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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 01 Mar 01 - 10:07 PM Oops, too late at night.... try again:How many UK catters: Part 3 |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 01 Mar 01 - 09:41 PM Ok bill! Please continue by clicking here: How many UK catters: Part 3 |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 01 Mar 01 - 08:23 PM I am still adding up the score, If this keeps going we will have to hire The Albert Hall for a mudcat gathering. Can someone with the know how start a part three for this thread please, (Noreen or Jon.) Cheers Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: harlow ivan Date: 01 Mar 01 - 07:09 PM and yet another one from Essex |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: IWTSHL Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:57 PM Noreen, Yes I know a couple of the Manchester catters.We have actually met, briefly at Swinton Folk Club, enjoyed your rendition of Ellan Vanin.I go to SFC quite frequently I will introduce myself next time you are there. IWTSHL |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Big Phil Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:52 PM Hi Dunc. Was in Dunkeld last summer,there was a group playing in the town square... I think they were called, On The Waggon have you herd of them.........Cheers Phil |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:40 PM Hello, IWTSHL, and welcome to mudcat. There are quite a few 'catters round Manchester, do you know any of them already? Want to tell us a bit about yourself? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: IWTSHL Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:35 PM Bill, I am new to the mudcat and hail from Manchester |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Big Tim Date: 01 Mar 01 - 11:59 AM I'm in Glasgow |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 01 Mar 01 - 08:57 AM Welcome back Terry! What- Richard Thompson was with Alison?! Lucky woman... |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Dunc Date: 01 Mar 01 - 03:47 AM I live near the Fair City of Perth and am a regular at the... Internationally Famous Glenfarg Village Folk Club A wonderful club which is on every Monday night an the Glenfarg Hotel. Another good club in the area is Dougie McLean's Real Music Bar at the Taybank Hotel in Dunkeld (15 miles north of Perth)and you can find live music being played and sung there just about anytime. If its quiet when you go in - start playing or singing yourself. It is activly encouraged that you should do this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Terry K Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:21 AM Don't forget me in the leafy lanes of Hertfordshire, now back from travels in Oz. (Went to see ALISON!! - oh and Richard Thompson was there too). Moor & Coast, Germany, - decisions decisions! Cheers, Terry |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: tiggerdooley Date: 28 Feb 01 - 03:54 PM Hi, Noreen. I'm so near to town that I'm almost a shop! But my family are Everton/town. What part do you hail from? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,hoolet Date: 28 Feb 01 - 03:44 PM there are a few catters in Aberdeenshire we may be well buried under snow but the noise of music and song can still be heard. Try a hit on fyvie folk club site, and thankfully there is no foot and mouth with the exception of the folk club regulars |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,hoolet Date: 28 Feb 01 - 03:44 PM there are a few catters in Aberdeenshire we may be well buried under snow but the noise of music and song can still be heard. Try a hit on fyvie folk club site, and thankfully there is no foot and mouth with the exception of the folk club regulars |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 27 Feb 01 - 08:35 PM Sounds good, Liz. Whereabouts in Liverpool are you, tigger? I've not come across any Scousecatters before you, lots round manchester area. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Snuffy Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:47 PM not before this Easter, Liz! Wassail! V |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:13 PM Snuffy - great to see you at Sidmouth.... How would people feel about a weekend in Hastings, East Sussex sometime? Out of season probably - after September and before Easter ususally.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: tiggerdooley Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:09 PM Obviously I meant Liverpool. I don't know where LIverpool is!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: tiggerdooley Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:07 PM Any of you lot here in LIverpool?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:01 PM Thanks, Tyke;please keep us posted on when and where.Three of us coming to Whitby M/C |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:58 PM Whitby is always great - but with Moor and Coast being the date it is, it clashes with too many things down south.
I hope to get to Whitby week, and renew some acquaintances from last year.
