Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 09:52 PM

I can't believe the wordsmiths missed
Vin Egar
and I can't be bothered to go back to see if they got
Vin Dication.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: evansakes
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 04:40 AM

Bring back Vin Garbutt?

Well he's coming back to SW London area for the first time in many years. October 12th is the date at TwickFolk in Twickenham.

Details at http://www.MySpace.com/TwickFolk

Last time I think he was in the area was at the short-lived Rainbow Club in Isleworth....

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: old git
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 02:33 PM

Don't know yet Les....I hope so

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 10:58 AM

You have found your cookie then Geoff. Are you the MC on Vin's night?

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: old git
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:59 AM

I'm not in charge of the website ,Les, but as you say ...it's wrong...

geoff

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:28 AM

You need to get the Grimsby Folk Club website updated Old Git. It shows Vin on in December (which I know he isn't). Looks like you have a nice group of artists appearing during the rest of the year.
Grimsby Folk Club

Faldingworth Live has Bill Whaley, Dave Fletcher and John Conolly on the night before, so two very good events on within 20 miles of each other.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Betsy at work
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:24 AM

To Old git sans cookie, I'm only guessing , but I'm sure John Connolly will be there to see his ould mucka on the 14th providing he's not performing somewhere else.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,old git sans cookie
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 07:53 AM

2008 of course

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,old git sans cookie
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 07:52 AM

and you can see him at Grimsby Folk Club on Sept 14...he's too good for Cambridge!

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Betsy at Work
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 05:55 AM

Indeed Villan - who DOES need Cambridge? Not me

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 05:24 AM

Come and see Vin at Faldingworth Live on Saturday January 17th 2009.
Who needs Cambridge.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Bovey
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 03:33 AM

Good Luck for this year guys we are still behind you.

Vin will be back.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 10:19 AM

Thanks Sooz, I have got onto them about the date it really should be the 1st ... I hope.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 03:44 PM

I will be there at Gainsborough. Don't need to see him at Cambridge :-)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Sooz
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 03:22 PM

Vin's website has the Bungay gig down as Feb 3rd.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Billybob
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 09:23 AM

That was me , lost my name somewhere?

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 09:22 AM

I will be there, fabulous venue just perfect to enjoy seeing Vin .

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Sooz
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 03:15 PM

Ah ha - he's with us in Gainsborough the night before so we'll get him warmed up for you!

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,billybob's son
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 10:47 AM

It's not quite Cambridge but it's not that far away..

I'm bringing Vin to Bungay in Suffolk ( 10 miles from Norwich for those that don't know )

He will be at the Fisher Theatre on Friday February the 1st and anyone wanting tickets can get them on [phone].

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Dec 07 - 06:51 AM

I have to say, you deserve 10 out of 10 for persistance :-)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 05 Dec 07 - 06:40 AM

Sorry Villan,

Just been reading up on the Colin Randall story thread, turned into a bit of a massive debate.

But im afraid People keep mentioning it to me and pancrack pictures want to come next year to film us.

So Yes, this again!!!

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Rasener
Date: 03 Dec 07 - 12:45 PM

Not this again.

Vin is a big boy and surely together with has agents, can sort something out if they want to.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,RobHenderson
Date: 03 Dec 07 - 08:54 AM

Just a reminder about www.wotnovin.com for 2008, just getting a few more people to send a message in to CFF organisers in support of Vin Garbutt as they should hopefully still be booking bands for the festival at the moment.

Thanks all for you support.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Vin Fix
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 07:29 AM

Vin is at Fylde This Year and a MySpace Website as well

looking forward to seeing him at Fylde, so .... to Cambridge!

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 03:32 PM

Eventually I got a site up and running for this :) still needs some work but at least its together enough to put online now :)

www.wotnovin.com

Please give it a visit and leave a note on the guest book :) just to break it in a bit :)

and use the link at the bottom of the each page that contacts Cambridge folk festival if you haven't already :)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 05:00 PM

What I said on 14 August, last year, again...

One of my most treasured memories of Vin was him being interviewed by Ray Fisher in the Whitby interviews.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 10:22 AM

Bugsy,

Cambridge festival goers are the Leg and I am the boot on the end of it ready to be thrust at the arse that is Cambridge Folk Festival.

