IT'S refreshing to finally get to the bottom of whether or not Pink Floyd played at New Earswick Folk Hall (yes, they seemingly did).

It's an event which has always been engraved in York's music folklore.

With regard to U2 playing Jasper's, (so it is true, N Jackson, Letters, July 19), the date was early 1980 as I recall (I was the DJ for them).

In the early 1980s, I was fortunate to work as a music promoter/DJ running, most famously, the Hellfire Club.

The music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s was vibrant, with local bands and upcoming artists including York on their tours.

Check these names out for size. I recall seeing play York around and after the emergence of the punk movement in the mid-1970s: The Jam, at the Cat's Whiskers; Joy Division, at the Revolution Club (later Casanova's, Lady Peckitt's Yard); Def Leppard, at St John's College; Dire Straits, at York's Alcuin College; The Clash, St John's car park (yes, really); Primal Scream, The Winning Post; The Cure, Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, York Pop Club (The Oval Ball it's now a tandoori house); Echo & The Bunnymen supporting York heroes Cyanide at the De Grey Rooms. The list is endless.

Long may York keep supporting upcoming talent. Who knows what myths, stories, future York generations will have to tell. Just look, for example, at who's played Fibbers over the last decade. Coldplay, Travis, Editors, to name a few. Keep supporting the York music scene.

Garry Hornby, Bowling Green, York.