Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: The Barden of England
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 03:06 AM

Strange name that - - MacDonald 100

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: fisheye
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 03:58 AM

RB: is the hyphenated with Big Mac or fish burger

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: romany man
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 04:26 AM

kilts coal fenced off pubs 400 year old funerals civil war kit ronald mac donald ferrets oh im ssssssssoooooooooooooooo confused

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 07:48 AM

You leave my quarter-pounders out of this

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 07:58 AM

Apologies, I can't make it this Sunday after all. Personal matters.
Next time...
VTam you have a potential extra seat space.
(catch up soon x)

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 08:37 AM

Damn. Hope we did not scare you off...

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 09:23 AM

Not at all Richard!
It's just a personal matter, which means other things will be happening this weekend. I've PM'd VTam with a better explanation.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 01:16 PM

Richard Macdonald Bridge. who,d of thought it.
I have a bright Orange wig and a XL coco the clown outfit I found in a bin bag at a bus stop in Eltham two years ago. I,ll bring it with me.
Only messing about seriously me Woodsie and Fisheye will be there by opening time so if theres any furniture arranging and table setting to be done Im happy to help.
I dont do furniture moving when the session started and crowded simply because it bloody dodgy to be seen Cav-vaulting about a packed room with tables chairs held aloft .Pissed. its a bloody Par-larva and Its a easy way to have someones eye out or worse. Has I learned at Crayford trying to get Jim Radford a Chair from the other Bar. folk dont take kindly to having a chair leg in the Earhole.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 01:17 PM

Public school boys like it better elsewhere.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: fisheye
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 02:18 PM

I thought that was Oxbridge......NU that's pig/sheep land isn't it

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 04:43 PM

Whats the definition of Baroque....A folk singers financial status.


How many folk singers does it take to change a lightbulb?
The answer........................Is blowing in the wind

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: The Barden of England
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 05:30 AM

No - tha answer is 10. One to change it and 9 to sing about how good the old one was!
John Barden

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 08:15 AM

11 - and another to sing about how brutally the socket was raped by the alien insertion and then gave birth to light.

12 - and another to sing of how the brothers of the socket would avenge it by leaving the lightbulb to the wolves in the woods.

Bt I DO like the idea of re-arranging the well known round "Ah Poor Bird"

Ah poor bulb
Take thy light
Far above the sorrows
Of this sad night.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Dead Horse
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 08:54 AM

Raped by aliens! Is that how ya got the McDonald bit in ya monica then?
Banjo & Burns, all in one sentence.
Ya cant burn a tee fer, so I is all right mate.
And it's called First Footing, the right of the Laird ta kick the arse of first git who brings a lump of coal te a bring-a-bottle party!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 09:06 AM

adding another round to Richard's

Hey ho nobody at home
light nor lamp nor candle
have I none
still I will be wary.

Ah poor bulb
Take thy light
Far above the sorrows
Of this sad night.

Osram Osram
will I never see again
get the to the store my love
and buy a halogen

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 10:41 AM

Not exactly, Dead Horse.   I sort of had Prince Heathen in mind. And it's MacDonald not McDonald.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST,wee jock
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 12:27 PM

Richard

Have spoken to Keith Alexander and he will try to be there but he cannot promise as he has not played for a while,asit is the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns birth,i will bring my book of burns poetry, so if you want me to recite Address to a Haggis; i will do so. Talking about food will the landlord be doing any?
Looking forward to tomorrow.
Wee Jock aka Little Legs is now going to celebrate the Bards bithday.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 12:35 PM

Virginia Tam

i have done a copy of the words re The Good Intent Stomp for your goodself and will bring them with me tomorrow.

Wee Jock AKA Little Legs AKA John Matthews

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 02:29 PM

Thank you for that Jock.

