Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year

Subject: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 12:35 PM

This Wednesday will be the first in February so we will make our way to The Beech, Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester to sings mostly but not exclusively traditional.

I trust all those who fancied coming but never made it will join us and those that did will come again.

Cheers

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 12:11 PM

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Gedi
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 12:30 PM

Looking forward to yet another really good evening Les,

see you there,
Ged

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: PercyBysshe
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 12:35 PM

See you there! Have a new song that needs an outing!

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 12:45 PM

We'll be there!!! Very much looking forward to it after so long...

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 09:36 AM

Trust the weather doesn't close Lancashire:

Weather Warning Bad Weather Lancashire isolated!"

Otherwise much fun to be had

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 04:04 AM

Well what a night?

Thanks to Ged, Kate, Claudine (songs in French!), Sheila, Martin, Dave, Bob, Norman, Phil, Shelley, Gordon, Dave, Barbara, Olga, Ken, Nigel, Sean & Rachel - all the way from Fleetwood - and in fine voices, Phil & Sandra and Mike and three or four other folks I didn't know and were too late to sing.

My cup runneth over!

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 05:48 AM

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=285466650899&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=285466650899&ref=ts - Sent Using Google Toolbar

We have set up a Facebook page to promote our evenings of songs and tunes and related activities.

Not much on at the moment but we will soon have useful information about local folk events polite well informed discussions about all sorts. If you are on Facebook please become a friend. If not just have a browse.

Cheers
Les and pp Shelley

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 07:42 AM

The Beech Facebook

I think

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 05:40 PM

My cup runneth over!

I told you that table had a wobbly leg.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM

Wobbly leg, wobbly table, wobbly banjo, wobbly wobbly, it's The Wobbly Beech! That Beer makes us all a bit wobbly

But have you checked out the Beech Facebook - not at all wobbly

Cheers

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: GUEST,Dave Bishop
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 05:07 PM

Has it been a of a rough day, Les? Perhaps you should go for a bit of a lie down ... ?

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: AlanG
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 02:22 PM

I afraid I won't be able to make it this week - nor will JJ. We are deparately practicing for our annual "Folk & Fish 'n Chips" night at Chelford Village Hall - songs and tunes mostly but not exclusively traditional.

I still have some tickets left.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: GUEST,S O'P (Astray)
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:39 AM

Good to see you all last time; hope to make it again at some point as & when opportunity / weather permits.

Sean & Rachel, AKA Fiddlin' O'Piobaireachd & Frailin' Rapunzel o' the Barley Temple

PS : someone asked for the words of that Burns' song I did:

Winter - A Dirge (tune: MacPherson's Rant)

The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
The blinding sleet and snaw:
While, tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest,
And pass the heartless day.

"The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast,"
The joyless winter day
Let others fear, to me more dear
Than all the pride of May:
The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul,
My griefs it seems to join;
The leafless trees my fancy please,
Their fate resembles mine!

Thou Power Supreme, whose mighty scheme
These woes of mine fulfil,
Here firm I rest; they must be best,
Because they are Thy will!
Then all I want-O do Thou grant
This one request of mine!-
Since to enjoy Thou dost deny,
Assist me to resign.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 02:32 AM

Great night last night. Cheers everyone!

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 06:03 AM

Was Kevin Cummins there taking more moody shots of moody traddies like this venerable fellow who appears to be contemplating existential infinity through his Clarke Shaw-lookalike D whistle? Great stuff!

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 06:57 AM

Trust you all had a great time. Pouring daown here in the "sunny Algarve". Looking forward to Tunes next Tuesday

Cheers
Les in Alagrve

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Gedi
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 04:13 PM

Indeed another grand night out as Grommit might say. Thanks to all who turned up, but special thanks to Ken, Kate, Phil, Babs, Claudine, the lady who does the poems whose name I've sadly forgotten, Helen, Mike Cosgrave, Steve with the blues guitar, Steve Saxton with the whistles, Chris, Nigel, Martin, Dave, the other Dave, and anyone else whom I might have forgotten.

Have a beer for me down there Les, and I'll see you next Tues for the Beginners Tunes Session : )

cheers
Ged

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:56 PM

We had beer, wine and Chicken Piri Piri which were all rather excellent but some how they didn't keep the rain away!

