Session near Aberdare 1 April

Subject: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 06:12 AM

This from Mike Greenwood.

"Yes. Another day of pub music sessions (well, one long one, really!) is planned for April 1st (seriously!), up in our wonderful Welsh valley.
Those who've been before know the whereabouts and the format. Others please see the attachment.
Hope you can make it.

Best wishes,
Mike Greenwood"
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(from the poster)


ALL FOOLS AT THE FALCON…

Saturday, 1st April 2006

Come and join in another day of music sessions (Welsh, English, Continental, Come-what-may)in the convivial surroundings of
The Falcon Inn at Godreaman (nr Aberdare)
Why not bring your dancing shoes and trip the light fantastic on the wonderful riverside patio? (music available!)

Continuous musical activities from lunchtime through 'til late

Weekend Beer Exhibition (20+ real ales and continental specialities)

Contact: Mike Greenwood (PM Splott Man for a number)

Food and overnight accommodation available

The Falcon Inn, Tel: [phone]. www.thefalcon.co.uk

DIRECTIONS
Take A470 north from M4 Jcn 32 (N Cardiff) or south from A465 Heads of Valleys Road; at Abercynon roundabout, take A4059 towards Aberdare.
Straight on at Mountain Ash traffic signals, then left at Cwmbach roundabout (still following Aberdare signs)
Left at roundabout by Asda; right at T-junction, then sharp left at 1st sign for Cwmaman (Community Activities Centre)
After 350 yds, take left turn marked "No through Road". Follow road to bottom of hill, then around to right, and keep going; the road becomes a narrow track, following the River Aman, ending at The Falcon (Don't give up!)

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 07:21 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 03:32 AM

rerefresh

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:47 AM

Rererefresh

Just keeping it this up there till April 1st.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 03:35 AM

reeeeeeeeeeeefresh.

I don't expect anyone else to post about this, but I want to keep it up there until the day.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 11:00 AM

fresher

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 12:35 PM

If you can 'keep it up' until 1st of April I expect a big smile on Pat's face!

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:06 AM

No comment

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 04:31 AM

Because it's there

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:20 AM

Would someone else like to keep this above the 1 day line for a while?

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:22 AM

Would do Ned Dear, but we're off to Ireland for the weekend, sorry! Looks like you'll have a brill session!

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 04:02 AM

Have a good trip, see you at Crediton.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Shuffer
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 07:52 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Shuffer
Date: 04 Mar 06 - 06:46 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 05 Mar 06 - 03:27 AM

Its -1 here today hope it gets warmer for the session.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 02:56 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:55 AM

hserfer

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Eye Lander
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 12:35 PM

rheersf

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:28 PM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 03:59 AM

Thanks Dooby Scoo and Randy Leee

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:58 AM

sherref

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: SussexCarole
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:33 AM

Any chance of some singing?????

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:39 AM

Here I will give you a hand then Splott Man. Why don't you explain why you are called Splott Man?

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 11:24 AM

It's one of those sessions that goes with the flow of who is there. So singing will be in evidence.

Splott is a district of Cardiff where I lived for 20 years. It's not a unique name, there are at least 4 other places with Splott in their name, in south Wales and in Somerset. But it has a lovely ring to it, sounds like it was dropped from a great height on a wet day.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 03:47 AM

Called into the Falcon on a whim last night, having gone for a sesh at the nearby Cwmaman Institute that wasn't on till next week. Ended up having a sesh there. A great pub.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 09:14 PM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 05:52 PM

Not long now!!!!

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: cyder_drinker
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:48 AM

Sounds like fun - but what about camping - is there anywhere to park a camper van overnight? Wouldn't want to drive bck home after a day of drinking and playing!

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:55 AM

Contact The Falcon they are very friendly,or wait until tomorrow and "PM" Splott Man".
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 02:57 PM

Yes a lovely sound indeed SPLOTT. I used to be called Martin from Barton, cos my name is Martin and I used to help (hinder) Ross who runs the session at The Bull in Barton le Clay in Beds.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:15 PM

They're a very rough lot
What lives down in Splott
I would not be loth
to move up to Roath

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 03:56 AM

Nothing could be finer
Than to live up in Rhiwbina.
It's one step up the ladder
From living out in Radyr.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:04 AM

Just doing my bit to flag up the session! Splott Man, I was quoting Pete Meazey, the writer who used to play with Mabsant - he owned a Welsh bookshop called Siop y Triban, in the arcade at the bottom of Cardiff High Street, and he published a joint pamphlet of raucous political ballads, called Broadsides, with Meic Stephens and Denis O'Neill. Mabsant did a tour of Brittany, and Pete never came back - he vowed to become a Breton, or something like that. I last heard of him when he was living in Pleyber-Christ, just to the south of Morlaix.

Among Pete's verses were:

Nothing could be finer
than to live in Rhiwbina
'Tis one step up the ladder
before moving to Radyr

'ark, 'ark, the lark
in Victoria Park
And the moon, nature's lantern
Aglow over Canton

I'd always assumed they were Pete's verses, but WHO did write them? Like other 60s and 70s stuff, they got lost in the mists of Cardiff folklore - but it would interesting to place a name. By the way, Pete's ex-wife, Nell, took the photograph which was to grace Calennig's debut album, in her living room!

