Out of the Camp

Roger Cairns

Out of the Camp Ch. 12 – Peterhead

Tommy Chalmers was the local scrap metal dealer in Peterhead and I met him through...
Roger Cairns

Out of the Camp Ch. 11 – Go North Young Man

It didn’t seem possible that almost three years could have passed since our wedding and...
Roger Cairns

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

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

Out of the Camp Ch. 9 – MM Rock Contest

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

Out of the Camp Ch. 8 – Listen

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

Out of the Camp Ch. 7 – Rubber Duck

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

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. 5 – Rare Amber

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

Out of the Camp Ch. 4 – Brondesbury Park

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

Out of the Camp Ch. 3 – Press Pass

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