sing/session Mar 9 North Kent

Subject: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:06 PM

The pub next door to me (the Ship, Lower Stoke, Near Rochester, Kent) is just starting Speckled Hen, so we thought it would be nice to welcome the beer with a sing/session on the evening of Wednesday March 9. Expect to see me, big growly Simon, John Matthews, and our very own Barden of England, for starters. 8 or 8.30pm till chucking out time. Alas Slats is committed.

I'll see if I can sort out a blicky for a map.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:15 PM

Map

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: The Barden of England
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:37 PM

I'll be there, but unable to partake of much of the Heckled Sven as Mr. Plod dissaproves (quite rightly) of dinking & driving. I was given to understand that Slats was commited many moons ago, but then again!!!

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Dead Horse
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:38 PM

So Slats has finally been committed! I guess it was only a matter of time.........

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:25 AM

hi richard, woul dlove to enjoy a speckle with you , but alass weds is folkmob night.
fisheye

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 06:17 AM

Expect I shall be there, if the "Management" agrees. Then I can enjoy the liquid chicken.

BTW. Thursday March 10th:- OHAM 2nd BIRTHDAY bash. Concert night with MARTIN YOUNG, backing act "SUSSED". No floor spots on this one, I'm afraid, but there will be nosh and a raffle, and the Youngs Ale is particularly good. Admission £4.00 per head, or £2 per ear, whichever is the most equal. (No admittance to Van Gogh clones).

Don T.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 07:11 PM

Well, if it goes as well as tonight at the Canopus went, it will be a roarer!

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:52 PM

Boring gits!

Sandwiches are now ordered and a couple of locals have had their arms twisted, so learn some populist crap.

Oh, open fires in the bars.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 05:41 PM

Seems that some who are no longer quite so committeed (spelling intentional, you figure out my sense of humour) to the folkmob may come after all.

Whoopee!

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 01:03 PM

Looks as if we may have Jeff Cole as well - one of the best clawhammer players in the county.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Dipsodeb
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 01:17 PM

Very droll! I'm sure that it will be a great evening fisheye i'm sure that none of us would have a problem sparing you for one night.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 12:18 PM

That sounds a bit meow, DD!

I have tested the Spotty Chicken and it is good. I may have to go back again later tonight to check, of course, so I hope there will be plenty left for Wednesday (I'm sure there will).

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: woodsie
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:07 PM

Who is fisheye?

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:21 AM

And how do you play clawhammer? I have a couple in my tool box and would love to learn how to play them... I was under the illusion that you played them in conjunction with a bodhrain, but the bodhrain didn't last very long....

LTS

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:47 AM

It is a guitar fingerstyle technique based upon alternation of thumb strokes (usually limited to the lower three strings of the guitar and rhythmically moving from string to string) and finger strokes, (usually limited to the upper three strings of the guitar) the latter being combined on alternate beats with thumb strokes.

But I suspect you knew that.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:53 AM

Well I knew what it was but not being a string player, not how to do it. Thanks for the explaination.

I prefer my way!

LTS

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Bearheart
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 01:18 PM

Do you folks do sing/session on a regular basis? Will be in the UK
in mid-late June and planning to be based in Rye, but also Kent and Brighton, also the West Country.

Bekki

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 05:29 PM

This one is probably a one-off. Other local-ish ones are the Greyhound, Maidstone, First and third Mondays, the Canopus, Rochester, second and fourth Tuesdays, the Old House at Home, Maidstone, every Thursday, and the Three Mariners, Lower Rainham, every Friday (but one Friday a month is country, not folk).

Dartford, every Tuesday, is a concert club - go to listen not to play.

The White Horse, Stansted (Kent) has diddly (mostly traditional Irish tunes) every Sunday lunchtime, and a song/session fourth Thursdays. Ring first, sometimes they have trouble counting to four. Good beer.

Faversham has a club on Wednesdays, fairly concert-ish, and I think also has sessions maybe in the Bear on maybe Thursdays led by Andy Perkins - a driving banjo player, so it is not a singer's venue.

There is also on most fourth Fridays a session in The Good Intent, John St. Rochester near the police station - good beer, mainly diddly.

Just round the corner is the Man of Kent, no folk music (but tolerant), bikers, excellent beer and cider.

You may also want to pick up the schedules for the local Morris sides, Bishop Gundulph, Waddard, Hartley, Copperfield Clog, Wolfshead and Vixen, and 'Oast 'Ouse 'Oppers who usually have a bit of a sing after stands, which reminds me that I think there is still a small song/session in Rainham Oast Community Centre on fourth Fridays.

I think that's most things within 20 miles of me but I am practically in the Thames. A bit further out (or in, if you prefer) there is Tenterden on Wednesdays.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Bearheart
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 09:37 PM

Thank you!
Tenterden is actually where our friend who is hosting us lives (though he is temporarily living in Rye through the summer). Where in Tenterden and what's the music like?

Bekki

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 03:29 AM

The name of the pub in Tenterden escapes me at the moment - biggish, on the left if you come in from the north, whith virtually no pavement inside - might be the White Bear - but others here will know.

I'm not a regular there but I have been more than once: those evenings were mixed material with a tendency towards traditional, no instrumental without vocal that I recollect, varied standard from not awful to really pretty good. I think you can get more info from the Tenterden Folk Day website which if my memory serves me is www.folkspots.[not sure of the extension, might be .org or .org.uk]

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: The Barden of England
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 03:12 PM

It's 'The Eight Bells' in Tenterden and it's the second Tuesday of the month. Good session - Marion Button can often be seen there.

Richard - the sessions in the Greyhound, Maidstone are the 2nd and 4th Mondays aren't they?

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 03:25 PM

Well spotted John.

Canopus, First and third Tuesdays.

Greyhound, Second and Fourth Mondays.

Oops.

Better have another beer.

Any time Marion Button is in Tenterden, then it simply has to be first class. She is a wholly wonderful unaccompanied singer.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 09:43 PM

Wasshnt bad (hic).

Mightebe going regular.

Watcht this posthing time.

I jusht got home

Pissht.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 12:06 PM

Hell's Bells what a hangover!

Sally the landlady definitely wants it to be regular but the problem is going to be scheduling. Not Monday, her darts night. She prefers Wednesday. Slats can't turn up regularly on either Tues or Weds because of Gundulf and Waddard, Greyhound is 2nd and 4th Mondays, Canopus 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, Dartford is Tuesdays, FolkMob is Wednesdays, I lecture most Thursday mornings, Old House at Home is Thursdays, the Three Mariners is Fridays.

Looks like I'll just have to learn to drink less (personally, I blame Simon, he kept putting beer in front of me).

What's anyone else think? I'm thinking maybe Second Wednesday. Maybe.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 06:11 AM

Same hangover! Don't remember much about Thursday intil about 4pm.
Worth it tho'. Nice to meet Fisheye, I really enjoyed his songs.

Second Wed works for me tho' I wouldn't be able to mke all of them.

Don T.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:44 AM

The locals are ALL nagging Sally the landlady to let get us to do it again, and she is keen too, so it will recur on the 14th April and become regular

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 12:02 PM

Oops. Wednesday teh 13th April, regular second Wednesday.

Subject: RE: sing/session Mar 9 North Kent
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 08:22 AM

Hi Bearheart - here's the blue clicky for you
Tenterden 8 Bells

When you're in the area don't miss a visit to the Red Lion at Snargate on Romney Marsh. No regular music, but an experience not to be missed!