I understand we will be getting some roastpotatoes - not wholly Burns-ish. I considered buying a haggis today but thought it would look rude to walk in with it slice it up and hand it round - and I was NOT going to get involved in mashing turnips!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 07:13 PM

I have been in tonight and checked the beer. I can recommend it. The Burns Special (4.5%) is adequately bitter, with a somewhat malty front end, a clean and lemony, sightly fragrant, midrange (presumably to cut through the grease in the haggis), and a smooth finish without the sulphurous aftertaste that is so common and that I so detest.

We drank the barrel out apart from 8 pints last time. Let's do better this time.

Some young people who were enjoying the karaoke tonight may come too!

Has anyone got "Bring us a barrell" clear for this time - or that other one that I think Ramskyte recorded

"Drink boys, drink, and see that ye do not spill, for if ye do ye shall drink two, for that is our master's will"

Or the Frenchy one.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 02:56 AM

or that other one that I think Ramskyte recorded

do you mean

DRINK LET'S DRINK

Winter time is here
And the nights are very long
The days are very short
But we sing a merry song
We sing it loud we sing it clear
To help the year along
Till summer is a comin' in again

Sooo.. drink let's drink
And raise a merry glass
Drink to the scent of the rising grass
For every good man
Every woman, lad and lass
Sing summer is a comin' in again

that one?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:56 AM

No, not that one

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 04:40 AM

Then it is not on the Dark December or Flickering Light albums. May be on Holler and Shout. I haven't requested that one from John Thornton (Chris' brother in law) yet.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: romany man
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 05:09 AM

its pissin down wi rain, me hosses want feedin the roads like a bloody river, the fields got two inches of water in it, im covered in mud and shit,
am i goin to stoke,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      course i bloody am will i sing nah

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 05:20 AM

copy of the words re The Good Intent Stomp

Thank you John

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 06:15 AM

It may be on their first tape. Yes, tape.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: melodeonboy
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 06:45 AM

Wot! No sulphurous aftertaste! How disappointing!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 02:11 PM

That was a great sessiom - well done Richard.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: fisheye
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 02:31 PM

An excellent night Richard B. i think Woodsie said he counted about 30 attendants, which was a nice number. Thank the Landlady for the excellent food also. After two years of dormancy I was a little (no lots) scared of playing the banjo, I hope i did not disturb too many singers as i used them for practice. Hopefully this session can continue once a month.

regards
Fisheye

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 02:45 PM

Thank you all for coming. Wasn't Al brilliant?

Next is probably 24th Feb. I will start a separate thread for that.

Post mortems for this one here.

We drank the barrel dry (well, bar a couple of pints).

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:21 PM

Thank you Richard, for giving me one more opportunity to stretch my performance courage muscles.

Thank you Al, for the loan of lovely guitar. I am very excited.

I am already playing and singing House of the Rising Sun on the new guitar. Actually I used to play and sing the boy version on my front porch in Virginia. Must learn the girl version.

Hey Fisheye! This is the kind of front porch playing and singing I did back in the day. Needle and the Damage Done, Melissa, Dust in the Wind, Country Roads, House of Rising Son, some Appalachain gospels, couple of Christmas carols and a sad attempt at Classical Gas. I am sure there were others but I can't remember them. Oh God yeah! Stairway to Heaven, may it never cross this pretty guitar's frets.

I had a stellar afternoon.... thanks to all.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:37 PM

Richard


Many thanks for a really good session from dean,myself and jenny,from that feed back that i got back the locals seemed to enjoy it.Also thanks to the Landlord and Landlady.
Also thanks for letting me do Adress to a Haggis.

Wee Jock

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: romany man
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:37 PM

well done all , a great afternoon, really enjoyed it. and thanks for the hospitality after,

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: growler
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:57 PM

Well done, Richard, Great session. Could we borrow that fantastic little girl, who shushed every one, before she sang.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 03:58 PM

REALLY good to meet you all at last. Thanks for being so welcoming on what was my first "session. Another life moment.

Al

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Royston
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 05:03 PM

Cheers everyone, nice little session!

