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Episode 4 - Featuring: A sad goodbye to Erik. A King's Award for David Chambers. Ron & John at the Farmers Market. The Tomb Raiders at The St Ives Corn Exchange.
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Speaker 2:Before we start with this month's podcast, some sad news. Eric, our intrepid newshound, has sadly passed away, losing his long battle with cancer just a couple of weeks ago. During his short nine years, eric touched the lives of many and brought smiles to countless faces. Eric has featured in every episode of the Rewaporter newspaper since its launch in 2018, and more recently, you can hear him barking on the Rewaport radio podcast jingle. Eric has probably received more letters than any dog, and many more since his passing. He will be sadly missed by us all. Rest in peace, eric.
Speaker 2:Coming up in this month's podcast, first we pay a visit to the home of David Chambers in Somersham. David has just been awarded the BEM in the King's New Year's Honours list and we talk to him about his story and what led to this prestigious award. Next, our intrepid roving reporters, john and Ron, pay a visit to the farmer's market in St Ives and have a chat with the stallholders and some members of the public. And finally, we pay a visit to the St Ives Corn Exchange where we catch up with Ron and his band, the Tomb Raiders, and we'll be playing some clips of them performing at the Blues Night.
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Speaker 4:Good morning. We're at the home of David Chambers in Somersham. David has just received the BEM in the King's New Year's Honours list. Good morning, david. Good morning. Thank you for inviting us to your home on this incredibly cold morning, minus three and a half degrees when I left the home. It's a beautiful day out there. It's beautiful, isn't it? At least the sun is shining and it's a lovely day, david. What we wanted to try and engage with you on is you've been an important member of the St Ives town for many years and we thought we'd like to find out one of the the background of everything. So when did you start at the Ivo?
Speaker 5:It was in September 1963, having just finished college, and, rather interestingly, my interview was in February, almost on my birthday, and I was interviewed by various good people, miss Grove, for instance, you might remember and when we got towards the end I was asked Mr Chambers, are you married? No, but I could be why? Well, if you were married, we could supply you with a council house, a teacher's house, because St Ives then was trying to encourage people to come and see. I was offered a house in High Lees, just down from school, and my wife was in Denmark. I hadn't seen her since Christmas when we got engaged in Copenhagen and so I phoned her up and said we're getting married. So it hastened the marriage. Then it did. We got married in the August and I didn't see her from the Christmas until the August when we got married in Copenhagen and came back. By that time I didn't even know whether I qualified as a teacher because the results weren't out until I got to Copenhagen. One of my colleagues from college was there and he got the results Fantastic.
Speaker 5:Thank goodness, I passed came back and took up residence in Ten High Lees.
Speaker 4:So what's your most abiding memory of the school during your time? Oh, there's so many lovely memories. I noticed that online, when you had so many compliments, mostly from past pupils, a lot of them were still calling you sir.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's funny, isn't it? Well, it's lovely. Do you know? The pupils at St Ivo were, by and large, great delight. They were really, really nice. They made me laugh. I think I made them laugh. I'm sure you did laugh.
Speaker 4:yeah, I think I made them laugh I'm sure you did, and um, no, just just 99 of them were absolutely brilliant. So of course you got the bem for your music work with some town band.
Speaker 5:Now tell us about how that started well, I've been a musician as a hobby. I actually went to college to do maths and physics, came out qualified in art and music, yes, and I kept art as my job and music as my hobby and I sang in the Cymads. Way back in the 60s Peterborough Opera Company. I did grand opera. I produced for them and designed sets and all sorts of bits and pieces Played in local bands, huntingdon Tech Music School, I remember that I was the first brass teacher to teach, I think that was 1967 or 68.
Speaker 4:I remember taking my daughter, katie, there because she was doing what we called the Vial Din at the time. Yeah, of course you were.
Speaker 5:With Ray Salt started it. Yes, and they could have music tuition on Saturday mornings, instruments supplied and it cost 10 shillings a year for them to have it. It was wonderful, wonderful.
