Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'

Subject: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:28 AM

Otley Folk Club present an extra concert on Fri Dec 8th
Note, their usual night is a Wednesday - and there still is a 'normal' folk club night that week.
But they present another of their occasional 'specials' on Fri 8th Dec in Korks, on Bondgate...
The (electric) Duncan McFarlane Band will run through up to three hours of their brand of 'folk-rock' that night.
The 'full and proper' line up this time!
Doors open 8pm.
Everyone welcome!
Cheers! - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:30 AM

Have a good one, sorry I'll not be able to make it - going to see Roy Wood of "Wizzard" fame that night!.

Have a great evening guys.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:53 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:44 AM

Any pubs do b&b in Otley?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GerryMc
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 10:52 AM



Any pubs do b&b in Otley?

I'll have a look and check for you. The Black Horse and The Three Horse Shoes used to but I can't find owt on t'internet.

Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 05:42 PM

Saw Roy Wood in the Co-op in outskirts of Shrewsbury years ago -- in the q in front of me.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:58 AM

Hey Fliss, nearest I can get to that is escorting Vin Garbutt around our local Tesco when he was here a few years ago for our Folk Festival - surreal!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:59 AM

Sorry about the thread creep - get along to Otley people and have a wonderful time. The DMcF Band are the tops IMHO.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:29 AM

Is this a ticket event? Do we need to buy tickets in advance?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 10:50 AM

Hi Les
No not a ticket event - pay on the door - tho it usually does fill up early - be there for doors open, should be no prob.
If you're a deffo, I can organise 'reserve ticket(s)' on the door in yer name.
B&B - there's plenty in the town - PM me your requirements (numbers, nights etc) and I'll see what I can unearth for ya (or find some other arrangement depending on numbers! Hah!
Cheers - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Folkiedave
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:01 PM

Most under-rated band on the Planet. Go for it Duncan.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 04:04 PM

Hi Dave - you silver tongued devil!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Nov 06 - 03:46 AM

Since Otley is so near the border do Visa and ASBO jokes apply?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 26 Nov 06 - 07:11 AM

No ASBO jokes please - no mention at all!
We need the drummer to turn up!!!
Hugs - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 06:06 AM

Heads up.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,Mollycat
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 02:17 PM

Shall I bring my mistletoe? Well, it is nearly Christmas!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 03:08 PM

ASBOs? Sorry to bang on but which drummer are you referring to Mr D?
Your band gets through more drummers than Spinal Tap methinks!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 06:11 AM

Good point - tho' a tad tongue in cheek I guess!
We have a permanent drummer (in the seat since we formed properly in 2001?) - Nick Pepper - damned fine player he is too - and a good mate!

Yep, he is sometimes unavailable - and we do have a few mates that dep for him when required (Dave Budd, Bernie Gilmore...) - and we have had a few young lads (still of school age!) play at certain gigs - to encourage 'em onward!!! (Laurie, Chris....)

So I'll take the Spinal Tap reference on the chin in good part... bless! It was, after all, me who first suggested (on here) that there was a doubt.
Rest assured, as the gig being recorded, we have the 'proper' drummer, Nick, on board.
Hugs - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 02:52 AM

Fri 8th Dec in Korks, on Bondgate...

Korks then ....... Stuck in the top of a bottle or just bobbing up and down?

What kind of venue is it? How big is it? Will their be a mosh pit? Will Duncan crowd surf? Is E compulsory or is it just Tetley's? Should we bring cigarette lighters?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 11:21 AM

>>Korks then ....... Stuck in the top of a bottle or just bobbing up and down?
What kind of venue is it?
How big is it?
Will their be a mosh pit?
Will Duncan crowd surf?
Is E compulsory or is it just Tetley's?
Should we bring cigarette lighters?<<

Answers....
Corks not in bottles for long - drink to be drunk!

It's a largish room - tables, chairs, bar, wee stage (we six fit on) at the back of a wine bar/restuarant - but seperate from that part of it all.

Only for the young!

No - too old for that - but I do act a bit lively y'kna

No drugs compulsory - Black Sheep and poss other hand-pulled ale there

No cig lighters needed - done thing now is to use yer mobile phone display (lit up) to wave slowly above head on the grandiose numbers played - stadium rock got digital!

