BS: How many UK catters 2

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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Ruthie A
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 12:23 PM

I'm of The Ship Folk Club, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England.

Ruthie

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Cavia_P
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 01:06 PM

I'm up for the Whitby Moor and Coast festival.
[plug] www.moorandcoast.co.uk
Coincidentally, I'm also their webmaster. :o)
I may be able to sneak a mention on the site for the mudcat cafe...

Cavia_P

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Cavia_P
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 01:30 PM

After checking back on thread part one...
Ickle Dorritt; you've got me! (yes, my GF/SO is called Jenny). I counted you, Graham Pirt and myself as Cottingham Mud Catters. Now I'm wondering who Captain Swing and Guest Willa are ?
I also second Warwick festival (end of July) as a suitable venue for a gathering. I hope to be there.

Cavia_P

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Big Phil
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 02:56 PM

Have sent you a personal message Mr Sables..........

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: John Routledge
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:08 PM

Warwick is starting to look good Cheers GB

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Greyeyes
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:39 PM

So what part of London is Warwick in?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Greyeyes
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:44 PM

And is it near the Prospect of Whitby at all?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,Captain Swing
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:46 PM

Cavia,

Have you heared of a local duo called False McCoy?

I'm the fiddler.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Cavia_P
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 07:23 AM

Captain Swing,
as opposed to the Reel McCoy ? :o)
Sorry, I'm not a Cottingham regular, Jenny and I came along to Les Barker last week and Roy Bailey a few weeks back. We may get along to the Ceilidh (this Saturday ?)
I used to be a regular at Hull Folk Union One in it's last years, now I go along to the Friday sessions at the Kingston (Hull) and have been to the first Sunday of the month sessions at Nellies (Beverley).
I recite monologues and play the pocket Bodhran.

Cavia_P

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Trevor
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 08:30 AM

Hello Bill.

Brilliant job getting all these names together - thanks.

I'm in Shropshire, by the way, although my bit of it is more or less on the border.

Cheers.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 09:03 AM

cresby.com but to you Mr Red.

Mid West of England.

regular at the Somers TFC Albion Worcester, Fri

and all ceilidhs within 1 hour of Stroud.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST,Captain Swing
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 03:35 PM

Cavia

Yes, false as opposed to real. I know, it's a pretty crap name for a band but we're used to it now. We used to be called the Ballistic Brothers but we discovered there was another band of that name in London so we decided we should change our name quickly. So we came up with False McCoy to meet the deadline for some gig publicity. Since then we've heared nothing more about the other Ballistic Brothers.

I don't attend the Cottingham club these days, or for the last six years for that matter, though I was the founder member and ran it from 1985 to 1995.

We tend to play to pub audiences now. We will be playing at the Sun Inn (formerly Tap&Spile), Beverley on 18 March and Hessle Golf Club the night before (St Patrick's).

Cheers - Captain Swing

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 06:50 PM

Cavia: Hoped you enjoyed your new Les Barker book?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Big Phil
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 07:13 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Tyke
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 08:02 PM

So far there have been 13 postings to the I will be at the Moor & Coast Festival type Thread. This includes one from I am a confused mudcater that I will apologise to now for my dyslexia. Even if there was a spell checker on this site it would not help. As their seems to be no objections to a gathering so far so I'll try and make a few tentative inquires this weekend. Gathering or not should the festival include Coblers Monday doing as we did last year a welcome to the festival Singaround we shall make everyone welcome give a special mention to Mudcaters. Hopefully the weather will be fine and sunny with no rain. I would hate to see Les playing his electric Bass in the Rain and starting to Link the Moor and Coast with the Franenstin branch of the Goths. PS is there any truth in the rumor that Mr and Mrs Duck are trying to produce there very own family Moris Side?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Bradypus
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:23 PM

If anyone's still counting - one more for Hertfordshire, but originally Ayrshire (Scotland)

Bradypus

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:30 PM

Still counting 148 so far
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 10:13 PM

Crumbs, bill- don't think there's a youth hostel big enough!

