Subject: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 07 Nov 07 - 07:33 PM To all those people who didn't want me to leave the festival - I'm not doing! I'm staying as Festival Director - but not doing any of the jobs except running the desk over the weekend!!! So I get the best of both worlds, which is great! The guest list is looking good too - Chris While and Julie Matthews, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher, Mary Humphreys and Anahata, Flossie, Stanley Accrington, Anthony John Clarke, Hissyfit, John Prentice, the Shellbacks and Roy Clinging and Neil Brookes. Plus loads of young performers this time - Mawkin Causley, Kerfuffle, Elbow Jane, 4Square, and Roots Alive. And we've got the Wars of the Roses rematch - hopefully Yorkshire will win it this year - although I'm comletely unbiased of course!! So see you all there, on July 18th to 20th = with excellent weather as usual!! Love, Ali |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Sooz Date: 08 Nov 07 - 02:41 AM Sadly this does not fall in the school holidays so it is unlikely that I'll be able to summon up enough energy for the trek. Make sure that Bill and Dave get a loooooong set! |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Rasener Date: 08 Nov 07 - 02:56 AM >>Mawkin Causley, Kerfuffle<< 2 great young bands there Alio. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: nutty Date: 08 Nov 07 - 03:41 AM Delighted to hear that Ali .... it wouldn't have been the same without you. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Linda Kelly Date: 08 Nov 07 - 03:42 AM Yippee and I should think so too! |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 08 Nov 07 - 07:48 AM Thanks all of you. it will be lovely to be able to meet, greet, chat and drink without any of the hassle of organising!! Have you sen Mawkin Causley, Villan? Their demo CD is great, which is why I booked them, but I've not seen them perform. We're making a huge effort to get more young people involved this year. Ali |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Rasener Date: 08 Nov 07 - 08:04 AM Yes I have seen Mawkin Causley Ali. I saw them at Derby Trad Festival the other week. I am very very impressed with them. I would love to get them to Faldingworth, and the same applies to Kerfuffle. Les Worrall |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: muppitz Date: 08 Nov 07 - 08:44 AM Ooooh, hopefully Glen won't work me too hard this year, there's a fair few of them I want to see, but most especially the lovely lads of Elbow Jane, I spent Fylde weekend stalking them as I had no food tent to work in, ended up selling CD's for them when someone thought I was part of the entourage!!! Chris & Julie, Nancy & James and AJ are all on the list too! Looking forward to it, glad you've been able to maintain your input Ali! muppitz x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: r.padgett Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:09 AM Yes Yorkshire to win the War this year! Ray |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,No Fixed Abode Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:27 AM Hi Ali, We wish you all the best with the festival and see you in January. If we are not busy we will try to make it. Forgive us if this is a silly question or is somewhere else on mudcat but how about putting a link to your radio shows here and the details. Thanks Una and Tony |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Mr Happy Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:19 PM Splendid! Rock on Ali!! |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 09 Nov 07 - 01:54 AM I've got this vision of you stalking Elbow Jane around the food tent Muppitz!!! Re Sounds of Folk, Una and Tony, I think Bernard puts info on here occasionally. It's available on the web, I do know that, but not sure where!!! I'll ask him! Ali |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GerryMc Date: 09 Nov 07 - 04:06 AM try here Gerry :-) |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Vin2 Date: 09 Nov 07 - 08:29 AM Great news! Nice to hear people talking about next years 11th bash already - makes me feel it's nearly summer. