AS MANY OF YOU WILL KNOW, NIK OFTEN TRAVELS TO MEXICO TO BUSK. WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW HOWEVER IS HOW HE CAME TO HAVE SUCH A CLOSE AFFINITY WITH THE COUNTRY. WELL THE STORY GOES THAT IN THE LATE 70'S BRITISH COMEDY DUO MORECAMBE AND WISE WERE MASSIVE STARS IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN STATE, BUT DUE TO AN ONGOING TRADE EMBARGO BETWEEN THE UK AND MEXICO THEIR SHOWS COULD NOT BE SHOWN OVER THERE. ON HEARING THIS DAVE AND NIK SAW A NICHE IN THE MARKET AND DECIDED TO FORM "TURNER AND BROCK" - THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE MORECAMBE AND WISE TRIBUTE ACT AND HOT FOOTED IT OFF TO MEXICO FOR A SOLD OUT TOUR OF FOOTBALL STADIUMS, OFTEN PLAYING TO AUDIENCES OF 100,000 PLUS. HOWEVER DISASTER STRUCK WHEN THE TWO'S EGO'S ONCE MORE CLASHED.DAVE FOUND IT DIFFICULT BEING THE STRAIGHT MAN AND BEING THE BUTT OF NIK'S JOKES. THE FINAL STRAW CAME WHEN HE COULD NO LONGER STAND BEING REFEREED TO AS "LITTLE DAVE, THE ONE WITH SHORT FAT HAIRY LEGS"
IF NOTHING ELSE THE "MEXICAN ESCAPADE" AS IT BECAME KNOWN IN HAWK CIRCLES, PUT A FEW PENNIES BACK IN THE COFFERS AND BY THIS TIME IT WAS FAIR TO SAY THAT HAWKWIND HAD THE "ACTING BUG". TOGETHER WITH THEIR STILL ACCOUNTANTS LILLY -LAW ASSOC., IT WAS DECIDED THAT MAYBE FEATURE FILMS WERE A LITTLE TOO AMBITIOUS, SO INSTEAD IT WAS DECIDED THAT TV PROJECTS SHOULD BE PURSUED, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE AT THE MUSEUM CAN EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL THAT THE BAND CAME UP WITH THE ORIGINAL IDEA FOR WHAT WAS TO BECOME THE HIT BBC COMEDY "ONLY FOOL AND HORSES". AT THE TIME IT WAS GOING TO BE KNOWN AS "ONLY FOOLS AND HAWKS" AND INSTEAD OF THE TROTTER FAMILY, THESE LIKELY LADS WERE TO BE THE "NUTTERS". THE THREE BAND MEMBERS WOULD USE THEIR OWN CHRISTIAN NAMES, SO HAD IT GOT OFF THE GROUND YOU WOULD HAVE HAD "DAVE BOY" NUTTER, NIK NUTTER AND DEAR OLD UNCLE DEL NUTTER. THE PROJECT HAD "SURE FIRE SUCCESS" WRITTEN ALL OVER IT, BARRING ONE THING, GOOD OLD DEL KEPT FALLING ASLEEP ( SEE ABOVE )
ALTERNATIVE CAPTION - "NOW BOYS, WHAT'S ALL THIS XHAWKWIND RUBBISH THEN"
POOR OLD DAVE AND NIK, ON THE VERGE OF TV SUPER STARDOM AND THE ONLY THING STOPPING THEM IS AN OLD BOY WHO KEEPS FALLING ASLEEP. NEVER ONES TO BE DOWNHEARTED FOR TOO LONG, THEY WERE SURE THAT LADY LUCK WAS SHINING ON THEM WHEN THEIR OLD MATE DAVE ANDERSON (!) CALLED BY ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR TEA AND CRUMPETS. RATHER THAN JUST MAKE SMALL TALK AND MUNCH HIS WAY THROUGH THAT MOST ENGLISH OF SNACKS, ANDERSON WAS ARMED WITH A NEW BUSINESS VENTURE (OH GOD). HE TOLD THE OTHER TWO THAT WHILST DRINKING IN HIS LOCAL "THE HAND SHANDY" HE HAD BEEN OFFERED SOME UNUSED SCRIPTS FOR THE 70'S SIT COM "ON THE BUSES FOR THE PRINCELY SUM OF £4000 . HE PROPOSED THAT THEY BOUGHT INTO IT THREE WAYS, DAVE AND NIK TO PUT UP £1990 EACH AND GOOD OLD DAVE WOULD MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE. WITH THE SCRIPTS DULY BOUGHT, THE THREE ALMOST FELL INTO THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARACTERS, DAVE WOULD BE "BLAKEY BROCK" THE INSPECTOR, WHILST NIK WAS TO BE STAN "BORN TO GO (ON THE BUSES)" BUTLER AND DAVE WAS TO BE LOVEABLE WIDE BOY LOTHARIO AND CONDUCTOR JACK "STUDIO FEES, I MEAN FARES PLEASE" HARPER. THIS PROJECT EVEN GOT AS FAR AS PRE PRODUCTION AND IN A "WORLD EXCLUSIVE" THE MUSEUM IS PROUD TO PRESENT A PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD AUDIO CLIP OF DAVE GOING THROUGH ONE OF HIS LINES. TO HEAR WEST LONDON'S ANSWER TO AL PACINO GOING THROUGH HIS PACES -
THINGS WERE LOOKING GOOD FOR A WHILE AND DISASTER ONLY STRUCK WHEN DAVE, WHO BY THIS TIME WAS ADOPTING "METHOD ACTING" TYPE STANDARDS TO HIS PERFORMANCES, INSISTED ON A THREE MONTH SPELL AS A REAL CONDUCTOR "GET INTO CHARACTER". TROUBLE WAS HE ENJOYED HIS SPELL AS DEVON'S VERY OWN "BLAKEY" SO MUCH HE ACTUALLY CONSIDERED GIVING UP MUSIC AND ACTING FOR A WHILE TO TAKE UP THE POST FULL TIME AND THE ONLY REASON THAT DIDN'T WAS THE FACT THAT THE OTHER TWO "DID A BUNK" WHICH WOULD HAVE LEFT HAWKWIND WITHOUT ANYONE TO STEER THE RUDDER. DAVE RELENTED AND TO THIS DAY KEEPS "THE WIND" AFLOAT. WHAT IS LESS WELL KNOWN IS THAT WHILST THE FANS LIKE TO REFER TO HIM AS THE "CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP", DAVE HIMSELF WOULD PREFER IT IF HE WAS KNOWN AS "INSPECTOR OF THE BUS DEPOT!". FOR DAVE THE ONLY THING THAT ACTUALLY CAME OUT OF THIS PROJECT IS THE SAMPLE BELOW THAT HE ONE DAY HOPES TO INCLUDE IN A "WHITE ZONE" TYPE PROJECT
TO ENJOY THIS AT IT'S BEST WE SUGGEST YOU PRESS YOUR PLAY BUTTON A COUPLE OF TIMES, THIS WILL HOPEFULLY INDUCE THIS TRANCEY MANTRA
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