BS: Cleckheaton Folk festival

Subject: RE: Cleckheaton
From: John Routledge
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 02:11 PM

The weather was incredible - 25C on Sunday and no rain!!

The vast majority of people seemed to have a great time.

At £17.50 for a weekend ticket if you buy early it is great value for money assuming that you want to do more than sing and play in pub sessions.

Roll on 2003

Subject: RE: Cleckheaton
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 02:41 PM

Brilliant time, great line up, met other mudcatters,some I know and one or two I didn't until then-Wotcha look like little spiky? Must have seen you about the place.

Subject: RE: BS: Cleckheaton Folk festival
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 02:50 PM

Liz, I never got to see you-I'm sorry about that.Shame you didn't get to the commercial, on sunday-the panther owners club met there with their vintage bikes. Nice outfit there.

Subject: RE: Cleckheaton
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:23 PM

It's like the joke-how do you keep an idiot busy for hours? You could link round and round the same link.

It was good though!

Subject: RE: Cleckheaton
From: 8_Pints
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:30 PM

John Routledge,

Your absence at the Manchester Pipers's Meet was noted!

I suggested that this was due to a conflict of priorities!

Was I right?

Bob vG

PS: Have you booked for the Evelyn Glenny/Kathryn Tickell concert at the Bridgewater Hall on 18th July'2002?

Subject: RE: Cleckheaton
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:37 PM

ello 8, how's Mrs 8 pints hand doing?

Subject: RE: Cleckheaton
From: John Routledge
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:58 PM

8Pints, Conflict - Yes. A whole day a Cleckheaton was considered more enjoyable than 3 hrs piping :0)

Bridgewater tickets - No but will remedy. See you there. Evelyn Glenny has made an art form out of banging things. Great stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Cleckheaton Folk festival
From: Noreen
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:58 PM

Good to hear that the Shellbacks can indeed be heard over a 5-mile radius as predicted, Liz!

My children camped with me at Cleckheaton this weekend, first time camping at a festival (though seasoned campers) and they'll be at Saddleworth and Warwick with me too: they were singing Shellback songs all the way home (and making up extra verses!) though it wasn't cool to actually sing along with us in public *grin*

It was good to meet Mudcatters old and new, shame I didn't get to hear more of them in their concerts, but the singarounds were good. Thank you again, Bradfordian, for the long-awaited pint- I really had forgotten what I'd done to deserve it! Good to meet you.

Was that you, Ned Ludd, with English Jon (sans cat) and the hurdy gurdies? My son was very interested in them and we'd have loved to have a go :0)

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: Cleckheaton Folk festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 07:19 PM

NOOO - not budding Bottle of Wasp players!!!

Judging by conversations at unearthly hours (unearthly whilst sober) on Sunday morning it probably was.... Mr Ludd is an accomplished wasp botherer and did drool mightily over another Bottle of Wasps present.

It wasn't quite 5 miles and it wasn't word clear, but we could tell what songs you were singing.... it sounded most odd with some of the chorus efforts! Only sorry I didn't get to come and say hello, although I did wave goodbye as you were all standing on the steps opposite the town hall, and I was going past behind the bus.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Cleckheaton Folk festival
From: 8_Pints
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 06:56 PM

Hi Eric,

I keep trying to get Sue to have her hand seen to, but to no avail yet.

She claims she's too busy!

I'll keep nagging, though.

Bob vG