local Night 21st Feb 13 – Gordon Howe
Stonehouse (Stonehouse Violet Football Social Club) - 6th Feb 13 – Janet Graham SDB
Sutherland (Rogart Hall) - 16th Feb 13 – Susie Simpson SDB
Thornhill (Bowling Club Hall) - 12th Feb 13 – Liam Stewart Trio
Thurso (Pentland Hotel) – 4th Feb 13 – Jock Fraser SDB
Turriff (Commercial Hotel, Cuminestown) – 7th Feb 13 – Kevin Cheyne SDB
Tynedale (Hexham Ex Service Club) –
Uist & Benbecula (C of S Hall, Griminish) - 2nd & 16th Feb 13 – Saturday Ceilidh Night
West Barnes (West Barnes Inn) 14th Feb 13 – Ewan Galloway SDB
Wick (MacKay’s Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Charlie Kirkpatrick Trio
THERE WERE CLUB REPORTS FROM :-
1. Aberdeen
2. Alnwick
3. Balloch
4. Biggar
5. Blairgowrie
6. Button-Key
7. Castle Douglas
8. Coalburn
9. Crieff
10. Dunfermline
11. Duns
12. Forfar
13. Forres
14. Glendale
15. Gretna
16. Highland
17. Inveraray
18. Islesteps
19. Kelso
20. Lewis & Harris
21. Mauchline
22. Montrose
23. North East
24. Oban
25. Perth
26. Renfrew
27. Thurso
28. Turriff
CLUB DIRECTORY AS AT OCT 2012
(Clubs didn’t necessarily notify the Assoc when they closed so the following may not be entirely correct. Only the clubs submitting the reports or in the Club Diary above were definitely open.)