But in the meantine, and even before Moor and Coast, there is the National Folk Festival at Sutton Bonnington. I'm hoping to get along again this year - and I've set up a thread asking if anyone else is planning to go. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 19 Feb 01 - 08:28 PM Great devotion to duty, there, Tyke!! Most impressed. Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Tyke Date: 19 Feb 01 - 06:33 PM Well I'm just back from a long weekend in Whitby! It's a hard life but someone has to do it! As part of my dedication to the Mudcaters I have spent some considerable time this weekend making sure that the beer in all the Pubs in Whitby would meet with the approval of the any Mudcaters visiting Whitby. I took my several pint's of John Smith's Magnet Ale on special offer at £1 a pint in the Board Inn on Church Street and three or four visit's before I felt that I could recommend it to other Mudcater's. However once I regained the use of my legs I managed to make it to the Endeavour for a couple of pints of Broadside. It was there I ran into one of the organisers of the Moor and Coast festival and he said that he would be only too happy to include a Mudcater's event within the festival. We then left the Endeavour along with one of the Organiser of the Whitby Folk Club Mick Haywood managed with some effort to cross the bridge and stagger into the Plough on Baxtergate the Beer Sam Smiths at £1.25 a pint is very good value. I was pleased to discover that the Plough, home of the Whitby Folk Club on Wednesday Nights, will be used this year for the first time by the Moor and Coast. After a few beers in the Plough we decided to reconvene in the Tap and Spile it was round and about here that thing seemed to get a little blurred and my memory is a little weak. But I think it is safe to say that a musical weekend in Whitby sound like a lot of fun! See you all there at the Moor and Coast |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: fat B****rd Date: 17 Feb 01 - 02:35 PM I,m descended from Franco-German Glassmakers, my parents were from Sunderland, I was born and raised in North Lincolnshire. I now live in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, which is why I am glad there is such a thing as The Mudcat Forum.yours pseudo-hiply fat B****RD XXXXXXXXXX |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Jock Morris Date: 17 Feb 01 - 12:07 PM Carbisdale Castle Youth Hostel (near Bonnar Bridge)can take about 220 people, so a youth hostel gathering is still possible. It would a long journey for almost everyone though:-) Scott |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: JeZeBeL Date: 17 Feb 01 - 07:04 AM HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JeZeBeL from YORKSHIRE, Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee......we are the best, we'll the maddest anyway. Hey there Bill!! Are you going to the maltings on tuesday? I'm driving, I think...........? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Snuffy Date: 17 Feb 01 - 06:43 AM Glevum 'cos I'm always taking snuff! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 16 Feb 01 - 06:02 PM Well Glevum, Les from Hull, and Oggy, You are all from Hull, You do know it is only about 3/4 of an hour to visit the Jug any Wednesday night for the session and meet a-lora-lora other catters. You could always car-pool Chers Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Glevum Date: 16 Feb 01 - 05:30 PM Snuffy, You're right. I'm called glevum coz I come from Gloucester why are you called snuffy? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Snuffy Date: 16 Feb 01 - 04:53 PM I thought Glevum was what the Romans called Gloucester! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Glevum Date: 16 Feb 01 - 04:33 PM Me too! Glevum from Hull I shall be at Moor and Coast + Whitby Folk Week too. Glevum |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 15 Feb 01 - 10:13 PM Crumbs, bill- don't think there's a youth hostel big enough! Tyke, the Ducks are the reason why there are more catters in Yorkshire than any other county... :0) Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:30 PM Still counting 148 so far Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Bradypus Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:23 PM If anyone's still counting - one more for Hertfordshire, but originally Ayrshire (Scotland) Bradypus |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Tyke Date: 14 Feb 01 - 08:02 PM So far there have been 13 postings to the I will be at the Moor & Coast Festival type Thread. This includes one from I am a confused mudcater that I will apologise to now for my dyslexia. Even if there was a spell checker on this site it would not help. As their seems to be no objections to a gathering so far so I'll try and make a few tentative inquires this weekend. Gathering or not should the festival include Coblers Monday doing as we did last year a welcome to the festival Singaround we shall make everyone welcome give a special mention to Mudcaters. Hopefully the weather will be fine and sunny with no rain. I would hate to see Les playing his electric Bass in the Rain and starting to Link the Moor and Coast with the Franenstin branch of the Goths. PS is there any truth in the rumor that Mr and Mrs Duck are trying to produce there very own family Moris Side? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Big Phil Date: 14 Feb 01 - 07:13 PM e |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST Date: 14 Feb 01 - 06:50 PM Cavia: Hoped you enjoyed your new Les Barker book? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,Captain Swing Date: 14 Feb 01 - 03:35 PM Cavia Yes, false as opposed to real. I know, it's a pretty crap name for a band but we're used to it now. We used to be called the Ballistic Brothers but we discovered there was another band of that name in London so we decided we should change our name quickly. So we came up with False McCoy to meet the deadline for some gig publicity. Since then we've heared nothing more about the other Ballistic Brothers. I don't attend the Cottingham club these days, or for the last six years for that matter, though I was the founder member and ran it from 1985 to 1995. We tend to play to pub audiences now. We will be playing at the Sun Inn (formerly Tap&Spile), Beverley on 18 March and Hessle Golf Club the night before (St Patrick's). Cheers - Captain Swing |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Mr Red Date: 14 Feb 01 - 09:03 AM cresby.com but to you Mr Red. Mid West of England. regular at the Somers TFC Albion Worcester, Fri and all ceilidhs within 1 hour of Stroud. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Trevor Date: 14 Feb 01 - 08:30 AM Hello Bill. Brilliant job getting all these names together - thanks. I'm in Shropshire, by the way, although my bit of it is more or less on the border. Cheers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Cavia_P Date: 14 Feb 01 - 07:23 AM Captain Swing, as opposed to the Reel McCoy ? :o) Sorry, I'm not a Cottingham regular, Jenny and I came along to Les Barker last week and Roy Bailey a few weeks back. We may get along to the Ceilidh (this Saturday ?) I used to be a regular at Hull Folk Union One in it's last years, now I go along to the Friday sessions at the Kingston (Hull) and have been to the first Sunday of the month sessions at Nellies (Beverley). I recite monologues and play the pocket Bodhran. Cavia_P |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,Captain Swing Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:46 PM Cavia, Have you heared of a local duo called False McCoy? I'm the fiddler.
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Greyeyes Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:44 PM And is it near the Prospect of Whitby at all? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Greyeyes Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:39 PM So what part of London is Warwick in? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: John Routledge Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:08 PM Warwick is starting to look good Cheers GB |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Big Phil Date: 13 Feb 01 - 02:56 PM Have sent you a personal message Mr Sables.......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Cavia_P Date: 13 Feb 01 - 01:30 PM After checking back on thread part one... Ickle Dorritt; you've got me! (yes, my GF/SO is called Jenny). I counted you, Graham Pirt and myself as Cottingham Mud Catters. Now I'm wondering who Captain Swing and Guest Willa are ? I also second Warwick festival (end of July) as a suitable venue for a gathering. I hope to be there. Cavia_P |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Cavia_P Date: 13 Feb 01 - 01:06 PM I'm up for the Whitby Moor and Coast festival. [plug] www.moorandcoast.co.uk Coincidentally, I'm also their webmaster. :o) I may be able to sneak a mention on the site for the mudcat cafe... Cavia_P |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Ruthie A Date: 13 Feb 01 - 12:23 PM I'm of The Ship Folk Club, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England. Ruthie |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Noreen Date: 13 Feb 01 - 12:11 PM Welcome back, bill- you'll have a lot to catch up with! Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: okthen Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:51 AM B.T. just reconnected me, 6 days after cutting me off. cheers bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Deni Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:09 AM UK Mudcatter from the Hyde Folk Club in Plymouth, Devon, UK Cheers Deni |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: catspaw49 Date: 12 Feb 01 - 10:24 PM Here's a born 'Catter if I ever saw one, and thank gawd I ain't seen one like this!!! Maybe you ought to invite him Bill. (:<)) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: John Routledge Date: 12 Feb 01 - 10:09 PM TYKE Yes please for a M+Coast session at least as a start. If people are going anyway seems a pity not to try to sort something out. Geordie Broon |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Tyke Date: 12 Feb 01 - 09:06 PM Re a sugested get together at The Moor and Coast. I could have a word with the festival organisers this weekend as I should be in Whitby. That is if no one has any objections! I shall be at the Moor and Coast my self stagering about with Coblers Monday on the weekend of the 5th,6th&7th May. Its a pity Bill can't make it maybe I should take my Lap top and do a Link to the German Festival Via Pal Talk from the campsite if anyone has a tent with a Phone? Let me know again how many mudcaters will be going or would be going if there was a get together by posting to the Thread called How many Moor and Coast Mudcaters. Please only post if you will be going or would go if there was a gathering. I will then have a good idea how big the room should be. May be if we all posted a list of festivals that we can get to and or free weekends we could organise a larger gathering. That Bill can get to, It was his idea after all! But I see no reason why we can't have a session at the Moor and Coast. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 12 Feb 01 - 06:34 AM Missed that query Fionn - and I couldn't find it in the super search either jst now. The name rings a bell somewhere, but I can't place it. I thought I could, and then realised I was thinking of another Les, Les Beckett.
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Gervase Date: 12 Feb 01 - 02:20 AM Snuffy, I'll be down there - booked into the Marlborough. See you there... |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:04 PM Thanks McGrath and Sooz. I know the Brown Cow well enough, but it never crossed my mind it would have a website (kinda spoils the imnage!). I'd already noticed your club Sooz, and with this prompting I intend to get there soon. (A journely that will certainly challenge, and probably defeat, my commitment to public transport. Which would be a pity. with all that real ale on tap.) And BTW Kevin, did you see ever see my query in another thread about whether you ever ran into an old hack called Les Mitchell? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 11 Feb 01 - 06:35 PM I'd recommend that, rather than try for a generic thread about festivals in general, we put up individual threads for each one - less likely to get lost in the crowd.
Maybe with a common heading - "Mudcat England - who's for Sidmouth?" etc (I think the UK as such is too spread out. I imagine if you were living in Antrim you'd be more interested in what was happening in Donegal than in Essex.)
And if we have a generic one, maybe have this in addition to individual festival threads, and we could stick in a link to them when we start one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,okthen Date: 11 Feb 01 - 05:00 PM refresh, marking where I got up to. Not long till tuesday. cheers bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Snuffy Date: 11 Feb 01 - 01:44 PM Anyone going to the Middle Bar reunion at Sidmouth, end of this month? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,Tracey Date: 11 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM Count in one more sometime listener from North London/Essex... |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Linda Kelly Date: 11 Feb 01 - 12:49 PM We're Moor & coasting so I'm up for a meet and i think Sam Pirt is performing so that's another! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Sooz Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:52 AM I'm in Lincolnshire only just over the border from Nottinghamshire. Click here
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: John Routledge Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:35 AM Bill - A Thread where we can list locations and dates for a get-together? There may be a common theme. Yours in expectation. Gets this above UK Catters I. Cheers John |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 11 Feb 01 - 07:48 AM I just realised that they are organising festivals when I am out of the country. Are they trying to tell me something? Whitby's Moor and Coast is on when the German gathering is taking place and I will be in Belgium with Castleford Longsword team the same time as Chippenham. Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GeorgeH Date: 11 Feb 01 - 06:43 AM Who said Peterborough is in Cambridgeshire . . Not any more it isn't; it's a Unitary Authority all on its own (but still operates jointly with Cambridgeshire on a number of things . . ) As I recall (but others certainly disagree with this interpretation) the Boundary Commission investigated Unitary Status for Huntingdon, Peterborough and Cambridge (city). First time round they rejected all three . . Huntingdon wasn't happy, and at that time their MP (one John Major) had a degree of influence. So all three were re-examined, and Peterborough (alone) was given (had forced upon it!) Unitary status . . without any strong desire for it. (In fact of the three proposals the one for Cambridge made most sense, but that's yet another story . .) G. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: The Shambles Date: 11 Feb 01 - 06:29 AM Chippenham Folk Festival 2001 |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 10 Feb 01 - 09:42 PM For the Brown Cow in Mansfield, try this: Brown Cow Information from South Riding Folk Network Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:36 PM This link might be useful to Fionn. I got it from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm - Martin Neill's pages - English folk and traditional music on the Internet - which says there's a folk club in Mansfield - "The Brown Cow Folk Club - but the link to it which he gives (http://www.sbarrier.freeserve.co.uk/) doesn't seem to work.
