Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 31 Mar 06 - 02:51 AM Have a good time everyone. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 30 Mar 06 - 10:12 AM What about a lift Nigel from Llantrisant on April the first. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Mar 06 - 10:09 AM "There'll be handbells ringing* People there will be dancing and singing There'll be folk with guitars, Maybe bodhrans, squeezboxes, sitars The whole thing is growing, with folk who come again. It must be worth going.. To Aberdare again...." Come on, just a couple more verses and we could get a long running No1 hit. (Ha, bloody Har Har!) CHEERS Nigel (I'd forgotten I'd started this song, I'd just got in from Llantrisant Folk Club last night after a 'couple' of nice pints of Abbots') My local Scout group has a set of 'Handchimes'. An octave and a half in'C' (from middle C up) with a couple of shaps & flats (Bb & F#) |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST,scooby Date: 30 Mar 06 - 12:30 AM Thats tidy Nigel. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Nigel Parsons Date: 29 Mar 06 - 06:08 PM Apologies to Ifor, but... Its Aberdare, (or Aberdare - oh) NOT Aberdillo Show me the way to Aberdare, Oh I've been wond'ring what I should wear oh. Dreaming dreams of Aberdare, oh The Falcon Inn, it calls to me There are 'folkies' coming. Fingers in ears, singing and humming The excitement's mounting. They say there's 20 beers and counting! To the North of Cardiff, Off Junction thirty-two Transport's not too hard if It's what you wanna do-oo Show me the way to Aberdare, Oh I've been wond'ring what I should wear oh. Dreaming dreams of Aberdare, oh The Falcon Inn, it calls to me CHEERS Nigel |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: ifor Date: 29 Mar 06 - 05:10 PM Show me the way to Aberdillo I've been hugging and kissing my pillo On the first day of Aprillo Sweet Marie she waits for me great eh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 29 Mar 06 - 02:03 AM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:08 PM What about myself Nigel!!!!. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Nigel Parsons Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:07 PM REFRESH! To save Splottyman from doing it! "I say, Superted..." |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 27 Mar 06 - 11:08 PM I can't wait!!!!. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 27 Mar 06 - 03:15 AM It's this Saturday. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: My guru always said Date: 25 Mar 06 - 05:53 AM I've got nothing to add either. Pat Spoons in disguise |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Shuffer Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:58 AM refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Shuffer Date: 23 Mar 06 - 09:05 AM refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:04 PM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 21 Mar 06 - 02:50 PM Not long now. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 20 Mar 06 - 03:36 PM Sorry Splott Man it nearly sunk again!!!!!. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:00 AM Let's float this thing to the top like. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Gray D Date: 17 Mar 06 - 08:00 PM Muss be workin' onna papers an' avin' a educashun bureye gorra bow to Mick's . . . sorry . . . Dr. Price's superiuh spellin'. Ih shud defnitley abeen Kaardiff widda "K" to gerrih soundin' righ'. Spot on, owkid. Gray D (re-cookied) |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 17 Mar 06 - 01:14 AM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST,Dr Price Date: 16 Mar 06 - 04:32 AM Alas, I'm from Llantrisant ("the hole with the Mint") so I couldn't taaalk proper Kaaardiff like - though I spent 19 years as a journalist down the Echo, in Thompson 'Ouse, like. Victoria Park is in the outskirts of Canton, where the residents could stare longingly across the distance to their promised land - Llandaff! It's genteel, like. Kaaardiff Arms Paaark is a popular mecca for rugby fans - it's the same difference, but the urban folk tradition has popularised it. By the way, Frank Hennessey (of BBC Wales' Celtic Heartbeat fame)brought up the question of the song "Llandaff", and played the Irish qroup Cran's recording of "Laugh And Half Daft" (a smoothed-out folk version of "Llandaff".) I heard the Irish singer Brian Mullen sing "Llandaff" a long time ago, and I was in The Ship And Pilot when I heard this woman sing "Llandaff". I think I'll start a new thread... |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 16 Mar 06 - 03:58 AM Warra teg, innit? Butty |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:38 PM Woss all iss "Victoria Park" stuff? You rreelly local or wha'? I alliz tort ih wuz:- "'Aaark, 'aaark de laaark In Caaardiff Aaarms Paaark" sose we cud learn people 'ow to talk Caaardiff proper, like. Ahem, note to the bemused non-local reader, Cardiff (and Barry) people have a rather distinctive way of enunciation when it comes to words containing the letter "a". Think of the way that Liverpudlians say "Arrite, arrite, carm down", then add a sort of Welsh accent and then morph it for a hundred years or so . . . and you still won't be getting it quite right. Gray D |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST,I Scream Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:53 PM I knew a bloke once he claimed to come from abedare. Landlord of a pub in Thornton Heath, called the Prince Of Wales. Ralph Griffiths was his name, that was back in the early 80s he was in his fifties then. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:46 PM Hope not or i will need to see you for help. Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: The Unicorn Man Date: 15 Mar 06 - 01:37 PM Not another Doctor???? |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:14 PM Its not too long now folks. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:08 AM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:28 PM Folks only 19 days to go before a fantastic day of music and Dance if you wish. Scooby. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST,Dr Price Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:04 AM Just doing my bit to flag up the session! Splott Man, I was quoting Pete Meazey, the writer who used to play with Mabsant - he owned a Welsh bookshop called Siop y Triban, in the arcade at the bottom of Cardiff High Street, and he published a joint pamphlet of raucous political ballads, called Broadsides, with Meic Stephens and Denis O'Neill. Mabsant did a tour of Brittany, and Pete never came back - he vowed to become a Breton, or something like that. I last heard of him when he was living in Pleyber-Christ, just to the south of Morlaix. Among Pete's verses were: Nothing could be finer than to live in Rhiwbina 'Tis one step up the ladder before moving to Radyr 'ark, 'ark, the lark in Victoria Park And the moon, nature's lantern Aglow over Canton I'd always assumed they were Pete's verses, but WHO did write them? Like other 60s and 70s stuff, they got lost in the mists of Cardiff folklore - but it would interesting to place a name. By the way, Pete's ex-wife, Nell, took the photograph which was to grace Calennig's debut album, in her living room! |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 13 Mar 06 - 03:56 AM Nothing could be finer Than to live up in Rhiwbina. It's one step up the ladder From living out in Radyr. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST,Dr Price Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:15 PM They're a very rough lot What lives down in Splott I would not be loth to move up to Roath |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: The Unicorn Man Date: 12 Mar 06 - 02:57 PM Yes a lovely sound indeed SPLOTT. I used to be called Martin from Barton, cos my name is Martin and I used to help (hinder) Ross who runs the session at The Bull in Barton le Clay in Beds. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:55 AM Contact The Falcon they are very friendly,or wait until tomorrow and "PM" Splott Man". Scooby |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: cyder_drinker Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:48 AM Sounds like fun - but what about camping - is there anywhere to park a camper van overnight? Wouldn't want to drive bck home after a day of drinking and playing! |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 11 Mar 06 - 05:52 PM Not long now!!!! |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: GUEST Date: 10 Mar 06 - 09:14 PM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 10 Mar 06 - 03:47 AM Called into the Falcon on a whim last night, having gone for a sesh at the nearby Cwmaman Institute that wasn't on till next week. Ended up having a sesh there. A great pub. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 09 Mar 06 - 11:24 AM It's one of those sessions that goes with the flow of who is there. So singing will be in evidence. Splott is a district of Cardiff where I lived for 20 years. It's not a unique name, there are at least 4 other places with Splott in their name, in south Wales and in Somerset. But it has a lovely ring to it, sounds like it was dropped from a great height on a wet day. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: The Unicorn Man Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:39 AM Here I will give you a hand then Splott Man. Why don't you explain why you are called Splott Man? |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: SussexCarole Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:33 AM Any chance of some singing????? |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:58 AM sherref |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 08 Mar 06 - 03:59 AM Thanks Dooby Scoo and Randy Leee |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:28 PM eehrsfr |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Eye Lander Date: 07 Mar 06 - 12:35 PM rheersf |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Splott Man Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:55 AM hserfer |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 06 Mar 06 - 02:56 AM refresh |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Scooby Doo Date: 05 Mar 06 - 03:27 AM Its -1 here today hope it gets warmer for the session. |
Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April From: Shuffer Date: 04 Mar 06 - 06:46 AM refresh |
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