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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Morticia Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:22 PM Fortunato, no chance......we were all sleeping under canvas, drinking heavily, eating crap festival food, had minimal exposure to hot water, were drinking heavily, had been singing our lungs out for days and drinking heavily and quite frankly, we all look like the wrath of God....we can help you to look the same way in almost no time at all *BG*.....oh, and we were drinking heavily. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Fortunato Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:49 PM Bron, no chance I'll come to Wales, I'm afraid, just London and thereabouts from the 23 throught the 26th. I'm going to find the pictures now to prepare, I hope you were all looking your best! regards, chance
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: sledge Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:55 PM And a damn fine job of doing you appear to be making of it as well:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:32 PM I hope you observe that in the last picture, I am the one without a beard...... I also appear to be holding my chest on..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: sledge Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:00 PM Better and better, my sleep will be very disturbed tonight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Aug 00 - 11:42 AM Sledge - there was more than one woman drinking from pewter vessels - mine was there, you just can't see it. As for the brown splodge on my tea shirt, it was my tea fairy tea shirt, which came with tea-ara and wand, tea towel, tea bags, tea mug, tea pot, tea tray and tea strainer. Guess who gets to make the tea. And at the point that photo was taken, I was singing so loudly, my crowns were rattling!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Morticia Date: 30 Aug 00 - 11:18 AM Why thank you Sledge......I rather wish I hadn't swigged quite so frequently or with such enthusiasm.....oooh, me 'ead. Still, it was great fun,although Dick and Susan may need therapy for a while....Fortunato, I promise we'll be gentle with you *BG*... |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Snuffy Date: 30 Aug 00 - 11:03 AM On the English connection between booze and song, our Morris side love a good singaround in the pub after dancing. But "I can't sing tonight - it's my turn to drive" (i.e. can't drink) is recognised as a very valid reason for not being able to sing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Gervase Date: 30 Aug 00 - 07:56 AM Great pix - apart from that bloke in the once-white tee shirt who looks like he can't remember where he left his pile of Big Issues :^) |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Gomez Date: 30 Aug 00 - 07:40 AM great pics Micca.. it's all coming back to me now! |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: sledge Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:21 AM Great pictures. Morticia, what a Woman, swigging from a pewter tankard. I am in LLLLLURVE. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Micca Date: 30 Aug 00 - 04:47 AM And to prove it the latest batch of pix are here Click here |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Micca Date: 29 Aug 00 - 09:51 PM Well, they came , they saw, they conquered,,,and charmed all the UK Mudcatters that they met,That is speaking for myself. and I am delighted to have made their acquantaince, and Dick can now add that he has sung in the Barn at Towersey, to his achievements..as I mentioned elsewhere people have come up to all of the 'catters that were there over the Sunday and Monday saying" Is it true??? that the DT people are here? and can we meet them" Thank you both very much for adding to an already wonderful event by your presence. and to end on a song quote"... will ye no come back again" |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 29 Aug 00 - 08:03 PM And they've got hills in Wales even steeper than Whitby... |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:49 PM Oh look children, another lamb to the slaughter......! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Llanfair Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:54 PM Are you likely to be coming to Wales, Fortunato? and will you be here for the Llanstock?(You'll have to read the thread to understand that one!!) Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Fortunato Date: 29 Aug 00 - 02:43 PM Look out Liz UK Mudcatters, I'm your next victim, but I warn you I've never been broken. (Badly bent perhaps). I'M COMING! Sept. 23rd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: annamill Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:32 PM Welcome back, my friends! It seems you had a rewarding trip filled with music, friends, and drinks (for Dick anyway). Can I set up another gathering now? You know we need you two! Love, annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:18 PM I also like the relaxed atmostphere (possibly induced by a couple of of pints of good beer--remembering that an English pint is 20 fluid ounces). For this read - I sat in the pub all day and lost count of what I drank and how much, but it did make me sing a very suggestive song, that I might never have done, had I been in my native land......*BG* It was great to have them here with us, and we look forward to breaking many more of you! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Midchuck Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:35 AM Wouldn't this be a good time to start a new thread for the post-trip war stories, so we wouldn't have to wait for the whole trip to load to read them? How do "fags" harm your singing? And isn't that term no longer socially acceptable? (Just kidding - I'm aware of the British meaning of the word - but it is one of the more treacherous variances between US and British English.) Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: katlaughing Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:18 AM Welcome back! It will be great fun to hear even more and to see the pix! Those sound like my kind of sessions!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Gervase Date: 29 Aug 00 - 09:43 AM Glad to hear you've both returned intact, but we were sorry to see you go! Dick and Sue were a terrific hit at Towersey in the barn at the Three Horseshoes (where, to drift to another thread, maybe 90 per cent of the material is unaccompanied), and I lost track of the number of people who came up after they'd left and said, "I heard that the guys from the Digital Tradition were here - I'd love to have met them" - which maybe shows the huge number of people who pop in and out of the DT but who don't read the threads. Dick's point about the participatory and boozy nature of English events was brought home to me when he said that there didn't seem to be many original American drinking songs (outside of the military at least) - because I can't imagine a session/singaround or whatever without a beer (the only accompaniment I've ever had to my singing!) In fact, during a workshop on vocal techniques at the festival there was much suppressed hilarity at the crib-sheet which stated sternly that the worst enemies of a good voice are booze and fags. Many of the singers there couldn't imagine singing without 'em! But to return to the mutton, Micca took plenty of photographs, so they should be up for view soon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: MudGuard Date: 29 Aug 00 - 02:19 AM What a pity I was with Llanfair a few days after you two left there... MudGuard (who is glad to have a keyboard with a decent, German layout again) |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: dick greenhaus Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:19 PM It may take a couple of days to recover--Whitby is a quaint town measuring about two miles long, two miles wide and eight miles in height. Everything is uphill from anyplace you happen to be. The music ---and the people--were well worth the effort. The English seem to be more participation-oriented and less performance-centered than folkies here in the States. I like this. I also like the relaxed atmostphere (possibly induced by a couple of of pints of good beer--remembering that an English pint is 20 fluid ounces). Much more to report, in a very short while. dick |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Allan C. Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:53 PM Welcome home, Dick and Susan! Sounds like you had a wonderful journey. But how could you miss? You were in the capable hands of Mudcatters almost all the time! Best wishes, Allan |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Susan of DT Date: 28 Aug 00 - 05:49 PM Well, we made it home. Thanx to everyone for your wonderful hospitality. More later. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Aug 00 - 07:55 PM Well, the Whitby streets take a bit of climbing - Dick's written a song about them that he's promised to post when he gets his breath back.
It was great having them here, and it's had the effect that a lot of links have been made between 'Catters in England. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Aug 00 - 02:50 PM Good Lord, I hope there is something left to send back here. I want all of you "Brits" to know you may have worn out two perfectly good "Yanks!" .............but damn if it hasn't sounded like a time!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: IanC Date: 27 Aug 00 - 02:38 PM Bye to Susan & Dick! They called in Friday afternoon to give Alan's banjo back. He's got it, dick, so thanks for playing it. They were straight off to Towersey so couldn't stay long. Farewell and bon voyage Ian |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: bill\sables Date: 25 Aug 00 - 03:03 PM I brought Susan and Dick back from Whitby last night after a Mudcat Barbecue at Mrs Ducks cottage. Others were Geoff the Duck of course, Bobby's Girl,Terry K, Mouldy and Ian, Wullie, Curley droped in, Magician was there with The Badger and Tig.and also McGrath of Harlow. Dick did a workshop about the Digitrad and I'm sure found some new members, Dorrie made herself known to us at the workshop. Graham Pirt looked after them well whilst at Whitby and once I found them chating to Dick's neighbours from CT. For most of the week I didn't see anything of them as they were off to a workshop or concert long before I thought of getting out of bed but they seemed to enjoy the whole Whitby experience. Today I took them down to Leeds to collect a car for their drive down to Towersey Festival and then on Monday they fly back to the US. It was a pleasure having them stay with us and we hope they will come back soon. Cheers Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Micca Date: 24 Aug 00 - 03:58 AM Hi all, we are just about to set off for Towersey in the next couple of hours to meet Dick and Susan, and hear all about Whitby and all the Yorkshire catters, I will write and send pix to P/A when we get back. next Tuesday...Any Catters who pop up for the day , or are attending, they are likely to find us and other catters in the Barn of the Three Horshoes... where the acapella singing( apart from mine) is sublime, IMHO the best you will hear anywhere. TTFN Micca |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Alice Date: 21 Aug 00 - 09:33 AM LTS, yes, that is what going postal means. I was trying to make a joke from MMario's joke. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Dani Date: 21 Aug 00 - 08:47 AM This is such fun, even from way over here, just knowing how wonderful it was for you all. Max, with all the yelling at the brats in the backseat, are some of these stops on the way worth the journey? Susan's beautiful smile in those photos says it all... Dani |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Aug 00 - 09:06 AM I thought going postal was different and included firearms....? From the unfortunate coincidence that most workers who go off the rails and shoot up their place of work are employed in post rooms...... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Ferrara Date: 19 Aug 00 - 10:27 PM Oh, Oh, Oh. Dick and Susan and everybody, how wonderful. Micca, thanks for the pictures!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Alice Date: 19 Aug 00 - 05:27 PM MMario, if a collection of mudcatters is a "posting", then is logging on to the forum "going postal"? Sounds like great fun, hope to hear some samples. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Aug 00 - 05:13 PM OOooh we never did!!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Aug 00 - 09:37 AM Well I also just read the "Yorkshire Gathering" thread and this must have been one helluva' night!!! I hope the "DT Twosome" survive this trip. The London crowd did seem to have abused them badly and now this! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: MMario Date: 18 Aug 00 - 10:24 AM a collection of mudcatters is a "forum" or alternatively a "posting". |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Morticia Date: 18 Aug 00 - 09:04 AM Wow, quite a horde ( what is the collective noun for a whole bunch of mudcatters?).......I hope someone has made recordings. Susan, how's your cold? |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: bill\sables Date: 18 Aug 00 - 07:06 AM Last night was one of the best sessions ever held at the Jug. There were twenty eight Mudcatters there and a host of wives/husbands/children of catters along with other ordinary listeners. Dick said he'd never seen as many Mudcat shirts in one place before, Sam Pirt led the music with his fine accordion playing and his dad, Graham Pirt, started the singing Dick and Susan semed to enjoy the night and Dick liked the many pints of real ale he was sampling. (He also met the brewer). Here are a list of who was there as far as I can remember; Big Phil, and Mrs Big Phil, Graham Pirt, The Badger, Tig, Selby, with Eileen, Tom and Joe, WindyB with Gereldine and Andy, Bobby's Girl, with John, Ellanor & Rachael, Patrish, & Jim, Wullie, SkipjackK8, Ian Stephenson, Sam Pirt, Eric Symonds, Vell, Mouldy, & Ian, Cobble, & Margaret , Bald Eagle, Oggy, Geoff the Duck, Mrs Duck, Malcolm Douglas, Mike Cahill, & Kath., Firecat, Bill Sables, & Lorna Johan Furkof, Sue Furkof, and of course Dick Greenhaus, and Susan of DT. I think we will have a regular Mudcat gathering there next year just before Whitby. Thank you all for coming Cheers Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: The Shambles Date: 17 Aug 00 - 04:01 AM The following is a quote from the program of The Wadebridge Folk Festival that Dan Milner mentioned above. "The Johnson Girls are Joy Bennett, Maggie Bye, Alison Kelly, Bonnie Milner and Deirdre Murtha". Dan you are obviously brimming with pride………. Do you want to say more?…….Go on…. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Morticia Date: 17 Aug 00 - 03:59 AM Oh no, we've broken Susan already..... we only had them to play with for a short time and now we've broken one of them.....boy, are we going to be trouble when Max finds out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: bill\sables Date: 16 Aug 00 - 08:07 PM (from dick, who is still too lazy to reset his cookie) Hi all- Just got back from a session at The Jug with Bill Sables and tyhe regular Wednesday night crowd, which has several Mudcxatters. Will be going back tomorrow for a special Mudcat seddion, together with Susan, who was to pooped to make it tonight. Good music, good beer, good friends, good time. More to come. WATCH THIS SPACE. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: katlaughing Date: 15 Aug 00 - 11:16 PM Thanks, Bron, for stayiong up and letting us know how it goes. Sure has been fun to read about the Cross The Pond Mudcat Adventure! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Llanfair Date: 15 Aug 00 - 07:51 PM Just got back from the music night at the Red Lion. Had to wind it up at midnight because Jim has to go to work tomorrow. Super night, huge variety of songs from traditional British to American blues. Dick plays blues very well, and sings da blues. Unfortunately, Susan has a cold, and didn't feel able to sing solo, but did a reading of "The Queen's Four Maries" which sounded great. A good time had by all. Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:21 PM WE talk funny!!!! Alice - Gervase recorded the Black Lion evening for posterior, when he gets the bag back with the cable for the recorder, he'll be able to sort something out.... I'm seeing him tomorrow, so hopefully I can twist his arm or something....!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: GUEST,Liam's Brother Date: 15 Aug 00 - 01:00 PM Hi Dick, Susan of DT and UK Mudcatters! Looks like a great time. Nothing like a good sing-song in an old pub. If you are in or near Cornwall towards the end of your trip, you might like to head over to Bodmin and Wadebridge. The Johnson Girls are at the Bodmin FC on 25AUG and the Wadebridge Festival 26-28AUG. Wherever you go, I hope your trip continues to be fun.
All the best, |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Alice Date: 15 Aug 00 - 12:16 PM wow. looks wonderful. thanks for posting the photos.... still hoping someone had a tape recorder and will post a sound file. |
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Subject: RE: BS: dick & Susan face England unafraid! From: Llanfair Date: 15 Aug 00 - 11:48 AM Thanx all. We are now in Wales with Bron. We'll post a complete report when we get all done. UK mudcatters are wonderful, even if they talk funny. |