Brand new folk show on the radio

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 08:58 PM

Seeing as this one is a bit outdated now and generally huge, I've made a new thread with all the up-to-date details at:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=79652

Chris

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 10:57 AM

Indeed it has been fun! Come check out our message baords at www.coolasfolk.co.uk!

Murk

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 02:30 PM

Tuesday was our last broadcast until the new year. This being the case we had a beer and stayed there for an extra half hour. Unfortunately the servers have not archived the show (again, I am looking into contingency plans). But the playlist follows in case you caught it live, or are curious.

Today we've had a mention in fRoots 'Waves' section which we're really pleased about.

Do join us next year, same time, same place. In the meantime the website address is http://www.coolasfolk.co.uk


The Watersons - Here We Come A-Wassailing
from: The Season Round (Topic)

John Martyn - Spencer the Rover
from: Sweet Little Mysteries (Island)

The Geckoes - The Old John Peel / Tom's Cave
from: Stepping Up (Topic)

FLOOR SPOT - Martin Simpson - Dives and Lazarus
from: the Bramble Briar (Topic)

The Witches of Elswick - Daddy Fox
from: Out Of Bed (Fellside)

Dayteller - Fine Horseman
from Shining Bright (Topic)

English Acoustic Collective - Bleary Winter
from: Ghosts (RUF)

FLOOR SPOT - June Tabor & Martin Simpson - Young Johnstone
from: An Echo of hooves (Topic)

Crucible - The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
from: Changeling (Wildgoose)

Bob Davenport - Wild Wild Whiskey
from: the Common Stone (topic)

Martin Simpson - The Coo Coo Bird
from: Righteousness and Humidity (Topic)

THe Watersons - The Holly Bears a Berry
from: The Season Round (Topic)

Kate Rusby - The Good Man
from: Underneath The Stars (Pure)

Nigel Eaton & Andy Cutting - The Rant (Deluge Mix)
from: Panic at the Cafe (Beautiful Jo)

Tigermoth - Seven Stars
from: mothballs plus (Weekend Beatnik)

Jacqui McShee's Pentangle - She Moves Through The Fair
from: At the Little Theatre (Park)

James Conder - Hard Days for Dreamers (Chris's brother!!)

John Kirkpatrick - The Duck Race
from: The Duck Race (Fledg'ling)


Chris's Random Noises:

Smadj presents Yaacov with Rokia Traore - Fatwords
The Charlatans - Shotgun
Eva Abraham - Speak Out
Michael McGoldrick - Fisher Street
Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)
Joanna MacGregor - Dance It
Pete MacGregor - Sunflowers For Me
The Concretes - Warm Night
Fotheringay - The Ballad of Ned Kelly
Nic Armstrong - If We Can't Escape, My Pretty
Mr. David Viner - When the Sun Rises
Earth, Wind and Fire - Dirty
Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire

So that's it until next year, when we hope you'll join us again. It's been excellent!!!

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 06:11 AM

Oh, thanks Countess :o) (at least Mudcat server is WORKING....!)

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:32 AM

Fee, you need "http://" in front of that or Mudcat (being a parochial beast) looks only on its own server:

http://www.coolasfolk.co.uk

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:17 AM

Another announcement:

Along with our Website:

www.coolasfolk.co.uk

we now have our own message board for your questions, news etc (not that we wish to drag you away from the 'cat of course!!) which you can get to via the first page of the website. Look forward to seeing you over there.

LIVE PAGES of WEBSITE
If any of you involved in live stuff (regular sessions, folk clubs, festivals, morris sides etc) would like a link on our site can you let me know, I'm starting to build the page now!. In about a weeks time I should have some time to do all the things I've been meaning to do to it!!

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:08 AM

and here it is...