1. Aberdeen A&F Club (1975 – present)
2. Alnwick A&F Club (Aug 1975 – present)
3. Annan A&F Club (joined Assoc in 1996 but started 1985 – present)
4. Arbroath A&F Club (1991? – present)
5. Balloch A&F Club (Sept 1972 – per January 1978 issue – present)
6. Banchory A&F Club (1978 – present)
7. Banff & District A&F Club (Oct 1973 – present)
8. Beith & District A&F Club (Sept 1972 – per first edition – present)
9. Belford A&F Club (joined Sept 1982)
10. Biggar A&F Club (Oct 1974 – present)
11. Blairgowrie A&F Club (
12. Britannia B&F Club ( joined 07-08 but much older
13. Bromley A&F Club (joined 95-96 – closed early 08-09)
14. Button Key A&F Club (
15. Campsie A&F Club (Nov 95 – present)
16. Carlisle A&F Club (joined Sept 1993 -
17. Castle Douglas A&F Club (c Sept 1980 – present)
18. Coalburn A&F Club (
19. Coldingham A&F Club (Nov 2008 -
20. Crathes (aka Scottish Accordion Music – Crathes) (Nov 1997 -
21. Crieff A&F Club (cSept 1981)
22. Cults A & F Club (
23. Dalriada A&F Club (Feb 1981)
24. Dingwall & District A&F Club (May 1979 – per first report)
25. Dunblane & District A&F Club (1971 – present)
26. Dunfermline & District A&F Club (1974 – per first edition)
27. Dunoon & Cowal A&F Club (
28. Duns A&F Club (formed 20th Sept 04 – present)
29. East Kilbride A&F Club (Sept 1980 – Closed 04/05)
30. Ellon A&F Club (
31. Fintry A&F Club (Dec 1972 – reformed Jan 1980 – present)
32. Forfar A&F Club (
33. Forres A&F Club (Jan 1978)
34. Fort William A&F Club (2009 -
35. Galashiels A&F Club (joined Sept 1982 - present)
36. Galston A&F Club (Oct 1969 – per first edition – closed March 2006)
37. Glendale Accordion Club (Jan 1973)
38. Glenfarg A&F Club (formed 1988 joined Assoc Mar 95 -
39. Glenrothes A&F Club (Mar 93?
40. Gretna A&F Club (1991) Known as North Cumbria A&F Club previously (originally called Gretna when started in June 1966 but later had to move to venues in the North of England and changed name. No breaks in the continuity of the Club)
41. Haddington A&F Club (formed Feb 2005 - )
42. Highland A&F Club (Inverness) (Nov 1973 – present)
43. Inveraray A&F Club (Feb 1991 - present)
44. Islesteps A&F Club (Jan 1981 – present – n.b. evolved from the original Dumfries Club)
45. Isle of Skye A&F Club (June 1983 – present)
46. Kelso A&F Club (May 1976 – present)
47. Ladybank A&F Club (joined Apr 98 but formed earlier
48. Lanark A&F Club (joined Sept 96 – closed March 2015)
49. Langholm A&F Club (Oct 1967 - present)
50. Lauder A&F Club (May 2010 -
51. Lewis & Harris A&F Club (Aug 1994 -
52. Livingston A&F Club (Sept 1973 – present)
53 Lockerbie A&F Club (Nov 1973 - present)
54 Maine Valley A&F Club (
55 Mauchline A&F Club (Sept 1983 - present)
56 Montrose A&F Club (joined Sept 1982 - present)
57 Newmill-on-Teviot (Hawick) (Formed late 1988 joined Assoc 1999 - closed March 2016)
58 Newtongrange A&F Club (joined Sept 1977 - present)
59. North East A&F Club aka Keith A&FC (Sept 1971 - present)
60. Northern A&F Club (Sept 2011 -
61. Oban A&F Club (Nov 1975 - present)
62. Orkney A&F Club (Mar 1978 - present)
63. Peebles A&F Club (26 Nov 1981 - present)
64. Perth & District A&F Club (Aug 1970 - present)
65. Premier A&F Club NI (April 1980)
66. Phoenix A&F Club, Ardrishaig (Dec 2004 -
67. Renfrew A&F Club (1984 -
68. Rothbury Accordion Club (7th Feb 1974) orig called Coquetdale
69. Selkirk A&F Club (
70. Shetland A&F Club (Sept 1978 - present)
71 Stonehouse A&F Club (first report June 05 -
72 Sutherland A&F Club (Nov 1982 -
73 Thornhill A&F Club (joined Oct 1983 – see Nov 83 edition – closed April 2014)
74 Thurso A&F Club (Oct 1981 - present)
75 Turriff A&F Club (1st April 1982 - present)
76 Tynedale A&F Club (Nov 1980 - present)
77 Uist & Benbecula A&F Club (Dec 2007 but formed 1994 -
78 West Barnes ( - present)
79 Wick A&F Club (Oct 1975 - present)
Not on official list at the start of the season (closed, did not renew membership or omitted in error?)