...or something like that. Thats the spirit Bugsy :) Love you all for the support on this.

Please remember you can send a message to CFF from the website that was made for mit last year. (third post down)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Betsy
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 08:26 AM

Hi Mariner - Yes you're correct , I can't let him be the Star, all of the time,just most of the time .

Cheers

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Bugsy
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 08:33 PM

Rob, I realise that it isn't your campaign. I told Vin that there was a thread "about" the campaign on Mudcat, and I'm reporting back what he said.

For what it's worth, I think the CFF need a sharp kick in the arse.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Fidjit
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 04:12 PM

Well all this vin this and vin that

Have you all forgoten

Vin gough

I'll pick my lughole up shall I?

Chas

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 08:21 AM

Bugsy,

Read the first post again, it's not really my campaign. People at Cambridge made me do this when I was drunk, lol.

You know the kid in the playground that gets pier pressured by all the other kids to do what they daren't do?

Bainbo,

Yes you are right, but to the best of my knowledge the council run the fetival since the previous owner died and the way they think is....

...Council must be Politically correct! ergo Council must not book Vin Garbutt.

Which is the kind of mindset that destroys the freedom of folk music to be honest.

Please feel free to go to the website on the top post and give a comment to CFF.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Bugsy
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 08:49 PM

I was at Vin's Concert in Perth Western Australia on Friday and brought up this subject after the show. He was really interested to hear that there was a thread about him on Mudcat, but said that (though he is very humbled by all the efforts made by the fans, he still doesn't think that there's much of a chance of being booked again at Cambridge.

To paraphrase his comment, " I really don't think that the people at Cambridge would have any idea who Vin Garbutt is anymore, or the kind of music I do.

CHeers
Bugsy


It was a fantastic show though and good to see that Vin is his old self again.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Bainbo
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 11:01 AM

Rob, I salute you. It's a noble campaign.

But really, given the apparent mindset at Cambridge FF, youve got to say: "Stuff 'em. It's their loss."

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't BBC Radio 2 involved with organising the festival now? And hasn't Vin been a regular at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, either as a nominee, winner, or guest? So how come ... Oh I give up. It's pointless trying to work out how these people think.)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: MARINER
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 07:26 PM

Hey Betsy , Are you the one who was supposed to open for Vin in Great Broughton Village Hall last November but came on in the second half instead ? A great night by the way !

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 04:14 PM

vin gence

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:07 PM

Yeah hense why I'm back with vengence :)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Declan
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:06 PM

Cambridge line-up announced today with no sign of Vin.

He is at Sidmouth this year however.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 02:56 PM

I've been jogged into continuing the campaign this year at Cambridge Folk Festival. Looks like it needs a bigger and better Flag this year :)

Also in the middle of making a website for it with a better .com name, will post a link to it when its uploaded. :)

Anyone planning on fighting for tickets this year? and if so I would love a few Mudcatters signatures on this years flag. :)

Looks like I'm gonna have to see this through till the end, lol. (loving it really)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Sep 06 - 08:14 PM

Well, having Vin booked would be one good reason for giving Cambridge another go. A good reason for going anywhere for that matter.

Whether it'd be a good enough reason in the case of Cambridge I'm not too sure. All big concerts and no real fringe, not what I really look for in a festival.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 21 Sep 06 - 07:32 PM

I've never been to Cambridge festival, but do go to Sidmouth regularly: can't we have him there? Last time I saw him was in Selkirk, when he nearly caused a few medical emergencies with his description of his own near-death experiences in the care of the NHS!

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Tessa
Date: 21 Sep 06 - 10:12 AM

Is Cambridge FF getting a reputatoin for being very political? I say this because I have heard a few discussions about the festival management and there less than "folky" views on running the festival. Although im not to sure of what happens behind the scene it sounds like censorship is playing a big part in it.
Can people not except other peoples point of views anymore? I don't understand why Vin Garbutt wouldn't be able to sing what he wanted to sing. If he was going to cause offense wouldn't people be campaigning to make sure he doesnt play at festivals?

Keep up the good work people, I'm glad the majority still have some sense.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 21 Sep 06 - 09:56 AM

Ok, I think its about time to print this out and send it to the festivl organisers along with the flag.

