Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly

Subject: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 04:39 AM

Her worship will be appearing on the award winning Gavin & Stacey on BBC3 either this coming Sunday (6th) or the next (13th).

She can be seen with members of the Cardiff band Pluck & Squeeze, calling a dance, and also (hold your breath!) performing a Line Dance.

She will be signing autographs at Crediton Festival.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dave Hunt
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:07 AM

Ah - but will she be playing the electric spoon - I kid you not! Once when she was doing a show with me she had a set wired to lights on her head, whenever the spoons made contact it completed the circuit and the lights lit - wonderful idea!!
Dave

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Cats
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:12 AM

Yes Dave, and Jon once helped wire her up in a car park.   I won't tell you where the wires went!!!!!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:48 AM

Ah, so EPNS actually stands for Electrically-Played Nimble Spoons...

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 11:41 AM

I remember that one. It was the music hall concert. I found some red and black lacy babydoll pyjamas in a charity shop in Sidmouth for 50p and that was my 'costume'. Jon wired me up in the Ham car park and a man walking by couldn't take his eyes of us and walked straight into a big van! We played the Can Can and I flashed.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Cats
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 11:55 AM

Hate to tell you this, Pattie, but Jon couldn't take his eyes off you either ~ there again, he had to or you never know where the wires would have ended up.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: sian, west wales
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 06:22 PM

It occurs to me, having just watched the latest Gavin & Stacy episode, that perhaps we should set up a help line for any foreign Catters who might watch via the internet. I'm sure Welsh catters would volunteer to handle the Baaaaarrrry translations; who do we have down Essex way (Gavin is an Essex boy, isn't he? I'm not too au fait with foreign parts.) to help out?

sian

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 03:50 AM

In south Wales we say "Where's it to?" when looking for something.
"Tidy" is "Very good".
"(H)'alf Tidy" is "Very, very good".
"Cowing Luscious" or "Lush" is "Excellent".
"Iss Dooin' my 'ead in" is "It's getting on my nerves".
"I'll ge' my Nan on you!" when addressing an annoying person.

More to follow

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: pavane
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 04:00 AM

I'll do it now = I'll do it later
Yessi Mawr DOES NOT mean You Great Jessie, but 'great Jesus'

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 07:55 AM

How could I forget "now"?

I'll do it after - also means later
Now in a minute - somewhere in between now and after (but more urgent than the Cornish "dreckly")

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Cats
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:21 AM

Dreckly is a time of its own!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 10:12 AM

Oh, its one of the best written comedies I've ever seen and, to be honest with you, to add Patti to it just makes it 'tidy'!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 11:41 AM

I beg your pardon Jane I would say 'half tidy' - that's much better than 'tidy'!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 11:51 AM

See, I lives by yer, right? But Barry is over by there.

An' don' ferge' to roll the "r"s in Barry too an'all.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Folkiedave
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 12:07 PM

You roll your own rrrr's

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: sian, west wales
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 02:30 PM

"Come from where you are over by ther' to where I is over by'ere: I don't want to take you 'ome lost." Reportedly the admonition of a Welsh mam to her kids on Porthcawl beach, miners' fortnight excursion.

sian

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 04:13 PM

My rrrs rolls whether I want it to or not!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 06:48 PM

What's a ticket for the rides at Barry Island cost these days.
Not been there since around 1980/81?
Just wondering...
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 04:49 AM

too much! I think it's about £2 a ride. It's cheaper on the donkeys

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 11:51 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 11:58 AM

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo.
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 12:01 PM

I hope your all ready in your chairs waiting for the great moment of seeing Pattie line dancind in pig tails.


Sorry Max when i refresh i for got to put my name.


Scooby

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 01:33 PM

And the translation for Manyana - is there a word with quite the same urgency?

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mick Tems
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:08 PM

Sorry to put the record straight on Pat's electric Sidmouth spoons - but it was MY idea, and I was in the car park with Jon! I got the flash of inspiration years ago, before I met Pat - an one-off TV late-night programme called Six and Seven-Eighths, consisting of some very weird sketches. One was The Electric Martian, showing a guy in a space suit, covered in lights and playing spoons. The spoons made contact and the lights flashed! That memory will stay with me always...

