Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 20 May 09 - 07:42 AM

I wonder if we will hear the Ghostly whistler this year. Woke me up last year? Very good though so I cant complain. Others heard it too. I wonder if that sinister looking house on thew over side of the hedge has anything to do with it. Have you die hard knockers ever noticed over the years The Sun never shines on that house. I have never seen anyone enter or leave and i was talking to the landlady of the Tally Ho who often has a ride up that lane told me that her horse does not like passing the place , I just told her to dig her heels in and
Ride On.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 May 09 - 06:08 AM

It is well known that a lot of Brigg's songs were learned by her in an Irish environment, and possibly that is where she got the habit.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 May 09 - 04:17 AM

"I have decided that she over-decorated."

I'm not keen on such a high degree of ornament either. And I don't feel it 'suits' E. Trads all that much in particular - just a personal preference. Overall I can find Briggs a little too frilly for my listening tastes.

Well executed Sean Nos on the other hand, done with love, is just lovely - Caitlín Maude

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: melodeonboy
Date: 20 May 09 - 04:10 AM

I've got gigs on Friday and Saturday, but I hope to make a "cameo" appearance on the Thursday!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 May 09 - 03:59 AM

I have been listening to a fair bit of Anne Briggs the last few days, and I have decided that she over-decorated. On this recording (where her own pitch is a bit suspect too) you can hear that the additional singers are a little behind her, possibly because they are having to wait for the decoration to develop before knowing hwere to go themselves (or possibly because of her notoriously personal sense of timing).   

You may well do it better than her.

The instrument is not a mandolin. She played an Irish bouzouki (but it may have been before there was such a thing as an Irish bouzouki) and acccording to some notes I have somewhere she used a drone tuning - it might have been EAEA - and was largely self-taught.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 May 09 - 02:37 AM

Jolly good..

Learning Anne Briggs "Summer's In" for Midsummer.

Although it's actually about the 'last day of Spring', I thought it might make a fitting chorus song for Knockholt.

Posting a YouTube up here, in case anyone else with mandolin or drum or whatnot fancies joining me.

"Summer's In"

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 May 09 - 06:47 PM

Yes I spoke to Dilligaf today and her tent will be used maybe chez elle this weekend than likely back into my storage until knockers...

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 May 09 - 01:46 PM

Well have official invite to stay with Fisheye and Fair Maiden on Saturday night. So we will be arriving sometime on Sat with Crow Sister and whatever we can jam around her pixieish posterior in the back seat.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 19 May 09 - 01:38 PM

Love to come. Looks like I might be able to blag a ride off the ever kindly indulgent VTam & SilentOne for weekend.

If so will have to blag tent off of other kind peeps - I think Dilligaf made offer? *If* still available I'd much appreciate!

VT&S1 have only ickle space enough for my bum (despite it's obviously teeny fairy-child proportions...) - & If I do need to train in, carrying tents/camp gear through multiple changes and London underground will be a right pain in the same.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 May 09 - 12:56 PM

Dilligaf and I were just talking about it. If there is beer remaining from the ReWake it will accompany us.

I think Crow Sister will be there too.

Alas NoisySprog will at most visit during the day since canvas and portaloos are apparently not suitable...

Subject: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Mick Woods
Date: 19 May 09 - 12:42 PM

Well I thought I'd start the official This Is Summer thread. The earlier thread was advance notification of summer and autumn knockholt dates. This one is solely for The "This Is Summer" event 17th - 21st June 2009 See KNOCKHOLT and folkmob.com for more info.

looking forward to a weekend around a campfire with the likes of Pete The Hat, Richard Bridge, John Barden, Folkmob and a host of other musical spirits.