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Speaker 5:I did 14 years there, yeah, but then we moved in about in 1977, we moved here to Somersham, to this lovely big old place, yes, yes, and to buy it I mean 18 and a half grand. I play for this, you know when you think yes, and my children went to the local primary school and at that time the music in this county was amazing in Huntingdonshire. Huntingdonshire education department was fabulous. Mr Curry knew everybody.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes. This was before it was amalgamated into Cambridgeshire.
Speaker 5:Even before it was amalgamated with Peterborough.
Speaker 5:Yes, oh right yes, but we had we had youth brass bands, youth wind bands.
Speaker 5:Laurie Hurst and David Reed, who conducted the brass band, was teaching brass at the primary school here, right, and he was world champion cornet player. Oh yes, he only died last year, oh right, and his funeral was packed at the new Hunt's crematorium. Anyway, dave, he got 10, 15 children learning to play brass instruments, my youngsters among them, although they were at Huntington Tech as well, and a group of them cornered me one day and they were only 10, 11 years old. David, can we have a brass band in Somersham? And I said, well, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 5:And it just so happened over at the Palace, as we call it. What was the social club? Yes, yes, um, there was an old fellow there who'd been a b-fly bait tuber player for them, right, and I spoke to him, bill, and I said, um, what can we do? How do I go about starting? He said I'll find your place to practice, which eventually became the British Legion Hall, right, all right. And the only free time I had was a Sunday morning. And so, from 10 to 12 on a Sunday morning, we started in around about Easter 1980, with a group of 13 of them, one or two friends from St Ives lots of youngsters, yes, they could hardly play a note. Yes, yes.
Speaker 5:And so I, during that first sort of period, just before Somersham Carnival, sort of got a group of friends to help us out and with the agreement of the Carnival Committee, we did a little concert in the church during carnival week. Quite simple, and it didn't last long. And I said it was full. The church was absolutely packed and we asked for collection and I said do you, do you want to, would you like me, me, to start the band again in Somersham Because it had folded in 1980, 1960, sorry, because of telly. Telly killed a lot of bands.
Speaker 5:Right right and because they got something else to do in the evenings. Of course yes. And I said to the audience. I said now, would you like to have a brass band in Somersham again? And they all shouted yes.
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Speaker 5:I said, okay, I will start my first band practice proper at the beginning of September on Sunday morning in the proper at the beginning of september on sunday morning in the palace at the legion hall. And um, so we did, and the first day four of the old band turned up. Oh, we started with them and we've been here ever since yes, and you're still going, and still going.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and, and the reward busier than ever. Yes, yes, and the reward now is that it's been recognised by the King. Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 5:And at the moment I have a rather strange band because it's mainly a group of older people who've returned to playing or have started playing later in life. Right right, I've had some really talented, really talented people. Many of them have gone on to play in top bands in the country and in the Royal Marines Band. At least three of them have been in that and now I've got a group of At the moment I have a band. These are a real team. Fantastic. We laugh most of the time. A good sign? A good sign, yes.
Speaker 1:So David, absolutely intrigued. I mean congratulations on the award. It's just fantastic getting this, but when did the King give you a call and tell you it was coming? He didn't actually.
Speaker 5:It was what happened happened. I got a letter right at the end of november in a white on his majesty's services envelope first time I've ever had a white one instead of a brown one and I thought what on earth is this? Opened, ited it up and it was beautifully printed out. And I've got it in the other room and I thought my God, you have been proposed to receive an honour in the King's New Year's Honour List. Well, please don't tell anybody. Are you willing to accept it? Well, of course you do, don't you.
Speaker 1:So do you have any idea who proposed you and how it came about? I do now. You do now.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it was Roy Fab, whose daughters I taught, and his son for a bit in here, because I used to give lessons in here for a pound to go to band funds.
Speaker 4:That was one of the ways I raised money, right, right, you used to give a half an hour lesson.
Speaker 5:Private lessons for a pound, but they had to put the money in the box themselves.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes I wasn't taking any myself, no, no. So I'm fascinated by this because I know very little of King's Honours. But having been told this and now discovering it yourself, and discovering that the press already know do, does the palace or someone write to you or ring you up, or somebody pop round with a little medal for you, or do you have to go and get it? What?