Any more Q's answered gladly - cheers - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,Geiger Counter
Date: 02 Dec 06 - 07:25 AM

Just make sure that the mobile phone display is the only thing lit up - you're not expecting any Russians are you Dunc?.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 02 Dec 06 - 07:32 AM

So, no E or even D but maybe some Po 210?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,Molly Cat
Date: 03 Dec 06 - 12:47 PM

Duncan, will you be wearing that fantastic kilt on Friday?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 04 Dec 06 - 05:21 AM

This is getting like Gardeners' Question Time!

>>sure that the mobile phone display is the only thing lit up - you're not expecting any Russians are you Dunc?<<

all nationalities welcome, my friend

>>So, no E or even D but maybe some Po 210?<<

Plenty of E and D - they're the keys that suit my voice!
Lots of A and G as well though! (damned melodeons make me struggle in other places too!)

>>Duncan, will you be wearing that fantastic kilt on Friday?<<

Hmmm, doubt it. Want to look 'cool' (hah!) as an all-time 'hero' may be in attendance. Need to put on my best front!
The kilt 'episode' was a one-off!
Cheers - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,mollycat
Date: 04 Dec 06 - 07:35 AM

>> all-time 'hero' may be in attendance<<
Who's coming, do tell or at least give us a clue Duncan!

Is it handsome Mr Garside perhaps - he looks yummy in a kilt too!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 04 Dec 06 - 09:23 AM

Rob the Gar may come - dunno actually.
Can we forget the kilt thing now? Please!
Ta - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 03:02 AM

Is The Queen coming Dunc?. It's about time she heard you again!!!!!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 04:54 AM

Naw!.... shame tho!
The time I did play for her she actually stayed inside the Civic Centre (Leeds) and emerged
a little *after* we'd done our spot out in Millenium Square - sensible lass (some say!)
I guess that didn't really count then!
So mebbe another day, eh?
- D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 04:06 AM

Love your poem on the Spiers and Bowden thread!. Good luck with the recording on Friday.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 04:06 AM

Oops, Boden. Sorry!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,Mollycat
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 10:17 AM

<< sorry I'll not be able to make it - going to see Roy Wood of "Wizzard" fame that night!>>

BusyBee Paul - I thought that you were one of the loyal band of followers. Roy Wood indeed, when you can see Duncan & the boys - It could be said that Geoff looks a bit like Roy Wood especially when wearing the strange hat he wore at last Christmas' extravaganza!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 03:11 AM

Hi Mollycat - yep - mea culpa - I should have checked the website diary before committing myself to the Roy Wood do (or should that be "being committed?).

You are right about Geoff though, he did look very fetching in that hat, in fact the whole band looked like Santa's little helpers!. I hope Dunc has more voice this year - let's face it, he couldn't have less than he did last December!. That said, it was still a cracking night and I'm really sorry to miss this one.

So, Merry Christmas to you all and I'll see you sometime in the New Year. I'll be thinking of you on Friday!.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 06:25 AM

Important update!
I got the pricing wrong.
Steve admonished me last night for saying it was £5 'in'
- it's not! - they're only charging
(as it's a 'home gig') a mere £3
- three quid? ........Yep Three! - bargain!
Cheers - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GerryMc
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 06:38 AM



well worth three quid in my book. Hopefully I shall be able to break into the piggy bank.

:-)

Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 05:38 PM

Hi Gerry - that good lady o yours coming too?
Seeing as we're recording the gig (fab rod Holt and all his gear)
it might be handy id your Ani brought her camera gear -
Her pro-standard shots might be well worth a go on the CD cover!
Now there's an idea! - hugs to you both - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 03:06 AM

Have a grand gig tonight Dunc, please give my best wishes to all the band.

See ya in the new year.