Show of Hands - Bristol Slaver
from: Dark Fields (Hands On)

Dave Swarbrick – Boadicea
from English Fiddler (Naxos World)

Alva - The Bells of Paradise
from The Bells of Paradise (Beautiful Jo)

Linda Thompson - Dear Mary
from Fashinably Late (Topic)

Tiger Moth - Speed the Plough
from mothballs plus(Weekend Beatnik)

Show of Hands - The Preacher
from Lie of the Land (Hands On)

John Kirkpatrick - The Gazebo Trot / Brivitting in the Cauliflowers
from The Duck Race (Feldg'ling)

Cerys Matthews - Arglwydd Dyma Fi
From Cockahoop (Blanco y Negro)

Laughing Chairs - William Glenn
From Hilarious Black

Show of Hands - The Train / Blackwater Side
From Folk Music (Show of Hands)


Random Noises

The Barely Works - Old Joe Clarke
Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething
Rachel Stamp - Ladies + Gents
Paul Simon - Can't Run But
James Conder - Wakefulness
Moloko - Forever More
Eva Abraham - Until
John Martyn - Dealer
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
The Detroit Cobras - Insane Asylum

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:53 PM

He he just realised that I didn't end up playing tracks by three of the four people I said I would! But got plenty of good stuff in there!

Chris

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:51 PM

Just a quick line to say sorry for the lack of online playback tonight, the servers were down. Nothing we could do about it but sorry all the same!. We are hoping it may still be archived but don't know. And we both thought it was a damn good show tonight too...playlist will be up tomorrow.

Cheers

Fee

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 10:05 PM

Hi guys,

Just a heads up for tonight's show. I've got some tracks lined up from Crucible, the Laughing Chairs, Waterson: Carthy and Jacqui McShee's Pentangle amongst others. Enjoy!

Chris

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 04:50 AM

Hiya...

Played 'Liza as a kind of link into the next show (drum and bass with DJ Canola), and I quite like it still, though I would agree Rice is the better of the two albums.

Red Kites got played because I literally had to grab some of the stuff in my car to fill in the gaps which wouldn't have been there if Chris and I had been nattering as usual, so I decided to play a slow one for a change. Also I needed calming down ;o)

We'd love to have people in but the studio is minute (what you see on the webcam is, basically, what you get. Less cowshed, more garden shed really. I don't know if we could fit GMW, Chris and myself in there all at once, I am sure there is a way round this
though...

Website links, this has always been the plan, but since there are only about ummm...30, is it?, hours in the day ;o)...I haven't had chance to do it yet. If people could let me have info they would like putting on there that would be great. I'm going to do loads of work on it over Xmas.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 06:11 PM

Ooh, and another thing. I like Spiers and Boden/BellowHEAD too, but don't go overboard on any artist. That is the mistake that the smoothies make. The art of being a successful broadcaster/critic/commentator is to put your own prejudices aside and present the bigger picture - but you are are on the right track. You've done about eight broadcasts and I've had more pleasure from those than the eight o'clock slot from elsewhere in seven years.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 04:49 PM

Well, just caught up and once again, you have done the business - except, (sorry if you are lurking 'liza) Red Rice. The problem with amalgamating contemporary influences with trad is that the result could sound dated, tired or old hat pretty quickly. Does this break new ground? Well, I reckon Faiport managed it with a Sailor's Life and then Liege and Lief, Steeleye with Hark! The Village Wait, Morris On, with Morris On and Shirley Collins with the Albion Country Band with No Roses. There have been few quantum leaps since then, Martyn Bennett with Grit and Mr Moray with Sweet England being contenders, but Red sounded dated as soon as I heard it, whereas Rice, is an astounding album.

Ahem, got a bit carried away. The live recording of Kerr and Fagan just shows what an astounding (astounding count reaches 2) player Nancy Kerr is. She plays challenging fiddle pieces and sings (and so I'm told can dance too) simultaneously - I've promised my son the business at Fiddles at Witney, so don't let me down Nancy.

I lurve Julie Murphy, but maybe some attention should be placed elsewhere before she gets played to death like the aforementioned 'l and the Barnsley Lass.

Great to hear some old stuff (wrote stiff but then used the backspace!) even with a B****O. More please, yes more please. A balance between happening, classic and antecedent would make a really good programme into a must hear. Fortunately, I'm either reheasring or working Wednesday nights, so I don't often endure the torture of the smooth one.

Well done Fee and get well soon Chris. Absolutley marvellous. Which reminds me, get that Ian Giles on (preferably with his mates Metcalfe and Woods) TO DO A LIVE THING. There is a jolly good guitarist/singer who lives in Oxford who you could get to do a session too. His name is John Thompson.