Some photographs HERE

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: melodeonboy
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 05:19 PM

What a cracking afternoon! Well done, Richard. In fact, well done, everybody! And didn't the "little apprentice" do well?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 06:05 PM

Oooh! Black and white piccies. Very artistic!

I must say I get more and more like Churchill (the dog, not the politician) in appearance as time passes!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: romany man
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 03:06 AM

you and me both ol boy, once again a good session look forward to the next one.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: The Barden of England
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 03:43 AM

Looks like you have a better session when I sta away :-). Sorry not to have been there but somewhat 'bunged up' - oh well. Glad you all had a good time and the photos confirm it.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 04:40 AM

Totally delighted to have heard each of Al and Dean for the first time.

There were a few local "notables" who alas no-showed. Note to self, following arms (without limitation and no offence intended to anyone I forget) to twist for next time: -

Brian and Marion Rodgers
Jeff Cole
Keith Alexander
Dave Leigh
Richard Matthewman
Derek Moore
Graham Anstee
Don Thompson and if at all possible Clive Lever
Brian Diwell
The Sausage Smuggler
Jim Radford
Lady Raffles and Mick
Pat and Dipsodeb
Blossom (if not too busy)

And what could possibly have happened to Dead Horse?

Get well soons to George and the Barden, happy families to Sleepy Rosie.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Dead Horse
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 05:32 AM

Dead Horse found he had domestic duties that could not unfortunately be postponed - painting kitchen before fitters come to ruin it.
Great pity, as I was looking forward to the session and had (semi) learned those Kentish songs for your hedificashun.
Another time, eh?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: naughtyforty
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 06:42 AM

We had a lovely time - thanks Richard and we will try to make the next one. Isabella is going to learn some more songs!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 08:01 AM

Well done Richard for a great afternoon, I really enjoyed it. I had to get that lump of Cheese out when Melodeon boy done the Dairylea song I did not mean to throw it at him though, And heres a tip a Mandolin string makes a perfect Cheese wire. It was lovely Cheese hope you all enjoyed it. Isabella was great. good singers good players great day.

Could I just add that I had to use all my diplomatic skills to talk down and so calm down a local ( no names)

Who was really pissed off when he was told to sush in his own pub, if folk must go round sushing people could they please do so in a tone whereby it will not cause a near alticatrion when one goes out for a smoke. And a point to those who do go round sushing folk remember it a pub we are the guests in that pub.

Isabela is cute enough to get away with sushing folk. but for adults that do it you draw attention to both yourself and others in the group, This time it was my turn, I cvalm ed the chap down and we shook hands upon my departure.

Look forward to the next on in Feb.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 08:03 AM

sorry that was me above,

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 08:36 AM

Was that that noisy bugger Paddy Cannon? The one with the short hair and camo uniform, sitting right up with us? He and the lady were most apologetic to me - it was that they were shouting right behind the Shirt Murderer's ear as he was trying to sing - it would certainly put me off as I explained to them and they were totally OK with it...

And it' s not his local any more.

Or was it when I did do a bit of a big shush as Cari was doing a quiet piece on low whistle with Steve?

Horses for courses.

I heard someone at the far end of the bar shush another talker as John was reading the Address to a Haggis, and almost throughout that, you could hear a pin drop.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: GUEST,Essex Girl
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 08:45 AM

Great afternoon with a good variety of music.Just the right amount of performers - any more and the locals would have had something to complain about! Looking forward to next time. Thanks for the food Richard, it was very welcome (and tasty)

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 03:44 PM

Richard

Just had an email from Al. He hopes to be at next session, but he seems to think it will be on the 28th which is a Saturday. You mentioned the 24th which is a Tuesday.

Maybe time to start the new thread with proper details?

Tam

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 04:06 PM

It will be the Sunday - Ithink that's teh 21st this year as the enxt weekend will eb full of foopball.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Stoke NKent UK Sun 25Jan
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 06:09 PM

Silly me, must get new specs or a bigger calendar.

Al