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:23 AM

Thanks Deidre - we will!
I will.
...and yes, surely (in that order)
All the best - Dunc

PS Reminder to all - gig being recorded...
we need your input!
Big Scots/Yorkshire PLUS - it's only three quid tonight!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 05:40 AM

Huge thanks to all attended!
What a night - I could hardly keep the grin from crackin' m' face
(for more than one reason!).
Hope the recording has some good takes... more on that later.
Cheers you lot - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 08:11 AM

Glad it went well Dunc. Roy Wood was a good night but I suspect I'd have had better value for money at your gig! Oh well, roll on next year and more DMcF Band gigs.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:14 AM

Wot a fantastic gig - big thanx to Dunc and all the band and everyone there for a great atmosphere. Glad ye met yer "hero" too D.
Roll on the next D McF gig (Thurs, the Star, Roberttown)..

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 11:43 AM

This band are brilliant. Duncan sings and plays like a man inspired. He has a touch of Groucho Marx and he conducts the others with his eyes. Melody, harmony and excitment are provided by Geoff, on guitar, Anne on fiddle and Steve on melodeon. Nick on Drums, Tony on bass put that extra something that makes Folk Rock a major contributor to the strange collection that is English folk music.

The band put fire and passion into everything they do and fine, powerful melody is one feature that makes them exceptional. Although they use amps and such like, nothing gets between them and the audience and that is why they remain so close to the living tradition of musicians and audience being part fo the same experience.

Best night of Folk Rock I have been to ever. Probably the best night of live music.Saw the Boat Band recently and an accoustic night of a fiddle, a melodeon and a guitar hit me in the same way! What the DMcFB and the BB have in common is a depth of experience of traditional music and quality of group playing that, in each band, generates beautiful and genuinely exciting music.

Misic never gets better than in small rooms at the back of pubs and that is why folk clubs contribute so much to the musical life of this country.

Ok I will stop now. If you get the chance, go and see them. They, and not the BBC Awards, represent the best in live music.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GerryMc
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 12:12 PM



pics are great Dunx. Will get them edited ASAP. Good one of Liam, Me, you and The Man.

Thanks for a great night.

Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,wayne
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 12:17 PM

I couldn't go because I'm bloody ill! I'll have to console myself with a memento cd (if I'm spared!)

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,Kelk Brigade
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 02:59 PM

Great Night Dunc, Hope the cd turns out well, loved the "mini" Les Paul, went and bought one today. Only wish I could play it as well as you guys. See ya soon

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 07:07 PM

>>Mini Les Paul<<
- I wonder if I ought to clain some sort of royalty/agents fee (whatever)?
Yep - amazing how good they are - and a snip at £49 rrp!!!
I actually was playing it through a very tiny Roland Microcube (also hardly any money!) - the wee 4 inch speaker miked up through the PA and I had it back through the monitor system so I could hear it!
Absolutely amazing to get a sound like that with what's essentially 'childs' toy-for-Xmas' gear!
The band have forbidden me to wield it again tho! (and I only used it on the encore - bloomin cheek!) - they spent all the rest of the night chiming 'When I'm cleaning windows' at me!
Back to the trusty Oakwood acoustics then! Hah!
Hugs - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:45 PM

Email me Wayne - I'll give you a match report! - Hope you're well soon. all the best

Thanks for the 'raps' Moorley and Les - our pleasure - honest!

When/How can I get the pix Gerry? Wed, when the Beeb are recording us, mebbe?

Cheers - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GerryMc
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 05:14 AM


I'm gonna make me a cup o' coffee and them I'm gonna start editing. Hopefully we'll have 'em on a CD for you on Wednesday.

Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 05:50 AM

I noticed that Duncan has a letter in the Guardian today. Is their no end to his talents?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 07:50 AM

Whaaaa????

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 08:19 AM

Go on have a look

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 10:19 AM

OK Les, how many of us will now have paid out 70p on a wild goose chase?!. I don't think Lanarkshire is THAT close to Otley and Leeds!. Good job I didn't waste my money - what wiv Christmas coming and having to save up for the CD from Friday night!.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 01:01 PM

But surely:

Their's only one Dunc McFarlane
One Dunc Mcfarlane
One Dunc Mcfarlane
Only one Dunc McFarlane

To the tune of .................. ?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 01:19 PM

Hello Dunc and co. Merry Xmas and a FOLK ROCK New Year. Love Martin from Barton.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GerryMc
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 06:22 PM


Dunx

47 photos coming your way on Wednesday. I'll put the low-res/watermarked ones on Ani's fotopic site soon.