And last (for now) get some links on your site to the folk clubs in the area and listings of sessions. The listeners are hungry for the dirty experience.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 08:26 AM

And there is Welsh singing in it too...:o)

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: treewind
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 07:08 AM

Damn! I forgot and missed it. I'm sure you did a great job - looking forward to playing it back over the net when I get home.

Anahata

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:48 AM

Morning all!

Well, I broadcast on my own for the first time last night because Chris is ill (get well soon Chris!!). A slightly stressful yet still enjoyable experience and I apologise for; the constant clattering of CD cases, crashing of tracks into each other(I was working the machines by instinct rather than experience) and moving away from the mic when I was talking. It's always interesting trying to learn on the job!

Here's the playlist:

Tarras - Parsons Green
from Rising (Topic)

A.L. Lloyd - The Drunken Maidens
From English Drinking Songs (Topic)

Belshazzars Feast – Old Simon the King
From Mr Kynaston's Famous Dance (Wild Goose)

The Witches of Elswick – I Once Lived in Service
From Out of Bed (Fellside)

FLOOR SPOT – Fernhill – grey cock
from hynt (Beautiful Jo)

Nancy Kerr & James Fagan: Dance to Your Daddy/The Flaming Drones
from onreflection (Mrs Casey Records)

FLOOR SPOT – Julie Murphy – Fighting for Strangers
from Lilac Tree (Beautiful Jo)

John Spiers and Jon Boden – Red Kites
from Through and Through (Fellside)

FLOOR SPOT– Julie Murphy – Two Sisters
from – Black Mountains Revisited (Beautiful Jo)

Elza Carthy – Red Rice
from Red (Topic)

All this info and a bit more is on www.coolasfolk.co.uk and you can email us at [e-mail] because I think I managed to not mention either last night!

No 'Random Noises' this week for obvious reasons. I'm sure Chris will be better for next week.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 12:04 PM

It was 'Sylvie' we played on the show, which is an American - and possibly modernised (?) version of Sovay (Sylvie/Sylvia)/Female Highwayman; "Put a gun in her pocket and the keys in her plam, she drove away slowly to find her man" makes me think she's in a car? Anyway, it's a marvellous song, may play the Witches version at some point...

I'm hoping to get us in 'Living Tradition' as well, actually, would anyone mind if I put some quotes on the website?

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:12 AM

Hi Chris, I'm talking about whichever track it was you played on the show (sorry don't have the CD). Certainly didn't sound like a version of Polly Vaughan though...

Any mention in fRoots is a good thing,

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 10:55 AM

Thanks, Countess, are you talking about 'Polly Vaughan' rather than 'Sylivie' there?

Sent a little plug for Cool as Folk to fRoots yesterday, so Ian Anderson willing we should be in the news section soon! Countess, Mary Humphries and Peter Standing, I used some of your quotes off this thread, saying how great the show is! Hope that's okay. Thanks for the support.

Chris

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 10:34 AM

Shirley Collins recorded this as Nottamun Town on Folk Routes, New Routes which she made with Davy Graham in the early 1960s. This was hailed as innovative then and still sounds so to my ears. I believe she got it the tune from the Ritchie family of Kentucky who had in turn incorporated an originally English text. I'm not sure of Dylan's precise source of the tune he used for Masters of War though would have had ample opportunity to hear Shirley (and her various wannabee imitators) performing Nottamun Town around the London clubs in 1962/3.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 10:10 AM

Btw, I think I told a fib when I said Julie Murphy's 'Sylvie' was based on Shirley Collins' version. In fact I think she said 'Polly Vaughan' off 'Black Mountains Revisited'was based on the Shirley Collins version. 'Sylvie' is the original English song that Bob Dylan used for the melody of 'Masters of War'.

I'm off to see John Martyn tomorrow, then Teddy and Kamila Thompson on Monday!

Murk

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:49 AM

Thanks countess, I think I tried that and it didn't work.

And Fee, I don't know how to change my default player. Real One is an absolute pain, it keeps popping up when I don't want it, I've tried all sorts of ways to disable it.

