Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub

Subject: RE: Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub
From: stallion
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 04:09 AM

Thats nowt, the Welly cricket team were barred from the Welly pub (The Wellington, Alma Terrace, york) because 22 people or more came in together on a Sunday evening after the game, large groups of men were not allowed, the argument was so vehement that they got barred individually. New landlord lets them in but alas the songs that came after the matches have long faded into memory with the Sam Smiths dictum

Subject: RE: Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub
From: GUEST,giovanni
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 04:25 AM

Any pubs that offer a Morris-Free Zone are OK in my book........

g

Subject: RE: Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub
From: GUEST,A Dunelm Antiquarian Writes...
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 05:11 AM

Despite its pretty aspect, The Swan and Three Cygnets is very much a local pub for local people, and Durham locals remain (at best) generally indifferent to the antics of Students and Bearded Hippy Weirdos - in which latter category Morris Dancers are reckoned to be quite near the top. So this is a case of a responsible barmaid protecting the interests of her Saturday regulars from any unnecessary flamboyance and potential fol de rol - and good for her. I was in Durham pub once peacably watching the racing when a Morris Side invaded the bar and proceeded to ruin the ambience by insisting on singing Folk Songs - a Time and a Place Gentlemen surely, as they were reminded when the land lord proceeded with the eviction. In any case these self-styled Morris Dancers found welcome at the Half Moon - not a five yard caper around former Greetings Corner, and one of any number of city centre pubs where no one would have batted an eyelid at their increasingly rediculous attire, bells or no. In truth, there is any amount of city centre pubs they could have gone to rapturous welcome - and maybe two or three where they would have been refused on sight - or worse, man-handled into the street, which really would have been newsworthy!

I think it's time these random Folkies and self-styled Morris Men (& Women) started to respect the local people, folklore and Traditions of the towns and pubs they descend upon, researching well in advance those hostelries where they are likely to receive a welcome and - more importantly - those in which they are not.

Subject: RE: Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 05:19 AM

A random Folkie - now there's a thought...

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a random folkie.

Subject: RE: Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub
From: GUEST,A Dunelm Antiquarian Writes...
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 05:27 AM

Random indeed, Mr Fly! One hears that some of these Morris Dancer fellows hold down quite respectable careers when not persuing their particularly irksome hobby. It's worth noting that Rapper Sides receive quite a welcome at Durham Pubs on account of their superior choreography and dress-sense.

Subject: RE: Morris teams barred from Sam Smiths pub
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 01:35 PM

I'm sorry; as a Yank outsider, I'm picturing a sequence of increasing bans on large groups of men performing traditional arts, until in 2050 or so a man is drive to write the sad tribute, "And the Ladies Go Clogging at Whitsun."

--Nonie