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Post by chuffedstokie on May 22, 2017 7:48:06 GMT
Talking with my Dad (91st year) this weekend he was telling me about Eric Newton an ex music teacher who used to play a clarinet in Hanley outside Boots/ woolworths. Anyone know what happened to him?.
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Post by murphthesurf on May 22, 2017 9:16:27 GMT
Don't know what happened to him, Chuff, but he ran the London Marathon a few times, playing his clarinet as he ran along. The TV cameras always used to pick him out.
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Post by pretzel on May 22, 2017 10:31:16 GMT
I don't know the bloke personally but always used to see him up 'anley duck and as mentioned before, running marathons whilst playing. A quick Google suggests he's still alive and tooting Alsager LionsNever thought about it before but my old music teacher was a guy called Peter Newton and now I think about it, he could have been his brother? Does anyone know? |
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Post by JoeinOz on May 22, 2017 10:40:34 GMT
He used to play When the saints go marching in. After that he did When the saints go marching in. Then he'd do a rendition of When the saints go marching in. He rounded it off with When the saints go marching in a couple of times.
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 22, 2017 10:50:41 GMT
Don't know what happened to him, Chuff, but he ran the London Marathon a few times, playing his clarinet as he ran along. The TV cameras always used to pick him out. Thanks murph. Passed on the info, he and my mum were doing some reminiscing. I'll have to get them to start writing stuff down. Right pair. |
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Post by lagwafis on May 22, 2017 10:56:04 GMT
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 22, 2017 11:31:33 GMT
Brilliant. I've just shown that to him. Made his day. ☺👍 Thanks. |
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Post by cooper67 on May 22, 2017 12:06:36 GMT
Many years ago I went away to Skegness and saw Eric busking in the High Street.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 12:15:13 GMT
Don't know what happened to him, Chuff, but he ran the London Marathon a few times, playing his clarinet as he ran along. The TV cameras always used to pick him out. Wow that's impressive murph As a teenager I once seriously twanged my banjo string while having sex with a lady....over a bag of plaster in the back of my van As a side note, I didn't realise the corner of the bag was slightly open until we got out of the back into the light and noticed we were covered head to toe in carlite browning dust |
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Post by lordb on May 22, 2017 12:15:40 GMT
jeeses H
Eric busker fucking Newton
good job I don't have a gun.
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Post by NassauDave on May 22, 2017 12:24:58 GMT
He used to play When the saints go marching in. After that he did When the saints go marching in. Then he'd do a rendition of When the saints go marching in. He rounded it off with When the saints go marching in a couple of times. And further up the road there was a bloke in a dirty mac singing a song apparently called" Seeenntttnnuuuuul". It too was a bit monotonous, but whoever said Stoke on Trent has produced nothing noteworthy in the music world was clearly dead wrong. Parliament Row was a music hot bed back in the day. |
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Post by marwood on May 22, 2017 12:29:25 GMT
I remember Eric "Busker" Newton very well from Hanley in the 1980s/90s.
He was a daily sight.
As a child, it always angered/confused me that a grown man who was "busking" - ie begging for money on the streets -could afford music stereo speakers, headphones, and the ability to record his own "Best of Eric (Busker) Newton" CD/Cassettes and flog them to hapless passers by.
And he was also nut brown - needless to say I didnt so much as give him a penny chew.
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Post by JoeinOz on May 22, 2017 12:30:47 GMT
He used to play When the saints go marching in. After that he did When the saints go marching in. Then he'd do a rendition of When the saints go marching in. He rounded it off with When the saints go marching in a couple of times. And further up the road there was a bloke in a dirty mac singing a song apparently called" Seeenntttnnuuuuul". It too was a bit monotonous, but whoever said Stoke on Trent has produced nothing noteworthy in the music world was clearly dead wrong. Parliament Row was a music hot bed back in the day. There was one near C&A who yelled 'Sennynell'. There was another who used to shut 'Sennow'. |
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Post by elystokie on May 23, 2017 2:28:29 GMT
And further up the road there was a bloke in a dirty mac singing a song apparently called" Seeenntttnnuuuuul". It too was a bit monotonous, but whoever said Stoke on Trent has produced nothing noteworthy in the music world was clearly dead wrong. Parliament Row was a music hot bed back in the day. There was one near C&A who yelled 'Sennynell'. There was another who used to shut 'Sennow'. It'll be a sad day when there's no Sentnull sellers in kiosks, I always get mine from them if I'm in town, they sometimes give you free stuff! |
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Post by JoeinOz on May 23, 2017 2:38:22 GMT
There was one near C&A who yelled 'Sennynell'. There was another who used to shut 'Sennow'. It'll be a sad day when there's no Sentnull sellers in kiosks, I always get mine from them if I'm in town, they sometimes give you free stuff! There's one up castle I can't stand. He tries to talk to me. |
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Post by elystokie on May 23, 2017 2:47:59 GMT
It'll be a sad day when there's no Sentnull sellers in kiosks, I always get mine from them if I'm in town, they sometimes give you free stuff! There's one up castle I can't stand. He tries to talk to me. Only ever bought one up Castle, seemed a friendly enough chap, weather was shit tho so I didn't hang around. Had to laugh when I bought one up Hanley and the people on the kiosk were trying to give me a tin of soup, I thought they'd mistaken me for someone who'd left their soup behind and kept telling them it wasn't mine  |
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