I'm away until Sunday, but I'll have another play then.

thanks

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:08 PM

Hello Annie

Erm...maybe you could try saving to the desktop and then pasting the 'cool as folk' URL into your Real Player. I was quite impressed at how it downloads automatically when you listen live. This means you have two chances at listen again. All helps in the bid for world domination of the airwaves...

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:05 PM

Mrs Annie...I have the same trouble with RealPlayer so I changed my default media player to Windows Media Player and it runs it fine through that, but you don't seem to get the pause/ffwd/rwd facility so you'll have to listen to our nattering ;o)...might be worth a try?.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:03 PM

Well, I spend two hours in a seminar and two hours reading about Neolithic Malta and you've all been having a fantastic conversation on here :o). I'm in finals too by the way, however am equally pressed for time due to having a full time job - lets not go into education funding here - and a melodeon to practice....and a website to maintain...it just never stops!

Re: the longer show idea Chris mentioned above, we talked about it last week, I'd like to do it but it would be a shame for him to lose Random Noises, as it's a great show...as for being in the studio for three hours, well, I'll just have to learn a bit more about the technology so I can give him a break....

Mary in the studio singing (or talking!) would be lovely, I really enjoyed the show we did with Hilary James, more guests would be grand!.

Mrs Annie...good to see you over here, I hope you like the show when you hear it!. I get around a bit as you can tell...;o) (the brass in the Coconut dance is supposed to be dischordant I guess...it actually reminds me of what Loose Tubes used to do, stretching notes and stuff, from my misspent jazz filled youth...). I'm looking forward to the Oysterband and Eliza...I would say we should try find each other but I always fail to find the person I'm looking for (isn't that right Countess?)

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:56 PM

Hi
Sorry I need some help. I've managed to 'listen live' and it's coming over quite clear (dial-up). Something loaded up called a Junction 11 mini-player.
But when I click on the schedule, then on Cool as Folk then 'listen to Tues at 10 pm' this happens:
a box telling me I have chosen to download a file and do I want to 'open' or 'save' I choose 'open'.
Real One Player loads up and says connecting......... then I get an error message 'a general error has occurred'.
Can anybody help me please?
thanks

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:36 PM

Hiya Chris & Fee,
Great radio show - you are doing a wonderful job of playing stuff that no-one on the BBC is bothering with, for reasons quite unaccountable to many of us.
Of course I am up for a session of Welsh songs - PM me about it.
You ask for suggestions of Welsh songs/ recordings available. You could try playing some of Siwsann George(Traditional Songs of Wales ; Saydisc CD-SDL 406 ) - or Mabsant of which Siwsann George was a member. There is Calennig - the wonderful Mick Tems & Pat Carron-Smith or the hauntingly beautiful voice of Sian James. 'Gweini Tymor' is a favourite album of mine , on Sain SCD 2145.
There is the triple harp playing of Robin Huw Bowen or Nansi Richards or Llio Rhydderch.
You could play some tracks from the duo Bragod, they get a fair amount of interest from Late Junction on Radio 3.Wierd but wonderful stuff it is too.
Try that for starters! And don't stint on the Julie Murphy!
Mary

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:42 AM

Duh! Why did I write 'Matty Groves' in my post up there? I meant to say 'Meet on the Ledge'...

Chris & Fee, you're doing brilliantly. Your show is stirring up so much interest in all the 'right stuff'.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: treewind
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:29 AM

Chris , you have a copy of our other, own-label album "Through The Groves" which has one song in Welsh on it. We are thinking of doing a whole CD of Welsh songs and tunes. It'll definitely be a home-produced CDR because there won't be such a big demand for it, but we've found there is certainly some interest.

But did you mean a studio session, as in broadcasting live?
Well, maybe...

Anahata

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:27 AM

Sorry, I forgot to say well done Chris for doing this - it must take up a lot of time but we all appreciate what you're doing and hope it really takes off. I haven't heard any yet but the playlists sound great.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:25 AM

Hi all
I've just read all the way through this amazing thread, and resolved to go straight home and bookmark the radio station. It sounds great.

Fee, I know you from F&A and Spiers & Boden message boards. I too will be at the Forum. Oysterband are my first love.

Cello - no-one has mentioned the mighty Chopper (Oysterband) - the things he can do with a cello.