Mick Tems

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Friend of Pattie's
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:39 PM

You have to spoil things Dr Price.


Friend of the family.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:59 PM

I remember Pattie flashing in the Dove! (Must have done it quietly though). Wasn't that the Taffaid year?

Kitty

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 05:27 PM

Yes I did a strip for Taffy. I sat in the Dove for about half an hour with 8 layers of clothes on, each labelled with a price. I was boiling! The idea was the money had to be collected before I took off an item of clothing and the price went up the more I took off. I eventually got down to my bikini, the top was labelled £200 which had to be collected in cash and of course no-one had that amount on them Phew!, the bottoms were labelled 'Priceless'. Then Bob Copper offered to pay me to put them all back on!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 05:32 PM

I remember the sponsored strip(including the priceless label). You were sitting just inside the door of the public bar. Was that the night Bob Copper forgot the words to the Innocent Hare during the silent singaround?

Kitty

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mick Tems
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 06:44 AM

Dear "Friend Of Pattie's":

What a cowardly, underhanded way to mask your true identity! At least I had the courage to publish my name to remind the Sidmouth crowd that I was there.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo.
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 07:20 AM

Forget it Mick,not worth worrying about.


Scooby.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 11:05 AM

Too right, Scooby. The best action you can take with a troll is to squash it underfoot. Sorry to be late on Baaaarrry accents, but here's a local accent which is even more idiosyncratic than Barry: The Port Talbot accent.

Lord Heycock, the Labour peer and chairman of the county education committee (!) lived in a bungalow in Taibach, Port Talbot. At the opening of a new school, he is reported to have said: "Sorry that the haarr-ti-tect cannot be yer, but 'e have broken 'is haarm."

There's an apochryphal story about a Jehovah's witness knocking on Lord Heycock's door, which was opened by Lady Heycock. JW: "Is the Lord in the house?" Lady Heycock: " 'Ang on a minute, luv, 'e's on the lav."

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 11:05 AM

To get back to the point of this thread for a minute...

It's definitely on this Sunday on BBC3 at 9pm. Repeated on Monday on BBC3 at 10.30pm. Or you can watch it on your puter with the BBC i player.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 11:36 AM

We'll definitely watch it. It seems no time at all when Pat turned up late at Llantrisant Folk Club because she'd been she'd been filmed for Gavin and Stacey. To cap it all, she showed us the line dance!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 12:39 PM

I will be watching the programme on Sunday night.



Scooby

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 05 Apr 08 - 08:41 AM

Getting ready for the Pattie Party yeh!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo.
Date: 05 Apr 08 - 09:05 AM

I think the whole of South Wales is doing the same Mrs Duck.


Love to all the ducks and ducklings.


Scooby

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 06:24 AM

Tonight's the night! Blink and you'll miss me!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Cats
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 10:03 AM

And it is straight after Doctor who as well!

PS Jon says he remembers the Sidmouth Car Park well. It was Taffy Thomas' van the guy walked into [and dented] and the reason was that at that precise moment in time all you had on your top half were wires!!!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 11:50 AM

Nothing's changed there then!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Leraud
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 12:51 PM

I can't wait for tonight. I'm really looking forward to it.

Lynne

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Cath
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 04:30 PM

Saw you!!
Can we now add 'as seen on Gavin and Stacey' to the blurb for Holmfirth Festival of Folk?

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: sian, west wales
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 04:35 PM

Saw you too! Obviously wasn't blinking! And nice bit of product placement - made sure the cameras caught the name of the band!

OK .... so who's going to tell me what happened on The Fishing Trip? I'm fairly new to the whole Gav & Stace thingy ....

Right: so now we need to get people on Dr Who, or Torchwood.

sian

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 06 Apr 08 - 08:13 PM

You certainly can Cath. It'll probably sell a million! Nobody knows what happened on the fishing trip Sian, you have to use your imagination.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 02:52 AM

Not my cup of tea but i heard you first before seeing you.Hope this new venture into acting goes far Pattie.


See you later today.

Scooby

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 04:19 AM

We don't know what happened on the fishing trip, but it involved Uncle Bryn and Stacey's gay brother.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 06:40 AM

We saw it too. Jon reckons you are still a nice little mover!!!! As for the pig tails!!! who were the rest of the band?