Cheers


Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 05:54 AM

Bless, Les!

Hi M!

Thanks G!

All th' best - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: GUEST,mollycat
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 07:40 AM

Will the Duncan McFarlane Band be doing at spot at Otley FC tonight?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 09:05 AM

Hi Molly - yep,
the Beeb are recording Otley FC tonight and there'll be a wealth of
the residents and locals onstage for a couple each.
The acoustic format of the DMcF band have been 'invited'...
So, as the broadcast is to go out on Christmas Day,
we've had a quick dabble at 'Here we go a-wassailing'
and a version of our own 'Robin Hood's Bay'
(with specially adapted 'seasonal' verses!)
Come have some mulled wine - cheers - Duncan

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 01:28 PM

"Take me down to Robin Hoods Bay at Christmas
Take me down Roll me down." Something like that by any chance?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 01:54 PM

No, Martin, much more thought went into it than that! Just!
How's things darn sarf?
Just setting off for soundcheck now - byeeeeeeee - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 02:58 AM

So, how did it go?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 05:37 AM

A fun night was had by all - still recovering!
Cheers!
By the by...
We're guests at the Polaris Folk Club, The Star at Roberttown tonight (m' acoustic band)...
That's the very pub featured in the song 'Rawfold's Mill'
(based on local Luddite riot true tale)
....'and in the Star at Robberttown, first Hartley then Booth died'.
Cheers - D

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:06 AM

So, how did that one go then?!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 10:42 AM

Brill - two good stomping sets, Dunc as loquacious as ever (he even did the full intro for a song that wasn't in the set!) and Ann,Steve & Geoff on great form. Really good, well organised club (complete with resident ghost doin' his party tricks with the lighting!), responsive crowd, grand atmosphere - excellent therapy...!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:54 PM

er.... in my defence!.....
The lights kept flickering.... the 'hostess' referred to
the 'ghosts' that supposedly haunt the place
(two men died on the premises after the Luddite-Rawfolds-Mill incident).
She stated that the men were shot there
- another lady in the audience chelped up in disagreement and 'debate' ensued.
I took the liberty to explain the tale as I'd researched the subject extensively before writing a song about it (two years back?).
I quoted a portion of the lyric...

After a five minute break in the proceedings to cope with the matter in hand (and flickering overhead still!)....
we set off on the next song in the set - not Rawfold's Mill!
A good time was had by all - mebbe we should have played the song...
but I was trying to do as many songs that were new to that venue (having played there only last year)
- and trying to play as many trad songs (rather than my own) as possible.
Phew - that's all ffffffolks! (- for now, yep, I DO like to rabbit on....)- byeeee - Duncan
PS thanks to organisers, floorsingers and audience there, we had a grand night - thanks one and all.

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 06:37 PM

Hey Andy - no need to leap so defensively to yer defence... ye did reet good, matey!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 07:48 PM

Oh, that's all alright then!

Where and when is the next gig please HA?

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 05:06 AM

No worries Moorley, I was just trying to explain to any that read your post 'why'
we intro'd a song we didn't play (lest they think we're numpties - which, of course, we are).

I'll PM you Paul re future dates - right now - we are having a break for Christmas and have two albums (one band, one solo) to complete...
And I have a major musical 'party' to prepare for!!!

Besides.... After the car write-off debacle of early 2006, I will be trying to avoid driving anywhere once we get some ice (and snow)! Hah!

Subject: RE: Duncan McFarlane Band 'special'
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:24 AM

I forgot to say....
At the end of our last gig (Roberttown) a man gave our guitarist
Geoff a book to pass on to me. He didn't give his name.
Cheers man!
The book 'Maypoles and Morris Dancing - Customs and Traditions Revealed' is a National Trust Publication.
It has a £7.00 price tag on the back and I would have gladly paid the chap back for his effort (and cash!) - and I would have liked to thank him personally.
That was most kind, sir, for you to take the trouble to find, buy
and pass on the book (How did you know about my current 'research'?)
Do let us know who you are and we'll arrange drinks/cash/gig admission/CD - something! - to see you 'sorted'.
All the best - Duncan McFarlane