80. Araharacle & District A&F Club (cMay 1988)
81. Armadale A&F Club (Oct 1978? or 80) originally called Bathgate Club (for 2 months) Last meeting May 2010
82. Ayr A&F Club (Nov 1983 – per Nov 83 edition) Closed
83. Bonchester Accordion Club (Closed?)
84. Bridge of Allan (Walmer) A&F Club (Walmer Hotel, Bridge of Allan) (c March 1982)
85. Brigmill A&F Club (Oct 1990) Closed
86. Buchan A&F Club
87 Callander A&F Club (
88 Campbeltown & District A&F Club (c Dec 1980)
89 Cleland (cNov 1981 – March 1985) originally called Drumpellier A&F Club (for 2 months)
90 Club Accord
91 Coquetdale A&F Club (Feb 1974 or c1976/77 – 1981/2? – became Rothbury?)
92. Coupar Angus A&F Club (cSept 1978 - ?)
93. Cumnock A&F Club (October 1976 - forced to close cDec 1982 - see Jan 83 Editorial)
94. Denny & Dunipace A&F Club (Feb 1981)
95. Derwentside A&F Club
96. Dornoch A&F Club (first mention in directory 1986)
97. Dumfries Accordion Club (Oughtons) (April 1965 at the Hole in the Wa’)
98. Dunbar Cement Works A&F Club (Closed?)
99. Dundee & District A&F Club (January 1971 – 1995?)
100. Edinburgh A&F Club (Apr 1981) prev called Chrissie Leatham A&F Club (Oct 1980)
101. Falkirk A&F Club (Sept 1978 - )
102. Fort William A&F Club (21st Oct 1980 – per Dec 1980 B&F)
103. Gorebridge (cNov 1981) originally called Arniston A&F Club (for 2 months)
104. Greenhead Accordion Club (on the A69 between Brampton and Haltwistle)
105. Islay A&F Club (23 Apr 93 -
106. Kintore A&F Club (
107. Kirriemuir A&F Club (cSept 1981)
108. Lesmahagow A&F Club (Nov 1979 – closed May 2005)
109. M.A.F.I.A. (1966 – 1993?)
110. Monklands A&F Club (Nov 1978 – closed cApril 1983)
111. Morecambe A&F Club (joined Sept 1982)
112. Muirhead A&F Club (Dec 1994 -
113. Mull A&F Club
114. Newcastleton Accordion Club
115. Newburgh A&F Club (joined 2002 but founded much earlier – closed April 2011 when venue closed)
116. New Cumnock A&F Club (cMarch 1979)
117. Newton St Boswells Accordion Club (17th Oct 1972 see Apr 1984 obituary for Angus Park)
118. Ormiston Miners’ Welfare Society A&F Club (closed April 1992 – per Sept Editorial)
119. Reading Scottish Fiddlers (cMarch 1997
120. Renfrew A&F Club (original club 1974/5 lapsed after a few years then again in 1984)
121. Stirling A&F Club (Oct 1991 – closed 20000/01?)
122. Straiton Accordion Club (c1968 – closed March 1979)
123. Stranraer & District Accordion Club (1974 – per first edition)
124. Torthorwald A&F Club (near Dumfries)
125. Tranent A&F Club
126. Vancouver
127. Walmer (Bridge of Allan) A&F Club
128. Wellbank A&F Club
129. Yarrow (prev known as Etterick & Yarrow) (Jan 1989 – closed 2001/02)
Advertising rates
Back Page (colour) - £300
Full Page (colour) - £220
Full Page (b&w) - £140
Half Page (colour) - £110
Half Page (b&w) - £70
Quarter Page (colour) - £55
Quarter Page (b&w) - £35
Eighth Page - £18
Small Boxed £12
B&F Treasurer – Charlie Todd, Thankerton
The main features in the above issue were as follows (this is not a comprehensive detail of all it contained. The Club reports, in particular, are too time-consuming at this stage to retype).
Editorial
Hope you’ve all recovered from the excesses of the holiday season (and St Andrew’s Night and The Trads!) and have now launched head-first into Burns Night and Up Helly Aa! For those musicians who are traveling over seas, we would love reports and photographs of where you’ve been and who you played for.
Some stalwarts of our music scene sadly passed away recently: Betty Rutherford (Mo and Annie’s mum), who will be very much missed at musical events, Bill Easton, past Chairman of Teviotdale Club; musician Bobby More; and Wilbert Henry of Shetland, whose obituary we carry in this issue. Our sympathies go out to their families.
Don’t forget the NAAFC Festival in Inshyra Grange on Saturday 2nd March. We’ll see you there.
Karin Ingram
MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards
by
The Scots Trad Music Awards is an annual event……….
Recording – The Changes
by Derek Hamilton
I was looking for some
Lindsay Ross
A Life Less Ordinary
by Malcolm Ross
Black Watch Corporal George Ross was born right in the heart of Angus, on West Drums farm, Aberlemno, and at eighteen he was sent with his Battalion to fight at Ypres in Belgium. Being one of the lucky ones to return from WWI, he settled in ‘the wee red toon’ of Kirriemuir with his wife Ellen taking a job as a postman. Inside a few years the couple had five daughters and a son – Georgina, Elma, Irene, Nan, Marjorie and son Lindsay. Sadly Nan was to die aged five.
Having all these sisters around, the young Lindsay Ross was spoiled to the point that it was said “before his feet hit the floor in the morning someone had his shoelaces tied for him”. Money being tight in the period between the wars, their parents must be given credit for putting all the children to ‘proper’ music lessons – violin and piano for the girls and accordion for Lindsay.
Circa 1942 Norman Guild of Forfar was the teacher to go to, and he also taught Angus Cameron the violin and Davie Stewart the accordion. Encouraged to play by Polish soldiers billeted in Kirriemuir, the young Lindsay was soon proficient enough to form his own band, aged just 12, his sisters also playing a part with Irene in violin, Elma on piano along with her future husband Nor Barrie on drums, and eldest sister Georgina’s husband Harry Whittet on violin too. This line up wouldn’t change till the band’s first BBC Broadcast in 1951, with youngest sister Marjorie playing piano, her future husband Dave Barclay on bass, Jim Sturrock on violin, George Sturrock on drums and nineteen year old Lindsay on lead accordion.
Just prior to this period the family moved to just outside Friockheim in Angus, just along from Guthrie Castle and Lindsay served his time as a joiner with Will Rae of Letham, joiners and millwrights, a trade he would later have to give up as the band got busier. The 1950’s, right up to the ‘beat boom’ was a golden period for this band and many others, with engagements flooding in from London to Unst, Benbecula to Dundee. Twelve to fifteen broadcasts a year were normal and three in one month not unknown. Amazingly with the proceeds of a successful band Lindsay was able to buy four new Bedford ‘dormobile’ minibuses for the band at that time, collecting them from the factory each time, so that no-one would ‘hash’ them in the crucial ‘running-in’ period.
Deferred National Service in the R.A.F. from 1954-56 was problematic in the sense of trying to keep a successful band going. However Lindsay was luckier than most and got a ‘soft posting’ locally at Edzell Base in Angus, where he gradually exhausted all available excuses to get away to do gigs, including having teeth removed. Jim Sturrock’s mother had a smallholding called ‘the Knowe’ near Forfar and ‘helping with the harvest’ was used once too often. An inspector arrived from the R.A.F. and said... “if you hand me a sythe I will cut it myself in five minutes” Still, Lindsay looked back with fondness his two year stint as a wireless operator.
