Hello Fantangle Nice to know you went to Mothers. The Graham that you knew who came from Sutton, is probably the bloke we all new as Fred, he was a good guy as far as I can remember and I think he ended up working there. It was called MOTHERS The home of good sounds, and it certainly was. It was also the home of good people. I inhabited the hottest club in the country (as some of the bands new it) for a couple of years and never heard so much as an argument.
The book that you mention was published by Birmingham public libraries, there are three passages in there written by me (Graham Holyoak).
You mention Ummagumma the Pink Floyd Album. Yes that was part recorded at Mothers, it was a double album, one abum recorded in the studio and the other recorded live, part at Mothers and part at a Manchester College. We paid a 10 shilling (50p) entrance fee (sometimes got in free helping bands carry equiptment up the fire escape). The Who played Tommy all the way through at Mothers, two weeks before it's official premier'e in London. The resident DJ was a guy called Erskine T (Thomas). Erskine worked full time at the Diskery, a record shop in Birmingham City Centre. He gave up his desk to John Peel on a fairly regular basis, John used to talk to some of us about bands we had seen there and would mention some of our comments on his radio show. John Peel is sadly missed.