BS: How many UK catters 2

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Noreen
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 12:11 PM

Welcome back, bill- you'll have a lot to catch up with!

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: okthen
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:51 AM

B.T. just reconnected me, 6 days after cutting me off.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Deni
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:09 AM

UK Mudcatter from the Hyde Folk Club in Plymouth, Devon, UK

Cheers Deni

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 10:24 PM

Here's a born 'Catter if I ever saw one, and thank gawd I ain't seen one like this!!! Maybe you ought to invite him Bill. (:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: John Routledge
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 10:09 PM

TYKE Yes please for a M+Coast session at least as a start. If people are going anyway seems a pity not to try to sort something out. Geordie Broon

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Tyke
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 09:06 PM

Re a sugested get together at The Moor and Coast. I could have a word with the festival organisers this weekend as I should be in Whitby. That is if no one has any objections! I shall be at the Moor and Coast my self stagering about with Coblers Monday on the weekend of the 5th,6th&7th May. Its a pity Bill can't make it maybe I should take my Lap top and do a Link to the German Festival Via Pal Talk from the campsite if anyone has a tent with a Phone? Let me know again how many mudcaters will be going or would be going if there was a get together by posting to the Thread called How many Moor and Coast Mudcaters. Please only post if you will be going or would go if there was a gathering. I will then have a good idea how big the room should be. May be if we all posted a list of festivals that we can get to and or free weekends we could organise a larger gathering. That Bill can get to, It was his idea after all! But I see no reason why we can't have a session at the Moor and Coast.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 06:34 AM

Missed that query Fionn - and I couldn't find it in the super search either jst now. The name rings a bell somewhere, but I can't place it. I thought I could, and then realised I was thinking of another Les, Les Beckett.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Gervase
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 02:20 AM

Snuffy, I'll be down there - booked into the Marlborough. See you there...

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:04 PM

Thanks McGrath and Sooz. I know the Brown Cow well enough, but it never crossed my mind it would have a website (kinda spoils the imnage!). I'd already noticed your club Sooz, and with this prompting I intend to get there soon. (A journely that will certainly challenge, and probably defeat, my commitment to public transport. Which would be a pity. with all that real ale on tap.)

And BTW Kevin, did you see ever see my query in another thread about whether you ever ran into an old hack called Les Mitchell?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 06:35 PM

I'd recommend that, rather than try for a generic thread about festivals in general, we put up individual threads for each one - less likely to get lost in the crowd.

Maybe with a common heading - "Mudcat England - who's for Sidmouth?" etc (I think the UK as such is too spread out. I imagine if you were living in Antrim you'd be more interested in what was happening in Donegal than in Essex.)

And if we have a generic one, maybe have this in addition to individual festival threads, and we could stick in a link to them when we start one.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,okthen
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 05:00 PM

refresh, marking where I got up to. Not long till tuesday.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 01:44 PM

Anyone going to the Middle Bar reunion at Sidmouth, end of this month?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,Tracey
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM

Count in one more sometime listener from North London/Essex...

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 12:49 PM

We're Moor & coasting so I'm up for a meet and i think Sam Pirt is performing so that's another!

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Sooz
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:52 AM

I'm in Lincolnshire only just over the border from Nottinghamshire. Click here

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: John Routledge
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:35 AM

Bill - A Thread where we can list locations and dates for a get-together? There may be a common theme. Yours in expectation. Gets this above UK Catters I. Cheers John

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 07:48 AM

I just realised that they are organising festivals when I am out of the country. Are they trying to tell me something? Whitby's Moor and Coast is on when the German gathering is taking place and I will be in Belgium with Castleford Longsword team the same time as Chippenham.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GeorgeH
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 06:43 AM

Who said Peterborough is in Cambridgeshire . . Not any more it isn't; it's a Unitary Authority all on its own (but still operates jointly with Cambridgeshire on a number of things . . )

As I recall (but others certainly disagree with this interpretation) the Boundary Commission investigated Unitary Status for Huntingdon, Peterborough and Cambridge (city). First time round they rejected all three . . Huntingdon wasn't happy, and at that time their MP (one John Major) had a degree of influence. So all three were re-examined, and Peterborough (alone) was given (had forced upon it!) Unitary status . . without any strong desire for it. (In fact of the three proposals the one for Cambridge made most sense, but that's yet another story . .)