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Saro Date: 09 Nov 07 - 12:09 PM Hi Ali, so sorry that CMR are just not able to do that weekend, which is why I never got back to the committee....maybe 2009... Best wishes for 2008 anyway. saro |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: 8_Pints Date: 09 Nov 07 - 03:38 PM Looking forward to it with hopefully a newer camper van! Bob & Sue vG |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Linda Kelly Date: 09 Nov 07 - 04:18 PM will be sorry not to see you and the girls Sarah but the Van Galens are the main reason we go to Saddleworth so bring on 2008! |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: 8_Pints Date: 10 Nov 07 - 12:17 PM Aw shucks, we're embarrassed now Linda! Bob vG |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 10 Nov 07 - 01:45 PM Thanks for the message Sarah. And Viv, what a lovely thought - it's nearly summer! I need exgtra wine and Jamieson's to get me through these dark nights. I saw a good concert last night though, at the Blackburn Thwaites Theatre - some excellent young artists. Well worth travelling the distance! Ali |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Linda Kelly Date: 10 Nov 07 - 02:51 PM it's true |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: MC Fat Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:46 AM I'll be there next year. If you need me to MC give us a ring Ali Jim |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:06 AM Cheers Jim x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: muppitz Date: 12 Nov 07 - 07:49 AM Ali, in reply to earlier, it may happen!! muppitz x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 13 Nov 07 - 06:26 PM Will you tell me in advance so that I can catch it on camera please Muppitz? Especially if it's raining in Saddleworth!! xx |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,Andy Date: 14 Nov 07 - 03:50 PM Good news! Looking forward to the fest, great line-up!Must visit the food tent!! Bob |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 17 Nov 07 - 09:46 AM Why are you in as Guest Andy when you're clearly a Bob?!!! Don't confuse me!! Ali |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: r.padgett Date: 17 Nov 07 - 11:56 AM He Bobs up now and again as a 'Andyman Ray |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,bobcat Date: 17 Nov 07 - 01:06 PM Great line up .Lots of my favourite people. How about adding Muldoon's Picnic to your list of must have young people. They are a terrific and lively harmony group from Glasgow and we should see more of them down here. They run great workshops too.And what about the Young Uns from Hartlepool. They were at the Ingleton folk Festival Request: Please can there be more than one venue for singer's sessions..much too crowded last year and the year before. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:21 PM Hi Bobcat. I'm still doing the Running Order for the committee so I'll work it in somehow. Muldoon's Picnic came this year, so it might be a couple of years before they're back again. Too many good performers around - that's the problem!! HIssyfit have just been on my radio programme doing an interview and singing live - they were brill! I'm really glad they're coming back to Saddleworth next year! Ali x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Pistachio Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:37 PM Thanks for asking us Ali, it was a great experience. Sorry I got on to the wrong 'stuck in the mud' story! Look after that voice of yours. 'Talk' on Mudcat as much as you can but save that poorly throat. LOL Hazel xx- and Linda x x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:25 PM It was brill seeing you both again - and you sounded fantastic! I xcan't believe that you two were on the show, plus interviews with the Oysterband and Blue Murder!! Overwhelming! Ali xx |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Pistachio Date: 10 Apr 08 - 03:35 PM Refresh Do you know it's only 14 weeks away? With the recent snowfall it seems like it's still winter but I'm sure the sun will be shining and 'Puddleworth 07' will be a distant memory. H.x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: muppitz Date: 10 Apr 08 - 05:20 PM I doubt it! If there's one thng we can count on for Saddleworth FF, other than the great time had by all, it's the bloomin' rain!!! muppitz x |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: r.padgett Date: 11 Apr 08 - 01:16 PM Lovely friendly festival, tourist area welcome pub sessions organised and not and plenty of food spots! massive camp site 5 mins walk from the centre Oh and some good guests and other events! Ray |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: LesB Date: 11 Apr 08 - 06:53 PM "plenty of food spots" Ray. Where? That's the main trouble I have had at Saddleworth is getting a meal in the evening / teatime. The cafes are usually closing, the Indian hasn't opened yet & the only pub that serves good beer has a long wait for food. I wouldn't say there were plenty of food spots (only down the front of my tee shirt). Cheers Les |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:33 PM Muppitz! how can you be so cruel?!!!!!!!!!!!!! Les, I've been trying to sort