“It were Covid really,” says Bryan Whitfield, “that’s when it all started…” When what started? I asked. “The silly ideas,” he laughs. He does a lot of laughing, does ‘our’ Bryan.
“I’d not long retired – well, sort of – and Ian [Tubb, the other constituent part of this potent cocktail] is in his 70s now, so when Covid hit he felt like he were being robbed of his retirement. I remember ’im sayin’, ‘What’m I gonna do now, just stare out the window ’til I die?’
“We were like, what about this, what about that, and eventually got talking about the old school-style, back-in-the-day Fuel Altereds.”
When talk turns that way, it doesn’t take long for Nick Davies and Rob Loaring’s names to come up in the conversation and,…