Above the pavement - The Beech

Subject: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 May 08 - 07:11 AM

Get some joy!

Wednesday 7 May

First Wednesday Singaround at the Beech,
Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester

Songs and tunes mostly but not exclusively traditional

Cheers

Les Jones

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: GUEST,Nigel Spencer
Date: 04 May 08 - 03:42 PM

Excellent! Now - on top of everything else - it's turned into a Situationist singaround...

As they probably don't say: "The Hacienda must be rebuilt! In the front room of the Beech!"

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 May 08 - 03:53 PM

God knows Nigel we are so sof isti .. sophistk ... so bloody smart in Chorlton we ought to have our own Arts Festival with folk events in it, init?

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 04 May 08 - 04:34 PM

Steady on. I don't mind a few songs, but I'm not constructing any situations that go beyond the point of no return - I've got work in the morning.

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Rapunzel
Date: 04 May 08 - 04:40 PM

Hoping to be there, but I am currently voiceless! Went husky all of a sudden on Friday afternoon. I will be gutted if it's not back in working order for Wednesday. Don't want to miss the best sing of the month.

Hope to see you then, maybe in a lower key than usual...

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 May 08 - 04:46 PM

Rapunzel, Rapunzel erm................I am sure with can do something appropriate out of the front window of the snug. Ok going for a cold shower now.

Hope you can all spread the word for Monday 19 May upstairs in the Lloyds?

Cheers

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 05 May 08 - 03:08 AM

Chorlton Arts Festival

Monday 19 May 8. 30pm
Upstairs at the Lloyds Hotel
Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, Manchester

An Evening of Folk Songs and Tunes mostly, but not exclusively, traditional.

With a collection of singers and musicians many of whom sing at the Beech on Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester on the first Wednesday of the month.

Cheers

Les Jones

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 05 May 08 - 03:09 AM

Rapunzel, if you've gone husky, there's really only one sensible solution: extreme backcombing and a spirited romp through "Lost in France"...

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Flash Company
Date: 05 May 08 - 11:05 AM

Surely Eskimo Nell is the only song for someone who has gone husky?
I'll get me coat!

FC

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 07 May 08 - 04:21 AM

Who said humour has been the death of folk clubs?

Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 07 May 08 - 04:33 AM

It's no laughing matter - even as I write Rachel has reluctantly taken the rest of the week off & I'm coughing up the sort of stuff I haven't seem since I used to smoke Old Holborne 20 years ago!

So - unless there's some sort of miracle recovery between now & 5pm, looks like we're scuppered by the curse of the cat...

Have a good one; see you in June - and if a bonny Northumbrian lass by the name of Esther shows up, offer her our apologies.

Sean & Rachel

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 07 May 08 - 06:27 AM

Sean & Rachel,

we shall miss you both, you bring such an excellent variety to the Beech.

Maybe May 19th at the Lloyds?

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: GUEST,Alan G
Date: 07 May 08 - 08:01 AM

I'll try to make it tonight - if I can find where the Beech is

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 07 May 08 - 08:14 AM

Look forward that Alan.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=381585&y=393497&z=1&sv=Beech+Road&st=6&tl=Beech+Road,+Manchester,+M_21&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

Or at the end of Beech Road, off Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton, Manchester

Cheers

Les

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Alan G
Date: 07 May 08 - 03:47 PM

Thanks for that Les but it looks like I'm destined not to make it again. Got smitten by a stomach bug that came on all of a sudden this afternoon and has completely knackered me. Hope to make it next month.

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 07 May 08 - 04:26 PM

Absolutely, Les - see you at the Lloyds on the 19th!

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 07 May 08 - 07:07 PM

May I be the first (ahead of Nigel) to say, what a great night. I was singing "When Jones's ale was new" all the way home - and I'd never even heard "When Jones's ale was new" before tonight. Particular thanks to the guy who did Hal an tow - singing that refrain in the first week of May is something special.

