Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan

Subject: Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan
From: evansakes
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 04:32 AM

"TwickFolk"
at The CABBAGE PATCH PUB
67 LONDON ROAD
Twickenham Middlesex TW1 3SZ

SUNDAYS at 8 PM

My Space               www.MySpace.com/TwickFolk
Advance Tickets       www.wegottickets.com/location/466
Website                www.TwickenhamFolkClub.com

Jan 20th       PETE COE               £8 adv/ £9 door

We're always delighted to welcome Pete back to Twickenham. "A One-Man Folk Industry!" was how Jim Lloyd famously described him. With a vast repertoire of traditional & original songs, dance tunes & dances playing bouzouki, melodeon, dulcimer, banjo & step percussion, he's been a professional musician since 1971. Pete looks to the tradition, but doesn't shrink from adapting and reinventing in order to move forward. He is essentially a storyteller, equally at home with lengthy traditional ballads as with pithy self-penned songs. He has recorded ten albums, broadcasts regularly on local and BBC radio and has appeared in several television programs. Pete has frequently worked and recorded with other musicians throughout his career ... with Chris Coe as a duo... with Chris, Nic Jones and Tony Rose as Banddoggs ... with the legendary New Victory Band and with Red Shift. However his main work is solo. Pete is a prolific songwriter and his songs include "Joseph Baker" (performed by The Chieftains), "The Wizard of Alderley Edge", "The Alimony Run", "Sold Down the River Again", "The Jackdaw" and "Waves of Tory" (a comment on Thatcher-era Britain)

http://www.backshift.demon.co.uk/home.htm

"He explores the heartland of the English folk song revival with an ease and honesty that invests traditional songs with a simplistic beauty"   Mojo

Subject: RE: Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan
From: Folkiedave
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:09 AM

Get him to do the "Seven Warnings" - written as stadium rock!!

Subject: RE: Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:22 AM

Pete did a vey fine non-stadium gig at Islington last week, including Seven Warnings which is based on a Welsh text. He said he didn't understand it even after it had been translated, so changed the words. Then he changed the tune:

"Hey, that's a songwriting workshop. I usually charge £50 for that . . . "

Subject: RE: Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan
From: evansakes
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 07:23 AM

"Get him to do the "Seven Warnings" - written as stadium rock!!"

Ticket sales are a little slow this time so Pete's gig will be on at the Cabbage Patch and not transfeered to the stadium.

Maybe you're confusing him with Bon Jovi or Iron Maiden? :-)

Subject: RE: Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 07:36 AM

Pete (and Chris Coe) co-wrote Seven Warnings in case Red Shift ever got any stadium gigs. But they didn't. Revived for In Paper Houses it sounds newly-written for a new age with all the old wrongs still wrong.

Should be sung in stadia (especially rugby hangouts) and poncy pubs the world over. Along with the murder ballads.

Subject: RE: Pete Coe in Twickenham-Sunday 20th Jan
From: evansakes
Date: 17 Jan 08 - 05:19 AM

that's THIS Sunday coming....

(bump bump!)