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:28 PM

Folks only 19 days to go before a fantastic day of music and Dance if you wish.
Scooby.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:08 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:14 PM

Its not too long now folks.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 01:37 PM

Not another Doctor????

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:46 PM

Hope not or i will need to see you for help.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST,I Scream
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:53 PM

I knew a bloke once he claimed to come from abedare. Landlord of a pub in Thornton Heath, called the Prince Of Wales. Ralph Griffiths was his name, that was back in the early 80s he was in his fifties then.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:38 PM

Woss all iss "Victoria Park" stuff? You rreelly local or wha'?

I alliz tort ih wuz:-

"'Aaark, 'aaark de laaark
In Caaardiff Aaarms Paaark"

sose we cud learn people 'ow to talk Caaardiff proper, like.

Ahem, note to the bemused non-local reader, Cardiff (and Barry) people have a rather distinctive way of enunciation when it comes to words containing the letter "a". Think of the way that Liverpudlians say "Arrite, arrite, carm down", then add a sort of Welsh accent and then morph it for a hundred years or so . . . and you still won't be getting it quite right.

Gray D

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 03:58 AM

Warra teg, innit?


Butty

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 04:32 AM

Alas, I'm from Llantrisant ("the hole with the Mint") so I couldn't taaalk proper Kaaardiff like - though I spent 19 years as a journalist down the Echo, in Thompson 'Ouse, like. Victoria Park is in the outskirts of Canton, where the residents could stare longingly across the distance to their promised land - Llandaff! It's genteel, like. Kaaardiff Arms Paaark is a popular mecca for rugby fans - it's the same difference, but the urban folk tradition has popularised it.

By the way, Frank Hennessey (of BBC Wales' Celtic Heartbeat fame)brought up the question of the song "Llandaff", and played the Irish qroup Cran's recording of "Laugh And Half Daft" (a smoothed-out folk version of "Llandaff".) I heard the Irish singer Brian Mullen sing "Llandaff" a long time ago, and I was in The Ship And Pilot when I heard this woman sing "Llandaff". I think I'll start a new thread...

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 01:14 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Gray D
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 08:00 PM

Muss be workin' onna papers an' avin' a educashun bureye gorra bow to Mick's . . . sorry . . . Dr. Price's superiuh spellin'.

Ih shud defnitley abeen Kaardiff widda "K" to gerrih soundin' righ'.

Spot on, owkid.

Gray D (re-cookied)

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:00 AM

Let's float this thing to the top like.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 03:36 PM

Sorry Splott Man it nearly sunk again!!!!!.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 02:50 PM

Not long now.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:04 PM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Shuffer
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 09:05 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Shuffer
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:58 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 05:53 AM

I've got nothing to add either.

Pat Spoons in disguise

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Splott Man
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 03:15 AM

It's this Saturday.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 11:08 PM

I can't wait!!!!.

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:07 PM

REFRESH!

To save Splottyman from doing it!


"I say, Superted..."

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:08 PM

What about myself Nigel!!!!.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 06 - 02:03 AM

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Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: ifor
Date: 29 Mar 06 - 05:10 PM

Show me the way to Aberdillo
I've been hugging and kissing my pillo
On the first day of Aprillo
Sweet Marie she waits for me
great eh

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 29 Mar 06 - 06:08 PM

Apologies to Ifor, but...

Its Aberdare, (or Aberdare - oh) NOT Aberdillo

Show me the way to Aberdare, Oh
I've been wond'ring what I should wear oh.
Dreaming dreams of Aberdare, oh
The Falcon Inn, it calls to me

There are 'folkies' coming.
Fingers in ears, singing and humming
The excitement's mounting.
They say there's 20 beers and counting!
To the North of Cardiff,
Off Junction thirty-two
Transport's not too hard if
It's what you wanna do-oo

Show me the way to Aberdare, Oh
I've been wond'ring what I should wear oh.
Dreaming dreams of Aberdare, oh
The Falcon Inn, it calls to me




CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST,scooby
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 12:30 AM

Thats tidy Nigel.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 10:09 AM

"There'll be handbells ringing*
People there will be dancing and singing
There'll be folk with guitars,
Maybe bodhrans, squeezboxes, sitars
The whole thing is growing, with folk who come again.
It must be worth going..
To Aberdare again...."


Come on, just a couple more verses and we could get a long running No1 hit. (Ha, bloody Har Har!)

CHEERS
Nigel

(I'd forgotten I'd started this song, I'd just got in from Llantrisant Folk Club last night after a 'couple' of nice pints of Abbots')

My local Scout group has a set of 'Handchimes'. An octave and a half in'C' (from middle C up) with a couple of shaps & flats (Bb & F#)

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 10:12 AM

What about a lift Nigel from Llantrisant on April the first.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Session near Aberdare 1 April
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 06 - 02:51 AM

Have a good time everyone.
Scooby