review: Flossie Malavialle

Subject: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Jun 18 - 01:41 PM

Super gig from French singer Flossie Malavialle at Croydon Folk Club last night! How many French people have a Geordie English accent ??

Subject: RE: Flossie Malavialle
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 Jun 18 - 02:05 PM

She's one of the best, and a very nice lady too. Her interpretations of the songs of Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf are superb.

Subject: RE: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Jun 18 - 03:41 PM

And what an NE accent!!

Subject: RE: Flossie Malavialle
From: nickp
Date: 05 Jun 18 - 05:43 PM

She's great.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: r.padgett
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 01:49 AM

Most hard working and well travelled French folk singer I have heard ~ now a naturalised British citizen who I believe has been here over 10 years now. Also in a duo with Keith Donnelly as Dark Horses

A true professional singer/entertainer

Ray

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 01:56 AM

Amen Ray.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Acorn4
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 05:07 AM

I always remember her describing teaching in Darlington:-"I came over here to improve my English but it just gets worser and worser!" Excellent artists and entertainer.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: GUEST,Geordie boy
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 10:25 AM

I speak French with a Geordie accent. Everyone thinks I'm Belgian.;)

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 07 Jun 18 - 01:42 PM

And she plays a nice big Gibson guitar - always nice to play a Gibson!!!

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 07 Jun 18 - 06:55 PM

From an Alcester Festival.... 'Why is it only cotton socks that get blessed?'...

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: r.padgett
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 01:48 AM

Is this in the right thread? But maybe cotton socks were the finest of the day and this was a way of suggesting that the person referred to was a stand godly person of quality?

Ray

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Jos
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 03:01 AM

It is usually 'her' cotton socks that get blessed, rather than 'his'. If someone were to bless my cotton socks, unless they were looking at a rather attractive picture of me when I was less than three years old, I would take it as a patronising put-down (even if kindly meant).

Was Herga Kitty quoting from Flossie Malavialle at a festival?

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 03:45 AM

Yes, I was quoting Flossie, from a set she played in Alcester Town Hall at one of the festivals!

Kitty

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 06:29 PM

I think Flossie has probably been here nearer twenty years than ten Ray.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 06:59 PM

And here is Flossie for anyone who has not heard her.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: r.padgett
Date: 09 Jun 18 - 02:35 PM

Yea probably right 20 rather than ten years

Ray

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 18 - 10:32 PM

Somebody get her over to this side of the pond; she's both seriously good and a real hoot.!

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 03:13 AM

Hmm! Strums her guitar and sings in a pseudo-American accent. Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 03:57 AM

A lot of folk singers are not my cup of tea, so fair comment.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 06:12 AM

I think her performance was around 1/3 songs and 2/3 very entertaing banter. Ist set was 42 minutes and the second was 55 minutes, and she finished with a rip roaring version of Erma Franklin's Piece of my Heart!!!

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 11:22 AM

Richard Mellish: A lot of folk singers are not my cup of tea, so fair comment.

"Is it becos Ah'm French, er summat?

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 11:24 AM

Oops, wrong quote picked up there. Should have been:

Hmm! Strums her guitar and sings in a pseudo-American accent. Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 11:32 AM

And Richard, Georgiansilver picked a very untypical example of Flossie's repertoire. She mostly fingerpicks, rather than strums, and sings in a strange "Darlington French" accent. This one's more like it:

Flossie Again

And her duo appearances with Keith Donnelly are a hoot:

Flossie and Keith

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 05:20 PM

Seen her on several occasions, and found her mainly very entertaining, although on the one occasion, she did rather overdo the banter, at the expense of getting too few songs in, yes, roughly in the proportions mentioned by Bonzo above.
Reminded me of an incident with a different artiste long ago who was told by the club chairman, "We paid you to sing, not to talk"!

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 05:44 PM

I found her infinitely more entertaining than a lot of trad singers.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 11 Jun 18 - 07:38 PM

There are lots of people singing traditional songs, myself included, but that does not make them traditional singers.

Plenty of the true traditional singers ie learnt at mothers/ fathers / uncles knee had repertoires that could be considered entertaining because if they weren't then who would have put up with them down at the pub?

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Jun 18 - 02:09 AM

As Flossie says - she calls a cat a cat.

You have to know French idiomatic expression to appreciate that, but she explains it and makes it v funny.

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Jun 18 - 02:33 AM

I call a spade a spade,and a cat a pussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63drO4ugX00

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: GUEST,bradfordian
Date: 12 Jun 18 - 06:37 PM

Very eagerly awaiting her return gig in Nottingham UK on 18 July at Carington Triangle FC. She is a superb entertainer. And that accent!!!

Subject: RE: review: Flossie Malavialle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Jun 18 - 02:39 AM

We bought her latest CD of 12 which is wonderful. She recorded for a live CD recently, which she expects to be out in the Autumn.