Appearing in the Jimmy Logan Show for a season at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen in 1957 and being on BBC TV’s ‘The Kilt is my Delight’ in 1960, were two of the highlights for the band in this era. Interestingly too, the band played at the Glasgow Islay Association Annual Gathering in 1957 at the St Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow – definitely a case of ‘East meets West’ it could be said.
Around this time Lindsay had two music shops, one in Brechin and one in Forfar and in 1960 he decided to buy a new Hohner Gola for the sum of £330, a large sum at that time as a modest new bungalow could be had for £1,100. However this was to prove to be a great decision as at last it gave him his signature sound. Forever experimenting with ways to ‘mellow’ the sound of earlier accordions he believed that in ‘instrumental’ music the ‘voice’ of the instrument was crucial, hence blotting paper was placed inside the grill and on one occasion he even pawkily placed a front page from the Oban Times behind the grill to get the ‘West Coast Sound’ he was often asked for!
Allowing the violin to be heard created a nice blend, he was renowned for his ability in flat keys, and recording with the likes of Angus Cameron, Ron Gonella, Angus Fitchet, Syd Chalmers and Ron Kerr made great pairings. Lindsay credited Will Cameron (father of Angus) for teaching him how to play strathspeys, Syd Chalmers for pushing him to play tricky reels and Angus Fitchet for stealing coal. (As a teenager Lindsay would play with the Fitchet Band and they would be in freezing digs, so the youngster would be sent to nab a couple of lumps of coal when the landlady had gone for a quarter of spam for the tea!
During the early sixties the band recorded over a dozen singles with ‘Parlophone EMI’ with Sir George Martin, some in London and some in Dundee at the old Palace Theatre. The Lindsay Ross Band met the ‘Beatles’ before Sir George, when at the Northern Meeting Rooms, Inverness, on 21st May 1960, when they played to over 600 revellers downstairs, while upstairs the Beatles played to penny numbers.
Players who recorded with the band over the years were, on bass, Dave Barclay, Billy Craib and Alec Cameron (brother of Angus) who did all the broadcasts from 1963 to 1974. Billy Craib made the 1967 Polydor album. Will Cameron, Angus and Alec’s father, died a few days before this recording and Billy Craib and Ron Gonnella stepped in at the last minute. Drummers were George Sturrock from 1951 to 1965, Bill Jarvis 1965 to 1971 and myself from 1971. My Aunt Marjorie was on piano on all the recordings.
As the sixties progressed however the ‘beat boom’ took hold and this spelled the end of having a large band on the road for Lindsay. Places like the Spa Pavillion, Strathpeffer where the band had been a regular hit, now had the popular ‘Melotones’ etc playing. Being a professional musician for some time now, Lindsay had to diversify into running shows, dances, bringing the Bertram Mills Circus to Arbroath, famous ‘Twist Marathons’ at the Aberdeen Music Hall, putting on weekly dances at Killin, Edzell and Largoward (still remarkably going after 50 years).
A new era came with the ‘Cordovox’, his good friend Andrew Rankine and himself being among the first to have one. Lindsay’s one I can date to February 1966 and I recall sitting on the power pack watching ‘Blue Peter’ when a guy came on playing one. “This is the only electronic accordion in the UK” John Noakes said and a great sense of injustice was felt by this six year old. The Scottish Dance Band was now just something to be revived for the odd broadcast and recording, and in 1967 Polydor gave the band a chance to record an album, which thrilled Lindsay since he was a fan on one of the directors, the band leader Bert Kaempfert, Bert’s music was always on at home. The decision to make the band a six piece using the talents of Davie Stewart on second accordion, was one that took a long time to consider as he felt that the 5 piece was his thing, however he realised that the second accordion modernized the band and Davie did a sterling job. Back then this album would often be played on national BBC Radio 2.
In 1969 Lindsay formed a duo with Dundee based guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Mathers and completed a summer season at Silver Sands, Lossiemouth, playing mostly modern music and this would be the start of a new direction. In order to keep working a more versatile trio to do gigs like weddings, dances and shows with dad on accordion, myself on drums and we were privileged to have Nigel Jelks, originally from Ilford, on guitar, mandolin, vibes and lap steel guitar and finally Jamie Hutchinson on guitar and vocals. Phil McLeod followed Nigel and was guitarist /vocalist for around 4 years in the seventies. We opened the new British Legion in Kirkwall in 1975 with that trio.
