Oh! I like you Jenny! :0) :0) :0)

Fishermen's Friends sang with Show of Hands at Sidmouth, the first time I ever saw any of them. I was completely bowled over by their wonderful voices.

I love shanty singers too. I really enjoyed the programme that Radio Britfolk did on them a while back now, featuring Johnny Collins and A. L.Lloyd and many others...it was great!

JOHNNY COLLINS


I was re-doing my Sidmouth report from 2005 the other day, putting it on my Myspace page and I came across the part where I saw The Wareham Whalers.

It brought back so many happy memories. There they were, just standing on the seafront, singing their hearts out! The sun was sparkling on the sea behind them and people were thronged around them listening....and all of a sudden this lovely old man, who was on a completely different planet to the rest of us, bless him...but very happy...came and started playing the spoons right next to them...At first he was in time with them, but he got faster and faster, then he started singing a completely different song!

Oh, it was so funny....but they just kept on singing, with gritted teeth and smiles on their faces. HOW they managed to keep their concentration going I've no idea, but they did. Luckily, the old gentleman then moved back to Duke's Acoustic Cafe, where he'd spent most of the week sitting right next to the stage playing 'air mandolin' ;0)

He was such a great character!

Unless you were The Wareham Whalers of course! ;0)

The Wareham Whalers

Mind you, those Fishermen's Friends really should have a website or at the very least, a Myspace page! Their voices should be spread far and wide and it would be so easy for them to get a page too....

Oh I get so frustrated about magical voices that I can't 'get out' to people.

It's the same with Coope Boyes & Simpson, superb voices, but can I send them flying around the world to people? Nope! Grrrrrrr! ;0)

Glad you enjoyed the video though Jenny, that was all thanks to Keith, as he posted it earlier on the other SoH thread now sadly closed.


Lizzie :0)