Speaker 5:happens apparently that the BEM is the lowest of the OBEs, mbes and things, but it's, particularly from what I gather, community it is, yeah, and what they do is with the BEM. It's the Lord Lieutenant of the County who presents you the medal. When that is, I don't know yet, but apparently we get invited to Buckingham Palace for a garden party.
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Speaker 4:Excellent.
Speaker 1:There's something to look forward to.
Speaker 4:I hope you've got a new dress for it. David, will you be wearing your band outfit?
Speaker 5:I might well go in my I would In my band white coat Exactly. I've actually had a new white one given to me. John Rolfe who you know, john Rolfe, I guess, yeah, who's retired had the most beautiful designer white American tuxedo and it's too small for him now, so he used it for posh occasions and it fits me a treat, oh, excellent. And so I think I might go in that with a band tie.
Speaker 1:So off, you go to the garden party and you realise the River Porter will be looking for a picture of you in your white coat and we will actually be looking forward to actually publishing that and hearing all about it, because they've never invited me along and I don't think John's been in either Nowhere near. I think I'm on some sort of blacklist.
Speaker 4:Actually, I have to say, my father was awarded BEM back in the 1960s. He was a policeman, police welfare officer and it was for his work with charity stuff as well that he got it. But I think it is actually one of the nicer awards because it is really about the community, isn't it? I mean, a lot of the gongs that are given out, particularly the CBEs, mbes, etc. Seem to go to ranking RAF people. I mean, a lot of the gongs that are given out, particularly the CBEs, mbes, et cetera, seem to go to ranking RAF people as sort of a reward for being in the armed forces, rather than actually doing something constructive for the community, which the BEM is about. Yes, of course it is.
Speaker 5:Can I just say one thing about the band? Yeah, please do. I mean I must thank them, for it's nice to know that people like you. It's just a big surprise. But I do want to say Somersham Town Band is the only working brass band left in the old area of Huntingdonshire. Years gone by, godmanchester had a band. Brass band left in the old area of Huntingdonshire. Years gone by, godmanchester had a band. Ramsey had a band, kim Bolton had a band, patworth had a band, st Neots had a band, st Ives had a band. Did I say that Perhaps I had no? Somersham had a band. We had none in the 60s and 70s. St Ives tried, but it was basically the RAF Witton band playing another day and Somersham is the only one left Now.
Speaker 5:We welcome players from the whole of Huntingdonshire. People come from Eton Socon to play every Thursday night. They're a very welcoming band. They're absolutely lovely. We're running a training band for youngsters who are learning to play brass instruments and we would love to see them, because music education at the moment in schools is terrible. It's awful, as is art teaching at the moment. The support they get for the arts is appalling and I would like to say anybody, any ex-players. We'd love to see ex-players come back. We've got instruments we can offer people.
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Speaker 1:One last question before we wrap up this morning how many of your students got away with calling you Chunky?
Speaker 5:Well, do you want me to tell you how I got the name? First, go on, let's do that. 1965, teaching art. And they had a group. In those days they used to teach the girls and the boys separately for art and needlework and, yes, and metal work and so forth, and they got a group of about 14 girls. They didn't know quite what to do with, just for an hour a week. So I got given in the old room 24, by the way, for ex-pupils this group of girls to do design with 15-year-olds, and apparently they were lovely, I I mean that, just great, but a bit lively, and apparently I used to say if you lot don't settle down and get on with your work, chunk, and I used to hit the table.
Speaker 5:I didn't do that, I banged the table and three of them decided to call me Chunky Chunky Chambers because of that and when I retired in 2002, those three all turned up to my retirement party and I noticed one of them has actually put a comment on the St Ives Facebook as well.
Speaker 1:So you know that's how I got it. Some lovely comments made. It was obviously very highly thought of and very supported. Well, the thing was, I got it. Some lovely comments made. It was obviously very highly thought of and very supported. Well, the thing was, I enjoyed it. Well, david, from John and I's point of view, it's been wonderful meeting you this morning. Thank you for that. It's a pleasure. But again, congratulations on the award. I think it's amazing, wonderful thing for you. We look forward to hearing all about the garden party.
Speaker 5:And I hope everybody around here will stop bowing to me as I walk past sorry, I didn't tiff my hat and here's a couple of clips of the Somersham Brass Band © BF-WATCH.