Forward to the Lloyds, where the ale flows plurally!

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: GUEST,Nigel Spencer
Date: 07 May 08 - 07:09 PM

An absolute corker tonight. I'm almost beside myself with pleasure. I was going to single a few people out for particular praise, but there's no point when the whole night was so fine. Sedayne, you may be interested to know about a new trend: "As Sean's not here, I'd better do a ballad..." heard more than once!

Cheers

Nigel

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 07 May 08 - 07:29 PM

Glad you're all smiling; Rachel dozed off hours ago & I'm sitting up watching Clarissa Dickson Wright on medieval cookery.

See you next time!

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 09 May 08 - 02:17 AM

Thanks to Olga, Ken, Dave, Norman, Matthew, Zoe, Sue, Bob, Richard, Ann, John, Nigel, Phil, Kate, Steve and Graham.

It was indeed a great night, a great variety of songs and some joyous chorus singing - not least our chorus to Steve singing Bob Marley's Redemption Song.

All being well we can meet again on Wednesday June 4th. In the meantime:

Chorlton Arts Festival

Monday 19 May 8. 30pm
Upstairs at the Lloyds Hotel
Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, Manchester

An Evening of Folk Songs and Tunes mostly, but not exclusively, traditional.

With a collection of singers and musicians many of whom sing at the Beech.

Cheers

Les

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 May 08 - 04:38 AM

See you all at The Lloyds on the 19th, assuming I've got a voice by then - Rachel's on the mend but I seem to be getting worse... So much for lots of sea air!

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 09 May 08 - 04:51 AM

Thanks Sedayne - I think it's important to take lots of poisonous chemicals and avoid alternative medicines.

Best of luck

Les

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 May 08 - 06:27 PM

Absolutely, Les - but I am hitting the raw spinach quite heavily, and these days I've largely abandoned the Red Bull / Non-drowsy Paracetamol breakfast, no matter how potentially arduous the day ahead if me.

Presently chilling with Nat King Cole on BBC4 and thinking about doing Nature Boy...

See you on the 19th!

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 09 May 08 - 07:09 PM

"I think it's important to take lots of poisonous chemicals and avoid alternative medicines."

Fantastic!

I do maintain that there should be a place in the world for valerian, though.

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 May 08 - 07:17 PM

I do maintain that there should be a place in the world for valerian, though.

Me too, especially after reading this in Wiki:

An unusual feature of valerian is that the essential oil of valerian root is a cat attractant similar to catnip. The active compound in valerian for this is actinidine. Cat attractants might mimic the odor of cat urine which is caused by 3-mercapto-3-methylbutan-1-ol (MMB). Anecdotes state that valerian is also attractive to rats, so much so that it had been used to bait traps. Some versions of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin have him using valerian, as well as his pipes, to attract the rats.[4][citation needed] This might be related to the change of aversion into attraction to cat urine in rats infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.[11]

Valerian's effect on cats is featured as a clue in two works by Agatha Christie.[12]

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 10 May 08 - 02:31 AM

Being a childish optimist I look on illness as an opportunity to search for myself on Google, that doesn't take long, read badly written thrillers and watch endless history and wildlife programmes.

I am chancing life itself here but I don't get ill much, fingers being crossed, and I often prescribe a dose of 'Pystogw' also known as pull your self together woman, - grabs coat and runs.


Get well both and see you on the 19th.

Subject: RE: Above the pavement - The Beech
From: Rapunzel
Date: 10 May 08 - 03:26 AM

I'm quite together thank you Les.

I just haven't been able to speak and now I've got a bit of a chesty cough. I've been getting on with life just fine without having to resort to any remedies, alternative or otherwise. The only way forward is plenty of fluids and getting all the green stuff up and out.

Sean however has Manflu, which is a different case altogether...

I was just too far below the pavement to make it on Wednesday - sorry.

But I'll see you all on the 19th.

good health,
Rachel