The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: Mavis Enderby
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 05:02 PM

I'd enjoy that sort of variety, I bet quite a few others would too.

Thanks again for posting these programmes, and I look forward to the radio shows.

Pete.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 05:50 PM

Watched the Bracknell fest set. So lovely to see Maddy & June as still pretty fresh Silly Sisters, Ian Giles, Tony "Cap'n" O'Neil, and Leadfingers with dark hair (though I noticed, already with hat firmly wedged)! Overall, a great half-hour pot-pourri giving us a taste of all manner of things, from singarounds, shanties, English, celtic, clog and Morris, songwriter/protest and world music.

Once more thanks, Ian.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: Ian Burdon
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 02:47 AM

re. getting permissions from the Beeb for releasing material on DVD: this may not be a precisely similar situation but 3 or 4 years ago I was trying hard to get a licence to remaster and release on DVD all of the surviving footage in the BBC archives of the late Jake Thackray. The BBC were very helpful and supportive, particularly since we already knew the library index codes for most of the footage, but the arm which handles the licencing would not budge from the position that they had to charge the same rate whether I was looking for a very limited release to a small group of fans or a world-wide release of a blockbuster. As I recall the rate then was around £1000 per broadcast minute of video footage which blew the project out of the water.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 08:17 AM

I must have a look at this when I get home.

As it happens, I've got a fair bit of stuff on old VHS tapes but I don't have the kit or the know-how to put it on the PC. What sort of gear would I need (without spending a fortune)?

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: Folknacious
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 08:31 AM

I have no idea about PCs, but iMacs come with iMovie installed for doing the editing (and iDVD too, for burning DVDs), so you just need an analogue-digital converter box to stick between your VHS player and computer. iMovie is very easy to use and intuitive for professional-looking edits, fades, credits etc. Looks like what Ian A used I'd say. I expect there'll be PC equivalents. The only other thing you need is a decent size hard drive as video files are huge. On YouTube I think you are limited to max 10 mins per clip, which will be why these programmes discussed here were edited that way.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 09:21 PM

WHEEEE !! There I am at the end of Part 1 ! Still have the Maya Banjo , but the Marina Estate went the way of all Marinas a LONG time back .
And that CANT be Steve's dog at 6.50 during Pilgrim Morris's bit can it ?

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:55 PM

Webbs Wonders? No they don't still exist. Peta once told me that they gave up when the gigs stopped being fun and started feeling like work.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: Folknacious
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:56 PM

Thanks for finally answering that one. Shame.

I've watched those Bracknell ones a couple of times now. Things seemed more adventurous and carefree then, and the music well worth exploring for people who came later. I continue to be besotted by Marta Sebestyen but find that her 80s album with Muzsikas doesnt seem to be available at an affordable price, not via Amazon anyway.

Talking of old TV, does anybody else remember a little series of short programmes called something like Souvenirs Of Sidmouth that went out every evening for a week, sometime -I'm guessing now - around the early 1980s? I particularly recall an Irish musician playing several tin whistles at once, joined together with rubber tube, but generally they were magical.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: Howard Jones
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 02:29 PM

"I particularly recall an Irish musician playing several tin whistles at once, joined together with rubber tube".

That would probably be the wonderful Packie Byrne, using a shower attachment designed to push onto bathroom taps. I've been racking my brains to remember what he called it, but without success. I hope Bonnie sees this and can tell us.

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 03:36 AM

Yes Howard....Twas indeed Packie!
I recently found his home mede Lagerphone...(a crucifix encrusted with bottle tops) Which will emerge in the percussion section when Paddingtons Molly side come out of retirement in a couple of months time.
Also, I still have the blue bowler hat he made for me!
I'm also the temporary custodian of the cut down harmonium that Bonnie used on the road.
And, at the ripe old age of 93, he's still going strong in Donegal!
Sorry for the thread drift....Nostalgia isn't what it was, But then again, it never was what it was!

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: GUEST,Ralphie.
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 03:42 AM

Looking forward to the podcast of your Kershaw show dep.
Also looking forward to the cheque for the repeat fees!

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: GUEST,guest, Dave in Michigan
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 01:10 PM

Ta ever so, Ian, particularly for Webb's Wonders. Anyone know the background of the song they sang, "Forgive and Forget"? It clearly has much common ancestry with the Carter Family's "Gold Watch and Chain".

(Yes, this really deserves a separate thread, but as a guest, I can't start one.)

Subject: RE: The Not The Finger In Ear Show (1982)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 07:44 PM

Great stuff in there. I still think of 1982 as quite recent - it's how time plays tricks with us.

To drift a bit - 'it's cringe-makingly dated (check the perms, squint at the jumpers.' Why is it that happens? Who finds the customs and styles of any period "cringemaking", apart from the one just a few years previous to the present? Any present, that is to say.

It always seems to be the case. As if somehow whatever period we happen to be living in wasn't equally ridiculous.

When it comes to the music the same thing happens often enough. Not so much with folk music people, but we still sometimes fall into the trap.