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Speaker 1:Well, here I am, ron, here I'm actually at the farmer's market and it's 1st of February. It's the turn of the town to actually stage a market this week Very busy market as always, brilliant market this Just having some wonderful time as we walk around. It's a bit chilly this morning, but let's see who we've got going here. And I've just run into matthew, the man who runs the snug bar that's for the new little mini pub in in free church passage. Morning, matt, morning, how we doing. All right, all right. Nice cold morning. It is a nice cold morning, yeah, that's it how's things going with you at the snow?
Speaker 8:yeah, very well, yeah, very well. We've had a really good Christmas and we've had a very busy January. Dry January doesn't seem to be a thing in St Ives. We've been really busy throughout and we've got a busy year planned. Lots of new things coming up at the Snuggs.
Speaker 1:We don't do dry stuff very well do we. No, we don't at all. No, that's it. A bit of music, a bit of beer. I mean, you know, this is what St Ives is all about. It is, it is. Yeah, it's in our history, that's it. Well, john's just joined us as well. Hello, johnny, good morning everybody.
Speaker 4:Morning, john. I've just been to a meeting about Green Week in St Ives. 7th of June to the 15th is week in St Ives. It's part of a national green, the big green week, apparently. Anyway, more on that later. Matt, you know that you've heard that we're going to have some 600 celebrations. Yes, lots of troops from the Civil War, reenactment people coming down and filling the town with lots of noise, drums, you know, shotguns and all sorts of things. We would love to have a nice beer, say the Roundhead beer or Cavalier beer.
Speaker 8:Can you arrange something? I'm sure we can sort something out. I think a Roundhead IPA or a Roundhead Pale Ale is definitely doable. So we'll speak to one of our suppliers and see if we can sort something out, because that would be just really fitting for the celebration. Yeah, it would be great. Leave it with me.
Speaker 4:And if we can have a penny towards the fund, that would be great.
Speaker 3:And each one sold.
Speaker 4:So get down, come and buy the Roundhead IPA as quick as you can. When do you think we can get that in shops? Easter, a couple of months.
Speaker 8:Yeah, a couple of months, yeah. Yeah, a couple of months yeah a couple of months.
Speaker 1:Leave it with me. Yeah, excellent, this sounds exciting stuff.
Speaker 4:I would look forward to this. Well, all the musketeers will be in the town centre firing off, and the drummers and everything. It'll be a fantastic weekend. That sounds excellent.
Speaker 1:That's the 26th or 27th of July 27th of July. Brilliant, brilliant. We look forward to that one. Right brilliant forward to that. One right, brilliant right. Well, moving on. Thank you, chaps. Thanks matt. Well, here I am, back at the farmer's market and we're talking to, uh, chris jones from patworth brewery, another beer drinker. So, yes, how's, how's things going?
Speaker 9:with you, chris. Well, we're very grateful that dry jan January is finally finished and now it's February. People can start drinking our beer again you noticed a bit of a slowdown, did you, january's always a terrible month and it's not made any better by this dry January.
Speaker 4:Nonsense kills my profits any market stall in January is difficult because of the weather as well. People, isn't it? People?
Speaker 9:don't come out in such big numbers. I am freezing my pervertibles off today. Yes, you don't get too hot. I'm looking forward to getting home and having a beer in front of the fire.
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Speaker 1:How long have you been doing the market here? Do you come regular?
Speaker 9:Only about a year. We generally don't really do very much market type business, but we decided to do the Sniders Market because we're based locally up in Erie and it was just a nice PR exercise, as much as anything, and give our customers, local customers, a chance to find our beer beer on the market and when you're here. Does it work well for you? Yeah, it's. It's great for just really keeping a little bit of cash flow going into the business. It gets our name out and about a bit more. Yeah, it's definitely a big help well, good news for you.
Speaker 4:I've run out of beer at home, so I might just.
Speaker 3:Oh, you might have to take a couple of minutes. Yeah, I'll just do that in a second.