I'll print it tomorrow, just to give you chance to write anything you wish them to see.

If this doesn't work im gonna make a few "BRING BACK VIN" T-shirts and basball caps for us to wear next year and a much bigger flag (I hope it does tho cos Cambridge already stretches my budget a bit :S).

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 19 Sep 06 - 10:24 AM

They do as a matter of fact. I have never bought one myself but my father has a cupboard with a few in including this years.

What I couldn't get my head around was the fact that 'Health & Safety' made the beer tent stop selling the plastic 4 pint milk jugs full of beer, Yet the council was still allowed to sell these glass tankards which meant people walking back with 4 glasses in there hands instead of a plastic bottle.

Safety?

Thanks for the reply Dartford and I hope to see you at CAmbridge one year in the future :)

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Dartford Warbler
Date: 14 Sep 06 - 02:53 PM

As a newbie to Mudcat, must say that this is one of the most enjoyable threads I have come across (so far).

Have not been to Cambridge since 1980 but still have the glass tankard! (bet they don't have them anymore???)

Well done and good luck to you Rob.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 06:20 PM

Vin For Cambridge...if he is'nt there next year there will be a contract on the orgaisers.
You have been warned!!!!

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Betsy
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 03:55 AM

Nice to hear from you Declan, Vin's Mam's maiden name is Tess
probably Teresa but in all these years I never heard her called anything else ) Kelly. Whether she came from exactly Mayo I can't remember. She is very infirm theses days I think getting on for 95 years.
She always used to buy the Universe, an Irish Catholic weekly paper.Apart from owt else, it contained the words of various Irish Songs, which was probably where Vins "folk" curiosity started. His Dad Alf, who has unfortunately passed away , was completely the opposite - English and non-catholic and undoubtedly where Vin gets his sense of humour. What a great couple, and obviously ( as I have seen the results , marvellous parents.
Rob Henderson wrote earlier "......his views on abortion, war and other political matters".
I support Rob from this angle .. I don't think Vin has rabid views , and I don't agree with some of them, but F*cking Hell !!! what is our folk music without this diversity ?
Any how, I don't remember Bob Dylan , Pete Seeger, Donovan, Eric Bogle etc etc. ( I tried to give a good cross section there ) singing and writing about war or political matters. Do You ? well.......perhaps a bit !!!!, hang on, quite a lot actually.
There were a lot of closed minds, both forcibly and acquiesced, in Germany in the 1930's, and more recently under Thatcher. Always remember your history, it's amazing how it somehow, returns to bite you on your arse ( English spelling ).
Lets forget the "Cambridge" part and call it the Clique Folk Festival.
If you think like them - You're IN ,if you don't, then F*ck off, you don't follow our narrow-minded profile of what a top performer constitutes .

Cheers,
Betsy

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Declan
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:19 PM

I seem to remember that VG is (or at least used to be) quite fond of the diddley himself and is quite a good whistle player. I first came across himn at the Lisdoonvarna festival in the 80s. I seem to remeber him saying that his mother came from Co Mayo.

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Declan
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:02 PM

Nice to see you here Betsy.

I sing one of your songs, learned from listening to Mr. Garbutt. They don't write them like that any more.

They don't either!

I'd love to see Vin back at Cambridge, but if they do away with the fiddles and the diddly diddly, I won't be back. There are many diffrent styles of folk music. I like Cambridge because they cater to many different tastes. You can please some of the people ...

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: GUEST,Ron Henderson
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 10:36 AM

As much as I love Vins down to earth music, I also love listening to the diddley diddley music too. Maybe not so much on a stage, but I love walking around the tents finding that sect of good musicians really going for it hidden away behind some overflowing portaloo, hmmmm.............or was that Glastonbury?

Subject: RE: Bring Back Vin Garbutt (Please Help)
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 12:58 PM

I went to Cambridge for the seventh year running. I was stood there, hardly able to move, with all this diddly-diddly music being played by a variety of unknown/reformed/reconstituted/regurgitated fiddle-based bands and it suddenly came to me: What on Earth am I doing here? Same old thing, year after year, no real representation of what's happening in the real world out on the club circuit (so no Vin, then).

I came home and had a great weekend playing some folk songs. Don't think I'll bother going back.

Pete