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Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: This is the end, beautiful friend, again.
« Reply #30 on: February 10, 2020, 08:30:13 AM »
Thanks for the platform and the part-time job mate. I wish we’d have pushed the music reviews idea more, as I probably would have chronicled the rise of the B-town bands and been on the road with Peace by now. And thanks to all the lovely customers I met since I started selling in 1990.

Jesus, thirty years!
« Last Edit: February 10, 2020, 08:35:27 AM by Percy McCarthy »

Offline Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle

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Re: This is the end, beautiful friend, again.
« Reply #31 on: February 10, 2020, 08:53:05 AM »
I'd love to see a compendium of the H&V Greatest Hits, that photo of the cover of issue 2 took me right back.

Offline LeeB

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Re: This is the end, beautiful friend, again.
« Reply #32 on: February 10, 2020, 08:59:13 AM »
I'd love to see a compendium of the H&V Greatest Hits, that photo of the cover of issue 2 took me right back.

My lad found an old copy the other day, with the European Cup team and the headline "It was twenty years ago today..".
We've only got two years before that's 20 years old.

Offline ozzjim

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Re: This is the end, beautiful friend, again.
« Reply #33 on: February 10, 2020, 09:12:58 AM »
Sad times. H&V both the site and the fanzine, as a reader and a seller has been a really important part of my life at key times. I am 37 now, and while I can't pretend standing in the cold selling was amazing fun, meeting people, talking about the villa and having it as part of the match day ritual was brilliant. It also introduced me to Dave, who is brilliant. Hope it keeps going for a few years yet. The youth don't know what they are missing.

Offline Damo70

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Re: This is the end, beautiful friend, again.
« Reply #34 on: February 10, 2020, 11:28:58 AM »
H&V reminds me of getting older. In my younger days of following Villa home and away in the nineties with my group of mates I was always out on a Saturday night so never read it until the Sunday. In more recent years going to home games only with my son I always read it in the bath after returning from Villa Park on a Saturday evening.

Offline robbo1874

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Re: This is the end, beautiful friend, again.
« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2020, 08:04:19 AM »
H&V has provided me with many hours of entertainment and insight, be it at half time in the ground or on a Monday morning sat in trap 2 at work. Interestingly I always preferred it when we were doing shit and people were angry.

I have every single issue in a box at home, including the holte's last stand, all the compilations and printed versions of the digital issues (yes I know, but I wanted to carry on the collection).

Thanks for all your fine work Dave, and all the match day sellers, I guess there's only so many times you can be asked 'is this the programme?' before it starts to grate a little, right?
i said that to Percy once, with a straight face and thought for a second I was getting a clump!

 


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