BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp

Subject: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: GUEST,Mark Addison
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:01 PM

In response to a request in the Gainsborough Permathread, here are the finalists in The BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Competition, as hurriedly copied as announced on air...so apologies for any errors, spelling or otherwise

In order of performance..

Steve Cropper
Al Whittle
Margared Ritcher
David Lockyer
John Blanks
Clarty Sough
Nigel Creasey & Terry Clark
Carl Bakewell
Dick Appleton
Angela King & Paul Dickinson
Richard Langridge & Kathryn o' Connor.

Should be a great night on 11th October at Spilsby Theatre, Lincolnshire (UK)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 02:20 PM

Thanks Mark

What a strong line up. Should be a very good night.

Well done to all those who got through.

Les

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:01 PM

"What a strong line up. Should be a very good night."

yes we're playing the four four two combination that night. no shirt pulling!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:02 PM

and always remember, its a game of two halves and don't hog the ball.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:17 PM

You haven't done a song about Graham Turner have you Al :-)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 11:47 PM

Al, I reckon the winner will be 'over the moon' and the rest will be 'sick as parrots'.

It's going to be a real battle! Scareeeeeeee!!

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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 03:02 AM

Who brought turnips into the discussion?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 03:27 AM

Well you never know, Big Al could have done lyrics somewhat like

Turnips from Lincolnshire

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 03:38 AM

When its Spring again, I'll bring again
Turnips from Lincolnshire....

If only my imagination were as vivid as that...

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 03:59 AM

Personally I'm glad it isn't!

To get back to the thread - well done everyone, commiserations to all those excellent songs that didn't make the final cut and have a grand night on 11th October.

Get well enough Backwoodsman!.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 04:47 AM

I'm trying, I'm trying..........!!   :-)
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:03 AM

So trying...great to see you back online John and congrats yet again on the song....Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 11:19 AM

Any of the Gainsborough mob planning to go?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Sooz
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 11:28 AM

Unlikely as we are off to Trust AM now to do a programme to publicise Gainsborough Folk Festival Have to fit the day job in in between!

You know we will be rooting for you though.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 11:45 AM

anybody know what time we have to be there for a soundcheck?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 02:04 PM

I got there last year around 6.30 Al, it starts at 7.30 I believe. I plan to be there around the same time tomorrow. See you there.
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 04:04 PM

Good luck all!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 05:01 AM

theres agood chip shop in the town - I like to get that into my Spilsby experience

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: GUEST,Chorusgirl
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 05:43 AM

Good luck for tonight.   May the best man win!!!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 05:50 AM

Whoops!! my last comment was just figuratively speaking. To be PC I should have said May the best Men/Women win!!! Or should that just be "persons". Anyhow you know what I mean I'm sure.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 05:53 AM

In that case, shouldn't you be 'Chorusgirl/boy/person'?? :-)

Or even, as PC-bullshit now requires a chairman or chairwoman to be describes as 'The Chair', maybe you should be 'The Chorus'?? LOL!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 10:09 AM

Does that make me "The Treasure" BWM?

;-)

BBP

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 10:46 AM

Perhaps so "A hidden treasure" maybe.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Sooz
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 11:47 AM

What does that make me?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 01:16 PM

I think we would get Sue d, if we answered that one Sooz :-)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 05:43 PM

Anybody got any news yet?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 06:14 PM

Should just about be over by now...any result yet please?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rockhen
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 06:25 PM

Someone won, someone else didn't, lol!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 06:39 PM

What you doing up this late Rockhen? :-)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rockhen
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 07:44 PM

I was half working and half wasting time not getting on with my work! Hope the competition had a good turn out.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 01:34 AM

Anybody win?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 02:32 AM

So it would appear that Dick Appleton won. Well done Dick.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 04:27 AM

1 - Dick Appleton
2 - John Blanks (Lyrics - Mark Addison)
3 - Angela King & Paul Dickinson
Performance Prize - Richard Langridge & Kathryn O'Connor

A great night with a very high standard of songs and performances - there were at least four or five that, IMHO, would have been worthy winners.