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:46 AM

Oscar-winning performance Pattie! I hadn't told Tess and she was watching the program when she turned to me and said "that girl doing the calling sounds just like Pattie Smith!"

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: r.padgett
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 12:59 PM

Caught this on play back this afternoon

Not impressed with cowboy hats but when the line dancing was on all the stars were in step I thought!

Well done Pattie nice one

Ray

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 01:08 PM

Glad to see you were at the front, Patti. Were they all copying you? Showed selected clips to the twins and Molly said 'oh she's the lady with the spoons and the man with the trifle!!' Maybe we could get Ned on Doctor Who, I'm sure chocolate trifle would bugger up the daleks stalks! Who needs a sonic screwdriver.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 03:41 PM

The band is from Cardiff, not my band. I was asked to do it because I've done a bit of acting before like. And yes Jane they were copying me. Some of them had two left feet. We were taught by a line dancing expert!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,PC at PC
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 06:21 PM

Interestingly.......Cath gets time to watch tv.....[luxury]

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 04:01 AM

The band were members of Pluck & Squeeze from Cardiff.

Lorna & Pete Davies on accordian & guitar (he built it himself - a Selmer copy),
Heulwen (sorry, don't know here surname) on fiddle,
and Phil Thomas on bass.

Dr Who eh?

You can see the building where I work on the Bay shots in Torchwood though.

Jamie & Grainne Smith from the band Mabon used to be occasional extras on Dr Who.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: vectis
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:00 AM

I saw Pattie on BBCi moving wiv panache as always. Loved the braids and cowboy gear. Are you wearing them to Sidder for the autograph signing sessions?

I've already got me coat on

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:24 PM

could you put a video up on youtube,for those of us who dont have BBC television. Dick Miles

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 02:20 PM

I'll ask Splottie cos he knows how to do these things. Ned xxx pleeeease can you do it? xxx

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 03:08 PM

Well done Pattie!

Was that a "line dance" you were calling?

Natty costume!!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 03:15 PM

Hi Pat!

The GUEST was me - Skipper Jack.

I hadn't realised my membership had expired!

Dave Robinson

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:23 AM

Captain Birdseye, there would be copyright issues with the BBC if I were to put it up on YouTube.

However we've got no control over what other people might do.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:29 AM

I asked for Pattie's autograph yesterday and she said "How much would i give her for the signature"
So be warned she isn't only in popular demand in her black dress and lights she is after money too.



Scooby.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: GUEST,Essex Girl
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:47 AM

Good one Patti, I recorded it so was able to pause the screen every time you came in view!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:17 PM

I have a small swathe of Kent saying "Popty-ping" already.

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:30 AM

As Gavin & Stacey is being repeated on BBC1 at the moment, you can catch Dame Pattie's contribution again this Friday (19th) at 9.30pm.

Cheers

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 06:28 AM

Good one Patti, I recorded it so was able to pause the screen every time you came in view!
I recorded it so I can fast forward past her!

Only joking Pat!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Fidjit
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 06:35 AM

Spoons on the telly?

Is that a TV dinner we're talking about?

Chas

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 12:43 PM

Actually caught her on about 30 screens at once on a recent visit to Tesco electrical department. Think we created quite a stir by stopping in our tracks and yelling 'oooh its Patti!'

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Splott Man
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:22 AM

Now you're scaring me, Nigel!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:55 AM

Ned;
Read it again, the first line was a quote from Essex Girl!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: SussexCarole
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 04:57 PM

Great that they're repeating this...didn't get to see the first time around.

I'll be tuning in to CBeebies next year as well for your next production

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:04 AM

Good work! The electrical wiring sounds an interesting concept-given the Welsh connection I hope the guydoing the wiring was corgi registered!!!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 04:12 PM

She's on in 20 minutes!

Subject: RE: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS on the telly
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 05:11 PM

Well there I was again! I can still remember that line dance routine, we spent most of a day learning it. I've got to be honest I didn't have a clue what Gavin and Stacey was about when I did the filming but have watched both series on the i player since. I think it's hilarious.