Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)

Subject: Remember Bryony?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 03:22 PM

Remember Bryony? Three lasses who were very popular in the Eighties.
They have reformed for a few gigs a year. One of which is at the Bothy Folk Club Southport
tomorrow night (Easter Sunday). That's at the Shelbourne Hotel, Lord St West, Southport. They would be pleased to see you there.
Les

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 03:55 PM

They were at Haddenham Folk Day last December.... it'll be a good night at the Bothy. A (the?) reason they're only doing a few gigs is because they live so far apart. So it's a great treat when they get together.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 04:52 PM

Remember them? tell them to get in touch with me and I'll book 'em! apart from Owt else I need another copy of the cassette I wore out!
How can I contact them?

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 09:25 AM

I'm pleased to hear that the girls are performimg together again. When they originally formed, I was a member of the committee of the Topic Folk Club in Bradford, and we were one of the clubs who booked Bryony before they became well known. They always did an entertaining evening.
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: LesB
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 01:59 PM

Ned, You can contact Alison Younger by contacting Chris Harvey / Pollington
on the Strawhead
Web site.
Les

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 01:43 AM

Bryony...cassette . These are 2 words that made my ears prick up (ouch). I believe they issued a cassette only album on the Tradition century label. Ive been searching for this for years. Any chance you could give me a track listing Nedd?

Yours hopefully
LL

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 01:44 PM

Thanks for that les, I'll be looking them up.
I don't know if I still have it L.L. but I'll check for You.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony?
From: LesB
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 03:19 PM

They can do better than a cassete, in 2002 they reissued 'The Last of the Great Whales' on C.D. with 6 extra tracks. 'The Last of the Great Whales', from Cock Robin Music CRM 065 contact Chris at [e-mail] if you want a copy.


We had a great night at the Bothy with them last night with guest spots from Strawhead & mudcatter Mark Dowding.

Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 06:32 AM

Thanks for this Les.
Ive dropped Chris an email, so hope to have the CD soon.

Many thanks
LL

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 12:50 PM

Just heard back from Chris. The Bryony CD he put out is NOT a re-issue of the Tradition album. It is a re-issue of the LP made for Dragon. Some of the bonus tracks are re recorded live versions of tracks on the Tradition album.

So my search for the cassette released on Tradition continues
Can anyone help?

LL

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 06:09 PM

Sorry had a look My copy is long gone...too many relationships ago!

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 01:55 PM

oh well
The search continues

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: GUEST,pdcawley
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 03:39 AM

I think my dad still has the tape that Cathy gave us all those years ago. It might have been stretched to buggery or eaten by a wayward player of course...

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: pdcawley
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 04:52 PM

And it turns out Gill had one too. I have it here (and after some passage of time with various A->D convertors) I have a bunch of MP3 files on my hard disc.

I'd forgotten how jolly good the album was.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 04:07 AM

This was the York based group wasn't it, that had that lovely Hammered Dulcimer player in it called Ailsa, who was Scottish but worked as a journalist in nearby Malton, or have I completey lost the plot [again]!!
Ray padgett

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 02:05 PM

I believe that Ailsa was a journalist, Ray. She was good friends with one of the columnists who worked on the Bradford Star, a local free paper. We used to get good publicity for the Topic Folk Club from the Star.
Quack!!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 03:39 PM

Yes, Ray - but now Cathy's based in the south of England, Alison in the northwest of England and Ailsa in Scotland....

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 09:17 AM

Just a line to all who helped with finding the Bryony cassette.
I picked one up from Alison and Chris the other night. So good to find it at last and well worth the wait.

LL

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:03 AM

Bryony appearing anywhere in the near future?

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: LesB
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 01:50 PM

Whitby Folk Week in August!

Les

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From:
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 12:51 PM

If anyone out there knows Ailsa, please ask her to contact me on [e-mail]

Tony Howson
BBC - based Odessa, Ukraine.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: BB
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 04:22 PM

Have passed it on to Cathy, Tony, who I'm sure will pass it on to Ailsa.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: GUEST,Dermot
Date: 06 Sep 11 - 03:20 PM

I worked as a journalist witg Ailsa McKenzie in Southampton until about 2004.

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Sep 11 - 04:48 PM

ailsa[i think] is now living in north yorkshire, not far from whitby, and scarborough

Subject: RE: Remember Bryony? (UK folk group)
From: stallion
Date: 06 Sep 11 - 06:50 PM

yes i think they still do the occasional spot in our neck of the woods