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\nThe Folk at the Pitts club held a songwriting competition. Al Goodwin’<\/b>s Always You<\/i> was the winner and the music \/ tabs were published in Folks Issue 7 May \/ June 1979. According to Folks – “Al Goodwin<\/b> – a talented singer and writer of ballads, was a regular visitor to Folk at the Pitts. His most popular songs include Golden Fleece, Mr Watt<\/i> and Humphrey the Spide<\/i>r – written to prevent children being scared of spiders.”<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DNHWRYM474I\/UB74AdloG-I\/AAAAAAAAAo8\/RdfWfanbYnA\/s1600\/6a0133f436b043970b0133f4372138970b.jpg\")
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\nThe following are comments transferred from the original Hobo site on Vox.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n1. Martin from Al’s band Nic Lightnin (early 80’s) would love to hear any news about Al.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n2. If anybody knows where Al Goodwin<\/b> is now – Martin who used to be in his Coventry band Nic Lightening would be pleased to hear of \/ from him. If you have any info – leave comment or message Hobo and we’ll pass it on.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nEd – Note the connection with Martin has been lost owing to Vox blogs closing down.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n3. Hello again, Martin here – You mentioned that you are able to add more details to my post regarding<\/span><\/div>\n
\ninformation about Al, I was a bit silly not to provide more info at the time. As there is no edit button, I would be grateful if you could do that for me. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAl had wrote a couple of rock operas, I think the first one was a learning process, and I didn’t hear too many of the songs from that, but the latter, we gigged a lot of the songs, it was about time travel and featured a “Dr W. Downs” who had a “mirrored sphere” . The band was called Nic Light’nin after another character<\/span><\/div>\n
\nfrom the opera. Al’s vocals were amazing.. people would look up and do a double take when he started to sing as his voice was spot on and very powerful. We were very much the backing for Al, and looking back, I think the idea of the band was to take the songs out of the folk arena and into the more contemporary rock audience, which on a very small scale, we did do around the Coventry bars of 1981\/2 . I think we made some good music and I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who knows of Al and his music and can enlighten me as to what he got up to later on, as I moved out of Cov and back up to North Wales and lost touch.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nBroadgate Gnome<\/span><\/div>\n
\n4. Ah1 , now a bit of a distant bell rings there. I heard about this and may have even met him. Around that time I was auditioning in Coventry (in an old theatre place, up the road behind the Odeon) One of the people was called I think Mark?, who was a singer but wanted to move into acting. ( he actually got the leading role, and after touring with us( a dubious experience) had his own review slot on a channel 4 music show.) he told me about something very similar and may have been involved in it. More may come to me.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nDave<\/span><\/div>\n
\nPosted by: Broadgate Gnome | 04\/30\/2007 at 07:37 PM<\/span><\/div>\n
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