UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 10:38 AM

Remember my song about the Iraqi war? You'll find it in the forum under Lyr Add: Iraqi War Song

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 12:31 PM

Goodness, I wasn't expecting a response from so many quarters! (I'm blushing now!) Oaklet, all is forgiven... I was *most* impressed and gratified by your total and flawless recall of all the words ;-), and your comment about Buena Vista Sudios made me laugh out loud! (my husband always has to come find out what I'm reading when that happens.)

Now, down to brass tacks: the offer from Buena Vista *sounds* good, but I'm a bit wary -- have they said who they have in mind to play the whelks? After all, that's really the *most* important part(s)...

Wilfried, how would you feel about playing a whelk? (Remember, there are no "small parts", only small actors.)

Susanne, thanks for your kind words as well, and you're right about Wilfried's poem/lullabye -- a sterling effort! (If I could produce something *half* as good in German, I would be absolutely delighted!)

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 11:49 AM

Happy news: Kate is working on the video!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 31 May 04 - 06:14 PM

Vicky, sorry to be so quiet on the subject, but I thought the song great even when you first sang it. It added (if possible at all) greatly to the hilarity of the Hull Eurogathering, and deservedly featured Oaklet as among the foremost Hull Mudcat whelks. However - as us Scots would say - Wilfried's poem was no bad at a either! (And one of these days I'll get round to posting those two songs I dared to sing at the gathering to be added, for anyone who's interested, to the Low German section of the DT.)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 02:05 PM

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I've come not to bury but to praise. A really lovely song, YY, and it merits to be produced as a spec film. May I ask for a small part in it?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:34 PM

What I didn't say was YY's song will shortly be offered to Buena Vista studios as a spec feature-film potentially starring Daniel Day Lewis, Sting and Linda Lusardi. All the artist's respective agents have demanded a (returnable) fee for the option. They wouldn't do this if the artists thought the idea was pants. Me old mate Linda is up for my part. This is a bit ironic, as I am usually up when I think of most of hers.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:33 PM

Thanks to all who opened my eyes. What should I do without you? Retire to a long boat till I'm sober? Anybody ready with a hose pipe?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:24 PM

Right - this is from memory and should be sung (as I do) to the tune of "On Ilkla Moor Bah T'at...

Where hast tha been sin I saw thee? (Sin I saw thee)
With Oaklet and Mudcat
Where hast tha been sin I saw thee? (Sin I saw thee)
Where hast tha been sin I saw thee? (Sin I saw thee)
With Oaklet and Mudcat
With Oaklet and Mudcat
With Oaklet and Mudcat

Barrow on Humber really swings (It really swings!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Visit Hull's famous "curry ship" ("curry ship"!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Tha'll die of eating curried whelks (curried whelks!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Then whelks will come & et thee up (they'll et thee up!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

All only 57 quid!
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Three cheers for Greg and Eric too! (& Eric too!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

I hope I have remembered it ok...

Grand stuff

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:23 PM

Wilfried, you should open your eyes. click here to move up to Yorkshire Yankee's posting with the Oaklet song

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:16 PM

Good though it was, Wilfried's poem cannot even hope to gain permission within this current millennium to qualify to sniff the bottom of YY's seminal opus with me in it.

There.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 12:44 PM

Oaklet, my dear driver of veteran treasures - thanks a lot for your appraisal.
YorkshireYankee - I'd be the first to utter my praise of your song in writing (I did it verbally after hearing it, I'm sure), but I didn't find it in this thread. Please publish it here or give me a link.

Cheerio
Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 31 May 04 - 12:34 PM

Well, Oaklet... I'm feeling quite neglected now! You complimented Wilfried on his song, but you didn't mention *my* song -- even though it mentions *you* all over the place! Humph! I'm pouting now... ;-p

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 12:17 PM

That was lovely Wilfried. Thanks for sharing it.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 07:01 AM

Hi folks,

finally I found it again, on a crumpled sheet, in a corner of my satchel:

A Rather Silly Lullaby

Flow gently, sweet Humber
deprived of any elks,
sing me into slumber
with the help of your whelks.

I don't care for their number,
fifty seven or nine;
sing me into slumber,
with me it is fine.

Be proud, mighty Humber,
to be not so narrow
and lick all the outskirts
of the village of Barrow.

So flow on, sweet Humber,
and flap to the shore,
sing me into slumber
with a Mudcat folklore.

(the snoring contest MudGuard vs. Wilfried ended even; Saturday Wilfried 1 point, Sunday MudGuard 1 point)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 29 May 04 - 12:07 PM

Thanks, Linda. Unrude remark enough?
Have a nice sunny Pentecost with a lot of songs.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Essex Girl
Date: 28 May 04 - 10:23 AM

I've got a few pictures which we've downloaded,(including one of Mudguard) but I'll have to ask Dave to post then as I haven't quite got the hang of it yet. (NO RUDE REMARKS !!!!!)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 28 May 04 - 06:11 AM

Dave - what a pity! But photographers seem to share the same fate as the daylight in Greenland: seldom seen.
You should send in a small collection of your pictures, where MudGuard can be seen, considering the fine pictures he took from you. You owe him this, I think.
Linda - nag him till he does it!

Cheerio
Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 May 04 - 04:37 PM

If Douglas Adams is involved, I request a change of price for a whelk from £57 to £42 ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:48 AM

Most of the pictures that I took are very similiar to ones already posted - anyway, I'm not in any of them !