teatime meals out. There's a newish cafe in the village - Christy's - run by a friend of mine. Next month she'll get a licence, so it'll be a cafe bar. On the Friday they're hosting a session from 6p.m. as her husband is a fiddle player. But she's also opening from 9a.m. till 10p.m. every day over the festival weekend. Hope that helps? Aren't you sooooooooo impressed with me?!! Oh, and we've got around 65 events again this year! Ali |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 13 Apr 08 - 01:27 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Willa Date: 14 Apr 08 - 12:35 PM Up she goes |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: mandotim Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:22 PM I'll be there. I'm Saddleworth born and bred, but haven't been back for 35 years. It's going to be weird. Tim |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,glueman Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:48 PM Especially as it's moved a whole county. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: mandotim Date: 15 Apr 08 - 03:14 AM True Guest Glueman,true. When I lived there the changes from Yorkshire to Greater Manchester were being proposed. There was talk of land mining the roads at Lees and Springhead... There was always a sense of 'summat for nowt' in those days. Saddleworth got all its services from Oldham, but paid its rates to Wakefield. Tell the truth, I went back briefly five years ago for a funeral. It all seemed a bit yuppified to me. The pub where I was on the dominos and darts team is now a high-end gastropub, people eating stuffed cabbage rather than playing cribbage. Hang on; unrestricted nostalgia; I may be turning into a folkie! AAAArrrgggHHH! Tim ;) |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,glueman Date: 15 Apr 08 - 03:27 AM Living on the other side of the hill and an incomer anyway the sensitivities are all notional to me but the arrangement is an odd one. Watching the brass band festival and seeing a queue of Range Rovers and Mercs being held up (one of them containing a well known corrie actor) it's hard not to conclude Saddleworth is the Wilmslow of NW Manchester. The place is still decked out with white roses on yorkshire day. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: r.padgett Date: 15 Apr 08 - 08:38 AM My usual food spots are the Take away, the cafe next door, the camp site M & C tent and the Civic hall! The Wagon pub, I think it is, also has a good attendance too on Saturdays Folk fest goers of course need food after the beer and hate normal dinner and tea time limits Failing that a chew on my T shirt and a bag of peanuts Ray |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,M&C Date: 15 Apr 08 - 11:41 AM "the camp site M & C tent" Would that be the Moor & Coast Food Tent Ray???? |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Red and White Rabbit Date: 16 Apr 08 - 02:09 AM I'll be there Alio! looking forward to seeing everyone |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 16 Apr 08 - 05:47 AM Ah Red and White Rabbit how is you ? Will you be at M & C ? Will e-mail you soon need to talk to you. |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Vin2 Date: 16 Apr 08 - 09:00 AM Eleven years eh. Don't time fly, we must be 'avin fun, There's 'o'that at Saddleworth Fest, Son don't forget to come! |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 28 Apr 08 - 08:09 AM Tim - how can anyone stay away from Saddleworth that long? You'll have to come and see us at the festival - lot of changes but still beautiful, and nice people! We stay well away from any yuppies, us born-and-bred-here-folks! Eh, and it's never moved! I was born in Saddleworth and it says West Riding of Yorkshire on my birth certificate! So that makes me a Yorkshire lass, doesn't it? And I'm still here! Yes, it's the Moor and Coast tent on the campsite, Guest M & C - they also run the bar in the Civic hall, with real ale, including a Festival Ale. The Tory Club and Waggon are decent bars too. Not long now is it? I'm just sorting out artists for 2009 to go in the programme. And I've just been asked to do some MCing at Cleckheaton in the Town Hall, which should be brill! Hi Sue - how are you and the kids? Ali xx |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: r.padgett Date: 28 Apr 08 - 09:34 AM Confirmed M & C says he in hushed tones is MOOR and COAST food or tent to stave off the wet at Saddleworth or Warwick or wherever they happen to be!! Ray |
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Folk Festival 2008 From: Alio Date: 30 Apr 08 - 01:00 AM Won't be needing that - it's going to be beautiful this year! Ali x |
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