Whether that's any use for Irish sessions, I don't know - but if there are any existing or in prospect, those links should help winkle them out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:17 PM and there is Chippenham, May sometime Ella |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:09 PM Moor and Coast May 5,6 and 7th |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:08 PM I'm in (north) Nottinghamshire. Am I the only catter heareabouts? It cerainly seems to be something of a black hole for Irish traditional.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 01 - 07:52 PM That's Whitby Moor and Coast Bill? Or the one squeezing in alongside the Regatta? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:22 PM I posted this to the last thread by mistake. I won't be able to make it to Whitby as it clashes with the German gathering which I have promised to attend. Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Greyeyes Date: 10 Feb 01 - 05:44 PM So what's the prospect of Whitby? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Lynn W Date: 10 Feb 01 - 05:37 PM I'll be at the Moor and Coast and I think it's a great idea to have a gathering as this festival isn't very busy compared to some, and a weekend in Whitby makes a great start to the season. Also I'd like to meet people after six months of (mainly) lurking here! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:43 PM Yes. I'll be at the Moor and Coast with a couple of other Mudcatters. Can we persuade the organiser to put a note on the Festival website? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:26 PM getting there by pubic transport isn't too much of a problem
Well, I think it might be a bit of a problem - the mind boggles...\
That magic spell checker I've got does have a few problems sometimes!
Reminds me of the time our local Childminders' Association put out a leaflet inviting everyone to come along to their "Pubic display" in a Harlow community centre. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:19 PM I'd like to see a general practice of putting up a thread any time you're planning to go to a festival, and then via that maybe setting up some arrangements to meet up at some time and place.
But I'd also like to have a get together that didn't coincide or clash with a festival, which would give more chance to swap songs and make music together.
Do we need to go for something on a weekend, or would weekdays be OK? If weekdays are OK, one possibility might be to tag it on to an existing festival, as a kind of fringe event before or after. For example Fylde starts on a Thursday and goes on to the Sunday, so if we were to arrange to gather on the previous Monday or Tuesday it'd make a week of it, which I suspect might quite fit in with what Alan Bell is doing anyway, by arranging folkish concerts on the days leading up to the festival proper, which might make it easier getting approval for camping or whatever, and there would probably pubs which would have no problem with welcoming sessions.
Fylde is a long way from where I live - but it is actually pretty close to the geographical centre of Great Britain, and getting there by pubic transport isn't too much of a problem. (That was a problem for me with Llanfair.)
Or there might be other festivals where that kind of thing could be done. Walton in Essex for example, or Leigh-on-Sea.
Otherwise if it's a question of a weekend which won't clash with other festivals, there aren't many that don't, up until the coldish end of the year.