However, Tuesday will be the last one in February so we shall gather in The Beech and Begin some Tunes and a few songs! All welcome.

How about a night of the wild Morresco Dancing to welcome the Spring - some time in March I believe?

Cheers

L back in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:14 AM

Beautiful spring day here in Chorlton! Time to assault a song for Wednesday, the fisrt one in March, and stretch the vocal chords ready for a Singaround of mostly but not exclusively traditional songs and a few tunes.

I would council all members of The Beech Band - that is pretty well anybody who has been to The Beech of the Tunes Session- to let me know if they are coming to the Benefit for Haiti this Saturday at St Margarets Whalley Range. PM for further details.

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 02:50 AM

Thanks to Ken, Olga, Barbara, Gordon, Norman, Dave, Dave, Steve, his friend, Janet and her daughter, nice duet, Alan, the couple who played scrabble and stayed to listen, Nigel, Shelley, creator of this site, Kate, Claudine, Jeanette, Phil, Ged and Bill. A great night of songs, tunes, stiries and jokes.

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 06:45 AM

Thanks to everyone who came to The Beech last night, so busy people had to sit down in shifts and all the cask was drunk plus the keg Boddies leaving only John Smith's, beer without the bother of flavour, and Guiness which has more than it's fair share of flavour.

The songs and tunes were suitably chaotic. I think we did St Pat proud.

Chheers

Les
PS Who stole my hat?

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 08:21 AM

Who would?

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Gedi
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 08:51 AM

Yes, a truly outstanding night - there was even a couple who dragged up bar stools and sat outside the door to listen. Brilliant evening : )

Ged

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 10:06 AM

The hat?

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 11:44 AM

Tonight?

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 02:24 PM

1st and 3rd Wednesdays for Songs, last Tuesday for Tunes.

Next Wednesday 7th, will be our next Singaround and Wednesday 21 Will be a mixed Songs & Tunes Session to celebrate St George

Cheers

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 01:14 PM

St George's Day April 23rd
It is likely that Saint George was born in Palestine and was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier. He is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres (Spain), Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Milan, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Lod, Barcelona and Moscow, as well as a wide range of professions, organizations, and disease sufferers.

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 09:07 AM

Sog my butnet and a few tunes, maybe a poem and a story. Much lemonade Wednesday at The Beech

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: John Routledge
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 10:04 AM

Hadrian of "Roman" Hadrian's Wall fame was Spanish and as Englishman George Bernard Shaw said "You never can tell you never can tell"

See you Wednesday where the debate may continue before or after the singing/playing or in the interval even.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 11:54 AM

Not sure about sogging your butnet, Les, but I'll give you a song (he typed carefully) any night of the week.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 07:13 AM

Just to show that SATAB are not narrow and bigoted in our musical tsate:
Rose Funeral, Ingested, Bleed from within and Martyr Defiled are at Eddies Rock Club and Nailed, Bloodshot Dawn, Narcotic Death and Decrepit Womb are on in Wakefield - with support - which they will clearly need! Nu Folk or what. I'll wait until they come down The Beech

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: GUEST,Dave Bishop
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 09:05 AM

Whereabouts in Wakefield, Les? Then, whenever I find myself in Wakefield, I'll know where to avoid!

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 09:20 AM

Hi Dave, don't tell me you are denighing you death metal past? The place to be in Wakefield is DNE, Smyth Street, (01924 378693) Starts at 1pm and £4 to get in - I'm astonished.

Speaking of which will you be stretching your throat this Wednesday at The Beech?

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: GUEST,Dave Bishop
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 01:21 PM

Oh my God, Les - and I thought you were joking!!! I thought you'd made up the names of those 'beat combos' - truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction! Incidentally, I had rather bland musical tastes in my youth - until I discovered 'hard core' Trad, of course.

I certainly will be at the Beech on Wednesday (Inshallah). I've learned a new song specially for the occasion.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 02:12 PM

The Universe of 'popular music' is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine Dave but we are an essential part of it and I look forward to your 'new' song this week

Cheers
L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: 8_Pints
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 08:33 PM

See you there!

Bob

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 03:53 AM

Exlnt
L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 06:00 AM

It's true my love has listed to 45 degrees ...............

Little did I know as I started last night's Singaround that it would one of the best nights we have had. In fact I am inclined to say the best so far?

