Chester UK Session Shift

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Bru
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 09:22 AM

Thanks, Mr Happy. You weren't along about a month ago where you? I remember a couple of visitors (possibly three) I hadn't seen before - one, I think, from Manchester. Had Martins. Probably had my old Epiphone 12 stringer with me that night.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 05:00 AM

Bru,

Terrier is a frequent visitor to the Pontyblodwyn sesh at New Inn, so you may've seen him there.

Me & the fiends go occasionally too.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Bru
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 10:54 AM

You might well even know the venue, Terrier.
It's in The New Inn. Not actually Mold, but Pontblyddyn. Head out of Mold on the Wrexham road, and when you get to Pontblyddyn village, turn left towards Corwen & Pontybodkin. If you don't know the New Inn, it's a couple of hundred yards up the hill on the left hand side. Not very far from Mold.
Meetings are every Tuesday. Most people start arriving around 8.45 - 9.00 pm. but if you want the sort of seat you can sit in and play the guitar, it's worth getting there first. I've only been going for a few months, but it's a fun, friendly place.
Last couple of weeks there's only been five or six of us.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 07:47 AM

Terrier,Emma B et al,

Re 3 Sags Heads, we may be off there again in the autumn, prob on the half term weakend.

Will keep y'all posted.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 07:45 AM

Bru,

I also have a copy of the Black Diamond Folk Group LP.

The sleeve notes were on a separate paper leaflet, will dig it out & post for your info.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: terrier
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 08:48 PM

Forwarned is forarmed for next year,eh! I won't risk singing that again in that pub. Target practice behind the bar was a bit worrying.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 08:42 PM

Thanks terrier - that's cheered me up no end!
I always knew Graham had good taste in beer - glad it extends to music too:)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: terrier
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 08:38 PM

Oh YES I have AND I avoided being shot by the lanlord after singing 'Fields of Athenry'

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 08:35 PM

LOL terrier! - you've obviously never experienced the smokey fire in the Three Stags Head!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: terrier
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 08:26 PM

Bru, where's the sesh near Mold? I live just up the hill.
Mr.H. Now that pubs have breathable air, all I have to do is get over my terminal apathy and get back to what I enjoy. Things have been a bit hectic lately but I'm not done for yet. Keep me posted if a move from the Vaults is likely. Hope to see you soon.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 03:38 PM

P.M. sent Bru re Black Diamonds

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Bru
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 03:00 PM

I'm not a football fan, and it wouldn't bother me all that much if it wasn't shown anywhere.

I do live in Chester, though - on the Wrexham side. I take one of my 12 stringers to a weekly singaround venue just outside Mold. Good fun, but I can't sing/don't sing until the landlord wants everone out at closing time.

I was going to post this one separately, but you might be able to help. Late 60's - even possibly 1970 or '71 - my wife or myself bought the Black Diamond Folk Group LP, presumaby from of the the folk meets. I can't remember buying it, but I've still got it. There are no sleeve notes on the LP, which has a Red Cover with white lettering. There is a picture of the Black Diamonds on the front cover, and that's about it.

Are they still about? I've not been in touch with the Folk Circuit for donkey's years until recently. Just wondering.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Jim I
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 12:31 PM

I've been 'seriously' considering coming down one Wednesday for the singaround for absolutely ages and yet I never seem to get organised enough to do it.

Now that you've changed it to a 'sinaround' I'll be there as soon as possible or even before!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Mr Happy
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 07:35 AM

'Widescreen football brings in the boozers'

Yes, that's true, but with what sort've frequency?

Certainly, the landlady? could fil the room once in a blue moon when there's a big game on, but have an almost empty pub every other mid-week night, instead've being guaranteed regular multiple bums on seats every week.

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Regarding folking in Chester, I was also a regular at the Black Diamonds FC in the Cross Foxes way back in the mists of time & am still active in the several sessions in the town & its environs.

Are you living around the area?

If so & you want to go any do's, have a squint here:http://www.chesterfolk.org.uk/events.htm

& here:http://myspace.virgin.net/h.armstrong/index.htm

Subject: RE: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Bru
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:20 PM

I'm sure there are plenty of them, Mr Happy. Widescreen football brings in the boozers.

I know where Faulkner Stret is - but which one's The Vaults? Is that somewhere behind the old leadworks. I did't even know there was a folk singaround in Chester currently. In days of yore a few of us used to meet in the Cross Foxes.

Subject: Folklore: Chester UK Session Shift
From: Mr Happy
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 08:52 AM

Due to unforseen circumstances at the Union Vaults[Big Screen Footie], Mr Happy & fiends were prevented from their weakly sinaround & adjourned to the Royal Oak in Faulkener Street, Hoole, Chester, where the 'Come-All-Ye' took place.

The landlord was very welcoming & we'll be going there next Wednesday as well.

Not sure yet if this will be a permanent move, but will keep all concerned posted.

Meself & chums felt it was a pretty poor show on the part of the Vaults management not to have informed us that our session would be disrupted in this way, after all we'd only been there every Wednesday [inc Xmas & Boxing Day] for the last 7 years.

The previous licensee was folk inclined & always let us know of any changes well in advance, letting us use a different room etc.

I've seen similar tales of woe about shortsighted pub licencees abruptly ceasing long running regular acoustic events for no other reason than to satisfy 'flash in the pan' situations like this.

Anyone else got experiences like this?