Hollywood musical talent and
MODERN MuSIC
Cockermouth is fast becoming a hotbed of
Musical talent with such an array of Venues
hosting Live music every weekend; it is no
wonder that people from across West Cumbria
are flocking to the small Market Town to enjoy
what is on offer.
The likes of The Fletcher Christian, which The largest hotel in Cockermouth is the
is a Blues Music Haven with its constant Georgian fronted TROuT HOTEL, which
stream of Blues Bands and acts passing still has faded photos on its walls of Bing
through their doors every single Sunday Crosby who stayed at The Trout Hotel
and odd Saturday, have earned them a when he was fishing the River. He was
reputation as a solid, sound respectable rubbish mind; it took him Three days to
Live Music Venue. catch one.
Bing stayed a here in the summer of
On the other hand Bar 1761, Meriender, 1966 which is interesting enough, as this
Neo’s Cafe and of course, The Kirkgate is the man who is cited as among the
Centre and others are all fighting the most popular musical acts in history
cause to put audiences in front of and is currently the most electronically
Talented Musicians and Artists. recorded human voice in history.
And not forgetting that with the sad
retirement of Brian at Northern Sounds in So what, I hear you ask, it’s only Bing
Workington, Cockermouth now has the Crosby….. OK, however, this is the same
only Music shop left in West Cumbria, in guy that was good friends with a
the world Famous ‘Billy Bowman’s Music guitarist by the name of Les Paul, now
Shop’. Billy is a Story on his own, ‘watch things get really interesting.
out for our next Issue’

Bing Crosby invested
As it is such a musical town, I thought I
over $50,000 dollars of
would like to point out something rather
his own money in the
significant to those Music Lovers out
1940’s into the Ampex
there, and the Links that Cockermouth
holds with Modern Music, as we know it.
Company to develop
Ok it is a weak link but hey, there is
the world’s first
always Wordsworth & Fletcher to fall
commercial Reel-to-
back on.
Reel Tape Recorder.
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