Out of the Camp

Out of the Camp Ch. 1 – The Leaving

Ancient image of a small boy sitting on a small train
Ch. 1 The Leaving I arrived in London in May 1967, one month after my...

Out of the Camp Ch. 2 – Navigating London

Roger Cairns
Then I got mobile. In the few months that I’d lived there, my geographical knowledge...

Out of the Camp Ch. 3 – Press Pass

Roger Cairns
At around the same time, I spent an hour with Gene Pitney and his wife,...

Out of the Camp Ch. 4 – Brondesbury Park

Roger Cairns
Returning to the London Academy of Modelling for a moment, I forgot to attach a...

Out of the Camp Ch. 5 – Rare Amber

While I was doing all of this I was answering ‘wanted ads’ in the ‘Melody...

Out of the Camp Ch.6 – The Roofs of the Rich

Having left Victoria Wine to go to Germany at the start of what I thought...

Out of the Camp Ch. 7 – Rubber Duck

Roger Cairns
I hadn’t of course forgotten about music while running all over London risking my neck...

Out of the Camp Ch. 8 – Listen

Roger Cairns
By the time I auditioned for the group, ‘Listen’, I was living in a bedsit...

Out of the Camp Ch. 9 – MM Rock Contest

Roger Cairns
It was a long, arduous evening as we listened to and assessed the competition that...

Out of the Camp Ch. 10 – The Big Time, Not!

Roger Cairns
I think that you might have missed the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ BBC TV link...