Nigel later kindly put together a book of dad’s compositions. Despite being away from the traditional Scottish dance band genre, Lindsay would have loved to make a traditional six piece band record again but many attempts to interest some of the ‘lower league’ record companies fell on deaf ears. Nine years later Polydor came up trumps and in 1976 the record was made with the tracks that got so much airplay, such as The Gold and Silver Waltz, the Stein Song and the Whistler and his Dog, Donald Iain Rankine and the Wind that Shak’s the Piggery and many more. The set of jigs made it into the BBC Scotland top 100 Traditional tracks in 2007.
Away from the music, Lindsay restored four Grade B Listed cottages in the historic village of St Vigeans, on the outskirts of Arbroath, under the auspices of Historic Buildings Scotland and for which he received a Civic Award, posthumously, as he passed away aged 48 in August 1980.
Wilbert Henry – Obituary
by Peter Leask
It is with great sadness that the Shetland A&F Club has to report the untimely passing in November of Wilbert Henry after a short battle against cancer.
Wilbert was a staunch member of the Shetland A&F Club Committee for 15 years and was Secretary for the last 10. His contribution to the running of the Club and the Shetland Festival was invaluable and he will be greatly missed. Never one to seek the limelight, he worked away quietly and efficiently at whatever task he was involved in.
Although not a musician himself, he loved our music and also had a particular liking for Scandinavian music. Wilbert was known to the many artistes who have attended the Shetland Festival over the years as the first point of contact when making travel and accommodation arrangements.
Wilbert is survived by his wife Kathleen and daughter Elaine and family to whom we extend our deepest sympathy.
The Shetland A&F Club proposes to make their Local Night on 7th February a tribute to Wilbert and the proceeds of the raffle will go to the charity of Kathleen’s choice.
Keith Dickson’s Orchestras 25th Anniversary
by
Webwatch
by Bill Young
www.
See Hear! with Bill Brown
CD Reviews
Roses in Bloom – Alex McIntyre – SMR167CD
West is Best – The Anna Fraser Band - Independant
Take the Floor – Saturday Evenings 19.05 – 21.00 with Robbie Shepherd (repeated on Sunday’s 13.05 – 15.00)
2nd Feb 13 – OB from Celtic Connections, Tom Orr SDB
9th Feb 13 – Wayne Robertson SDB
16th Feb 13 – tbc
23rd Feb 13 – The Pentlands Ceilidh Band
30th Feb 13 – Alexander Lindsay SDB
CLUB DIARY
Aberdeen (Old Machar RBL) – 26th Feb 13 – Lynne Christie SDB
Alnwick (The Farrier’s Arms – Shilbottle) Feb 13 -
Annan (St Andrew’s Social Club) - 17th Feb 13 – Stuart McKeown Trio
Arbroath (Viewfield Hotel) - 3rd Feb 13 – Marian Anderson SDB
Balloch (St. Kessog’s Church Hall) – 17th Feb 13 – Pentlands Ceilidh Band
Banchory (Burnett Arms Hotel) –
Banff & District (Banff Springs Hotel) – 22nd Feb 13 – Iain Stewart Trio
Beith & District (Anderson Hotel) –
Biggar (Municipal Hall) – 10th Feb 13 – Adam Gibb Duo
Blairgowrie (Moorfield Hotel) -
Britannia (Arden House Hotel) -
Bromley (Trinity United Reform Church) -
Button Key (Windygates Institute) – 14th Feb 13 – Ian Cruickshanks & Friends
Campsie (Glazert Country House Hotel) - 5th Feb 13 – Andy Kain Trio
Carlisle (St Margaret Mary Social Club) -
Castle Douglas (Urr Valley Country House Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Steven Todd SDB
Coalburn (Miners’ Welfare) - 21st Feb 13 – Lothian SDB
Coldingham (Crosslaw Caravan Park) -
Crieff & District (Crieff Hotel) 7th Feb 13 – Clappt Doo Ceilidh Band
Cults (Culter Sports & Social Club)
Dalriada (Argyll Inn, Lochgilphead) - 19th Feb 13 – Ryan McGlynn Trio
Dingwall (National Hotel) – 6th Feb 13 – Michael Philip SDB
Dunblane (Victoria Hall) – 20th Feb 13 – Susan MacFadyen Trio
Dunfermline (Headwell Bowling Club) – 12th Feb 13 – Gary Sutherland SDB
Dunoon & Cowal (McColl’s Hotel)