G.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 06:29 AM

Chippenham Folk Festival 2001

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 09:42 PM

For the Brown Cow in Mansfield, try this:  Brown Cow

Information from  South Riding Folk Network

Malcolm

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:36 PM

This link might be useful to Fionn. I got it from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm - Martin Neill's pages - English folk and traditional music on the Internet - which says there's a folk club in Mansfield - "The Brown Cow Folk Club - but the link to it which he gives (http://www.sbarrier.freeserve.co.uk/) doesn't seem to work.

Whether that's any use for Irish sessions, I don't know - but if there are any existing or in prospect, those links should help winkle them out.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:17 PM

and there is Chippenham, May sometime

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:09 PM

Moor and Coast May 5,6 and 7th

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:08 PM

I'm in (north) Nottinghamshire. Am I the only catter heareabouts? It cerainly seems to be something of a black hole for Irish traditional....

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 07:52 PM

That's Whitby Moor and Coast Bill? Or the one squeezing in alongside the Regatta?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:22 PM

I posted this to the last thread by mistake. I won't be able to make it to Whitby as it clashes with the German gathering which I have promised to attend.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Greyeyes
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 05:44 PM

So what's the prospect of Whitby?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Lynn W
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 05:37 PM

I'll be at the Moor and Coast and I think it's a great idea to have a gathering as this festival isn't very busy compared to some, and a weekend in Whitby makes a great start to the season. Also I'd like to meet people after six months of (mainly) lurking here!

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:43 PM

Yes. I'll be at the Moor and Coast with a couple of other Mudcatters. Can we persuade the organiser to put a note on the Festival website?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:26 PM

getting there by pubic transport isn't too much of a problem

Well, I think it might be a bit of a problem - the mind boggles...\

That magic spell checker I've got does have a few problems sometimes!

Reminds me of the time our local Childminders' Association put out a leaflet inviting everyone to come along to their "Pubic display" in a Harlow community centre.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:19 PM

I'd like to see a general practice of putting up a thread any time you're planning to go to a festival, and then via that maybe setting up some arrangements to meet up at some time and place.

But I'd also like to have a get together that didn't coincide or clash with a festival, which would give more chance to swap songs and make music together.

Do we need to go for something on a weekend, or would weekdays be OK?

If weekdays are OK, one possibility might be to tag it on to an existing festival, as a kind of fringe event before or after. For example Fylde starts on a Thursday and goes on to the Sunday, so if we were to arrange to gather on the previous Monday or Tuesday it'd make a week of it, which I suspect might quite fit in with what Alan Bell is doing anyway, by arranging folkish concerts on the days leading up to the festival proper, which might make it easier getting approval for camping or whatever, and there would probably pubs which would have no problem with welcoming sessions.

Fylde is a long way from where I live - but it is actually pretty close to the geographical centre of Great Britain, and getting there by pubic transport isn't too much of a problem. (That was a problem for me with Llanfair.)

Or there might be other festivals where that kind of thing could be done. Walton in Essex for example, or Leigh-on-Sea.

Otherwise if it's a question of a weekend which won't clash with other festivals, there aren't many that don't, up until the coldish end of the year.

But the idea of a Mudcat gathering makes a lot of sense. A Mudfest.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Tyke
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:29 AM

Sugestion about posible location for a Gathering of UK Mudcatters. As there seems to be a festival on each weekend in the summer. Why not link to an established festival this could be to the benifit of all. Mudcat would not have to worry about campsites/acomodation provision of. The festival organisers would not have to worry about a rival gathering on there established weekend. As to which weekend a bank holiday would be best for people who have to travel long distances. Anouther Thread to try could be how many UK Mudcaters are Folk Festival Organisers? The Whitby Folk Festival Week 2001 clashes as you probably Know with Whitby Regatter. This is due to the Tides. So be warned Whitby will be very busy pub space will be at a premium. The Moore and Coast Festival is on a Bank Holiday Weekend (May) How about linking a gatering to that! See www.moorandcoast.co.uk

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,okthen
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:54 AM

Just made it to the library, no sign of a BT man even tho' I phoned and and made a case for special consideration.

Anyway just to place me geographically, am in SW Suffolk, between Haverhill and Sudbury.

Jon, are you now resident in Norfolk?

