combustible folk

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Les from Hull
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 08:38 AM

Try to manage as best as you can without!

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Surreysinger
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 08:32 AM

"every singer (is)a potential log on the wickerman."
Nobody warned me of this when I started off singing so many years ago ... I'm off for a singing weekend in Dorset tomorrow. It never occurred to me that putting fire and spirit into a song might be a hazardous thing. Should I be taking an asbestos safety blanket and an extinguisher with me ? Back to "Doctors" then......

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Surreysinger
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 08:16 AM

Didn't know we had a problem with albatrosses... someone once told me that all folk songs were about sheep... sorry, it's nearly time for "Doctors" on the box ... must dash!

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Les from Hull
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 08:11 AM

It'll be that 'Person from Porlock' again!

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: theleveller
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 08:11 AM

"Folk is the Princess and the Pea of musical genres. "

Hmmm, I'll have to sleep on that one.



"I couldn't have put it better..."

Well I bloody well could but, hey, what's the point......Pass me that can of petrol and the matches,someone.

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 07:53 AM

.....it was the post person.....now what we really need to do about folk music is....d**** there goes the 'phone.....

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 07:36 AM

I remeber someone once singing Leon Rosselsons song ' Tim Maguire ' then spontaneously bursting into flames, then someone said " don't poke him, he'll burn longer "

eric

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: glueman
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 05:18 AM

Haven't drunk in the Poet's for many a year, though old Arkwright St. used to have some good boozers. The inflammability of Mudcat is due in no small to the fact that somewhere along the way Folk stopped being a musical style you either liked or didn't, and became a moral crusade. Since then every subject is dry tinder, each instrument a box of matches and every singer a potential log on the wickerman.

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 05:02 AM

Theres this hippy comes to see me play sometimes. he always says, 'wow!.... like man you were on fire tonight....'

Bob Stokes the Dublin Busker was gigging The Poets Corner (a rough Irish pub in the Meadows area of Nottingham, despite its genteel name) when someone set fire to the pub during his act. The next time he did it, there was a murder outside in the car park.

I remember Mick Peat organised a Pie and Peas Night, with Derek Brimstone doing the cabaret, when suddenly pie kitchen was ablaze. We had to evacuate the building.

I hope this is seen as a valid contribution to this cryptic thread.

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Zen
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 04:58 AM

Some people just aren't happy unless they're unhappy about something.

I couldn't have put it better...

Zen

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 04:57 AM

.....I think the whole trouble with Folk is....sorry...there's someone at the door....


:0)

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: davyr
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 04:16 AM

Why did I think this was going to be a thread about Phosphorus?

http://www.phosphorus.org.uk/

:-)

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Banjiman
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 03:20 AM

Right-on dude......what?

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: GUEST,Ewan Spawned A Monster
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 02:34 AM

...and yea! Verily they gather together at Mudcat!

I tell you Gluey, we need a concerted effort to wake up Harvest Home...

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Escapee
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 11:28 PM

Some people just aren't happy unless they're unhappy about something.
SKP

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Gene Burton
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 07:03 PM

In all seriousness, though, I've always been of the opinion that more often than not, the state of being offended is the product of the offensive mind.

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Gene Burton
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 07:00 PM

How dare you!

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: glueman
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 07:00 PM

Just a theory Gene, that almost anything upsets someone. Folk is the Princess and the Pea of musical genres.

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Gene Burton
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 06:58 PM

P.S. I sold some Cds tonight, so I'm in a good mood. Which almost certainly means the tradition is, indeed, under threat...LOL

Subject: RE: combustible folk
From: Gene Burton
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 06:55 PM

I didn't understand a word of that, but this thread looks like being good fun, anyhoo...ENJOY!

Subject: combustible folk
From: glueman
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 06:40 PM

The tradition is under threat - not true, the tradition almost died and is in rather good health.
Englishness is under threat - does anyone have the faintest idea what this means?
'This one's not worth it' - my greeting on the board.
1954 - the Rosetta Stone of the tradition. Just saying it puts you to the top table.
Unfolk - Unthank, country, blues, folk-rock, Mike Harding, the young, almost anything.

All things I've learnt in the last two months here. Anyone want to play shibboleth bingo?