Hugill in Liverpool

Subject: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,ShantyCarlyle
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 04:19 PM

I was wondering whether anyone has any memories of Stan Hugill performing on the Liverpool folk music scene in the 1960s/70s?

I'm currently writing a PhD dissertation on Hugill and Liverpool seems to have been an important place in his career, particularly during the folk revival in the 60s.

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,Derek Schofield
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 05:48 PM

Mick Groves and Hughie Jones of the Spinners.
Derek

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 03 Feb 22 - 02:13 AM

Hi,
Indirectly related, but maybe also worth checking out--

Hugill was at the 1965 Keele University Folk Festival. And, recently, there was a Mudcat thread about that festival. Some participants in that thread may have memories.

Gibb

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 03 Feb 22 - 08:21 AM

Stormalong John acted as "minders" for Stan Hugill. But even they couldn't stop him climbing the rigging. Their website still has contact details for Arthur Garnett and Jack Coutts. Jack was at Clive Pownceby's funeral yesterday.

BBC Last Shantyman

See the Mainly Norfolk website for Stan's Discography and Bibliography.

Jan 14, 2004 https://eastbayexpress.com/pirate-radio-1/; Dublin-born Shay Black, 53, lives in Berkeley and runs the Sunday night Irish session at the Starry Plough. The significance of shanties to his heritage became clear to him during his twenty-year stay in Liverpool, England, usually the first, and sometimes the last stop in Irish immigration. “I realized the indigenous music was not the Beatles or skiffle,” Black says. “It was shanty singing.” A 1976 Stan Ambrose program on Radio Merseyside enchanted Black, who then came to know Stan Hugill, one of the last true links between the sailors who sang shanties aboard ships and the landlubbing folkies who prettied them up. When Stan started, “it was just hoops and hollers and yelps,” Black recalls.

Freight & Sa\lvage; January 10, 2022 7:30PM Expanding Your Folk Song Repertoire ONLINE w/Shay Black
Our customer service email address is [e-mail] and we can generally reply within a day or two.

https://www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/LIF-Shanty-Singing-and-the-Irish-Atlantic-online-essay.pdf
Shanty-Singing and the Irish Atlantic; Identity and Hybridity in the Musical Imagination of Stan Hugill;
Gerry Smyth, Professor of Irish Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 05:11 AM

Photo of SPINNERS and Stan HUGILL UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: KEELE FOLK FESTIVAL (Photo by Brian Shuel/Redferns)
Photo of SPINNERS and Stan HUGILL, L-R Hughie Jones, Tony Davis, Cliff Hall, Mick Groves, of The Spinners, and Stan Hugill singing sea shanties at the Keele Folk Festival

Photo Keele Folk Festival

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,Derek Schofield
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 05:54 PM

I believe the Spinners and Stan also sang together in Liverpool, but without Brian Shuel being there to capture them on film.
Derek

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 05:25 PM

It was some 30 plus years ago that we went to The Spinners Folk Club at Gregson's Well in Liverpool, as there often was several guests dropped in during the evening, one of them was this guy who was introduced as "The Last Working Shantyman - Stan Hugill" we enjoyed the set and like, everyone else, joined in the chorus's with gusto! It was a great evening and we went home - now so many years later we wish that, on that and several subsequent occasions when we met Stan that we had pinned him down in a corner with a tape recorder and very long list of questions !

All these years later our love of folk music has continued, we have specialized in Maritime folk music - and Stan has continued to be the subject of many emails, requests and questions. Because neither of us can sing or play a musical instrument we set up The Chantey Cabin, not as a shop, but as a central point where like minded people can browse around for the CD or book they have always wanted, or ask a question about artists or songs. And generally act as a central point at festivals. For those outside the United Kingdom we offer a mail order service, not just for sales but as an information point.

A few months ago we were asked a question which we could not answer - and this prompted a web search - it was to our very great surprise that we found there was no Stan Hugill web site and so in our small way we have decided to remedy the situation, but this is not "our" site we are simply the custodians - we would love to ask anyone who knew Stan, in any capacity to add their own contributions. It is intended that this will be very much a "living" site where things will be added and updated frequently.

Ken and Jan Lardner January 2003 e-mail: [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Hugill in Liverpool
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 04:35 PM

Im sure Stan would have been interviewed for the Radio Merseyside Weekly Folk Music programme "Folkscene. I believe the programme is still running but the chaps who would have interviewed Stan: Geoff Speed and Stan Ambrose are no longer with us.