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23 Jul 11 - 10:25 AM (#3193481) Subject: Emma Hartley's Glamour Cave blog From: EmmaHartley Thanks to Max for a warm welcome. Here's a link to my blog, which is about folk. http://theglamourcave.blogspot.com/2011/07/pilgrims-way-bestows-wayside-courtesies.html The latest post is about a three-piece called Pilgrim's Way who are about to release a terrific first album. But the blog's been going since January and I post at least once a week, so there's lots on there.The most-read posts include one about how to get yourself on Later with Jools Holland http://theglamourcave.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-get-yourself-on-later-with-jools.html and some reviews of the Bristol folk festival http://theglamourcave.blogspot.com/2011/05/bristol-folk-festival-at-colstan-hall.html and the London Feis http://theglamourcave.blogspot.com/2011/06/london-feis-finsbury-park.html Hope to hear from some of you :-) |
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23 Jul 11 - 03:27 PM (#3193736) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,Pedant Sorry kid, you can't be metrosexual and from Macclesfield. Just not possible. |
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23 Jul 11 - 07:18 PM (#3193899) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: EmmaHartley I believe they get as far as Manchester from time to time ;-) |
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24 Jul 11 - 10:53 AM (#3194224) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Stu You can be now, Macclesfield is trendy with the hip folkies. A disproportionate number of musicians and artists in the town given the actual population size. In the recent Barnaby Festival we had 39 separate exhibition spaces for the visual arts, a new reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (part of which is set near the town), buckets of live music (the town has it's own professional opera company) plus any questions broadcast from the church etc etc The monthly Treacle Market has proved a godsend for the town with arts, crafts, books and an excellent food market, and live music all day. Did I mention music? Apart from a very lively live music scene, some of the town's most famous sons and daughters are musicians of note, including John Mayall, Jim Moray, Ian Curtis and the mighty Nodster lives here. As for folk music, it's no co-incidence that Pilgrims' Way are from this neck of the woods. There is a very healthy folk scene and musicians come from miles around to play in in the town's sessions (yes, even from Manchester). Some of these musicians (like myself) frequent this bearpit of a board and are top class, knowledgeable folkies who play for the love of the music. Manchester? Pah! It's the real thing in Macc. |
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25 Jul 11 - 02:52 AM (#3194745) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Dave Hanson How can you mention Macclesfield and music without mentioning The Macc Lads ? Macclesfields greatest talent. Dave H |
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25 Jul 11 - 03:03 AM (#3194746) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,Derek Schofield The Macc Lads? They must be drawing their pensions about now... :-) |
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25 Jul 11 - 04:07 AM (#3194753) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Stu Hmmm, quite easy to 'forget' to mention The Macc Lads. Still see one or two of them around town, all respectable now. |
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25 Jul 11 - 05:12 AM (#3194769) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Dave Hanson Beer and Sex and Chips and Gravy, what a great song. Dave H |
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25 Jul 11 - 06:17 AM (#3194792) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Stu The first album was good but some of the subsequent stuff was a little, er, un-PC and not in a good way. I might still have my "eh up, let's sup" badge I got from the indoor market somewhere. Could be worth something, I might ebay it. Things were never the same after the Bell End Cheese shop closed down. I used to work at the printers where they got their cassette covers printed, and Muttley was charm personified. As is the case with these things it was all a big joke; they went to the posh private school in the town. Some talented folk around the town and no mistake, luckily we're moving away from The Macc Lads and into some bloody good music. |
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25 Jul 11 - 08:17 PM (#3195370) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Gurney How times change. Once, if a metrosexual anything appeared in Macclesfield, they would swiftly reappear on a string in the gift shop. |
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26 Jul 11 - 10:24 AM (#3195796) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Richard from Liverpool Perhaps semantic shift has occurred and changed it beyond recognition, but the very word 'metrosexual' winds me up. There's an ugly oxymoron here, and that doesn't have anything to do with Macclesfield. Metrosexual, to my mind, has consumerist overtones that sit ill at ease with the vibrancy and do-it-yourself nature of folk music. Metrosexual brings to mind moisturiser, cosmetics, and the importance of surface appearance over form and depth. Not characteristics I'd like to associate with any kind of music. I am an unashamedly urban male, but you can stick your grooming products up your arse. Interesting blog, by the way. |
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27 Jul 11 - 06:50 AM (#3196449) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: davyr Thought I might as well plug this lot, as nobody else has mentioned them: http://watersgreenmorris.btck.co.uk/ |
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27 Jul 11 - 07:16 AM (#3196464) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Dave Hanson Could someone explain to this simple Yorkshireman what ' metrosexual folkies ' actually means ? or is it just a buzzword ? Dave H |
