Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III

Subject: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:31 AM

Some people have been asking, and I am happy to reply: okay!

Venue: Portaferry, Co. Down, N. Ireland (home of the previous gatherings)

Dates: tentatively Fri 4th - Sun 6th February 2005

Brief description: Great place, and hopfully even more music this time round as there's some well-established sessions there these days. Come along, meet up with other members, guests and anyone else in the vicinity. Play music. Sing songs. Participate in some interesting culinary activities. Drink Guinness.

One thing - there have been requests for separate sessions in terms of songs and tunes... It might be an idea to do this on one of the nights just so as everyone gets to do their thang.

T'would be great to see everyone again, with hopefully some new faces too. Think of it as a warm-up for the ever-fantastic Eurogathering. No 57 quid charge, and a distinct lack of whelks, though.

date corrected per request - joeclone

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:43 AM

If I don't make it this year I'll be ever so cross, I may even stamp my foot and say "gosh darn it"
Looking forward to it already.
Only 164 days to go yaaaaaay.
Giok

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:57 AM

yes please!

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:59 AM

Just realised I wrote 2004 in my opening post. Doh! It's 2005. Of course

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: mooman
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 12:02 PM

Dear Kate,

We both expect to be able to come to Portaferry in February and are already looking forward to it!

Peace

Richard and Patricia

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 02:11 PM

All things being equal I will be along to drag the whole thing down to my level too Kate .

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 03:18 PM

Funny you should say that Kate, but flights from Leeds Bradford to Belfast are at this very moment £57.00 for those dates. Please count Lardboy and Viking amongst the attendees. Something to look forward to at last (since the last thing to look forward to) Huzzah!

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 03:55 PM

Eric/Greg: share a room with me again?

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 04:46 PM

Well Done Fibs Me Dear!!!!
Will pop dates in diary.... Pancakes anyone?

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 04:47 PM

Hillary, may I be your pancake assistant again?

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 05:02 PM

If there is going to be another pancake workshop, count me in. I might even persuade Manitas to come! We could leave the Limpit at home though..... just have to find some poor sod silly enough....

LTS

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 05:08 PM

Andy: I was counting on you being Chief Assistant & that you'd help me out with your Other Pancake as & when necessary!

LtS, hope you & Manitas can make it - will start practising pancake hurling now......

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 07:08 PM

My "Other Pancake"? Is this something I do not understand because of my poor English?

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 07:11 PM

Sorry Andy-I'm bringing Aragon! (Only joking) That should not be a problem. I'm just waiting to hear from Lardboy.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 08:11 PM

Micca and I will be there too!!

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 04:06 AM

Sounds like we could make up quite a party from London - anyone want to investigate block bookings for cheaper fares?

LTS

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 07:59 AM

Great to know there'll be enthusiastic attendees. I believe skarpi will also be doing his best to make it over from Iceland. I hope Kate-who-is-Kate and Sarah(Shrek) and Letty are also able to make it. I willl do the usual information providing at some stage soon.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 08:32 AM

Andy your English is Fantastic! My memory is useless! I vaguely recall that you instisted that your extra pancake was called your 'other one', I was trying to be a little quiet about that. A Chief Assistant of course you would be entitled to your 'other one' anyway!!!

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 08:37 AM

Couldn't we hold it somewhere more convenient on a different date? The Yardley Gobion Toad Licking Festival has always been held on that weekend, and I haven't missed one since Cecil Sharp was clapped in irons for illegal recording.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: MudGuard
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 08:53 AM

I didn't have an extra pancake! That is a lie! ;-)

Fibula, I am willing to pose as a Februarypole or Februarybavarian (whatever you prefer for dancing around nekkid) ;-)

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Letty
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 08:56 AM

Count me in (if I'm doing nought)!
Could you order some sunshine for that weekend, Fibs?
If Skarpi comes, he'll have to help me do my Old Icelandic homework (Hrolfs Saga Kraki at the moment) :_)


Letty

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: mooman
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 08:58 AM

That should be "nowt" Laetitia. Spreken Sie Northerish?

I hope Skarpi can come....that would be brilliant!

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Letty
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 09:03 AM

Mooman, that was official Cork spelling, of course.
I'll be the official delegate of the People's Republic of Cork, so langers beware!

Letty

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 09:08 AM

Oi, Lard Skipjack of 'Umberside - the date is non-negotiable unless you are willing to pay an administration fee of 57 pounds. I have checked the calendar and the toad licking thing isn't til the following weekend (unless you're referring to the Yardley Gobion Toad Liking Festival - that might indeed clash, but shouldn't be an issue to a whelk-fancier like yourself).

By the way, Dumigan's back room has been done up beautifully and is all clean and cosy and cushy and lovely and just ripe for the playing.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 09:59 AM

They haven't ruined the shithouse by roofing it, have they, Fibs? That is the only khazi I know with a satellite dish on an inside wall with an unemcumbered view of the stars. It is a tad rusty from the rising steam, but it adds to the character of the Dumigan's Lavatory Experience. I even rang and woke Oaklet in the early hours so he could enjoy live commentary.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 11:27 AM

Has Dumigan's back passage been done up too?

Letty,I fought yew culd spaek Hullish! beeein naer Hull9 from de Nederlands.

If Skarpi comes he'll only have to row south for a few miles, so it'll be easy for him to get there.

And Richard it will be great to see Pat again, as she didn't make Barrow last May.