Thanks to Dave, Jeanette, Glynn, Ken, Janet, Karina, Ruth and their friend, Angela, Phil, Steve, Ishbell, Matthew, Helen and her friend, Dave, John, Kate, Shelley, Chris, Ged, Alan, John. Also Michael, Phil and Sandra who couldn't get in.

Great songs, great singing, excellent tunes flawlessly played (?) well spirited anyway.

How much fun can we have a small room whilst eating the sandwhiches that the Man U fans in the bar couldn't manage? Not forgetting Black Sheep and TT Landlord right to the end!

Thanks again

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 06:07 AM

Sorry, Bob, Sue, Bill and Norman

L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 06:16 AM

And Ingrid!

That was a remarkable evening - what a lot of great singers there are out there. If it carries on like this we're going to need a bigger room, or an even earlier start, or an overflow session in the garden, or mount a takeover bid on Chorlton FC...

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 08:04 AM

And, and Ingrid, how could I after that brilliant story?

I sometimes think about another venue but I can't find one within walking distance of our house. Staggering home distance to be more precise.

The acoustics are reasonable - would be better without that old carpet. I don't fancy the Cricket Club as a venue and it is popular in its own way.

I used to have plans, now I just turn up sing, drink, make silly remarks and have a great time. As, I think Harold Wilson once said, even no plan is a plan, so to speak

Les

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 10:33 AM

Tomorrow, Wednesday 21 April is the 3rd Wednesday of the month and so we shall gather in The Beech and sing Sog My Butnet.

As this is the nearest one to St George's Day we will celebrate the possibly Palestinian born, Roman Soldier who is Patron Saint of all sorts of places, in multicultural Manchester, with a mixture of songs and tunes from all over the place.

Be early and be seated

Best wishes
L in C

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 25 Apr 10 - 04:13 AM

I'd like to thanks St George for inviting us to his do at The Beech last week.

And Will Fly for coming via Lancaster and avoiding volcanic ash to play some excellent tunes and a very funny song. Also Sandy with flag, John, Sue, Kath, Phil, Sheila, those two who haven't been before, Phil and Sandra, Bill, Matthew, Ruth, Janet, Marie-Claire, Helen, John, Shelley, Chris, Ken, Ged, Kate, Dave. Also Rob and Mikw who couldn't find a aeat and that bloke who gragged his char in then left.

It was a grand night of tunes and songs that was not particularly English but then neither was St George.

Cheers

L in F#

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 25 Apr 10 - 04:19 AM

Oh and Steve for an excellent St George tune, whistles and guide books for rambles

L in G

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Will Fly
Date: 25 Apr 10 - 11:23 AM

Les, Pip and others - just back from a music and walking raid in Lancaster and Dent - not much ash in evidence up there.

A quick note to say thank you for letting me into your excellent singaround at the Beech on 21st April. What a great night! Sorry about the speed of "Dennis Murphy's" and "John Ryan's" - must have been the influence of the Guinness and the Irish barman on my mandolin... Or perhaps it was some passing gene from my Kildare ancestors!

Anyway, do please pass on my regards to all the regulars at the next singaround - a fine set of people - and I hope to see you all again soon.

Subject: RE: Review: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 05:20 PM

Hi Folks, the Beech is closed - not sure for how long.

The good news is the Horse and Jockey, next door, will welcome us all for Beginners Tunes tomorrow at 8. See you all then?

Les

Subject: RE: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 04:41 AM

Well it's a bit posh but the space seems pretty good and people played tunes well!

Thanks to Rob, Laura, Ted, Ken, Phil, Ged, Marie-Claire, Janet, Jenny, Brian, Mark, Mickey, Ursula, Wes and Josh. Keen to know what others thought

The management seemed very pleased and are keen for us to stay. So next Wednesday Sog my butnet at The Horse & Jockey

Cheers

L in C#

Subject: RE: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:42 AM

Ok Folks we are definetly welcome at The Horse & Jockey next Wednesday it would be good if we flooded the place with people - even if most didn't sing or even get in the singing bit of the pub. So give us and The Horse & Jockey your warmest support on May 5th.

Cheers
L in C#

Subject: RE: Singaround at The Beech - 3rd Year
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 03 May 10 - 07:44 AM

Just in case I have not mentioned it clearly we will be in The Horse & Jockey this Wednesday May 5th - next door to The Silent Beech

L in C#