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Hi Dave, hope you and the family are fit and well. 
 
Sorting out the photo suitcase on Good Friday I found more Slade goodies. 
 
Two Popster magazines which open into posters, early 70s, Slade's crazee nite booklet, Castle Donnington programme, some pro photographs from Slade's show at The Bham Hippodrome in 77 (first time i got to see the mighty ones) and other show souvenirs. I'll scan em in and send and if any of them aren't in your collection, feel free to post em on your site. 
 
I have also tried to email you a video I have found on VLC Media of Slade performing Gudbuy to Jane. The quality is immense but it comes up as 'experiencing technical difficulties, try again' 
so here are the details: 
 
Slade - Gudbuy T'Jane.flv - media player, have a look. You may even be in the crowd! 
 
Changing the subject. 
 
Any Slade news? Do any of Slade contact you still? Dare we still dream of a reunion? I saw them about 9 or 10 times but would still dearly love to see them again, even if it were a Tv special / unplugged type of thing. 
 
Anyway, no harm in dreaming is there, there's so much love out there for them, i'm sure it could work. 
 
All the best, 

Dave, I remembered your name from Chris Charlesworth's biography. I first heard
Take Me Bak Ome on Scott Muni's "Things from England" 4 PM Friday show on
WNEW-FM. This spring, i was thrilled by Cheap Trick's version of When the Lights
R Out; it's always been one of my favorites, and Cheap Trick was our local band
in Madison, Wisconsin, where I went to college.  (A local DJ there on WIBA-FM
teasingly mentioned "those masters of subtlety...Slade!" when he played them
instead of the Eagles and stuff like that.) I remember visiting England in 1973
and hearing "We'll KIll 'Em at the Hot Club Tonight," the SkweeZe Me B-side, on
the radio (Luxembourg?) in Mousehole!

I used to have an annual that wrote up Slade's Earl's Court show. In there was a
picture of girls at a Photo-While-U-Wait booth, one wearing a Noddy Holder top
hat. Is this among your collectables? I'd love to hunt it down on E-bay if i
knew the title of the book.

Thank you for your help,

Chris Davis (Email 27 Januaary 2010)

(Dave - The book is Rock On The Road by Nick Gold)

Hi Dave

Hi Dave, just having read some items on your fabulous website.

I just want to let you know how much I appreciate the good work you've done!  And a lot of Slade fans will feel the same, I'm sure. 

Having approximately the same age (born 1959) and somewhat having had the same Slade-craze ( I founded a very unofficial Slade-fanclub in the 70's) it's reassuring for me, though my wife and kids won't agree, that, still listening to Slade records at the age of 50, is totally acceptable and should be considered quite natural. 

Having seen the boys twice "live" I must say how much I envy you having been able to come so close to them and their families.  Each year , my family and I spent our holidays in Britain, from Cornwall to Ullapool, and each year I hope for a spontaneous encounter with Dave, Don, Nod or Jim... only it never, of course, occurs.  But, hoping can do no harm, as they say.

Meanwhile, there's so many good songs to choose from and enjoy the rich and wonderful music the guys left, for everyone to enjoy.  Keep up the good work, Dave.

Warm winter's greetings from Belgium, Jos Dewaele (Email December 2009)

2nd Email from Steve from Gravesend

Here are the photos I promised you. I am the person in the centre proudly sitting on my bike. I have remembered that I in fact won 2nd prize on the stage at Hammersmith and my brother got 1st prize the next night. The night I won the compere was a sleezy black Radio 1 DJ whose name I can't remember (he was Greg Edwards - Dave) and when we were backstage waiting to go on he propositioned the young girl who won wearing a leotard, fishnets and a top hat. It is amazing what your memory can drag up as I can remember looking at her and thinking " she looks nothing like Noddy Holder.

The crowd cheered her for obvious reasons and I got some boos. I blew everyone a kiss and got more boos!

Steve Chambers, Gravesend (Email December 2009)

1st Email from Steve from Gravesend

What a brilliant site, I have been looking for something like this for years. I saw Slade 3 times, at Earls Court, Hammersmith and the New Victoria.Would you believe that at Hammersmith I won the  best dressed Noddy competition on the stage and won all of their LP's which obviously I already had. My brother went the next night wearing my hat and won which I think was second prize and got a cassette recorder. I still have photos of us all dressed up in my Mum's garden before we left for London.

Email from Don Powell - He's seen the website

Hi Dave

EMAIL FROM PETE HAWKINS

Hi Dave,

EMAIL FROM PEZ

Hello Dave. 
 
Feel free to print the comments. My name is Perry Bennett but you can call me Pez and yes i do live in Brum. 
 
