FOLK legends Lindisfarne finally arrived in Bewdley - a lifelong dream, the lead singer joked - on Friday to the delight of their Wyre Forest fans.
The six-piece band, which hails from the north east, provoked an outbreak of foot-tapping among the well-heeled festival audience as they performed a litany of songs from the last 30 years.
When they aired classics like Fog on the Tyne, famously murdered by Gazza, people even exercised their vocal chords.
Lindisfarne's sound, an upbeat drums, guitar, mandolin and mouth organ combination - anchored by lead singer Alan Hull's powerful voice - also kept up interest through their newer material.
Hull also proved a witty entertainer as he relentlessly plugged the group's CDs on sale in the interval, raising the spectre of Geordie children going without shoes if the audience did not dig deep.
Going by the - relatively - enthusiastic response the folk ballads and quicker tempo tunes elicited, the next generation in Newcastle will be almost as well shod as the audience. FA
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