Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show

Subject: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: cptsnapper
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 01:53 PM

Chris Evans had a feature about drum & tabor on his show tonight which can be heard again for the next seven days

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 05:36 PM

Pipe and tabor actually , but Chris Evans is a Pratt isnt he ?

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 05:17 AM

Actually LF, I would say that Chris Evans is a pretty genuine person. He tends to be very spontaneous, which means that on some occasions he behaves like a prat, but on others he is open hearted ang generous.
I recall when he owned his own radio station, on day it was lovely weather out, so suddenly decided to give all the staff a day off. He stapped behind with a handfull of others and they pressed all the buttons themselves.
I've not heard the item myself, so don't know what is said, but suspect he probably gives a fair hearing to what is said.

Of course, if you want to hear a real prat, try Steve Wright.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 05:49 AM

This wireless keyboard doesn't do much for preventing typos. It also means I am just a bit too far from the screen to see the mistakes. Let's face it, from 5 foot, a d looks sufficiently like an s for you not to spot you have pressed the key next to the one you thought.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 09:56 AM

"...a d looks like an s"
So that's Geoff the Suck is it? *BG*
RtD

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 10:00 AM

And I thought it was June Tabor on his show - though I couldn't work out who Mr Drum was...
(Geoff the last three characters above are "sot", "sot", "sot.

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: GUEST,suegorgeous
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 01:10 PM

George

Me too!

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:46 AM

I just had a listen. It was a short item found about 20 minutes into the programme, including a bit about the instruments and a short piece of live playing. The listen again links from this page for a few more days from this posting.
Evans is very enthusiastic that someone can actually be bothered to come in and chat with him. As for the conversation, he treated it seriously without trying to make a joke of it. It is obvious that Chris Evans knows about as much as most of the rest of the public, but is actually willing to listen and learn rather than just make fun of something traditional.
I don't imaging that this short spot will do a great deal to raise the public profile of pipe and tabor, but it's more than Mike Harding's programme ever does.
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Tradsinger
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 08:44 AM

I spoke to Steve Rowley, the interviewee who played the pipe and tabor on the Chris Evans show. Steve was quite impressed with Chris and said that he (Chris) had done his homework on the subject. BBC2 is not an intellectuall station, it is light drive-time entertainment, and apart from the fact that Steve had a job to get a word in edgeways, I thought it went quite well. The point of the seemingly irrelevant questioning about Steve's religion was just to make sure that the interviewee did not just trot out a prepared speech. As for raising the profile of the pipe and tabor, well it might, as the BBC has now linked to the Taborers Society website (http://www.pipeandtabor.org/) so at least some people might hear about it. And now you know about it!

Thursday's 'endangered instrument' on the Chris Evans show is the hurdy-gurdy, presented my Metheglin.

Cheers

Tradsinger

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 08:57 AM

Endangered?

Don't tell me he is going to cover/has covered the Bodhran?

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 06:58 PM

No Dave, that was a goat (I'll get my coat, shall I...)

Kitty

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: LesB
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 12:00 PM

Who is Chris Evans?
Les

Subject: RE: Drum & Tabor on Chris Evan's Radio Show
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:59 PM

English Bagpipes and Hurdy-Gurdy on tonight's show.