Speaker 4:The person we just interviewed just before is the guy who owns the Snug Bar. Yes, and I don't know if you know him, but anyway, we were just mentioning to him that in July, journey 6, from 27th of July, there's going to be a massive, big re-enactment of the civil war in the town centre, really, and we're hoping to get, you know, thousands of people to come to it. And one of the things that's been suggested as a way of sort of marketing it is to have a round head or Cavalier beer, right? So I don't know whether Pat Woodglury would like to be involved in producing one.
Speaker 9:Well, I don't know what side I'd pitch myself on to be honest honest, I'm sort of semi-republican but I'm not exactly a royalist, but I'm not really around it. I don't know.
Speaker 4:Matt said he'd get something sorted from some of his supplies. But we could say to him you do one and you could do the other one. It'd be great, wouldn't it?
Speaker 9:oh well, I'd, probably I'd, but mine would have to be a lot better than his. Well, it will be, will it? Oh yes, it'll be brewed locally. It won't be some nonsense pitched up from some national brewer. I can see we're causing some trouble. It's better to think of a name. If the River Porter can come up with a suitable name, I'm guessing it would have to be a Cromwellian. It's going to be yes for you and here, right in the town centre, it's a cromwellian beer, I think so that's probably a good good.
Speaker 4:Could we, could we make mention of a traffic cone on his head? Well, well, that could be on the actual image, shouldn't it?
Speaker 9:it could be crumbling from one with this graphic. Not hard to find. I've got lots of them on my phone as well. Yeah, yeah, so do I take it, you read the riverport um, I do online. Excellent, did you know?
Speaker 4:we were doing a River Porter radio.
Speaker 9:I'd heard about it, but I'd never heard it. Very easy to get to you.
Speaker 4:Just click on the button on the River Porter website and it takes you through to the. This will be our fourth one. It will indeed. All right, it's going down very well. It's good.
Speaker 9:It's good, chris, thanks very much for taking the time. My pleasure. Now, what beer can?
Speaker 1:I sell you, then I'm looking forward to the Cone Hat beer.
Speaker 4:Yes, Cone Hat. Yeah, the Cone Hat. Cone Hat beer Cone.
Speaker 9:Hat beer. Decide your name. Ron's the guy for good names. Yeah, All right. Well, if I'll make sure there's a free bottle in it for you, Don't worry, I'll buy some now.
Speaker 1:I'm desperate, I'm moving on.
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Speaker 1:Radio. Well, certainly seem to be covering the actual beers and breweries this morning. Let's see who else we've got. Well, I'm just standing outside the White Hart and looking down through the length of the market and certainly a really good turnout this morning. It's a freezing, cold morning but one of the most sort of almost tradition now actually here at the market as I look down is george's cakes. Now, george's bakery is actually. He's been a bit controversial over the years with different things that's happened to poor george, but he is one of the most popular places and one of the only stalls you see on the market with an actual queue waiting to get there.
Speaker 1:And this morning, just as always, big, long queue, people all waiting to try and get their special cakes from george, ladies really enjoying big smiles. Well, here's a, an old face we see regularly at the market is brock will be spies. So good morning, good morning, that's it. Who am I speaking to? I'm john from brockleby's Pies. So good morning, good morning, that's it. Who am I speaking to? I'm John from Brockleby's. Hello, john, how's things going for you today? It's a nice, cold morning for you, very fresh this morning yes, it's going quite well.
Speaker 10:St Ives is always a good market for us. We've got a lot of good regulars around here. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I've seen you here actually over the years really, so you obviously find it successful, do?
Speaker 10:you. Oh yes, it's always a good market for it.
Speaker 4:What's your best selling pie?
Speaker 10:The award winner, the one that won pie of the year in the British Pie Awards in 23, which was a steak and ale with Stilton called the Mew and Blue Pie.
Speaker 4:That looks good. It looks like I'm probably going gonna have to buy one of those now I've just been looking at your.
Speaker 10:Your a board here. You've got a wild deer venison and a red wine sauce, that's always a good seller. I've sold out my large ones, but I've still got a couple of the smaller ones left and what is the other one here?
Speaker 1:I saw something else here hang on wild beaver pie. That worries me. That's the steak, and ale yeah.
Speaker 10:And when he created it 24 years ago he used an ale from oakland called beaver ale yeah no, it's a beef steak with beaver. We don't use the same ale anymore, but we still get our ale from the veil of beaver because beaver has another.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we don't want to go there.