Duns (Royal British Legion Club, Langtongate) 18th Feb 13 – Nicol McLaren SDB
Ellon (Station Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Ian Thomson SDB
Fintry (Fintry Sports Centre) – 25th Feb 13 – Stuart McKeown SDB
Forfar (Plough Inn) - 24th Feb 13 – Rosely Ceilidh Band
Forres (Victoria Hotel) – 13th Feb 13 – Graeme Mitchell SDB
Fort William (Railway Club, Inverlochy) -
Galashiels (Abbotsford Arms Hotel) – 7th Feb 13 – Gary Sutherland Trio
Glendale (The Glendale Hall) - 21st Feb 13 – Charlie Kirkpatrick Trio
Glenfarg (Lomond Hotel) -
Glenrothes (Victoria Hall, Coaltown of Balgownie) -
Gretna (Athlitic & Social Club) - 3rd Feb 13 - tbc
Haddington (Railway Inn) - 17th Feb 13 – Liam Stewart SDB
Highland (Waterside Hotel) – 18th Feb 13 – Cameron Kellow Trio
Inveraray (Argyll Hotel) - 13th Feb 13 – Dochie McCallum & Friends
Isle of Skye – (The Royal Hotel, Portree) - 7th Feb 13 – Gordon Pattullo & Gemma Donald
Islesteps (The Embassy Hotel) – 5th Feb 13 – Jim Gold Trio
Kelso (Cross Keys Hotel) – 27th Feb 13 – Willie McFarlane Band
Kintore (Torryburn Arms Hotel) –
Ladybank (Ladybank Tavern) - 21st Feb 13 – Pentlands Ceilidh Band
Lanark (Ravenstruther Hall) - 25th Feb 13 – Neil Hardie SDB
Langholm (Eskdale Hotel) – 13th Feb 13 – Eric Goodfellow SDB
Lauder (Black Bull Hotel) -
Lewis & Harris (Stornoway Legion) - 7th Feb 13 – Alasdair Whyte
Livingston (Hilcroft Hotel, Whitburn) 19th Feb 13 – Jim Cleland SDB 22nd Feb 13 – Dance to Willie McFarlane Band
Lockerbie (Queen’s Hotel) - 8th Feb 13 – Dance to Ian Muir Trio 26th Feb 13 – Gordon Brown SDB
Maine Valley (Ballymena) -
Mauchline (Harry Lyle Suite) - 19th Feb 13 – The Occasionals
Montrose (Park Hotel) – 10th Feb 13 – AGM + Johnny Duncan Duo
Newburgh (Adbie Hall) - 28th Feb 13 – Marie Fielding & Duncan Black
Newmill-on-Teviot / Teviotdale (Buccleugh Bowling Club) 20th Feb 13 – Alan Gardiner Trio
Newtongrange (Dean Tavern) – 25th Feb 13 – Gordon Clark SDB
North East (Royal British Legion, Keith) – 5th Feb 13 – Jock Fraser SDB
Northern (Lylehill Suite, Templepatrick, N.I.) - 6th Feb 13 – Harry Hussey
Oban (The Argyllshire Gathering) – 7th Feb 13 – Susan MacFadyen Trio
Orkney (Ayre Hotel, Kirkwall) –
Peebles (Rugby Social Club) – 28th Feb 13 – Iain MacPhail SDB
Perth (Salutation Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Davie Stewart Trio
Premier NI (Chimney Corner Hotel) -
Reading Scottish Fiddlers (Willowbank Infant School, Woodley) -
Renfrew (Masonic Hall, Broadloan) – 12th Feb 13 – Iain MacPhail SDB
Rothbury (Queen’s Head Hotel) - 7th Feb 13 – Judith Linton Trio
Scottish Accordion Music (Banchory) -
Seghill (Old Comrades Club) -
Selkirk (Angus O’Malley’s) -
Shetland (Shetland Hotel, Lerwick) - 7th Feb 13 – Local Night 21st Feb 13 – Gordon Howe
Stonehouse (Stonehouse Violet Football Social Club) - 6th Feb 13 – Janet Graham SDB
Sutherland (Rogart Hall) - 16th Feb 13 – Susie Simpson SDB
Thornhill (Bowling Club Hall) - 12th Feb 13 – Liam Stewart Trio
Thurso (Pentland Hotel) – 4th Feb 13 – Jock Fraser SDB
Turriff (Commercial Hotel, Cuminestown) – 7th Feb 13 – Kevin Cheyne SDB
Tynedale (Hexham Ex Service Club) –
Uist & Benbecula (C of S Hall, Griminish) - 2nd & 16th Feb 13 – Saturday Ceilidh Night
West Barnes (West Barnes Inn) 14th Feb 13 – Ewan Galloway SDB
Wick (MacKay’s Hotel) – 19th Feb 13 – Charlie Kirkpatrick Trio
THERE WERE CLUB REPORTS FROM :-
1. Aberdeen
2. Alnwick
3. Balloch
4. Biggar
5. Blairgowrie
6. Button-Key
7. Castle Douglas
8. Coalburn
9. Crieff
10. Dunfermline
11. Duns
12. Forfar
13. Forres
14. Glendale
15. Gretna
16. Highland
17. Inveraray
18. Islesteps
19. Kelso
20. Lewis & Harris
21. Mauchline
22. Montrose
23. North East
24. Oban
25. Perth
26. Renfrew
27. Thurso
28. Turriff
CLUB DIRECTORY AS AT OCT 2012
(Clubs didn’t necessarily notify the Assoc when they closed so the following may not be entirely correct. Only the clubs submitting the reports or in the Club Diary above were definitely open.)