But the idea of a Mudcat gathering makes a lot of sense. A Mudfest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Tyke Date: 10 Feb 01 - 08:29 AM Sugestion about posible location for a Gathering of UK Mudcatters. As there seems to be a festival on each weekend in the summer. Why not link to an established festival this could be to the benifit of all. Mudcat would not have to worry about campsites/acomodation provision of. The festival organisers would not have to worry about a rival gathering on there established weekend. As to which weekend a bank holiday would be best for people who have to travel long distances. Anouther Thread to try could be how many UK Mudcaters are Folk Festival Organisers? The Whitby Folk Festival Week 2001 clashes as you probably Know with Whitby Regatter. This is due to the Tides. So be warned Whitby will be very busy pub space will be at a premium. The Moore and Coast Festival is on a Bank Holiday Weekend (May) How about linking a gatering to that! See www.moorandcoast.co.uk |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,okthen Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:54 AM Just made it to the library, no sign of a BT man even tho' I phoned and and made a case for special consideration. Anyway just to place me geographically, am in SW Suffolk, between Haverhill and Sudbury. Jon, are you now resident in Norfolk? Will check in as and when I can, cheers bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:31 PM It is a nice thought that during the Wars of the Roses between Yorkists and Lancastrians, We, in Durham were sitting on the fence probably watching the scrap (a common passtime in Durham) and supplying swords made in Shotley Bridge on the Durham / Northumberland border to both sides. Ye canit tell a Geordie nowt coz wi knaa it all man, Ye Bugger. Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: John Routledge Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:05 PM A Geordie is a Yorkshireman with his brains bashed back in again. Love to you all GEO JOHN |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Cobble Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:03 PM Bill You have been in Yorkshire long enough to know you can tell a Yorkshire man more than you can tell a Gordie !! * BG * Its good to see there are a great many 'Catters in Yorkshire. Bill's doing???? Mrs C. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:01 PM That is amazing Big J I didn't think anyone remembered me these days. Now when I go into a club they say "Err What was your name again" I am thinking of changing my name to Bill Who. It only goes to show though that old folksingers never die they just go on to Mudcat. Now that there are three of you over there why not organise a Mudcat Gathering we might be able to get a boat full with all the UK catters. There are now 134 on the list. Im sure the craik would be ninety at that gathering. Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,bigJ Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:38 PM Yep, that story about Stockton folk club is about the strength of it! At that time I was involved - along with playwright Willy Russell, in the Top Lock Folk Club in Runcorn where you appeared that night. If it's of any interest, the week after you were there the guest was Dave Burland and then on the 28th of February it was Nic Jones. Regards. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:29 PM Well Big J my memory does not seem to go that far back, I was still living in the Durham area then. It was in the days before I became a missionary and was sent to convert the buggers in deepest darkest Yorkshire (which I never did. You can always tell a yorkshire man but you can't tell him much). Where did you meet me? is that in your diary too. It reminds me of the night a few years back when I played at Stockton folk club. I had not played there for about eighteen years (because of my missionary work)and Ron Angel the organiser puled out a little moth eaten book and said "Now Bill Ye cant sing any of these songs" and gave me a long list of donts. I asked why not and he said "Ye sung them the last time ye were here" It seemed that since the opening of the club, about thirty years ago, they had kept a list of every song sung by every singer at the club. That list must be worth a fortune in the wrong hands. Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,bigJ Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:01 PM Not only is there me here, but Bobby Bob Ellan Vannin too. BTW, Bill, according to my 1971 diary which I only just DIDN't throw out, we met on the 24th of January that year. How's that for minutae. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:21 PM But Kevin surely it is near enough and there is only one catter there. We can't leave him out like poor old Skarpi. By the way, his mudcat name is Big J, now Ive met Big Mick and I've met Big Phil and if he is as big as those two you tell him he's not in 'cos I'm a coward. Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:10 PM Pedants note:
The Isle of Man is not in England. In fact it's not even in the UK. It's got a special constitutional arrangement of its own. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM Peadnts note:
