John Conolly recordings

Subject: Tech: John Conolly CDs
From: Hrothgar
Date: 02 Mar 19 - 07:35 AM

Having trouble finding much on the web - all I have found available so far if "Trawlertown".

I must be looking in the wrong places. Any ideas?

Subject: RE: Tech: John mConolly CDs
From: Nick
Date: 02 Mar 19 - 08:24 AM

CDs or contact him via same site

Subject: RE: Tech: John mConolly CDs
From: Hrothgar
Date: 05 Mar 19 - 05:38 AM

Thanks, Nick. Worked beautifully.

Subject: John Connolly recordings
From: Pamber
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 02:54 AM

I don't seem to able to find recordings (cd's or digital) of John Connolly and I would like to buy some. (Yes not pirate them as seems to be the ever increadsing trend). Can anyone offer any advice as to sources?
Paul

Subject: RE: John Connolly recordings
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 03:05 AM

Try his web-site:
www.johnconolly.co.uk (only 1 "n"!!)
Regards Erich

Subject: RE: John Connolly recordings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 03:51 AM

https://www.johnconolly.co.uk/index.html

Subject: RE: John Connolly recordings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 03:54 AM

Bugger! Should have been a Blue Clicky - here ya go...

John Conolly’s Website - Home Page

Subject: RE: John Connolly recordings
From: Pamber
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 05:13 AM

Thank you both I am now in contact
Paul

Subject: RE: John Conolly recordings
From: Pamber
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 02:39 AM

One remainging CD that John no longer has to sell BY HUMBER'S BROWN WATER any of you guys have any ideas fro a cd or digital version.
Paul

Subject: RE: John Conolly recordings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 07:14 AM

Sorry, can’t help there - I have a copy myself but, as I know John personally, I wouldn’t wish to ‘pirate’ a copy, even though the CD is now ‘out of print’. I wonder if second hand copies might be found in specialist ‘folk music’ second-hand dealers’ shops, or at festivals once things are opened up again?

Subject: RE: John Conolly recordings
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 09:14 PM

I was hoping to get all of John's recordings on MP3 that I could download and save the cost of shipping to the US, but apparently John only has CDs. I wrote to him the other day, and he sent me this promo sheet:

Introducing …. JOHN CONOLLY

John Conolly is an internationally-respected singer/ songwriter who has based his style firmly in the folk tradition. His finely-crafted songs are performed with warmth, good humour and lilting accompaniments on guitar and melodeon.

Many of John’s songs have a tang of the sea, inherited from his upbringing on the east coast of England, where his grandfather and great-grandfather were shipwrights on the banks of the river Humber. His best-known composition, the classic Fiddlers’ Green, has the ring of a true folk ballad, and has often been taken for a traditional song. John’s more recent work continues this tradition of finely-crafted writing – listen to the heart-rending Widowmaker , the elegiac Stone Walls and Cells, or the outrageously funny and politically scathing Big Bucks for Bullshit.

John Conolly’s songs have been performed and recorded by many well-known artistes – people like the Dubliners, the Clancy Brothers, Max Boyce, Malinky, the McCalmans, ,Barbara Dickson and Archie Fisher, Dick Gaughan, Roy Bailey, Stormalong John, The Yetties and George Hamilton IV, to name but a few – but there’s a special buzz in hearing them sung by the composer - join him soon on your very own trip to” Fiddlers’ Green” . . .

CDs currently available -

THE MAN FROM FIDDLERS’ GREEN - a 19-track album featuring lots of new songs, with sparkling accompaniments from the brilliant ex-Battlefield Band musicians Rob van Sante and Alan Reid, plus vocal harmonies from the wonderful Hissyfit. . .

THE GRUMPY OLD MEN OF OLD ENGLAND – some of John’s most requested songs, including ”Grumpy Old Men” and the Les Barker version of “Fiddlers’ Green “. Accompaniments by Keith Kendrick, Robin Garside and Hissyfit.

SEND US A POSTCARD: THE SAUCY SONGS OF JOHN CONOLLY. Live performance, with Robin Garside and Pete Sumner, recorded live by Steve Rusby at Holmfirth’s Crag Rats Theatre.

RANTERS’ WHARF : A fine collection of John’s more serious material, featuring Maggie Boyle, Robin Garside ,Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher and Thomas Conolly.

TRAWLERTOWN: THE SINGING OF THE FISHING. A Fellside Recordings production, featuring Pete Sumner, Maggie Boyle, Keith Kendrick ,Paul Bellamy, and special guests from the Fellside Family – Richard, Susan and Linda Adams.

THE NORTHERN TRAWL: Songs by John Conolly and Bill Meek, from the play

by Remould Theatre Company of Hull. A “Radio Ballad” style production, featuring John and Bill plus Will Meek, Paul Bellamy, Jane Clark, Pete Sumner, and the recorded voices of the fishermen of Hull and Grimsby.

SUMMER CD SALE !

The above CDs are all available at £10 inc UK.postage, via John’s website at:

www.johnconolly.co.uk

Enquiries and bookings : tel. [phone] or email : [e-mail]

Subject: ADD: Grumpy Old Men of Old England (Connolly/Meek)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Jun 21 - 04:20 PM

Another John Conolly song that shouldn't get lost:

Thread #118415   Message #3021580
Posted By: Ian Hendrie
02-Nov-10 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Old Fart Songs
Subject: ADD: Grumpy Old Men of Old England (Connolly/Meek)

The following was transcribed from John Connolly's excellent CD of the same name. This is the polite version. The last track on the CD is rather ruder. I suggest you buy the CD to get those words.


The Grumpy Old Men of Old England
John Connolly and Bill Meek

Oh, we've come here tonight for to grouse and to groan
We're senile delinquents outcast and alone
And what we like best is a bloody good moan
We're the grumpy old men of old England
And we're glad to be grumpy old men

Oh, we've played the 'Wild Rover' as years tumbled by
We've chased all the women and made the sparks fly
We still chase 'em now but we can't recall why
We're the . . .

Now we don't like loud music, iPod or CD
Hip-hop or house, and between you and me
We reckon that rap should be spelt with a 'c'
We're the . . .

Now we don't do IT and we don't go on-line
'Cos internet access can make you go blind
Does broadband mean trousers with waist 49
For those . . .

Now whether you like it or whether you'll not
Soon digital TV will be what you've got
There's a two digit signal that we like a lot
We're the . . .

Now we used to be hippies, long hair and no tie
We'd smoke wacky baccy and gaze at the sky
Now the old Stanner stair-lift is how we get high
We're the . . .

24 hour drinking and round the clock beer
Now our poor old bladder won't take it I fear
24 hour peeing is already her
For the . . .

Our cholesterol's high, our testosterone's low
So off to the doctor's we grumpily go
How they check our prostate you don't want to know
We're the . . .

So the tele's all crap and the weather is worse
We sit by the fire and chunter and curse
Can't even be bothered to finish this verse