Who are the Kipper Family?

Subject: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: MARINER
Date: 08 May 01 - 05:56 PM

Can anyone tell me who the Kipper Family are and where they come from?. I heard them on a track from Napster and have been wondering about them ever since. Mariner.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 May 01 - 06:02 PM

Click Me! for info on Kipper family.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: nutty
Date: 08 May 01 - 06:07 PM

The Kippers are a fictional family from Norfolk in the UK who have had a long involvement in folk music ........ although only one member, SID, is performing at present.

SID KIPPER is to be found at folk clubs and festivals singing the folk songs of his native Trunch ......... these are not to be confused with similar folksongs sung elsewhere ........ they are unique and all can be attributed to a gentleman called Chris Sugden who writes all Sid Kipper's material.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 May 01 - 06:08 PM

I saw Sid and Henry (Rest his soul) arrive at Swinton festival some years ago and instantly go into character. Brilliant. Sid is wonderful by himself of course but Henry made it something even more special. Enjoy the link.

I don't think I'll ever get over dancing the 'dashing white privates....'

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:30 PM

a fictional family

Well, Sid Kipper sometimes dresses himslef up as this folkie called Chris Sugden, but personally I've never found that too convincing on his part. He keeps on forgetting and lapsing into his true self.

And that's not Trunch where there's Kippers, that's Saint Just-near-Trunch. Trunch folk don't like it much, and tell the trippers there's no such place.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:36 PM

I cannot sing Wild Mountain Thyme anymore thanks to them!

Do you go lassie go?
And shall we go together?
In the wild mounting time
Or will I get bloomin' Heather?

Unique and wonderful!

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Max Tone
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:42 PM

........It's called "Wild Mounting Time" in the DT........Brill

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 May 01 - 09:00 PM

If you were to type kipper family into the very useful "Digitrad and Forum Search" box on the main Forum page, you would find a great deal of material relating to this extremely influential Norfolk family of tradition-bearers (in the worst possible sense).  The first time I saw Sid and Henry, I literally fell off my chair with laughing.  It was a very hard chair, but so was the floor.  Their epic ballad opera, The Crab Wars is to this day a source of frank embarrassment and secret pride to the inhabitants of Cromer and Sheringham, who would certainly deny all knowledge of it if asked.  (There are things you just don't tell the tourists).

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:10 AM

One of my enduring memories of a concert during Whitby Folk Week is of Martin Carthy and several other long established folk performers all sat with tears of laughter in their eyes as the Kipper Family sent up some of their best known songs. Martin seemed to appreciate Creeping Ivy, about a racehorse which didn't win the race.
Quack!

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:15 AM

Oh Dave the Gnome. I think that the dance wes called the FLASHING White Privates. It was all symbolic about courtship, with climbing through the window (instead of going under arches) et cetera.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: English Jon
Date: 09 May 01 - 04:55 AM

The Kippers are in fact, absolutely genuine. It just goes to show the diversity of british culture that some people can find Trunch traditions too peculiar to warrant credance. No, the Kipper family are the real McCoy. And Trunch exists, 'cos I've been there. It's true though. The locals deny all knowledge of st. just near trunch, and the Goat Inn isn't actually called that anymore...

DO NOT CONFUSE the Kippers with that pack of cheap immitators from Rottingdean, Sussex!

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: DaisyA
Date: 09 May 01 - 05:21 AM

I remember Sid doing a song at Otley Folk Festival about the extinction of the dodo - it went something alon gthe lines of:

And if you'll listen to my ode - o, I wonder what happened to the dode - o!

Anyone got the rest of the words?

Daisy

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: AndyG
Date: 09 May 01 - 06:15 AM

The Innocent Dodo

HTH,
AndyG

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: KitKat
Date: 09 May 01 - 08:12 AM

My brother-in-law (an English teacher) uses the not-to-be-missed Cricket Song as an example of the extended metaphor. Not only fun, but educational!

Pat

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: MARINER
Date: 09 May 01 - 01:24 PM

The reason I started this thread was because I had never heard of them before and picked up "Spencer The Wild Rover" from Napster.I couldn't believe my ears!. I thought this can't be for real, it has to be a massive piss take, but then I wasn't sure, then again, I thought maybe not, perhaps they are the real thing.Even after reading the replies I'm not sure, I'm beginning to doubt my sanity and my musical taste.Either way they're brilliant. After hearing just that one track, I'm a fan for life, where can I buy their recordings?.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 May 01 - 01:36 PM

Garry Gillard's  Kipper Family Discography  with some useful links.

Subject: RE: Who are the Kipper Family?
From: nutty
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:19 PM

You really have to be initiated into walnut shell workshops, which play orchestral pieces at some festivals , to be a real Kipper Family follower ......although I haven't seen them advetised for a while.

My greatest memory was seeing Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson singing the great Sid Kipper song ........Biker Bill and Walter Shaw.