This stub had my name on it so I could collect it at the box office. Holmfirth is a small village in West Yorkshire which is well known for being the location for the filming of 'Last of the Summer Wine'. This gig took place in 1993. I guess this was a Friday when I was up in Yorkshire as I was teaching at the time - it may have been half term.
Whippersnapper were a folk band who featured the well-known violinist Dave Swarbrick (from Fairport Convention, who passed away in 2016
following earlier reports of his death in a newspaper obituary column in 1999), Chris Leslie (who would go on to join Fairport Convention) and two musicians from a band called Dando Shaft: Martin Jenkins [who has sadly since passed away] and the wonderful guitarist Kevin Dempsey.
I think I saw them about 15 times in all in small venues across Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
I had a few recordings of theirs on cassette tape back in the day.
There are no recordings of theirs still available in formats other than cassette or LP sadly.
There are a few poor quality recordings from concerts.
Kevin Dempsey is still active and has played with a number of other bands, including Uiscedwr. He has a
Soundcloud page. This is one of the songs that he used to sing with Whippersnapper... lovely...
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