1. Aberdeen A&F Club (1975 – present)
2. Alnwick A&F Club (Aug 1975 – present)
3. Annan A&F Club (joined Assoc in 1996 but started 1985 – present)
4. Arbroath A&F Club (1991? – present)
5. Balloch A&F Club (Sept 1972 – per January 1978 issue – present)
6. Banchory A&F Club (1978 – present)
7. Banff & District A&F Club (Oct 1973 – present)
8. Beith & District A&F Club (Sept 1972 – per first edition – present)
9. Belford A&F Club (joined Sept 1982)
10. Biggar A&F Club (Oct 1974 – present)
11. Blairgowrie A&F Club (
12. Britannia B&F Club ( joined 07-08 but much older
13. Bromley A&F Club (joined 95-96 – closed early 08-09)
14. Button Key A&F Club (
15. Campsie A&F Club (Nov 95 – present)
16. Carlisle A&F Club (joined Sept 1993 -
17. Castle Douglas A&F Club (c Sept 1980 – present)
18. Coalburn A&F Club (
19. Coldingham A&F Club (Nov 2008 -
20. Crathes (aka Scottish Accordion Music – Crathes) (Nov 1997 -
21. Crieff A&F Club (cSept 1981)
22. Cults A & F Club (
23. Dalriada A&F Club (Feb 1981)
24. Dingwall & District A&F Club (May 1979 – per first report)
25. Dunblane & District A&F Club (1971 – present)
26. Dunfermline & District A&F Club (1974 – per first edition)
27. Dunoon & Cowal A&F Club (
28. Duns A&F Club (formed 20th Sept 04 – present)
29. East Kilbride A&F Club (Sept 1980 – Closed 04/05)
30. Ellon A&F Club (
31. Fintry A&F Club (Dec 1972 – reformed Jan 1980 – present)
32. Forfar A&F Club (
33. Forres A&F Club (Jan 1978)
34. Fort William A&F Club (2009 -
35. Galashiels A&F Club (joined Sept 1982 - present)
36. Galston A&F Club (Oct 1969 – per first edition – closed March 2006)
37. Glendale Accordion Club (Jan 1973)
38. Glenfarg A&F Club (formed 1988 joined Assoc Mar 95 -
39. Glenrothes A&F Club (Mar 93?
40. Gretna A&F Club (1991) Known as North Cumbria A&F Club previously (originally called Gretna when started in June 1966 but later had to move to venues in the North of England and changed name. No breaks in the continuity of the Club)
41. Haddington A&F Club (formed Feb 2005 - )
42. Highland A&F Club (Inverness) (Nov 1973 – present)
43. Inveraray A&F Club (Feb 1991 - present)
44. Islesteps A&F Club (Jan 1981 – present – n.b. evolved from the original Dumfries Club)
45. Isle of Skye A&F Club (June 1983 – present)
46. Kelso A&F Club (May 1976 – present)
47. Ladybank A&F Club (joined Apr 98 but formed earlier
48. Lanark A&F Club (joined Sept 96 – closed March 2015)
49. Langholm A&F Club (Oct 1967 - present)
50. Lauder A&F Club (May 2010 -
51. Lewis & Harris A&F Club (Aug 1994 -
52. Livingston A&F Club (Sept 1973 – present)
53 Lockerbie A&F Club (Nov 1973 - present)
54 Maine Valley A&F Club (
55 Mauchline A&F Club (Sept 1983 - present)
56 Montrose A&F Club (joined Sept 1982 - present)
57 Newmill-on-Teviot (Hawick) (Formed late 1988 joined Assoc 1999 - closed March 2016)
58 Newtongrange A&F Club (joined Sept 1977 - present)
59. North East A&F Club aka Keith A&FC (Sept 1971 - present)
60. Northern A&F Club (Sept 2011 -
61. Oban A&F Club (Nov 1975 - present)
62. Orkney A&F Club (Mar 1978 - present)
63. Peebles A&F Club (26 Nov 1981 - present)
64. Perth & District A&F Club (Aug 1970 - present)
65. Premier A&F Club NI (April 1980)
66. Phoenix A&F Club, Ardrishaig (Dec 2004 -
67. Renfrew A&F Club (1984 -
68. Rothbury Accordion Club (7th Feb 1974) orig called Coquetdale
69. Selkirk A&F Club (
70. Shetland A&F Club (Sept 1978 - present)
71 Stonehouse A&F Club (first report June 05 -
72 Sutherland A&F Club (Nov 1982 -
73 Thornhill A&F Club (joined Oct 1983 – see Nov 83 edition – closed April 2014)
74 Thurso A&F Club (Oct 1981 - present)
75 Turriff A&F Club (1st April 1982 - present)
76 Tynedale A&F Club (Nov 1980 - present)
77 Uist & Benbecula A&F Club (Dec 2007 but formed 1994 -
78 West Barnes ( - present)
79 Wick A&F Club (Oct 1975 - present)
Not on official list at the start of the season (closed, did not renew membership or omitted in error?)