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:09 AM

Maybe, but we prefer to strum small dogs (centre of the page)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Willa
Date: 24 May 04 - 10:50 AM

YY. Not sure how you tune 'em, but I guess once you've done it you can 'make the whelkin ring!'

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 24 May 04 - 09:19 AM

Greg, this is not a link, but an underlined phrase. Snafu.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 24 May 04 - 04:54 AM

Wilfried, I fell on your link as you would expect a whelk obsessive would, but the link didnae work. It's a case of whelkus interuptus!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 24 May 04 - 02:45 AM

Just to keep the thread running until the next desired post comes up about new pictures.

Re: Whelks in literature

They can be found in Adams, Douglas: Life, the Universe, and Everything. - Chapter 16.

Here we find a sharp discussion of what a chance a whelk has in a supernova? (none), why just a whelk? (why not), and a paragraph about the obsession with whelks.

Very funny, indeed.

Enjoy!
Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 May 04 - 05:34 PM

refresh - still waiting

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 19 May 04 - 09:32 AM

Now what? Idle on parade?
Go to jail, don't go over start, don't receive any whelks worth $ 57!!!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 May 04 - 11:07 AM

Still no new pictures...
What happened to them? There were quite a few trigger-happy people there...

And no BBC-video...

Has Sara registered?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 13 May 04 - 09:01 AM

What memories, Wolfgang? Have you been awake some time?

:) Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wolfgang
Date: 13 May 04 - 07:28 AM

The pictures have brought back very good memories. Thanks

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 12 May 04 - 11:44 PM

Mud Gaurd, great pix! Noreen, LOL!!

What *I* want to know is how do you tune a whelk? (After all, everyone knows you *can* tuna fish...)

I'll get me coat!

YY

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: GUEST,EtV
Date: 12 May 04 - 11:33 AM

The bloke playing the dog is Ian ....can't recall (I'm at work|) Plays flute rather well and from the Selby consortium. he's just joined, don't know MC name.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 12 May 04 - 11:15 AM

BS: What tunings do you use for a small dog?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 12 May 04 - 10:27 AM

As this took place near Hull, it is more likely to be:

Electricity from Musical Dogs - only 57 Pounds per Kilowatt-hour

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 12 May 04 - 10:20 AM

Oh God - now we're going to end up with a thread "What tunings can you use for a small dog ?" (K9 has to feature somewhere).

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 12 May 04 - 06:55 AM

What about the bloke playing the small dog?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 12 May 04 - 06:14 AM

Strewth, Andy, even I didn't realise I looked that ill the morning after, trying to keep down the lard promotion breakfast!

The unknowns are known to me. The truly gorgeous and gifted box player Kit is indeed Bloke's daughter, and she promises to make a return to our circuit when she's bottomed her degree.

The bespectacled youth is Stuart, or Thumper as he is known in these parts (apparently it's his bare knuckle soubriquet), and next to him is his fair of face father, Don, occasionally seen here as Ploughboy.

The bloke playing the banjo lives in Barrow, but I don't know his name. Perhaps Oaklet does?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 12 May 04 - 05:50 AM

No, the unknown on page 10 is female- might she be Bloke in the Corner's daughter? (of whom I have heard but not yet met.)

We will have to refer to Oaklet for the name of the Unknown Whelk.

Lovely photos Andy, thank you. And thank you all for a great weekend- Les, that fish trail is great fun, despite the council's best efforts to rearrange the flags to mislead us!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 12 May 04 - 03:11 AM

Re: Psalm 133,1 as a medieval students' drinking song

Some participants not present in the smoke room of Ye Olde Black Boy may have missed my lecture. You may find a link on my mudcat page or can go directly to ScribiTrad, Academies, And Drinking

Prosit
Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 May 04 - 03:33 PM

I guess if I had tried, my camera would have ended her camera-life inside Aragon...

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 11 May 04 - 03:20 PM

Wicked set of pics, but you didn't take one of Aragon!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Rasener
Date: 11 May 04 - 12:33 PM

Yes it is Colin.
I am very pleased to say that Colin and Karen will be appearing as main guests at Market Rasen Folk Club on Friday July 16th. So anybody wanting support floor spots on that night, please let me know.

[e-mail]

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 May 04 - 12:18 PM

Nice Potos Mudbaurd, the unknown on pages 7 and 10 is Colin, he is KJ's husband.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 11 May 04 - 12:13 PM

Wot no pics of the curry shop (or hamster!)?


RtS

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 11 May 04 - 12:06 PM

GREAT pictures - nice to see some faces; put faces to other names - and get a chance to see Dr. Fibs recieve the important diploma.

Who is this "unknown" guy though - and why is he wearing so many disguises? Looks different in almost every picture.

Like the dog he's strumming though.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 11 May 04 - 11:47 AM

A great selection of photos Andy.
I'll try and find time to sort out the pictures that Linda and I took.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: mooman
Date: 11 May 04 - 10:41 AM

Excellent photos Andy...well done!

Peace

moo (Richard)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 May 04 - 10:11 AM

Btw, where are all the other pictures? There were lots more cameras, not only Sue's and mine...

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 May 04 - 12:43 AM

Jeff (Pene Azul) did a great job of bringing my pictures online:

Start here

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 09 May 04 - 04:03 AM

Thanks Letty -- very cool site! (Hope your cold -- or rather *you* -- is/are better by now...)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 May 04 - 03:11 PM

I finished processing my pictures, I have sent them to Jeff (Pene Azul) so he can put them up when he finds the time.