Nigel Eaton - will be seeing him in Blowzabella tomorrow night in Bury - excited about that. And then on Saturday we will see Andy Cutting again in Derby with John McCusker - how about some Chris Wood & Andy Cutting on the show?

Dan, you are not the only one. I find the brass in Bellowhead quite annoying - specially in the Coconut Dance where it seems to be discordant (is that correct grammar?) with the rest of the tune. But I do like the rest of it - just ditch the trumpets!

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 10:52 AM

Just out of interest...

how many people have listened/listen to Random Noises, which is my eclectic music show which goes out in the hour before Cool as Folk? I've tried not to put too much emphasis on it, at the expense of Cool as Folk, but does anyone tune in? There's often a lot of roots stuff in there, with the Blind Boys of Alabama and Richard & Teddy Thompson in there this week, and the likes of Julie Murphy, Tom Waits, Nick Drake and Colum Sands getting in there in past weeks, alongside pop, R n B, hip-hop, rock and wahtever else takes my fancy. Hopefully, I should have top local indie-pop band Chinafight doing an interview next week.

I know Diane enjoyed my John Peel tribute, have you heard any others? Anyone else? Personally I'm quite proud of my Kylie-Frank Sinatra segway this week! :)

Chris

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 10:09 AM

up for that Mary?

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 10:02 AM

Hi Chris

Richard Thompson is one of my all-time heroes and there ain't a lot of what he's done that I don't like. But no, not that. I really do like to hear him doing his own compositions that he wrote for Fairport e.g. Matty Groves (you don't get to hear that often, or The New St George (as opposed to the Albion Band version) - and especially stuff he co-wrote with Dave Swarbrick like O Be Thankful and Crazy Man Michael. See, I'm writing an RT featurette for you...

Re: singers in Welsh - well, you could always do a session with Mary Humphreys herself...

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 09:46 AM

Hi guys,

Thanks as ever for the for the feedback. Just listening back to the show as I type.

Re: the buzz. That's obviously an ongoing problem, that needs addressing, but involves the station managers rather than me. I'm going to approach them and draw attention to it and tell them that John Spiers has kindly offered to look at it for us (to which they'll say, "Who?"!). A lot of it is a time matter, I'm in my final year at uni so have got a degree to get as well, which usually takes second place to the show, but really shouldn't! Add a job, DJing, socialising, wasting time on Mudcat etc. and it's a busy old life!

Re: Timing. Yeah I think it has been a bit rushed at the end for the last couple of shows, and I know it's annoying when they cut off at the end. If you quickly click on 'Listen to Tuesday's show at 11pm' you can hear the end of the track, but I will try and time the last track last week so we get it all in. I'm also thinking less rambling and Fee's microphone as loud as it can be from the start of the show! It's always down low when I get in the studio, I don't think the guy before us likes his co-presenter!

Re: Longer show. We're thinking about expanding Cool as Folk to two hours. I'm unsure because I don't want to loose my hour of Random Noises which gives me a chance to play the stuff I like that doesn't fit the Cool as Folk remit, but nor am I sure I want to be in the studio for three hours! Would people support a longer show or are you okay with one hour?

Treewind: No problem playing you and Mary Humphries' 'Barb'ry Ellen', it's a good album that I should play more from.

Countess Richard: Did you not like that take on 'Matty Groves'? I love it. The Leige and Lief version is amazing, but I figured it was pretty well known, and I love the rawness of that live version. Sure Richard Thompson doesn't sing like Sandy Denny, but the harshness kind of suits the lyrical content. What did everyone else think?

Mary Humphries: Glad you liked the Julie Murphy track. Her solo albums are mostly in English with a smattering of Welsh, whereas her work with Fernhill (we've played two tracks by them already) is mostly in Welsh with a wee bit of English. Can you recommend any other good Welsh language singers? I have a recording of a Welsh language traditional song by a great singer you might not neccessarily think of as folk lined up (don't worry it's not Paul Weller...).

Re: Requests. I have the new Crucible album thanks to Jess. I've not had a chance to listen to it yet, but I'll put it on the top of the pile and hopefully get them in soon! Saw them at Sidmouth and liked what I saw.

Cheers, Chris

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 01:52 PM

Hello Mary...