I was just having a look through my Slade memorabilia. I still have The Slade Papers which I won for doing the fan club crossword '75 time; still have my Crystal Beamer; My Flame paperback; the George Tremlett Slade book; The Chris Charlesworth Slade story; Noddy's biog, signed ofcourse and i still have the films from the Slade In Flame viewer but sadly have mislaid the viewer itself. I did actually cut the films into individual scenes and make proper slides of them so i could view them in a more traditional viewer. 
Things lost along the way are all my Slade newsletters from 74 'til the end, a bomber jacket with the Slade cartoon iron on transfer on the back and most sadly my ticket for the gig at Brum Town Hall in '78 which was signed by all the band. :( I'm hoping it will turn up in my dad's house but it's looking unlikely. 
 
I enjoyed your site and defer to you as the top fan because of re-starting the fan club. I was never into hero worship of the boys but I really loved the music and still do and did think Jim Lea was the coolest. 
 
Top ten Slade songs in no particular order: 
 
Do We Still Do It? The Bangin Man Gypsy Roadhog When The Lights Are Out (perfect pop / rock song) Harmony Kill Em At The Ho 
t Club Tonight She Did It To Me Still The Same Big Apple Blues and .................definitely Slade's finest moment.............. 
 
Look At Last Nite !!!! 
 
Fave albums, in no particular order: Play It Loud Slade Alive Slayed Sladest (the best album cover aswell) Old New Borrowed and Blue Nobody's Fools Whatever Happened to Slade You Boys Make Big Noise 
 
Worst record, this is probably obvious and Chas Chandler was 100% right .... Return To Base. What a disappointment. Dreadful. 
 
Best memory of Slade...........Brum Hippodrome May 77 on their return from the 2 year American stint. Pure heaven as this was the first time i got to see them in concert. 
 
Biggest disappointment..........not being able to get a ticket for the Brum Odeon gig in 75. 
 
Proudest fan time........ the triumph at Reading. Being able to say, "Told you so," to my mates who said they would die terribly and they were finished. 
 
Fun time..........all the girls at school used to give me the Slade clips from their teen mags and i did amass a vast collection and made an immense scrapbook. One of the the things that disappeared along the way. 
 
I could go on for hours but sleep calls. 
 
Best of luck to you and yours and if you are planning a trip to Slade country drop me a line and i'll buy you a pint in The Trumpet. 
 
Regards, Pez (9 October 2009)

 
Hi Dave. 
 
I'm having a good time at the moment reading your Slade pages. It seems we are of a similar ilk and have many similar memories of the years supporting Slade. 
 
I was under the impression a fan would have to be going some to be more of a fan than i was / am ; i too have lived and breathed Slade since .....yes........ Look wot u dun but it seems you may have the edge! 
 
 I was a young lad, 10 years of age, at the Ideal Home Exhibition at Bingley Hall in Birmingham taking in all the latest things for the home. Playing over the tannoy at regular intervals was Look Wot U Dun. I loved its hypnotic, stomping beat and melody. It has never left my head! 
 
That was the beginning of my memories and love for the band which seem to so closely resemble your own. 
 
Let me know if you wish to swap memories and stories and i'll write back when i have finished reading your site. 
 
Regards, Pez  (3 October 2009)

EMAIL FROM ALAN COCKAYNE

All - you might see in this website many pics of my old mate Kevin Massey from East Ham. He now lives in Brighton - and we're back in touch.

Here's a recent photo he sent me of him and a couple of friends....

Dave (October 2009)

And my other old Slade mate Julyet Burcombe. She's now known as Lady Stardust and lives nr Brighton too. She sings with her band called (surprise surprise) Earholy Catstrophe.

Dave (October 2009)

Dave

Great fan site. Do you have any photos of Dave Hill with YOB1?

Sam, Birmingham (Email 1 November 2009)

Sam - found some pictures that I've scanned. Here you go. Dave

EMAIL FROM  PIO

Hi Dave,
It shows how some dreams are coming true and it doesn't matter that's
half of it.

EMAIL FROM STUART SOUTHALL

Hello Dave .. just came across your web site ..by accident really ..but I'm very impressed.. any way.. just thought I would share my claim to Slade fame.. I was born in Wolverhampton in 1971 and now live in Cornwall.. My father .. who died in 2001.. worked for 30 years at Don Everall Ford car dealership on the Bilston Road ( I think.). It's long since gone now... but my dad use to tell me that he  and his work mates use have their lunch out side around the back of the garage.. opposite there was a Scout hut..In this hut a 'right row' use to pour out .. and he and his mates use to throw old  wheel nuts etc at the roof to upset the occupants..as you might have guessed it turned out to be Slade rehearsing in there..He said they would 'run out and they exchange swear words' etc!! This went on for ages..but it would always end in both sides having a laugh about it... some time later my dad would drink in the 'Trumpet Pub'..(My dad told me every one called it th c#*nt and trumpet).. and Noddy would frequent when in town.. He (Noddy) would remember the scout hut frolics when he chatted with my Dad...one one occasion Noddy singed a five pound note for him and he kept it in wallet for years..but one day accidentally spent it... he went rushing back to the shop about a hour later ..but it had gone from the till.... any way.. that's it.. thanks for listening...Stuart
(Email 22 November 2009)