Tyke, the Ducks are the reason why there are more catters in Yorkshire than any other county... :0)

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Glevum
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 04:33 PM

Me too!
Glevum from Hull
I shall be at Moor and Coast + Whitby Folk Week too.

Glevum

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Snuffy
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 04:53 PM

I thought Glevum was what the Romans called Gloucester!

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Glevum
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 05:30 PM

Snuffy,
You're right.
I'm called glevum coz I come from Gloucester
why are you called snuffy?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: bill\sables
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 06:02 PM

Well Glevum, Les from Hull, and Oggy, You are all from Hull, You do know it is only about 3/4 of an hour to visit the Jug any Wednesday night for the session and meet a-lora-lora other catters. You could always car-pool
Chers Bill

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 06:43 AM

Glevum

'cos I'm always taking snuff!

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 07:04 AM

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JeZeBeL from YORKSHIRE, Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee......we are the best, we'll the maddest anyway. Hey there Bill!! Are you going to the maltings on tuesday? I'm driving, I think...........?

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Jock Morris
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 12:07 PM

Carbisdale Castle Youth Hostel (near Bonnar Bridge)can take about 220 people, so a youth hostel gathering is still possible. It would a long journey for almost everyone though:-)

Scott

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 02:35 PM

I,m descended from Franco-German Glassmakers, my parents were from Sunderland, I was born and raised in North Lincolnshire. I now live in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, which is why I am glad there is such a thing as The Mudcat Forum.yours pseudo-hiply fat B****RD XXXXXXXXXX

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Tyke
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 06:33 PM

Well I'm just back from a long weekend in Whitby! It's a hard life but someone has to do it! As part of my dedication to the Mudcaters I have spent some considerable time this weekend making sure that the beer in all the Pubs in Whitby would meet with the approval of the any Mudcaters visiting Whitby. I took my several pint's of John Smith's Magnet Ale on special offer at £1 a pint in the Board Inn on Church Street and three or four visit's before I felt that I could recommend it to other Mudcater's.

However once I regained the use of my legs I managed to make it to the Endeavour for a couple of pints of Broadside. It was there I ran into one of the organisers of the Moor and Coast festival and he said that he would be only too happy to include a Mudcater's event within the festival. We then left the Endeavour along with one of the Organiser of the Whitby Folk Club Mick Haywood managed with some effort to cross the bridge and stagger into the Plough on Baxtergate the Beer Sam Smiths at £1.25 a pint is very good value. I was pleased to discover that the Plough, home of the Whitby Folk Club on Wednesday Nights, will be used this year for the first time by the Moor and Coast. After a few beers in the Plough we decided to reconvene in the Tap and Spile it was round and about here that thing seemed to get a little blurred and my memory is a little weak. But I think it is safe to say that a musical weekend in Whitby sound like a lot of fun! See you all there at the Moor and Coast

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Noreen
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 08:28 PM

Great devotion to duty, there, Tyke!! Most impressed.

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:58 PM

Whitby is always great - but with Moor and Coast being the date it is, it clashes with too many things down south.

I hope to get to Whitby week, and renew some acquaintances from last year.

But in the meantine, and even before Moor and Coast, there is the National Folk Festival at Sutton Bonnington. I'm hoping to get along again this year - and I've set up a thread asking if anyone else is planning to go.

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:01 PM

Thanks, Tyke;please keep us posted on when and where.Three of us coming to Whitby M/C

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:07 PM

Any of you lot here in LIverpool??

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:09 PM

Obviously I meant Liverpool. I don't know where LIverpool is!!

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:13 PM

Snuffy - great to see you at Sidmouth....

How would people feel about a weekend in Hastings, East Sussex sometime? Out of season probably - after September and before Easter ususally....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2
From: Snuffy
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:47 PM

not before this Easter, Liz!

Wassail! V