It started more by happenstance than design. I had just completed my work on the web interface of our new Library Catalogue, a task I had unexpectedly ended up with after displaying my prowess with HTML during a training session... that'll teach me to turn the background bright lime green! As part of my next project, I was investigating free email providers, the kind that our students use, and when I signed up for one of them, Yahoo!, I discovered that it came with 15Mb of free webspace. Time to expand my newly acquired skills, and it was easy, too, to decide on a topic - the band Blackfoot Sue. I had not been able to locate an official site, and I thought it was a neat way of pulling together my meagre collection of information and seeing if I could fathom the full story of the band.
I did a bit of work on it, and then stopped, when I got busy with other things. It wasn't until I checked back a few months later that I discovered that people, some way or another, were finding their way to the site, even though I hadn't finished any of the pages nor even submitted it to any search engines! Time to pull my finger out and get working!
I steadily pieced together the story of the band. There were a few clues here and there, in the liner notes of the CD reissues, and in magazine articles, but the trail grew cold around 1998, despite the wonderful album Red On Blue being released then!
And then I found them... or Tom and David Farmer at least - they were still gigging - in a band called Cry Wolf, along with younger brother Gary, who had also been a member of the Blackfoot Sue line-up which had recorded Red On Blue.
Then they found me... Alan Jones, holidaying with cousins in Spain, was told they had been reading about him on the Blackfoot Sue website, to which the response was, "What Blackfoot Sue website?" Alan told Eddie Golga, Eddie contacted the twins, and then I was contacted - and the rest, as they say, is history! |