STILL ON SONG

The Waterloo bar is an establishment that is fast gaining a reputation for live events, not the least of which is the scooter or Mod lilt to them. The reason for my visit there was to see none other than the legendary Chris Pope & The Chords UK (with new material to boot). For those of you of too tender years to have been around at the time, The Chords were well up there with the likes of Secret Affair, The Lambrettas and the like during the Mod revival back in the pre-history of the late 1970s. The Chords, courtesy of Mr Pope’s imaginings, were the grittier ‘street’ side of things, not only in lyrical content, but in their whole sound. Now this isn’t a review of the gig, at