John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs

Subject: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 01 Sep 15 - 01:53 PM

Hi there

Can anyone direct me to a list of all of the recordings available for any/all of the above artists.

I have several but I just want to see if I am missing anything that is still on sale.

Thanks very much

K/van

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: maeve
Date: 01 Sep 15 - 02:15 PM

Start here, Kampervan.
Chanteycabin- John Conolly


I've sent an email to John Conolly in case he'd like to reply.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 06:38 AM

Hi maeve, thanks for that. I tried to find John's website but couldn't. The link you've given me is a great start, there are a couple there that I haven't got yet.

No mention of Broadside though, maybe there are no recordings available, but I'm sure that John will let me know if there are.

Cheers
K/van

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 08:14 AM

Will this help you with the Broadside recordings?
http://www.discogs.com/label/69296-Broadside-Records

I'm sorry, I haven't time to look more carefully. I have several cords of firewood to haul!

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,SPB at work
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 09:39 AM

If it is still available there is an excellent double CD 'By The Humber's Brown Waters'

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 11:03 AM

It's an excellent CD, I have it.

Kampervan, not sure where you're located, but you might be interested in The Concert for Brian Dawson at Sleaford Playhouse on 16/10/15. Brian was, of course, a colleague of John and Bill in 'The Broadside', and was a highly respected, even revered, Lincolnshire musician and singer. Proud to have known this fine, knowledgeable, gentle man.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: Reinhard
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 11:08 AM

I think the original poster asked for the group Broadside, not the Broadside Records label. See http://www.discogs.com/artist/3238434-The-Broadside and http://www.discogs.com/artist/3077813-The-Broadside-From-Grimsby.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: maeve
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 11:26 AM

Thank you, Reinhard!

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 12:35 PM

Thank you everyone. Yes it was Broadside - the group - pure nostalgia from my early years listening to them at the Grimsby Folk Club.

The Humber's Brown Waters' I have, and I agree, it is excellent.

And thanks for the link to those Broadside recordings. I haven't got the ability play vinyl, but it's good to know about the recordings and perhaps one day they will be available to buy as uploads or CDs.

I'm now living down in Kent so I'm not sure about getting up to Sleaford for the concert, but I wish the organisers well, Brian Dawson was a great musician; I didn't know him personally, but I did see him perform on many occasions and he always came across as a nice guy.

Great to see Mudcat doing what it's good at!

Thanks again

K/van

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,EBarnacle
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 04:56 PM

If you are on this side of the water, contact Dick Greenhaus at Camsco Music, 267 649 7750.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 05:23 PM

Hi EBarnacle, I'm in the UK, but happy to pay for postage from the US for anything that I can't get over here.

Have you got a web address for camsco?

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers
K/van

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 11:38 PM

I will PM him for you.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 11:38 PM

I will PM him for you.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 02:02 AM

John's Facebook Page If you're an FB-re, you could try sending him a message.

Also this - John & Rob van Sante's FB Page

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: maeve
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 06:07 AM

Dick's Camsco website is always listed in the Mudcat link found when clicking the catfish on our home page. Here it is: http://mudcat.org/support.cfm

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 04:16 PM

Thanks, Maeve.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 08:09 PM

Slight thread drift, but John did several concerts at last week's Whitby Folk Festival: I was at 2 of them and they were excellent. He had 4 or 5 CDs on sale, including the double one, which I have.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,GUEST - John Conolly
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 01:13 PM

Hi Kampervan! Glad to hear of your interest - but there are no Broadside recordings available on CD, except for the ones included on the double-CD set "By Humber's Brown Water",which you already have.
   You can contact me via "The Chantey Cabin" - the list of my recordings in their catalogue is almost complete - the only other one currently available is "The Northern Trawl" (songs by John Conolly and Bill Meek, from the play by Remould Theatre Company)
   I think Chantey Cabin are currently sold out of most of their stock of my CDs, but you can get them direct from me. All the best - John.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: maeve
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 01:38 PM

Thank you, John.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 05:59 PM

Here John, have you learned Harry Tate's Navy yet?

Best wishes,

Brian

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: Brian May
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 06:00 PM

That 'Guest' was me. Bloody cookie again

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: GUEST,Pete Sumner
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 12:06 AM

Hey John,
Glad the sales are going so well....you'll soon be able to buy another set of guitar strings and get a new case for your squeezebox!
Saw that you were in Whitby again this year...I've happy memories of us running the 'folk club night'....maybe it was 1998 just before I headed west...think that was the week Bill and Dave became an overnight success..... :-)
Keep on keeping on!
Cheers
Pete Sumner
San Francisco

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: Kampervan
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 01:48 AM

Hi John,
Thank you very much for getting back to me. I think that I am short of at least one of those CDs so I'll check with The Chantey Cabin and if they are out of stock then I'll get back to you personally.

If anyone had the inclination, assuming that there are some tape recordings out there, then it would be great if someone could put together a retrospective compilation CD of some of those early performers from Grimsby folk club - Silver Birch, Galley, Broadside etc.Don't know how the economics wold pan out tho!

Regards

Paul

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: oggie
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 12:50 PM

There was an Lp of the floor singers put out, in the mid seventies I think. "Eastern Approaches"

Steve

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: maeve
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 02:48 PM

oggie- Here's a copy:http://www.industrial-silence.com/photo-view-popup.php?id=5842

There has been at least one copy sold on the UK eBay for far less.

Subject: RE: John Conolly/Bill Meek/Broadside CDs
From: oggie
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 06:18 PM

Ouch! Fortunately I have a copy in storage, just didn't have it to hand. Also have "To drive dark away" which is my favourite of their Lp's even though it isn't the one with their greatest hits on :)

Steve