Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4

Subject: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:51 AM

"Voices at the Door"
24 December 2005 – 4.30-5.00pm - BBC Radio 4

"Voices at the Door" with songs, music and readings by Coope Boyes & Simpson, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya, Georgina Boyes and Ray Hearne will be broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4's programming for Christmas Eve. Featuring interviews with Norma Waterson on Yorkshire traditions and Peter Millington on Nottinghamshire Plough Monday goings-on, the programme offers an alternative view of midwinter customs.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 07:34 AM

We'll be there Georgina! Thanks for telling us.

We saw you all in Frome the other day and you were absolutely brilliant! (apart from Lester...sadly he wasn't there..)

If you've not heard them before guys...LISTEN!!! You will be reduced to a heap of quivering pre-Christmas delight and you will be in exactly the right mood for Christmas too.

It is quite simply some of the most beautiful music around. Can't wait to hear the interviews with Norma and Peter as well. Christmas Eve has just taken on a whole new excitement!

Acappella Is The New Black!


Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: JohnB
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:25 PM

Thanks for the info. will try to do the internet thingy from over here in Canada. I seem to have better success with the archived Play it Again shows rather than the live stuff. However it does'nt stop me trying.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 07:36 PM

thanks for the heads up, Georgina.....I'll be listening

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 06:11 AM

Just refreshing this thread, wouldn't want anyone to miss what I heard 'live' the other day.

Roll on Christmas Eve! :0)

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Gervase
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 04:01 AM

Refresh
Because it's worth it - if, by some freak of mismanagement, you've never heard CB&S, this is your chance. Simply the best unaccompanied singing you'll hear.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: gnomad
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:28 AM

It's today folks, a last refresh seems in order.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Commander Crabbe
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 08:58 AM

Cheers will try and catch the prog.

Gnomad, will you be in t'Endeavour later?

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 11:32 AM

It's just about to start. And there's still the Archive Hour on Alan Lomax to come at 8pm, introduced by Martin Carthy.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: DMcG
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 12:04 PM

It's a pity that wasn't time to include more than a snippet of each carol - but most of them are available on CD from No Masters!

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:25 AM

I heard them on Classic FM yesterday afternoon. Apparently Natalie Weem(?) has been playing them a lot.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 02:32 PM

Something has gone wrong with the "listen again" feature for the programme, and there is just a recorded message blaming the absence of the file on "an unforeseen problem". Although I've sent them a message via the online contact form asking what's up, and whether the matter will be sorted out when the holidays are over, the BBC autoresponder appears to think that my message was intended for their "feedback" programme, so we may never find out...

The part of the broadcast that I did manage to catch was interesting. There are also a few comments in another thread, started after this one:

Voices at the Door

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:38 AM

Malcolm's complaint to the BBC has obviously worked. The 'Listen Again' function in back in operation.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: JohnB
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:56 AM

Thanks again for the info, I missed the programme, we were out and there's the 5 hour time difference. I tried twice on the Listen Again function and failed, I was going to get around to complaining today.
Procrastination is a wonderful thing, someone else invariably does my dirty work, thanks Malcolm.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 09:43 PM

I wish I'd done it right away so I could have sent it as a fault report before they noticed it was stuffed (always more satifying).

The restoration of the file won't have had anything to with me, of course. Anyhow, I've heard it properly now and thoroughly enjoyed it; though it ought properly to have been given an hour.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Anglo
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 11:39 PM

Thanks for reporting on that - I had found the "unavailable" message and wouldn't have gone back unless I'd seen the good news here.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Garry Gillard
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 05:56 AM

Thanks, Georgina, for the original note, and thanks, Malcolm, for pointing out that I could "listen again". Now I just need the "soundtrack album", and I gather from DMcG that that is also available. Wonderful singing from CBS, and lovely to hear Norma Waterson's speaking voice as well as her singing.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 06:17 AM

How long is it available on line for?
Some programmes are only on for a week, and part of that week got lost, so some people may have missed it if the time is not extended to compensate.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 07:04 PM

I doubt very much that the time will be extended, so be sure to catch it quickly.

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: DMcG
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 05:02 AM

Re the "sound-track album": Most of the carols are from Fire and Sleet and Candlelight with some from A Garland of Carols.

I would have to listen to it again to be sure, but I think there were two that were from neither of these CDs.

Georgina will have to give the link for those.

(Despite appearances, I am not part of some NoMasters marketing force!)

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 05:59 AM

Over on The Oysterband board everyone is swooning over the music of Coope Boyes & Simpson...it's GREAT!! ;0)

I enjoyed the programme hugely, it was just like being back in that beautiful Chapel in Frome recently, except that Norma was there as well.

It should have been at least an hour though or even longer...and it should be made into a DVD as well! Someone mentioned on the Radio 2 board that there is also a 'Harvest Home' concert, along the same lines. Let's hear that on the radio again, as well....and have a DVD of that too please. ;0)

http://www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk/harvest_home.htm

Cover the whole country in their music, their stories and their passion for what they're doing. Bring back our traditions and our songs. Take them into our schools and give them BACK to our children who are missing out on so very, very much of what is theirs.

And then there's the First World War concert as well, which I'd love to see on BBC 1 on Rememberance Sunday.

http://www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk/the_first_world_war.htm

Their music is so very beautiful and so very, very important. And yet....they've never won a Folk Award! Not that I'm into the Folk Awards much anymore, but for these awesome singers/musicians, who obviously care so deeply about the standard of their music and performance, who are keeping alive our past and our traditions, to have been SO overlooked makes no sense whatsoever....and the people who run the Folk Awards should be hanging their heads in shame!!

Sorry...but since I've discovered their music I get utterly incensed about that!

If you buy one CD this year...then make it 'Hindsight' or 'What We Sing Is What We Are' and I'll bet that hearing them sing '10,000 miles' will make you stand absolutely still, no matter what you are doing. And LISTEN to the words of 'Jerusalem Revisited'....and weep....and then there's 'Shallow Brown' and oh..so many, many more!

I'm so very glad to have found their music. And you know what? My children, aged 11 and 19, love their songs as much as we do! So there you go, Coope Boyes & Simpson cross all age barriers and prove that when something is done so excellently and with a lot of love, then everyone will prick up their ears and listen.

AND...don't forget that Lester Simpson and Mick Peat present a two hour folk programme called 'Folkwaves' over on Radio Derby, every Monday evening from 7pm - 9pm...where you can hear a huge and brilliant variety of music and some great nattering as well! ;0)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/entertainment/music/features/folkwaves_programme_feature.shtml

BUT..it doesn't have a 'Listen Again' button at the moment, so you have to tune in live! AND..whilst you're there listening, drop a line to the head of Radio Derby and tell them to get that 'Listen Again' button put in!! ;0)

And as the poster above stated...I'm nothing to do with 'NoMasters' either...I simply fell instantly in love with their music one day and the rest...as they say...is history...(quite literally in Coope Boyes & Simpon's case, for they bring the past right into the present!)

Apologies for rambling...

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Coope Boyes & Simpson - Radio 4
From: KathWestra
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 11:33 AM

Georgina,
Thanks for letting us know. I'm just back from Christmas in Washington, and listening to the show now. Loving it, and wishing you a wonderful New Year.
Kathy