Young Scottish Folkies?!

Subject: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Shonagh
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 01:30 PM

I know theres a few of us on here now from the Britain but im wondering who is from where and anyone in Glasgow?! Im actually moving down ina couple of weeks and it'd be great to meet any other mudcatters there! Sho x

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:00 PM

hiya! i'm in glesca most of the year, studying. don't know of anyone else personally, but then you can be never be too sure with this place.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:02 PM

What sort of folkie?
I'm not too young any more myself (sigh), but there is plenty going on in the young trad scene. And quite a few of the sessions have a good younger contingent.

"Young" to me means 25 or under, by the way... :)

The Usige Beatha sessions on a Sunday night are pretty well-mixed, age-wise.

So, I'd say, look around... it's there.

Steven

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: akenaton
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:33 PM

Young to me means under 50,and I havnt had much to do with the Glasgow scene since Billy Connolly was a boy ,but try the Scotia and the Clutha In Stockwell Street for information on venues....Youll find a big difference from "Auld Huntly Toun" Best wishes Shonagh    Hi Doug ....Pleased to see your a Scot too,thought you must be one of the old enemy after our last Wee spat...Cheers Ake..

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 04:09 AM

last spat?

I can't remember.
Couldn't have been that bad.

Whereabouts are you then, akenaton?

Shona, do you play, sing, listen? And are you more interested in contemporary or trad stuff? If you can let me know roughly what your interest is, I can maybe be of more help.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 08:51 AM

Good work starting this thread Shonagh!

I am in Glasgow and looking for people to jam with (I play accordion and sing)... why don't we all (Mudcatters in Glasgow that is) arrange to meet up somewhere? It would be nice to know who's out there...

Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 09:56 AM

sounds gúd to me! ill definitely bring my guitar and voice box along. if we work it on a day when there's some good weather, its always nice disturbing locals in city centre parks.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 10:50 AM

I'm with you Leo, we played outside our flat the other day and got a small crowd! Not this weekend though, cos I'm in England. Anyone go to a regular singaround/playaround that we could meet at?

Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Shonagh
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 01:23 PM

Hey guys!! Yay, nice to know theres a few in glasgow like! Well, im actually moving down the last weekend of this month, I dont know Glasgow that well so it'd be cool to meet mudcatters! (I play fiddle and sing by the way!)

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 07:43 PM

If you need a singaround, Wednesday evening in Café Source, which is in Saint Andrews In The Square (SAINTS) off Saltmarket.

From 8:00 pm until about 11:30. Admission free.
Mostly singing, occasional tune.

For a more mixed tunes/singing sesh, try Uisge Beatha,Woodlands Road on Sunday evenings from around 6pm. Mixed age range. Young studenty clientele.

For trad tunes, Ben Nevis Argyle Street on a Wednesday.

There is lots more, but that's just a couple....


Cheers


Steven

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 05:21 AM

Righto - well, when you get into Glasgow Shonagh, why don't you post again and we can meet? - the Wednesday night one suits me... anyone else?
Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 06:36 AM

aye, it'll suit me grand. i know a few of the people who usually turn up at the star club the day after singing in the round anyway, and they're really friendly people.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Dita
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 06:40 AM

I'm only young at heart, but a Glasgow meet of Mudcatters sounds like a great idea to me.

If we use the Cafe Source singaround, we should try to get there before it starts, say 7.00 or 7.30 so we can introduce ourselves. Once the singing starts it keeps going.

Cheers, John

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 07:13 AM

OK then, why don't we meet next Wed at 7.30 in the Cafe Source session, everyone who can make it...? We can organise another one for when Shonagh arrives - or, you never know, it might become a regular thing!
I will be the one who is 25 but looks younger carrying a bloody great accordion.

Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 07:25 AM

alright. i might turn up, however my mathair's off work all next week so i may remain in embra for the duration. be through after that, though.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Big Tim
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 09:49 AM

I'll try and make it too though 1.I'm not young (58), 2.I can't sing (tone deaf), and 3. I'm Irish!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,scabby douglas (wish the cookies were less t
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 11:02 AM

Aye, Dita, you've been notable by your absence... how're you doing?


Big Tim, 1: You will by no means be the eldest statesman - our current winner in that category is 82!
2: well, if you're only tone deaf, you'll still be better off than some of the folk that have come along.
3: We're an Equal Opportunities Singaround. In fact, you get extra points for not being Scottish. (The points have no redemption value and may only be used in connection with no offers whatsoever)

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Dita
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 05:20 PM

Seems to me weve got the makings of a band here already.

Daisy - Box and voice

Shonagh - fiddle and voice

Steve (Scabby Douglas) - guitar, voice and a fine mandolin

Big Tim - song intros (what this man don't know about songs aint    worth knowing - see "Big Tim's new book thread")

Leo - Guitar and voice

John (Dita)- Guitar, 5-string banjo (that's what I've been up to Steve) and voice

Se ya wednesday

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 06:02 PM

sounding very appealing to me already...my lifelong ambition (well ok about 2 months) is for a vocal harmony group belting out folksongs!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 07:21 PM

Lifelong = 2 months?
You're very precocious for a 2-month-old!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 07:33 PM

i'll tell mah da on you!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Big Tim
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 06:24 AM

Pity 'wee rover'is on hols in Galway!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 04:12 AM

So - I'll see you all on Wednesday then?