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27 Jul 11 - 01:06 PM (#3196651) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,Ray I was wondering the same Dave. Macclesfield is a bit of a strange place - I even bought an electric guitar there for £15 last week - charity shop jobby - mandola sized stratocaster knockoff made for brats - should play quite nicely once I've fettled it. |
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28 Jul 11 - 03:36 AM (#3197092) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: glueman Metrosexual was a word I thought I understood until I read the definition on Wikipedia. Hidden away is a quote that's closer to what I assumed it means: "(Simpson's) original definition of the metrosexual was sexually ambiguous, or at least went beyond the straight/gay binary; marketers, in contrast, insisted that the metrosexual was always "straight" – they even tried to pretend that he wasn't vain." |
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28 Jul 11 - 06:22 AM (#3197165) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: SteveMansfield Metrosexual was a word I thought I understood until I read the definition on Wikipedia. Encyclopaedia was a word I thought I understood until Wikipedia came along ... It's the sexually ambivalent and urban dandy connotations of the word that I find odd about applying it to Pilgrims Way as well. Not that I know anything and care less about their private lives and personal grooming habits, but it was an interesting choice of description that didn't strike me as particularly apposite (let along relevant). Maybe I'm missing something. The music's great though! |
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28 Jul 11 - 07:30 AM (#3197188) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,baz parkes Perhaps Ed used to drive a Metro...oops, no, they're all too young... |
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28 Jul 11 - 08:43 AM (#3197220) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Dave Hanson And what has it got to do with folkies in Macclesfield ? or are they all that way inclined ? Dave H |
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28 Jul 11 - 08:44 AM (#3197221) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Dave Hanson Perhaps Emma Hartley may care to explain. Dave H |
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28 Jul 11 - 09:56 AM (#3197264) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Stu As a Macclesfield folkie I don't recognise Metrosexuality as one of the traits of my peers, we leave that sort of thing to people from Alderley Edge. We're all reet down't earth here. |
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28 Jul 11 - 10:05 AM (#3197268) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,punkfolkrockers what about us Provincialsexuals ???? and even them there thoroughly dubious Ruralsexuals !!!!!???? ..ok, shower gel once or twice a week is just about tolerable but moisturizers and hair care products !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????? |
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28 Jul 11 - 10:36 AM (#3197275) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Stu We knew our old session pub was under threat when they put air freshener in the bogs. There's all sorts in there now (soap, a welly washer etc). And the place doesn't smell the same, no eau-de-cow anymore; they've even got ice now, for crying out loud. |
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28 Jul 11 - 12:56 PM (#3197360) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,Ray Which pub would that be SJ? Can't say that I've played in ernest in Macc for umpteen years but I could be tempted. Apart from that, the words "Metrosexual" and "Macclesfield" seem to have been used more for their alliterative merits than as a reflection of real life. |
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28 Jul 11 - 01:20 PM (#3197369) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: EmmaHartley Metrosexual. In the sexually ambiguous sense. I thought I explained what I meant in the blog. Girls dressed as boys, Lucy singing in a male narrative voice, that kind of thing. Nothing to do with cosmetics. Or marketing. |
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28 Jul 11 - 01:22 PM (#3197370) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: Stu The Harrington Arms in Gawsworth; it's my favourite pub in the world but I don't go much an more for a number of reasons, although I've been a player there for nearly 20 years now. In truth, the session is suffering a bit as the new owners serve food which they need to do to keep the pub a going concern, but it's not the same as the old days of cowshite and grime. However, nothing is permanent and the pub is buzzing and they've done a great job and are lovely people but I suspect folk music is not at the top of their list of priorities, and last Friday there were too many diners to make it comfortable in the tap room. The session has been going over 30 years continually and can be excellent, but quality is (as ever) variable. I'm glad the pub has a rosy future as it's a gem, but how long folk will be there is anyone's guess; could be 30 more years, could be 30 more weeks. |
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28 Jul 11 - 03:47 PM (#3197465) Subject: RE: Metrosexual folkies from Macclesfield From: GUEST,Howard Jones Never mind the air-freshener, the rot set in when they built inside toilets and put in a bar. And when the lager tap went in I swear you could hear the former landlady spinning in her grave... It's still a great pub and the new owners have modernised it very sensitively, but it's the way of things that they depend on food sales. However they do continue to make us very welcome so no complaints on my part. I'm struggling with the idea of my mate Tom Kitching as an "urban dandy". |