80. Araharacle & District A&F Club (cMay 1988)
81. Armadale A&F Club (Oct 1978? or 80) originally called Bathgate Club (for 2 months) Last meeting May 2010
82. Ayr A&F Club (Nov 1983 – per Nov 83 edition) Closed
83. Bonchester Accordion Club (Closed?)
84. Bridge of Allan (Walmer) A&F Club (Walmer Hotel, Bridge of Allan) (c March 1982)
85. Brigmill A&F Club (Oct 1990) Closed
86. Buchan A&F Club
87 Callander A&F Club (
88 Campbeltown & District A&F Club (c Dec 1980)
89 Cleland (cNov 1981 – March 1985) originally called Drumpellier A&F Club (for 2 months)
90 Club Accord
91 Coquetdale A&F Club (Feb 1974 or c1976/77 – 1981/2? – became Rothbury?)
92. Coupar Angus A&F Club (cSept 1978 - ?)
93. Cumnock A&F Club (October 1976 - forced to close cDec 1982 - see Jan 83 Editorial)
94. Denny & Dunipace A&F Club (Feb 1981)
95. Derwentside A&F Club
96. Dornoch A&F Club (first mention in directory 1986)
97. Dumfries Accordion Club (Oughtons) (April 1965 at the Hole in the Wa’)
98. Dunbar Cement Works A&F Club (Closed?)
99. Dundee & District A&F Club (January 1971 – 1995?)
100. Edinburgh A&F Club (Apr 1981) prev called Chrissie Leatham A&F Club (Oct 1980)
101. Falkirk A&F Club (Sept 1978 - )
102. Fort William A&F Club (21st Oct 1980 – per Dec 1980 B&F)
103. Gorebridge (cNov 1981) originally called Arniston A&F Club (for 2 months)
104. Greenhead Accordion Club (on the A69 between Brampton and Haltwistle)
105. Islay A&F Club (23 Apr 93 -
106. Kintore A&F Club (
107. Kirriemuir A&F Club (cSept 1981)
108. Lesmahagow A&F Club (Nov 1979 – closed May 2005)
109. M.A.F.I.A. (1966 – 1993?)
110. Monklands A&F Club (Nov 1978 – closed cApril 1983)
111. Morecambe A&F Club (joined Sept 1982)
112. Muirhead A&F Club (Dec 1994 -
113. Mull A&F Club
114. Newcastleton Accordion Club
115. Newburgh A&F Club (joined 2002 but founded much earlier – closed April 2011 when venue closed)
116. New Cumnock A&F Club (cMarch 1979)
117. Newton St Boswells Accordion Club (17th Oct 1972 see Apr 1984 obituary for Angus Park)
118. Ormiston Miners’ Welfare Society A&F Club (closed April 1992 – per Sept Editorial)
119. Reading Scottish Fiddlers (cMarch 1997
120. Renfrew A&F Club (original club 1974/5 lapsed after a few years then again in 1984)
121. Stirling A&F Club (Oct 1991 – closed 20000/01?)
122. Straiton Accordion Club (c1968 – closed March 1979)
123. Stranraer & District Accordion Club (1974 – per first edition)
124. Torthorwald A&F Club (near Dumfries)
125. Tranent A&F Club
126. Vancouver
127. Walmer (Bridge of Allan) A&F Club
128. Wellbank A&F Club
129. Yarrow (prev known as Etterick & Yarrow) (Jan 1989 – closed 2001/02)
Advertising rates
Back Page (colour) - £300
Full Page (colour) - £220
Full Page (b&w) - £140
Half Page (colour) - £110
Half Page (b&w) - £70
Quarter Page (colour) - £55
Quarter Page (b&w) - £35
Eighth Page - £18
Small Boxed £12