VENUE GEORGE IV, LONDON
DATE 21/11/2022
Gig appearances by Dave Cousins, mainman and founder member of The Strawbs, are rare nowadays – he reminds us more than once, it’s over two years since he last performed live at all. Tonight, though, in what proves to be an affecting evening, he’s motivated not by any personal aggrandisement or new product promotion, but by his desire to raise money for charity to provide water tanks to communities in remote areas of the world.
Debbie Manners, Chair of SafeHands, a charity partner in the projects benefitting from tonight, interviews Cousins about his childhood in Chiswick and growing up in Twickenham and Hounslow. This prompts many memories – sadness that his childhood home has long since disappeared beneath tarmac, shovelling horse manure for the…
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