Nutters in Folk Clubs

Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: GUEST,Bainbo
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:38 AM

What do you think Mudcat exists for?
It's the home for retired folk-club nutters.

Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: bubblyrat
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:19 AM

Like I said in the other thread, there was a bloke who used to go to the "Den of Folk " in Gosport around 1970.He couldn"t sing,or play the guitar, but could turn nasty if he didn"t get a spot, so he was often allowed a self-penned diatribe or two.He reckoned that he had a Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun in his garden--it was generally agreed that he did,indeed,own something like that !!! So if you refused him a spot,it was best not to fly over his house !!In the same area, we had a bloke called Sean Kennedy,who ended up in the local Cuckoo"s nest after going berserk & kicking his TV to death.He wrote some quite interesting songs,actually !!Then there was Jon Isherwood, of course, but he wasn"t a Nutter nutter-----He was a Genius nutter !! Oddly enough,there actually seem to be MORE about today,not less,Graham !! I could name several I have encountered in the last 5 years !!

Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:17 AM

Devon

Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 07:57 AM

Harrogate

Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 07:52 AM

You are sure we can list them but you can't list one?

Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 07:44 AM

Don't know about the legendary characters, but the nutters all went into politics.

Subject: Nutters in Folk Clubs
From: GUEST,Graham Bradshaw
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 07:37 AM

The recent thread about Isherwood, Nelson and Disley got me to thinking.
Back in the halcyon days of the British Folk Clubs in the 60s and 70s, they used to attract a surprising number of 'eccentric' characters, both the artists and the audience!
I used to travel around the circuit way back then, and just about every club had its resident nutter.
A lot of the performers then were 'larger than life', and this was a time when the comedians reigned supreme. I wonder if it was they that attracted the nutters?
I may be wrong, but I don't seem to detect so many interesting characters in the folk scene of the 2000s.
I'm sure we can all list, with only a moments thought, a long list of legendary characters. Where are they now?
Graham