Scarboro seafest

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: Blowzabella
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:57 AM

So you should, stallion - it is people doing that sort of thing that ticks off venue managers and makes them think twice about offering their facilities to festivals.

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 10:02 AM

both places were busy ,they are also right next door to each other.
both places were on the festival programme.
both places were busier because of the festival,my approach would be [if I had been drinking alcohol],to have an overpriced soda water[it was twice the price of the Lancaster]in the sub aqua club,then have a pint afterwards in the Leeds arms.
I think the sub aqua club would have been much quieter, trade wise without the festival,so while I can see their point of view over that, there is another way of looking at it :that sort of attitude by publicans,is of the variety of cutting off the nose to spite the face,[imo] if everyone did it it would be a problem,if only one person does it its hardly a problem.
of course another alternative would be for the sub aqua club to get a barrel of decent ale for the festival.
the main problem is the bringing the beer in to the pub,I am sure no one can object to anyone going in to the leeds,and having a pint,and then going next door to perform.but if the sub aqua club wants more trade,they are not going to get it by not allowing the festival,on the premises ,but they will get it by putting on a decent pint.
it is called being competitive.

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 01:03 PM

It wasn't done on purpose, I was with Barry & Ken and they were in one venue and had to dash next door to the other and i had thre quarters of a pint, they hadn't realised they were on and thankfully it was only next door. I didn't keep going back and forth!

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 04:48 PM

Peter-

It was a good thing that you were guiding Barry and Ken. No telling where they might have ended up without your sober assistance.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 05:39 PM

are you taking the p*ss Charley!

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 07:00 AM

Stallion,I see you were doing extra spots,as well as Two black sheep and a Stallion,Good on you.

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 07:05 AM

No not me personally, i was acting as guide for Barry and Ken, I was born and bred in scarborough, getting them from venue to venue when we were not on ourselves

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 07:18 AM

thats very handy,
I have been going to Scarborough for several years,and didnt realise,until this year there was a quick short cut from the leeds arms to the Sea Cadets hall.

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 03:10 PM

our school was just a couple of hundered yards from the harbour (it's houses now!) we spent all our time playing chase through the bolts and castle dykes

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 03:41 PM

So were your family involved in fishing?

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 05:53 PM

My Mothers family came from the music hall,silent picture (piano) and came to Scarboro as a Pierot on the beach shows, Uncle harry married Edie (Edith) Bayes, the Bayes were, and still are, rooted into the fishing community. my sister married into the Owenson family who, from 1896, were the Punch and Judy men in scarborough, the tradition was passed on to me twenty years ago althougfh I have never actually done it scarborough. My Fathers family were laterly farm labourers although we are decended from ughtred, one was knighted on the field of Agincourt and another was a Pirate and an associate of Drake. OOOps too much information. I did work in the bar of Golden Ball when I was a puppy and knew most (certainly all the dinking fisher families)of the fishing families. AAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhh so much change

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: Blowzabella
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 05:23 AM

Being as how you're so rooted in Scarborough, then, stallion, you're probably one of the few people who could get away with nipping from one bar to another with a pint then

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: Banjiman
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 05:28 AM

..... especially with that mad look in his eye!

Are you guys going to keep this discussion going until next years Seafest? I hope so.

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 01:03 PM

Time was I knew everyone, not now, I think the Sub Aqua club may not be bothered about the beers, they maay be in mourning, they may have lost a couple of their divers yesterday.

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: Barry Finn
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 07:52 PM

It was all my fault, I was the one that kept him hopping from bar to bar. No sooner did he get a drink & sit when I'd remember to look at the schedule & find that we were due next door or up the street or across the damn hill. We (Ken & I) entered a song contest. We finished up one gig to waddle (I was waddling not them) up some God foresaken gothic stairway or hill to the Sea Scouts club house or something then sing the song (thankfully Richard squeezed us in) only to have Pete guide us to the next spot with oonly a breather in between. Bewteen all the man's unning I doubt if he drank more than a couple drops per glass anyway.
Speaking of the "Punch & Judy" act, Peter will have to tell you about his puppet, it the same one was passed down to him from, well he'll tell you cus I might be streching it a bit but the puppet was classic & Pete makes a lovely sounding Punch.
And again another thanks to Pete would stood in as our "third" on a few songs, espically "Come Down You Bunch of Roses" where it's done in 3 part harmony so there were a few that we couldn't have dmne with out you.
I'm just home & am still glowing at what a wonderful time & we had in being a part of it & meeting up with others that had a hand in making it oh so much fun

Thanks o you all
Barry

Deb C has to say a few words about her traveling fold up guitar that has a wonderful sound to it

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 08:46 PM

Barry-

It's reassuring to hear that you are back home.

I'm glad your abductors were willing to release you for the $997 I was able to collect from your admirers.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Scarboro seafest
From: stallion
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 03:25 AM

Barry - Ken the pleasure was all mine, it was hard not to join in! Jo and i miss you boys it was far too short a trip, well at least our end was, there is so much more to see and hear. The Challenge, laid down by Banjiman, is to keep this thread going until next years festival, game on!
Thanks for all the wonderful music and memories boys and look forward to catching up in the not too distant future