Will check in as and when I can,

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:31 PM

It is a nice thought that during the Wars of the Roses between Yorkists and Lancastrians, We, in Durham were sitting on the fence probably watching the scrap (a common passtime in Durham) and supplying swords made in Shotley Bridge on the Durham / Northumberland border to both sides.
Ye canit tell a Geordie nowt coz wi knaa it all man, Ye Bugger.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: John Routledge
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:05 PM

A Geordie is a Yorkshireman with his brains bashed back in again. Love to you all GEO JOHN

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Cobble
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:03 PM

Bill

You have been in Yorkshire long enough to know you can tell a Yorkshire man more than you can tell a Gordie !! * BG *

Its good to see there are a great many 'Catters in Yorkshire. Bill's doing????

Mrs C.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:01 PM

That is amazing Big J I didn't think anyone remembered me these days. Now when I go into a club they say "Err What was your name again" I am thinking of changing my name to Bill Who. It only goes to show though that old folksingers never die they just go on to Mudcat.
Now that there are three of you over there why not organise a Mudcat Gathering we might be able to get a boat full with all the UK catters. There are now 134 on the list. Im sure the craik would be ninety at that gathering.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,bigJ
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:38 PM

Yep, that story about Stockton folk club is about the strength of it! At that time I was involved - along with playwright Willy Russell, in the Top Lock Folk Club in Runcorn where you appeared that night. If it's of any interest, the week after you were there the guest was Dave Burland and then on the 28th of February it was Nic Jones. Regards.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:29 PM

Well Big J my memory does not seem to go that far back, I was still living in the Durham area then. It was in the days before I became a missionary and was sent to convert the buggers in deepest darkest Yorkshire (which I never did. You can always tell a yorkshire man but you can't tell him much). Where did you meet me? is that in your diary too. It reminds me of the night a few years back when I played at Stockton folk club. I had not played there for about eighteen years (because of my missionary work)and Ron Angel the organiser puled out a little moth eaten book and said "Now Bill Ye cant sing any of these songs" and gave me a long list of donts. I asked why not and he said "Ye sung them the last time ye were here" It seemed that since the opening of the club, about thirty years ago, they had kept a list of every song sung by every singer at the club. That list must be worth a fortune in the wrong hands.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,bigJ
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:01 PM

Not only is there me here, but Bobby Bob Ellan Vannin too. BTW, Bill, according to my 1971 diary which I only just DIDN't throw out, we met on the 24th of January that year. How's that for minutae.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:21 PM

But Kevin surely it is near enough and there is only one catter there. We can't leave him out like poor old Skarpi. By the way, his mudcat name is Big J, now Ive met Big Mick and I've met Big Phil and if he is as big as those two you tell him he's not in 'cos I'm a coward. Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:10 PM

Pedants note:

The Isle of Man is not in England. In fact it's not even in the UK. It's got a special constitutional arrangement of its own.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM

Peadnts note:

The Isle of Man is not in England. In fact it's not even in the UK. It's got a special constitutional arrangement of its own.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: John Routledge
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 03:02 PM

ERIC Out of season YHA rent complete hostels to groups.

Should I investigate? JOHN

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Greyeyes
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:54 PM

Well I only said that I was me in part 1, not that I'm in Plymouth, Devon, tho' I'm originally from Wiltshire.

I see there's another Catter in Plymouth, I'm to be found in the central library if you're interested, ask for Paul.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:46 PM

Well, there are lots of us. Good idea Noreen, a youth hostel-better make it a camping Barn!!!!! I don't think Llanfair-bfdbjnj any old iron could put us all up in october, could it Bron?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 01:11 PM

I think Bill meant to say he thought Bristol was in Avon not Wales!

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,Brian Hoskin
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM

I didn't contribute to the first list, but I was in Wales (Lampeter, then Aberystwyth), I was then briefly in Shropshire (Shrewsbury), and I'm now in Devon (Plymouth). I've also changed computer three times and so am now a 'guest'.

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Seany
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:37 PM

Ella-Suze,

I will ring you when I have spoken to Christine and other interested parties about availabilty on Tue/Wed evenings. I should see her in the next few days.

If you are going to the Liz Doherty concert in the Norwegian Church on Tuesday, I'll see you there.

Seany-John-Belfast

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:04 PM

hmmmm should I drop Ella... I rather like it now!

Suze... erm Ella... ha ha ha ah aha hahah