GUEST Referee

Subject: GUEST Referee
From: The Barden of England
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 06:23 AM

There you go - Ive started this so GUEST Referee can air any dirty linen they feel is necessary. Leave the Tudor Barn thread in peace.

Subject: RE: GUEST Referee
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 06:59 AM

Thanks John.

Assuming that I was right about what "Referee" was referring to, I still can't see anything objectionable about the remarks in the posting.

Perhaps inaccurate, because I have seen Woodsie at the Tudor Barn on several occasions and he was at Knockholt.

Why pick up on a comment which no-one else had bothered to mention, unless you want to stir up that whole can of worms again ?

The conversation at the time of "Referee's" posting was about different subjects altogether.

Subject: RE: GUEST Referee
From: Dipsodeb
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 07:45 AM

Have just posted on the other thread before I saw this one further down..... Is it really necessary to carry it on at all. I for one definitely wouldn't like to see this can of worms again. It's childish, immature, squabbling and is not indicative of the intelligence that I know is possessed by both parties of the previous issue.

Subject: RE: GUEST Referee
From: The Barden of England
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 09:26 AM

I for one have no wish to carry this on. My only intention was to get it off the Tudor Barn thread, which I'm sure was not there as a vehicle to open up old sores. I've said it before, and I say it again - I like the Tudor Barn, the people who run it and the people who go there to enjoy the music. It's a great place and a credit to you all.

Subject: RE: GUEST Referee
From: cockney
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 07:02 PM

hello - peeps!

Subject: RE: GUEST Referee
From: melodeon king
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 07:06 PM

Aidan - ha! ha!

Subject: RE: GUEST Referee
From: GUEST,Referee
Date: 11 Jul 03 - 05:54 AM

Why thank you for giving me a thread all of my own.

How often do guests get such treatment.

In all seriousness, I'm indebted to dipsodeb for her acknowledging the issue which prompted my intervention.

Although not based in SE London, I have made the occasional foray northwards into the smoke and have met a few of the musicians who play in that area and have been made feel most welcome by, I've come to realise, members of both "factions" in last year's unseemly shenanigans.

I think it's a great pity because there are some excellent musicians and generous-spirited individuals in your neck of the woods and I've watched schisms appear with great sadness.

If you lived out in the wilds like me, you'd give your eye teeth for the opportunity to play a bit of trad or folk (personally I'm a big fan of both - and have a lot of time for country music as well!).

My guitar playing has improved a lot from sitting in with some of the lads in the trad sessions. Though I must admit to having felt a bit reluctant to do my thing at the Tudor Barn and The Anchor (which I've only ever visited once).

End of story.

Thanks, John Barden, for giving me the opportunity to make my case at more length than would have been appropriate otherwise.

When I'm next up your way - likely to be September cos I'm off to France for most of August - I'll look you up.

Till then, roll on buddy ...

Matthew (Mattie) Pearson