But 11.40 pm finish was way, way too late, bearing in mind that some of us had a 75-minute drive home along winding country roads and work in the morning. Time to come up with a slicker format and move to a more accessible venue - Lincoln Drill Hall, Trinity Arts Centre?? (all IMHO of course)
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 04:33 AM

Well done John & Mark, Angela & Paul and great to see Richard & Angela get the performance prize.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 09:38 AM

Villan, I think you meant Richard & Kathryn?

Well done everybody. The nice thing is, that no matter who wins, we all win because we get to hear some great new songs and make new friends.

Grand!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 09:44 AM

Yes of course I did. Thanks for pointing that out BBP :-)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: GUEST,Chorusgirl
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 11:17 AM

Should have looked here first before the Gainsborough Folk Club thread. Well done everybody. I'd hate to have to judge something like that -   you are all winners IMHO!!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:09 AM

He he another new crop of great songs is born.
Hope you all enjoyed your selves

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 05:10 AM

This is my song. It was called Skegness and that's what its about. It didn't get anywhere and my wife reckons its not all that good ('not one of your better songs'). But it says some of the things I feel - a certain tenderness towards a brash seaside resort.
http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/id23.html


Rik Palieri one of the judges came up to me afterwards and was very kind and conciliatory - saying perhaps it needed a little work - it sounded like two songs to him. I have a suspicion - neither of them would have been one of my better songs!

big al whittle

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rockhen
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 06:58 AM

Just listened to your song, Al. I liked it and it definitely summed up my memories of family visits to skeggie, as a kid. I could smell the chips, honest!
I guess, people being the strange creatures they are, you will have to wait until they pull down all the tatty, brash places there and build a brand new designer Skegnessville...Then nostalgia will really kick in and maybe after another 20 years, your song will be considered a real classic. Bit of a sod though, isn't it? You got any about the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes? :-)
Great song, Al. I always enjoy your songs because they feel like a real personal 'take' on their subjects.
PS save us a chip, will ya?!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 07:01 AM

thanks for the kind words Helen.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 07:02 AM

PS See the Herman Goering thread for my latest career initiative

al

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 07:04 AM

Al, it was a very good song indeed, and a brave attempt at doing something structurally different from the 'normal' sort of song in praise of childhood and memories of it. And, of course, being an Al Whittle song, that's exactly what I would expect!

I was surprised that it wasn't placed in the first three, but that's maybe an indicator of the unusually high standard of the entries - not so much a comment on your song, more of a comment on them all?

You have a unique way of expressing yourself Al, keep right on 'doing it your way'.

And Drahn 'em In The Bath! :-)

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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 07:37 AM

I second what Rockhen and BWM say. You have a unique style Al so stick with it.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rockhen
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 11:08 AM

I haven't heard the other entries, so was only commenting on Al's and not detracting from other people's songs. I am sure the quality of all the songs was high.
I think these type of competitions are always difficult to judge because it is a personal taste thing. Each set of judges will approach from a different angle and have different opinions.
Congratulations to ALL those who got off their backsides and entered, this year, or in the past. I must admit it is good to think of NEW songs being written with our county in mind. I love Lincolnshire!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Sooz
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 11:38 AM

You'll be able to hear all of the songs in a special programme broadcast on BBC Radio Lincolnshire at Christmas.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 11:51 AM

Never mind AL
You dont wanna be accepted and part of the in crowd do ya?
It is you otherness that a lot of people admire and of course the great humerous and real nature of you r songs

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: GUEST,Mark Addison
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:08 PM

Dick's winning song can be heard at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2006/06/02/folk_song_competition_feature.shtml

Had a great night. Thanks to all, especially to JB for his efforts in getting to the theatre, let alone delivering a great performance.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:50 PM

Thanks Mark, I had a great time.
And thanks to all the other performers - a really good atmosphere 'back-stage', and some friendships forged. And lots of great songs and excellent performances.
And Tom, of course, for MC-ing in his inimitable laid-back style!
And special personal thanks to the 'JB Bad Girls' - they know who they are!! :-)
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
From: Rasener
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:57 PM

>>And special personal thanks to the 'JB Bad Girls' - they know who they are!! :-)<<

And we do LOL