Help: Are English Tapestry still about ?

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 05:13 AM

Boab, If you were around Folk Clubs in those days (I was) perhaps you won't be zimmerless much longer ! Anyway, if you read the top of this thread, Ruth had only just produced an offspring when I last saw her about 20 years ago - so they can't be that old.

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 10:56 PM

English Tapestry---once, about 35 years ago, in Hexham folk club; very good, as I recall. Can't see them being out and about without zimmers nowadays------

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 03:39 AM

I can do PM to anyone really THAT interested but I'm certainly not posting it here!!!

Sarah

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: sledge
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:10 AM

Don't you just hate it when people go "I know something really juicy and I'm not going to tell you"

:)

Sledge

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 03:33 AM

It is Bromley in Kent but as for the "incident" it is not for public airing!!!

Sarah

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 06:12 AM

The Bromley Incident - if that's Bromley Kent then it's my part of the world. Tell me more.

Mind you, I was hoping to find out where Brian and Ruth were, but I do remember James as one of Tapestry's tenors.

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 03:31 AM

So what is he doing now guys? The "bromley incident" as it was cheerfully referred to at one time is definately not for a public forum but it was very funny at the time. Looking back it was a bit cruel but the basic concept was one of ego busting. Sounds from your comments like I failed miserably!!!

Sarah

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: AndyG
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 12:40 PM

Yes, sorry Jon, James was in English Tapestry at one time and so he is that old.

Otherwise: "No comment".

And "iscrete" yG

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: English Jon
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:07 AM

oh! do tell...

Can't say I know him that well. I've got his album though which is >ahem< "good in parts", as the proverbial curate once said of his egg.

My mate Mike doesn't like him at all though...Apparently JE has been very rude on several occasions. None of my business though.

EJ

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 03:40 AM

Do you know him then? Havn't seen him since an unfortunate incident at a party in the early 1980s when I think we upset him!!!

Sarah

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: English Jon
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:16 AM

Eisner is enough to see anyone off. Didn't realise he was that old.

EJ

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 03:51 AM

I knew James Eisner who sang with them for a while around 1981/1982 but havn't heard anything of them since. .... maybe he saw them off!!!

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: AndyG
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 01:30 PM

Well, well, well...

I can't be much help I'm afraid.

I can safely say that they (English Tapestry) are no longer performing. Whether their individual components (as it were) still perform I can't say. I can look into this when I next get a chance.

AndyG

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 10:27 AM

Not seen them since they were at the Cambridge Mayflower in '91. I particularly remember their Origami version of "I have a Furze Field..."

AndyG may know something of them?

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 04:32 PM

20 years ago was when I saw them too!! In fact, I still have the poster!!!

Whatever happened to them, did they ever record anything?

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:12 PM

Not unravelled yet, but a very appropriate THREAD. what?
Not seen them myself or heard of them in the last 15 years.

Subject: RE: Help: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Ringer
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 12:55 PM

I know nothing of their current status nor whereabouts, but I remember having heard & liked them at a Unviversity Folk Club about 35 years ago.

Subject: Are ENGLISH TAPESTRY still about ?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 12:04 PM

Does anyone know if the unacc. harmony group ENGLISH TAPESTRY are still around ? They were based in Cambridge, UK and were a trio comprising husband and wife Brian and Ruth Britain (I think that's how they spelt it) plus a tenor voice (that part of the group varied over the years). I last saw them about 20 years ago when I booked them for my club at Blackheath, SE London. Ruth had just had a baby then. Beside the harmonies they managed some wonderful syncopation. I remember a lovely version of (Ralph McTell's ?) "Another Rain" as well as "Brig Fair" and a hunting song in which they had a chorus of hounds, horses, and finally huntsmen "Wah-wah-wah-ing" at the hunt ball.