| Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[TheMindField:50042] Hi, the pub was Oxford Arms and was on the corner of Crossfields estate Deptford. The estate was a ‘hard to let’ council estate and mostly occupied by young sharers, a lot of them having just left home or university and trying to find their way. The flats were rough, very basic small kitchen and a bathroom with just a bath no wash hand basin. No central heating and a fireplace in the front room. Yes it was dire, but it was very cheap when you shared the cheap rent between 3! This afforded you the joy to grab a pint just before closing time most nights just before 11pm. Anyway, on most weekday evenings you would find me and my mate w in the Oxford Arms playing pool and feeding the jukebox. Our favourite was Hotel California -Eagles. And yes we were almost always wearing brown bell bottom trousers cos that was considered smart at the time, we both had good jobs. We were rock and roll obsessed and my mate had just bought a sunburst telecaster guitar for about £75 which was a lot in 1977. Anyway as I remember it, in the Oxford arms which was a small pub, this group was playing and we thought they were awful, just from a different time from us, we just ignored them and played pool. It was raining hard and a guy came in on his own, wet and he was wearing an unusual hat, he started talking to us and I can’t remember exactly what we talked about but he definitely wasn’t a lad from south London. He didn’t hang about but we did have a reasonable chat before he left. I never made the connection until a year or so ago as I never really listened that hard to the song. It’s very possible that we were the drunk yobbos he referred to. Marks brother lived in Tanners Hill estate and the Oxford arms was about midway between the two, so it’s all possible. So that's my little story, not saying it’s anything to do with Sultans but it just possible. My mate was one of the few who went to the Crossfields music festival and said Dire straits were excellent. Dire straits continued to live in Farrer House for years even when they were famous! Their 2 big white VW lorries would be parked outside most nights which I found amazing coz they must have been pulling in good money. Well we all moved on, none more so the Dire Straits who became world renowned and rightly so. |
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