Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!

Subject: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folknacious
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 11:00 AM

So what do we think of all this then? (look at the gallery)

Was anybody there?

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,glueman
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 11:12 AM

linkee no work.

Unfortunately.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 11:20 AM

Works for me fine. You being censored perhaps :-) ??

That male dancer at the start of the galleries sequence looks like Sam lee. Don't recognise any of the women. Not with their clothes off anyway. Shows I am getting old!

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,glueman
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 11:37 AM

Perhaps I've set my filter to maiden aunt, aged nuns and smelling salts. It deprived me of a decent prickle eye bush joke anyhow.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: TheSnail
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 11:41 AM

Told me I wasn't authorised either but a bit of Googling found this.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 11:53 AM

They are in Sheffield Friday night........

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Alex
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 12:05 PM

Sadly I don't think Polly Mae will be appearing with them in Sheffield. I was at the QE Hall and it was a brilliant night. Hugely entertaining and very funny. Sam Lee doing Down In Cupid's Garden (with appropriately amended lyrics) was one of the night's highlights, a very clever skit on sexuality. At one point Jon Boden abandoned mics and came to the front of the stage to sing an unaccompanied version of Peter Bellamy's Australia, which was also remarkable. A terrific feel-good if somewhat bawdy night that surely confirms Bellowhead as Britain's best live band (though fans of Demon Barbers are, of course, entitled to disagree).

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Mark Ross
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 12:14 PM

To be technical, that's not a stripper, it's a FAN dancer. Shades of Sally Rand!


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 12:20 PM

Not a case of best I feel - two brilliant bands. Love them both to bits.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Barry Finn
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 12:34 PM

That's one way to spice up the act

Barry

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 01:49 PM

I'm definitely getting old - I thought it was Stacia.....

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Bellowhead FAN
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 01:54 PM

daft or what ?
my favourite live band
dressing up and prancing about
like a bunch of over excited 6th Form Performance Arts Diploma students
showing off at a Rag Day Rocky Horror Show theme party !!!!

..whens the DVD coming out ???

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Howard Jones
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 02:05 PM

Now there's an idea for the "how to improve folk clubs" thread!

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Phil Beer
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 07:22 PM

Just returned home from a Bellowhead gig. No strippers but JB did throw his waistcoat off provocatively at one point. Some of the audience were looking a trifle hot as well. Great night though. Just what the doctor ordered.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:27 AM

A touch of the Village People?

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:38 AM

Phil,

I think John throws his jacket off at the same point (in Flash Company)on each show! To a collective sigh (I think it is a sigh) from the female members of the audience......

This invariably includes my wife........Of course he is a much better fiddle player than me.......guitar player....concertina player....singer......

Not that I am jealous.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Anglo
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:51 AM

Life is a Cabaret, my friend.

(A bit like pre-war Germany, isn't it?)

Is this really where English trad music is going?

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 04:52 AM

Anyone who saw some of the artists I saw in the sixties (and later) will know that it has already been there.

Johnny Handle used to strip. (A piano)

And a number of well-known folk stars took off their clothes at the drop of a hat so to speak.

I asked one lady "How many husbands have you had?" "Just two of my own" was the reply.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 06:11 AM

Ron Geesin also used to 'undress' the piano.
Whatever happened to him, he was great?

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Liam
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 06:17 AM

Jon could do a fine job on Tomorrow Belongs To Me. Judi Dench played Sally Bowles in the stage show, so perhaps Bellowhead should see if she is free to join them on tour this Summer?

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Kampervan
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 07:54 AM

But somehow I don't see this as a sustainable way to increase attendances at folk clubs.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folknacious
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 08:22 AM

Phil Beer said "Just returned home from a Bellowhead gig. No stripper."

According to the review of the Saturday gig on Froots, "Jon Boden remarked dryly after the burlesque stripper wiggled off in her G-string, "you don't get that kind of thing at a Show Of Hands gig." "

Do you think that was a challenge? ;-)

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Zen
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 08:46 AM

Ron Geesin also used to 'undress' the piano.
Whatever happened to him, he was great?

He is still around and completing his "Encyclopedia of Spanners". I sometimes see him and Frances when they come to Scotland.

Zen

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: TheSnail
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 09:12 AM

Den Giddens has been doing this for years. Here's a picture of him with his clothes on as a teaser.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 10:46 AM

Oh! You are a tease - but I like you.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 12:41 PM

strippers in folk clubs?? Let's see, a routine worked around The Beatles Sexy Sadie as performed by (fill in the appropriate band name)

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:31 PM

Bruce Lacey and his "partner" both stripped at Cropredy around 1982 (something to do with mystic auras, getting in touch with the earth, ley lines etc). Said partner was VERY attractive!

The Folk Process later inflated this little display to "Hordes of naked hippies run amok at Folk Festival". I wish.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:32 PM

I have to tell you Sheffield City Morris - who practice in the building where "The Full Monty" was filmed - have indeed performed the dance from the aforementioned film.

It was at a Seven Champs weekend and when they threw their hats away there covering up their most intimate details were a set of morris bell pads.

Strippers? Been done mate.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Kampervan
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 08:16 PM

Tha can allus count on Sheffield te lead the way.

(As long as you're not bothered about taste)

Well, I am from Lincolnshire. ;-)

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Mark Ross
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 04:00 PM

I remember Tom Waits working with a stripper in Cleveland.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 04:06 PM

You are talking about the home of the new CAMRA Pub of the Year - Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield.

To be announced to the press tomorrow. You heard it first on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Bellowhead now have a stripper?!?!
From: GUEST,Jim Causley
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 05:19 AM

"Is this really where English trad music is going?"

Oh i do hope so!