The Brighton Taverners were a Folk trio; as the name indicates, they were Brighton based - they started out in 1966 as The Taverners but added their home town name in order to avoid confusion with other bands of that name. Their first record under their extended name, the EP shown above, was called 'Souvenir Edition' and was a DIY effort. There is no actual label-name anywhere on it, so I have had to use the group's name as an identifier: I haven't seen the 'SUG' prefix of the catalogue number elsewhere, so it may be particular to the Taverners. The yellow label has been stuck on over a (blank?) white one. The EP is undated, but the sleeve says that the group had been playing Ralph McTell's 'Streets Of London' for about four years; 'Streets' was a hit in late 1974, so that suggests a date of c.1979. The notes also say that the EP was the fruit of the Taverners' first venture into a recording studio: they made an LP for the Folk Heritage label, 'Lazy Afternoon' (FHR-112) in 1980, so the EP must pre-date that; which again suggests 1979.
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