Speaker 1:But one thing that's coming out of our little chat down here this morning is have you noticed, everybody we've talked to today has got something to do with beer or ale.
Speaker 4:Yes, absolutely, ale's right, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is obviously the place to come for beer.
Speaker 4:I was talking to John earlier, because where his stall is it's more or less on its own. It's well away from the others, and on Easter Saturday, which I think is the 19th of April, we've got some Morris dancing coming to the town and so we might have to move your stall along to create the space for the Morris dancers. But that's something to look out for. You'll have two Morris dancing sets coming to dance away, hopefully in slightly warmer weather.
Speaker 1:I think they're just going to be worried in case they pinch his pies. I'll be guarding them, no worries. Oh well, good luck on the day.
Speaker 6:John, thanks for that. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Well, here I am just standing out in the market, again out in a freezing cold morning, and I've just run into an old friend. It's Mike. Hello, mike, hello, how are you? Are you a regular at the market, sort of yeah.
Speaker 9:I've decided.
Speaker 4:I wanted a pie for dinner tonight. Well, that's kind of oh which one have you got? Rather strange Moo and Lou, moo and Lou, oh, okay, beef steak, ale and stilt, oh excellentilt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were just talking to the stall holder there crayfish and smoked salmon fish cakes are good. They're really good oh, there's something to look forward to as well. There we are thank you very much. Have a nice day, thank you you're listening to Riverport Radio.
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Speaker 2:Radio. Well, here I am. It's a freezing cold evening, it's about minus two, but I'm braving the elements, going to see my mate Ronnie at the Corn Exchange With his blues band Approaching the Corn Exchange now. Not many people about on this cold and frosty night, but I'm sure there's plenty of people waiting inside.
Speaker 7:Hi, how are you? You all right? Good to see you. Yeah, Good to see you Looking forward to seeing you play tonight.
Speaker 2:Oh well, we'll see how it goes. I've heard some of you playing recently. Ronnie, I think recorded something one of the rehearsals that you had. Oh yeah he did A while back Some real nice stuff and we played out on one of the podcasts, I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you said he was going to do that and I didn't get around to looking at it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:So yeah, he should do it.
Speaker 2:You have to Because we played with you down here a few years ago and I had that fun. Oh yeah, that was the Raise the Roof. Raise the Roof. That was the one. I don't know how much we raised, but anyway, well, it got sorted. It got sorted. Yeah, it must have been us then, but I'm looking forward to hearing you guys.
Speaker 6:Yeah, well, we'll have a bit of fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it's about.
Speaker 6:It's good to see you.
Speaker 2:So here I am now, inside the Corn Exchange, upstairs in the Riverport Bar and, as you can hear, there's a few people around. In fact it's a full house. Come to see Ronnie and his band, the Tomb Raiders. The band are all set up ready to go. Lovely atmosphere up here. I can see Ronnie in the background there now. So good evening, ronnie. So rocking Ronnie Westlip, how are you, mate?
Speaker 1:Amazing, how nice to see you.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, it's a surprise.
Speaker 1:We're all set up and ready to go. Yeah, so yeah, people are coming in. It's a full house, mate Looking good, it's looking like a good turnout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, A full house, yeah, absolutely, On a freezing bitter night, you know people have turned out to see you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we're really pleased with what's going on. Yeah, so we've just done kicking off in about 10 minutes or so.
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Speaker 2:It looks like Ronnie and the Tomb Raiders are getting ready to roll.
Speaker 7:Unchain my heart, baby. Set me free, cause you don't. You don't love me anymore. Unchain my heart, baby, let me go. Baby, let me go. Unchain my heart. You don't love me no more when I call you on the telephone.
Speaker 6:Tell me that you ain't at home. Unchain my heart, baby. Let me go. Unchain my heart. Cause, baby, I know guitar solo. Thank you. If all you give is money, take a look at yourself. If all you give is money, take a look at yourself. You see I'm spending my money under the wind, taking money from town where there's, where there's no bridge.
Speaker 2:Well, that just about wraps it up for this month's podcast. We hope you've enjoyed listening in and please join us again next time here on Riverport Radio.
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