New Didgeridoo Club in Hull

Subject: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:13 AM

Starts Friday 19th, at 8.00pm,
its at Marist Social Club, 119 Cottingham Road.
I'ts FREE and there is themed food, a bar, an open mic session and a raffle , you can win a genuine termite hollowed didgeridoo, CD's and loads of other stuff, ALL welcome, if you want directions, or any more info, ring Steve on 07899 703457.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:19 AM

then after that it will be once a month.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:28 AM

Got a new keyboard at last jOhn? Instead of the old Enigma machine? **BG**

RtS
(Merry Xmas, or whatever they celebrate in Hull9)

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Dead Horse
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:17 PM

Is it a club for new didges only, or can any old didge do?

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Helen
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:19 PM

Does the themed food include witchetty grubs and bogong moths?

Helen

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 02:51 AM

dead house-any people can go.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: fogie
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:33 AM

I admire anybody that can do circular breathing, but personally I'm glad it's in Hull and not round my area. How much digeree doo can anyone take? Imagine carrying round a full complement of tubes- one for each key like harmonicas!

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Beverley Barton
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 06:35 AM

A chap I work with actually takes lessons on how to play the thing from someone in Beverley! What's next? Triangle playing clubs? Banjo Orchesteras?

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 10:04 AM

"Orchesteras"? I'm not sure about orchesterating banjos ... Are you confusing this with another word?! (And would it only work on ball-ended strings?)

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 06:27 PM

If it gets cold can you snuggle up under a didgeridoona? or didgeridoovet? or whatever you call those things in the UK?
Cheers
JennieG sweltering in Oz - definitely not under the doona!

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 09:08 PM

Someone once sang a song that went:

Why don't you try to didgeridoo
As you'd like to be didgeridone by

Jenny (also sweltering - the BBQ on Sunday's looking good!)

I have a didge, but I don't know how to play it. Women aren't s'posed to anyway, according to the folklore.

We can if it's a homemade one, made out of PVC pipe. They still sound quite real, actually. We have a guy here, Mick Griffin, who makes tunable didges out of pieces of PVC pipe of slightly different thicknesses. One fits inside the other and slides like a trombone. He's also one of the best didge players I've heard.

Jenny

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 09:27 PM

G'day Beverley Barton

What's next? Triangle playing clubs? Banjo Orchest(e)ras? ...

Actually, there was a vogue for banjo orchestra ... '20'/'30s ... ? - playing everything with strings and vellum heads from banjo mandolins up to 2 metre high banjo basses. Some 'Catter pointed out a new banjo bass of that size on (~) E-Bay, a while back.

And, I was listening, a week back, to report from a Californian Didgeridu festival (The Joshua Tree Festival ... ?). Why shouldn't Hull join in the corroboree?

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 11:55 AM

fresesh, its tinight.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Les from Hull
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 12:58 PM

Maggie and I called in out of interest and there were about 40-50 people there many of them with didgs. It seems that didgeridoo playing is alive and well in this area.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 08:28 PM

Bob Bolton-

More thread drift BUT banjo orchestras were quite prevelant in the 1890's, as documented in a 1896 reprint of the S. S. Stewart Banjo Catalog. Of course the text may have represented wistful thinking on the part of Stewart's marketing team rather than actual reality, but they even had testimonials from banjo bands in Australia. Sigh. I best quote what I am reading:

HOSEA EASTON, of Melbourne, Australia, July 13th, 1886:

My banjos, eight in number, arrived here three weeks ago perfectly safe and sound, and I have thoroughly tested every one of them. I find to my satisfaction that there is nothing in the shape of banjos in Australia to approach them. You deserve the name, "King Banjo Maker," and as you stated in your letter, the two large banjos are the finest ever seen in the colonies...I have been playing one of the large ones with a full orchestra, and the banjo was heard above the orchestra outside the theatre doors.(!)

LOL,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 09:34 PM

G'day Charley,

I had forgotten the 1880s "Banjomania" ... ! That was the second wave of banjo fancy to sweep Australia - the first being set off by American "Minstrel" shows doing their best to garner some of the gold from the 1850s-1860s gold rushes.

I'll shortly be up at Gulgong (4 hours NW of Sydney) for their New Years Revels ... and some of the concerts will be in the "Prince of Wales Opera House" ... built there in the 1850s for visiting performing troupes (even American Minstrel shows!).

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 01:37 AM

I dont have a didgeridoo, can I come with my bodhran?

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 05:29 AM

Refresh, its tonight.

I've still not been to this club, as i usually work fridays [i work in a curry ship],but I've heard its good.
LEs from Hull has been, and he said it was good.

apparently there are over 100 didgerydoo players in Hull !

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: el ted
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 05:30 AM

Are you sure this isn't one of those touchy feely "Care in the Community" thingys jOhn?

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Dipsodeb
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 09:46 AM

The didg is a fantastic instrument in the right lips, and has as much right to have its own dedicated session as any other instrument it plays a huge role in the culture of the aborigines.
Would love to have gone to the session but it's too far away for me. Does anyone know of any tutors/sessions in London?
Blessings
~Debs~

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 09:58 AM

re women N didges..