Both of us are big fans of Julie Murphy and Fernhill, so you can certainly expect more Welsh in future, either from her or others :o)

Now, I forgot to post the playlist for 'Random Noises', so here it is:

(The Real) Tuesday Weld – Bathtime in Clerkenwell; The Blind Boys of Alabama– I Shall Not Walk Alone; Kylie – I Believe In You; Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (live); Richard and Teddy Thompson – Persuasion (live); James – I Know What I'm Here For; The Streets - Blinded By The Light; Sia - Taken For granted; Orbital with Kirk Hammett - Satan Spawn; The 411 - Dumb; Bjork - Desired Constellation

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 12:55 PM

It was only part-way through the programme and I said to Anahata - there's someone singing Welsh on the radio! And surely there was, though it went back into English soon after.
Of course, it was Julie Murphy. I've not heard that track before . More Welsh please!
Mary

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 08:37 AM

Sorry ;o)

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: GUEST,Nigel Eaton
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 08:30 AM

(No, not really)

Oi!

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 07:45 AM

>Wasn't that a cello?<

No, it was a Hurdy Gurdy!


I don't know what we can do. It needs a tech to sort it I think, probably won't happen until Xmas vac when the studio's empty.

Timing...yeah, we're terrible for running over, if you listen to the following show you'll get the end of Horizonto and then some drum'n'bass (we're trying to convert her...). We actually had to drop three or possibly more tracks we were going to play anyway!.

We have the Crucible to play at some point I believe, when we can fit it in.... Perhaps we need longer than an hour, I don't know what the station policy is, then we could run over on that too ;o)

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: GUEST,Mr Red shamelessly self advertising
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 07:39 AM

more radio programmes in and adjacent to the Mid West of England and links to other lists

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 07:07 AM

That buzzing noise is still there

Wasn't that a cello? Oops, sorry ;-)

slickness of timing at the end of the programme

Yes, on playback it cut off Blowzabella mid-track. Grrrrrrrrr!
But a great choice of music this week (as usual), except perhaps for the choice of version of Matty Groves.

re: the Julie Murphy 'Sylvie' track, this sounded remarkable like Shirley Collins' Nottamun Town.

Yes, yes, do play Crucible and the Old Swans...

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: treewind
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 06:38 AM

1) Thanks for playing a track of Mary and me!
2) That buzzing noise is still there
3) Perhaps room for just a little more professionalism and slickness of timing at the end of the programme ???

Never mind, it's a great show, lots of lovely music. Have you played any of Crucible's "Changeling" or the Old Swan Band's "Swan-Upmanship" yet?

Anahata

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 05:07 AM

Last nights playlist:

FLOOR SPOT - Nigel Eaton & Andy Cutting
St Chartier Set : Monster Cafe/The Barge/In Continental
mood/Spaghetti Panic
from Panic at the Cafe (Beautiful Jo)

Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman
Hexhamshire Lass
from Constant Lovers (Dragon)

Great Grandson of Morris On
Swaggering Boney
from Great Grandson of Morris On (Talking Elephant)

Patterson Jordan Dipper
William Taylor
from FlatEarth (Wild Goose)

Fairport Convention
Matty Groves (live)
from 'House Full:Live at the LA Troubador (Island)

FLOOR SPOT : Julie Murphy with Nigel Eaton
Sylvie
from Black Mountains Revisited (Beautiful Jo)

BELLOWhead
Jack Robinson
from e.p.onymous (own label)

Mary Humphries and Anahata
Barb'ry Ellen
from Sharp Practice (Wild Goose)

FLOOR SPOT Blowzabella
Horizonto
from Vanilla (Green Linnet)

We are finding more and more that we don't have time to play all the things we want to play!, the hour goes by really quickly, though we were nattering a lot last night I think...

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 12:34 PM

That's a shame!. You could stay late for brownie points but actually be listening to the show...?? ;o). or you can mkake your own show up from the playlists we put on her and the website...I'm hoping I can stay awake for the braodcast, two and a bit days of melodeon playing and socialising has taken it out of me a bit!!

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: GUEST,Dazbo
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 10:44 AM

Peter,

Not wishing to put words into Squeezy's mouth but I think that the response to Bellowhead was such that they wanted to get something out on CD quickly and they only had their existing material to work on. I understand that the band are working on new material for a future album.

