wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept

Subject: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 18 - 03:17 AM

Martin Carthy MBE is guest of The Wurzel Bush Folk Club www.wurzelbush.co.uk on Tuesday, September 11th (Doors open at 7 pm )
Dave Samson has run this club since 1972, i understand its free entry

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Sep 18 - 01:34 PM

That's right about now. Get over there.

What's a wurzel? Any relationship to mangelswurzel?

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Sep 18 - 04:54 PM

its Dorset slang, BUT ACCORDING TO WIKI.. A wurzel is a farming bumpkin from the little Hampshire village of Portsmouth.THER WAS A POLUR CROOSOVER FOLK BAND CALLED the wurzels, yes its a corruption of mangel wurzel, meaning country bumpkin, where iu come from they were called swede bashers , cos they ate lots of swedes or turnips

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: RTim
Date: 11 Sep 18 - 08:21 PM

A Wurzel is a Turnip...........A Manglewurzel!

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Sep 18 - 09:43 PM

Are you sure it's a not a rutabaga? Is it orange in color or purple and white?

In one of my favorite passages from P.G. Wodehouse, beautiful but vacant Veronica gazes at Tipton, the young American millionaire, "like a cow staring at a mangelwurzel on the other side of the fence."

I paraphrase.

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 12 Sep 18 - 01:37 AM

>A wurzel is a farming bumpkin from the little Hampshire village of Portsmouth

The Sandman, thanks for that^. It kind of clears up the meaning behind the expression - I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

I mean after all why not pumpkin truck? In a general sense it would make as much sense as turnip truck, except now with what you said, hmmm, puzzle solved?

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: leeneia
Date: 12 Sep 18 - 09:45 AM

No, a pumpkin is not the same. Turnips are stupider than pumpkins. The smell and the taste, for example.

I grew turnips one year, then we didn't want to eat them. They taste like dirt.

FYI, wurzel is German for root. Mangel means defect.
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Sandman, how was the gig?

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 12 Sep 18 - 09:58 AM

Well, I didn't just fall off Turnip Truck.

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 18 - 03:27 PM

NO IDEA I LIVE IN IRELAND

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 18 - 09:17 PM

Wurzels are also called mangolds, yes?

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: GUEST,John Bowden (not a typo!)
Date: 13 Sep 18 - 01:48 AM

"FYI, wurzel is German for root. Mangel means defect."

True, but "mangelwurzel" is derived from the German Mangoldwurzel - "Mangold" on its own means Swiss chard. Nothing to do with Mangel/defect.

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: RTim
Date: 13 Sep 18 - 11:43 AM

Martin Carthy is no Turnip, Swede or whatever Root Vegetable you wish - he is a great performer....

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Sep 18 - 02:37 PM

no one was suggesting he was , that is the nameof the club

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: RTim
Date: 13 Sep 18 - 02:46 PM

I was just bringing the thread back to it's real subject...........dah!

Tim

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Sep 18 - 04:05 PM

Why? The gig is over and we haven't heard how it went.


Thanks for the info about mangold, John.

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 13 Sep 18 - 05:26 PM

Martin was in great form and the venue was full.

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 Sep 18 - 07:44 AM

there is a you tbe clip on wurzel bush facebook
MARTIN SINGN THE DERBY RAM

Subject: RE: wurzel bush folk club martin carthy-11 Sept
From: leeneia
Date: 14 Sep 18 - 11:41 AM

Thanks. I'm glad to hear it went well.