While it is true that in the traditional didgeridoo accompanied genres of Northern Australia, (e.g. Wangga and Bunggurl) women do not play in public ceremony, in these areas there appears to be few restrictions on women playing in an informal capacity. The area in which there are the strictest restrictions on women playing and touching the Didgeridoo appears to be in the south east of Australia, where in fact Didgeridoo has only recently been introduced. I believe that the international dissemination of the "taboo" results from it's compatibility with the commercial agendas of New Age niche marketing.

My understanding of Aboriginal culture in Australia has been formed as an academic ethnomusicologist, through acquaintance with the ethnomusicological and anthropological literature as well as through personal contact, during classes and fieldwork, with the Aboriginal people in a number of communities in South Australia, the Northern Territory and New South Wales.

It is true that traditionally women have not played the Didgeridoo in ceremony. However let us review the evidence for Aboriginal women playing Didgeridoo in informal situations. In discussions with women in the Belyuen community near Darwin in 1995. I was told that there was no prohibition on women playing and in fact several of the older women mentioned a women in the Daly River area who used to play the Didgeridoo.

In a discussion with men from Groote Eylandt, Numbulwar and Gunbalanya it was agreed that there was no explicit Dreaming Law that women should not play Didgeridoo, it was more that women did not know how to. From Yirrkala, there are reports that while both boys and girls as young children play with toy instruments, within a few years, girls stop playing the instrument in public. There are reports that women engage in preparation of Didgeridoos for sale to tourists also playing instruments to test their useability. Reports of women playing the Didgeridoo are especially common in the Kimberley and Gulf regions the Westerly and Easterly extremes of it's distribution in traditional music. The Didgeridoo has only begun to be played in these areas this century where it accompanies genres originally deriving from Arnhem Land (Bunggurl) or the Daly region (Wangga, Lirrga and Gunborrg)

The clamour of conflicting voices about the use of Didgeridoo by women and by outsiders has drawn attention to the potential for international exploitation and appropriation of traditional music and other Aboriginal cultural property. In addition, the debate has drawn to international attention the fact that there are levels of the sacred and the secret in traditional Aboriginal beliefs, many of them restricted according to gender. Perhaps the Didgeridoo in this case is functioning as a false front, standing in for other truly sacred and restricted according to Aboriginal ceremonial life that it can not be named in public. In this way, the spiritualising of the Didgeridoo not only panders to the commercial New Age niche, but also serves as a means of warning non-Aboriginal people to be wary of inquiring too closely into sacred matters.
Written by Linda Barwick
http://aboriginalart.com.au/didgeridoo/myths.html

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 01:53 AM

feresh, its tonight.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 07:48 AM

As A Banjo owner ( I stopped calling myself a 'Player') all I can say is Didgeridoo ? No DidgeriDONT .

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 12:56 PM

refresh, the didgeridoo people are holding a camping weekend, in The Yorkshire Moors somewhere, if you want to go, or want to know more about it,   ring the number in the first message.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 03:47 AM

feresh, its tommorer.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 06:42 PM

As they say in Folk sessions - didgereedon't.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 09:15 PM

What a remarkable place Hull must be.

there are enough didgeridoo players to form a club

theres only one round here and his work is tolerated rather than cherished

i wish you luck with this venture and if you ever get to the point where you can stage a coroboree with painted aborigines - you will have trouble keeping me away

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 09:37 PM

You can use a vacuum cleaner tube as a practice digeridoo. Doesn't look as good but you could disguise it with paint or something. They work OK.
As to witchetty grubs they're great deep fried, but do cut off the heads first. It's the more kindly option. Joy

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 01 Oct 04 - 03:18 AM

It's tonight. It's weird!

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Folkien
Date: 01 Oct 04 - 12:05 PM

"You can use a vacuum cleaner tube as a practice digeridoo."

Indeed you can. I used to practice this way before I bought the real thing, but try as I might, I still can't get the hang of circular breathing.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 01 Oct 04 - 03:35 PM

This all reminds me of my favorite didge band....
They put my artcar on the cover of their latest cd....

look them up

http://bigblowandthebushwackers.com
stop in and see them!
Big Blow and the Bushwackers Didge band....

Conrad

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:35 AM

Steve
Hi all you folks who say you have a didj but cant play it or circular breathe ....Perhaps a trip to the club will help..
October 29th Didjeridu and Dolphins evening

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:21 PM

I'll bring a selection of scaffolding poles!

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:59 AM

next meeting is Friday, ring Steve for details.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Nemesis
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 06:26 PM

Coincientally, I found a site for the Bournemouth Didjeridoo (sp.?) Club! I thought this was quite amusing until a nearby work colleague immediately presented me with a copy of their definitive book, CD and cassette (just in case) on the subject :)of didjeridu playing and circular breathing ..

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:38 PM

oh.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 19 - 03:06 PM

Is this still going??

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 04:21 PM

I didgeridoubt it. I haven't heard one for a long time and I get around in Hull. Not heard one on the folk scene anyway. They may have migrated. We get quite a lot of floods in Hull. They may have been commandeered by the Fire Brigade.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 04 Aug 19 - 02:23 PM

The big question is 'Did Jerry do his chantey at the Hull festival?' He certainly did and it went down a storm.

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 12:52 PM

Just to let you know we have a didgeridoo club at the backpackers hostel next to trinity market in the old town of Hull every first Thursday of the month , the first one this year starts in February at 7 till ten

Subject: RE: New Didgeridoo Club in Hull
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 06:01 AM

well at least it isn't a Samba band club!