Fee,

Sorry to hear that you got lost on the way home. I've just listened to e.p.onymous for the first time and think it is brilliant. Unfortunately I can't get Cool as Folk as I've only got internet access at work and I don't think the boss would appreciate me listening to the show when I should be working.

Darren

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 05:39 AM

Perhaps I just like the loudness :o), mind you I tend to play quite loudly myself!

I got amazingly lost and ended up driving round half of Oxfordshire last night due to having BELLOWhead on far too loud in the car on the way back from Melodeons at Witney, hence stopping me concentrating. Mind you this getting lost thing is quite common so perhaps it's just my lousy sense of direction ;o).

We may or may not be playing a track tomorrow...we have two to go I think...I don't think I'll be allowed to play an entire hour of melodeon music, sadly :o(   ;o)

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:44 PM

Having seen the John McCusker Band on the BBC4 programme about Sidmouth, I think he could do with some serious quality control, along with his missus - so I guess that means you won't want me to buy you a pint now. Bellowhead/Steeleye Span. Heck I won't need to open my purse at this rate. I've never been a fan of Span. Their first album (Hark! The Village Wait) was very good, very, very good, (despite the) sensitive arrangements of banjo, autoharp, dulcimer, concertina, mandolin, guitar, bass, drums, lush vocals and step dancing, but I feel they lost direction several times after that and are still refusing to consult a map. Bellowhead is very good, but if you've heard the dynamic duo several times (as I have), you might be thinking, isn't it time to learn some new material? However, I agree with the Countess, seeing them live is very different. All that energy, sweat, noise - love it! So get your LOUD ghetto blaster and take it in the shower room for good effect.

And no avoiding the Shirley Collins thing.

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: GUEST,Dan Abnormal
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:54 AM

Maybe I have to see it live then.

I just find the brass parts etc not very well put together. I know of far more sophisticated stuff - June Tabors "A quiet eye", La Bottine Souriante (sic?), even Kate Rusby (I know...I know...) with "My young man". Of course "sophistication" isn't be all and end all, but for energetic stuff Salsa Celtica do a good job etc. On top of this Jon B is beginning to sound like a pastiche of himself to me - all comedy yelps and over-strained notes - the stuff I liked about "through and through" magnified so much its uncomfortable.

I hear the idea was to be like a big disco/funk band (considering Squeezys dodgy DJ past its not surprising), but I just don't think the arrangements work very well. I don't doubt the skills of the main protagonists, and I think this is why I'm so dissapointed - I expected better and certainly the sound I heard in my head when I had the Oxford gig described to me was better.

English music has never not been part of the world - its only a problem if you decide theres a problem there. I don't think what I've heard is helping any kind of cause, and nor should it - its entertainment!! But I don't think it should be portrayed as such. Saying "yes, english music is joining the world" is just trotting out cliches that don't mean anything. Thats another thread, another time though...

I'm glad you all like it, and that a band is able to inspire such enthusiasm in a genre like this, but I havn't heard an explanation of the thing I'm missing yet...

Subject: RE: Brand new folk show on the radio
From: Fee
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:05 AM

>A live performance is something else. Bellowhead's debut last April in Oxford was so triumphant and unbelievable that I've found it impossible to find sufficiently ecstatic words to convey to those who were unfortunate enough not to have been part of the exuberant
explosion in Oxford Town Hall<

Absolutely...I was completely overwhelmed by it, I really hadn't known what to expect! It was brilliant!.

BELLOWhead.... I'm listening to it right now...I find it really uplifting. The whole thing just makes me smile!. among other things.. those Hollywood strings on the beginning of Prickle Eye Bush are fab, and the brass section in the Coconut Dance works really well...I would say it does benefit from being played very LOUD.

>English music is joining the world<

If it reminds me of anything, mood wise certainly, it reminds me of the Brazilian stuff I heard when we started doing Batmacumba at the ICA 7ish years ago (I think it's still running, I don't work there anymore...). We had a Brazilian carnival band in one night...they had the same effect on the hard to impress, arty types as BELLOWhead did on the Oxford audience...:o)