Skipjack, I remember you ringing Oaklet. There we were with two intertwining streams of glowing fluorescent processed orange and Guiness with the stars above us and you spoil the moment by ringing someone else!! When I said ringing, I meant on the telephone-stupid!

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Oaklet
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 11:31 AM

Have you chosen a location and a date yet? If not, we can have Stourport at a knock-down rate as it is an unwanted gift. Just a thought.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Den
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 01:43 PM

Fibs why can't it be in the summer? I'm planning a trip to the ould sod next year, probably around August. Would love to meet up with a few folks I've talked to around here.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 02:04 AM

Den - Question Not the Dates of Meets! (see Eurogathering threads infinitum). Besides, it has to be that weekend as tradition dictates, because then in 2006 it will correspond with my 30th birthday when we'll have one hell of a hoolie.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 02:10 AM

Right, listen up!
Upon arrival, participants will be herded into one of two groups: those carrying instruments externally and those carrying theirs internally. Those with external music-making equipment will accordingly be shepherded into a cosy barbed-wire enclosure where they will be branded with a big "T" (for tunes) on their forehead, and will spend the rest of the weekend plucking forlornly at said equipment in a melancholy manner. Those who prefer the dulcet tones of the human voice will be penned into a seconding holding area and branded with a large "S" (for songs) and can while away the remainder of their visit raising their voices in tuneful protest. Those who can both play AND sing will be pelted with shaky eggs by both groups silmultaneously (better start ducking, Terry!).

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Morticia
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 04:37 AM

I'd love to be there but having aimed for it and missed twice now, I am not commiting myself ( although someone may do it on my behalf) until I see the white of their melodeons!!

Put me down as a "if I have nowt better to do and enough dosh and am still in gainful employment and not in the hospital or having my wicked way with another folk festival" possible.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 04:55 AM

Skipjack is always plucking his instrument, he also plays with his chest organ as well.He tells me he's looking forward to the barbed wire. I told him that he'd only get a little prick from it. He replied that he'd put a little prick on it, but I didn't understand that at all.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 05:56 AM

I'd heard that about Skippy. His instrument's never out of his hands. When he said he had greasy plams I thought he meant money, not a fistful of dripping.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 08:01 AM

I'd prefer if those who sing and play would be branded with S and t.

St. MudGuard ;-)


(is "plams" a typo or is it a word missing in my dictionary?)

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:40 AM

Plams is definitely an unmentionable - as if I would make a typo...! ;-)

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 11:21 AM

I think Kate means he has greasy plums.
Giok

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 11:22 AM

Greasy plumes?

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: mooman
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 11:28 AM

Oh dear, I've just checked the fares. If we go via Dublin on RyanAir it is going to cost an extortionate €3,60 for the two of us return (plus taxes) from Brussels. I shall have to seriously think about this!

Richard

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Letty
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 11:35 AM

Mooman,
I could sponsor you. Or maybe you could ask them if Pat can sit on your lap, so you'll only need one ticket.

Fibula: starting to duck right now. What if you don't sing and don't play either? Do we force those people to use the shaky eggs?


Letty (off to the fleadh cheoil tonight!)

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: mooman
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 12:01 PM

Good idea Letty! It would only cost me one Euro eighty cents then!

moo

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 12:04 PM

Is that 'de ma tante' Fibs?
Giok

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 04:14 PM

Ou est la greasy plumes de ma tante, giok? Je ne sais pas.

Letty - rock agus roll at the cheoil.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: GUEST,herge
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 05:32 PM

Count in members of Haste to the Wedding, were doing nothing else in Feb, so will enjoy the 'craic'

Herge

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: skarpi
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 05:36 PM

Okei, Eric i am not gona row a little south, not at this time year
hahahahah , but I am gonna do something to morrow and that is call the " Iceland Express Airline and ask them to do a plan for me so can be you all , so what are the days ? in Jan/Feb ?
please let me know so I can tell the airliner.
Maybe i can take band with me ?????
Who know still plenty of time to do this .
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: skarpi
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 05:50 PM

Oh men I am not right those day the days are on top sorry didin´t see it.
but I mean it just talking to my wife and i might come.
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 06:11 PM

Wow! It would be Fab if you could make it Skarpi....

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: skarpi
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 06:35 PM

jabb, I know to morrow.
Skarp Iceland.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 08:34 PM

In that case, Herge, Sorch (White Tiger) and I will definitely be there. Skarpi's coming from Iceland, for goodness sake, and the journey down from Bangor can't be much worse than that.

No takers from stateside? I think InOBU certainly should make the effort, if only to admire my splendid new chanter.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:07 AM

"Haste to the wedding"-you've got a great website!(Will ye be flogging yer CD?) Please be gentle with us who are crap players, but if you give DADGAD lessons, you'll be more than welcome to sit on Skipjack's knee while he plays with his instrument.

Richard. I've decided in the interests of economy, to fly to Belgium, and get one of your cheap seat returns, as it's£57.00 from here. How does that sound?

Skarpi-it would be great to met you, Mrs skarpi and yer band. I can't swim, or else I'd help you row. Skipjack has a boat though, so he could sail up and get you.I've heard that he's often looked for the north west passage.

And, I have had it confirmed that Skipjack does have greasy plums.

Subject: RE: Ireland Mudcat meet: Loughstock III
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:20 AM

This is wonderful! It's set to be a cracking weekend.
I will put all the relevant information online in a couple of hours time.