Greentrax Recordings has just released Gaughan Live! at the Trades Club, follow the link to get a copy from MusicScotland.com
Or go to Dick's site http://www.dickgaughan.co.uk/news/index.html
Also available by post from:
Greentrax Recordings Ltd.
Cockenzie Business Centre
Edinburgh Road
Cockenzie
East Lothian
Scotland UK
EH32 0XL

The album captures an exhilarating Dick Gaughan session, at The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, by the most potent singer ever to emerge from the Scottish folk-music revival.

In the sleeve notes to Gughan Live! at the Trades Club Dick says:
The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge is one of my very favourite places to play. In Nov/Dec every year I do a tour through England and Wales and, as Pete Lazenby says in his introduction, the final night of the tour is always the Trades Club.
One of the many reasons I have so much affection for the place is that it is a solidly working class venue and is one of the few venues where the idea of a performer having to explain why their work contains commentary on political and social issues would be absurd - it is not only taken for granted, but expected, that working class art and politics are inseparable.
A wee bit of history
The Trades Club was built in 1924 by the textile and tailoring unions of the upper Calder Valley in the heart of the Pennines in West Yorkshire. It was paid for by subscription from around 4,000 workers to serve as trades union headquarters and as a centre for education, recreation and organisation.
When the tailoring and textile industries all but disappeared from the Calder Valley in the 1970s the building fell into disuse until it was taken over by Hebden Royd branch of the Labour Party a branch which has resolutely maintained its socialist principles. The Labour Party opened offices on the ground floor and in 1982 a group of activists and volunteers got together to rent the two upper floors from the Labour Party, turning them into the Trades Club as an independent socialist club. Most importantly, the Trades adopted a constitution enshrining the principles of the original founders - a commitment to the labour, trades union and co-operative movements. Since then, the Trades has developed into an internationally-renowned music venue, staging two or three live music gigs a week, with a wide eclectic programme ranging from African and Latin American music through to the traditional musics of all parts of the British Isles. It also hosts a monthly radical film night, a walking group, chess club, salsa classes and pool teams. The Trades is the main source of fund-raising for Calderdale Unity Against Racism and Fascism and Calderdale Against the War. It also raises funds for causes such as Amnesty, Palestine, local environment campaigns, youth activities and many more.
The Trades Club has around 1,200 members and is run on democratic principles, with an elected committee and officers, it has a full-time staff of eight, including two professional sound engineers, plus part-time staff, It relies heavily on the work of volunteers, it gets no grants and is entirely self-supporting.
Thanks Dick and good luck.