The Isle of Man is not in England. In fact it's not even in the UK. It's got a special constitutional arrangement of its own. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: John Routledge Date: 09 Feb 01 - 03:02 PM ERIC Out of season YHA rent complete hostels to groups. Should I investigate? JOHN |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Greyeyes Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:54 PM Well I only said that I was me in part 1, not that I'm in Plymouth, Devon, tho' I'm originally from Wiltshire. I see there's another Catter in Plymouth, I'm to be found in the central library if you're interested, ask for Paul. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Eric the Viking Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:46 PM Well, there are lots of us. Good idea Noreen, a youth hostel-better make it a camping Barn!!!!! I don't think Llanfair-bfdbjnj any old iron could put us all up in october, could it Bron? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Mrs.Duck Date: 09 Feb 01 - 01:11 PM I think Bill meant to say he thought Bristol was in Avon not Wales! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,Brian Hoskin Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM I didn't contribute to the first list, but I was in Wales (Lampeter, then Aberystwyth), I was then briefly in Shropshire (Shrewsbury), and I'm now in Devon (Plymouth). I've also changed computer three times and so am now a 'guest'. Brian |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Seany Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:37 PM Ella-Suze, I will ring you when I have spoken to Christine and other interested parties about availabilty on Tue/Wed evenings. I should see her in the next few days. If you are going to the Liz Doherty concert in the Norwegian Church on Tuesday, I'll see you there. Seany-John-Belfast
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:04 PM hmmmm should I drop Ella... I rather like it now! Suze... erm Ella... ha ha ha ah aha hahah |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Paul Mitchell Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:03 PM I'm in North Hampshire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:00 PM ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha haha hahahah Hi John... Yes.... Ella is my middle name (though it was never registered properly at birth!) lol It's meeee.... give me a call about the bodhran lessons when you can.. Suze AKA Ella... |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Seany Date: 09 Feb 01 - 11:08 AM Ella, Yes. Are you Sue ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: KingBrilliant Date: 09 Feb 01 - 11:08 AM KitKat - I'll probably be going to Readifolk on Sunday - will look out for you. I might be wearing a M'cat t-shirt, but only if I can find it & if it fits me... Otherwise - I'm short & wide with dyed black hair & batwing eye-makeup, so come & say hello if you recognise someone of that nature!! Then I can tell you all about the Swan sessions. Kris |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,lanfranc@theoffice Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:51 AM There are at least two of us in Essex, McGrath of Harlow and myself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Firecat Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:45 AM I know you mentioned me on the other thread but I thought I'd better just confirm that I am English. I'm from Doncaster, born and bred (and proud of it!) but I go to college in Selby. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Brakn Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:26 AM I'm in Manchester, but it used to be Cheshire. (Altrincham) |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:21 AM Strictly speaking (not that I'm a pedant***LOL***) since the tories abolished Berkshire (thus losing one of their own strongholds!)I'm in the people's republic of Bracknell Forest (Forest?),Ascot end. But though you can take the boy (???BOY???) out of Brum, you can't etc. etc. RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Michael in Swansea Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:18 AM Bill, You thought Wales was in Avon? Wales is bigger than Avon. Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Llanfair Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:14 AM Dalek's in Shropshire, I'm in Powys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: English Jon Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:13 AM Peterborough is in Cambridgeshire. (since old huntingdonshire got absorbed) |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Michael in Swansea Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:13 AM City and County of Swansea (used to be West Glamorgan). Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 09 Feb 01 - 10:08 AM Thanks Jon for putting the blue clicky thing in. I will have to put you in Norfolk and take you out of Wales. Fibula I thought Wales was in Avon. I also grouped Manchester in Lancashire. What county is Peterborough in? Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: Jon Freeman Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:55 AM I am still in the UK but I have moved from N Wales to Norfolk. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: How many UK catters 2 From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:51 AM Tut tut tut, Bill! Everyone here keeps telling me that Bristol is a county in its own right! |
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Subject: How many UK catters 2 From: bill\sables Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:48 AM The first thread was getting over the 100 mark so we can continue here. I have done a quick count up of those who have posted and those I know of and the results are below. Sorry to the Scotish and Welsh catters but I don't know the counties as much as I do the English Scotland 8 Wales 10
England 107
Yorkshire 40
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