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Dita
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 04:57 AM

I'll be there, 7:30,

John

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 06:58 AM

afraid i shall be in Edinburgh on wednesday. next week, however, I won't be.

Subject: Cafe Source
From: GUEST,Kenny Caird
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 07:25 AM

Nothing much happens before 8pm because the place is full of diners.

This is really the only dedicated singers session in Glasgow.

You get decent order mostly and you don't have to compete with the endless widdling of box and fiddle merchants showing each other the hundred and fifty variations of the Masons Apron.

A lot of good people go there to sing and there's a lot of experience to draw on.

So if you've a hunger for good songs....

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Crystal
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 07:35 AM

WHAT ABOUT DUNDEE?
I'm studying up there most of the year and am suffering a folk drought!
Scottish country dance is super fun and all that, but I miss my sessions down the pub!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,allen woodpecker
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 10:39 AM

Hey Crystal. Dundee is something of a folk-free zone, it was when I lived there and it remains so to this day, despite the large numbers of Irish students who go there.
Try Mickey Coyle's on Hawkhill on a Monday night. Some of my old mates still play there and the crack's usually good. If you take an instrument in they'll give you a seat.
a.w.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Big Tim
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 11:47 AM

I can't make it to Glasgow on Wed: maybe another time.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 04:33 PM

Please keep us all posted.. I will be in Glasgow in a few months and would love to meet up. I can't sing right enough.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Shonagh
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 06:34 PM

hiya! well, im moving down on saturday so i'll look forward to meeting you guys sometime after that!! maybe the wednesday?!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 06:54 PM

hopefully more people will be able to attend next wednesday; seems this one might be a bit of a non-event, at least as far as mudcat gatherings are concerned. i'll be there next wednesday anyway. i reckon turning up a wee bit earlier, as suggested, is a good idea (7.30 sounds good). we should be pretty obvious with our instruments clattering about in the wee café anyway. im the odd looking guy with the guitar, long black hair and denim jaikit.

also, the code phrase is: "spring is a lovely time of the year". *taps nose*

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 06:55 PM

i meant that this week might be a non-event, not next week. oops. but then maybe both will be great. err. ill shut up.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Dita
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 06:58 PM

Kenny,

The 7:30 idea was so that the Mudcatter's could have a drink, chat and introduce ourselves to each other before the session takes off, save us talking while you are singing. :-)).

John.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 05:14 AM

Well, those of us who can make it, let's go today (Wed 27th) and then again next week to meet all the people who can't make it. Two sessions instead of one... not a bad thing!

Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Scabby Douglas
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 05:17 AM

And especially saves anyone talking while Big Jim McKenna is singing.

I value my kneecaps way too much.

Come to think of it, I may have (very very politely) asked someone to "shut the f*** up!" while I was trying to sing a couple of weeks back...

And don't mention the hairdressers to Kenny.
(With apoplogies to Randy Newman...)
Hairdressers have no manners
hairdressers have no manners
Hairdressers have no manners at a-all..
They have nasty little scissors going snip, snip, snip
They have great big mouths going lip, lip ,lip
Don't need no hairdressers,
Don't need no hairdressers,
Don't need no hairdressers round here

(Actually, in Kenny's case, and mine, that last line is depressingly true...)

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Kenny Caird
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 09:06 AM

There is nothing depressing about having no need for hairdressers!

Male pattern baldness is perfectly natural and is a similar process to a Gorilla becoming a silverback.

It marks us out as elder statesmen in the community.

So there!

The world needs no twittering hairdressers!

Baldies wear your scalps with pride!

Subject: Re wed 27th at cafe source.
From: GUEST,Kenny Caird
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 07:16 AM

I got awful drunk on that Arran Blonde ale last night.

But that was a better session than we've had for ages

Nice to have some fresh new voices.

MacReadie was on great form, and so were Steve and Tom.

I wasn't but that's allowed sometimes when you're a silverback.

And no twittering hairdressers!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Scabby Douglas
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 09:33 AM

Second that emulsion.

Although I arrived too late to get in on the introductions, the new voices - (Daisy and friends?) were very welcome. And I hope the rest of us weren't too elderly or decrepit for you to be seen in our company. And even if we were, don't worry, we won't tell anyone...

The great thing is that when you get to hear new voices singing different songs, it gives you a kick up the behind and makes you think about doing different stuff...

Kenny says he was awful drunk. I didn't notice, to be honest...
Call that drunk? Just you wait. I'll show you drunk. You want to see how to forget words, chords, tune, how to speak? I'll show you... just you wait...


Cheers


Steven

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 11:02 AM

Well ta very much. We really enjoyed it - it's a lovely venue and everyone there was really welcoming. There's nothing like a song about shagging the devil to really get a room going eh?
I can't make next week 'cause I'm at a conference (sprung on me yesterday) but I might see you folks at the Thursday night session upstairs?

Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,scabby douglas
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 12:12 PM

Just for reference, Daisy..
"Thursday night upstairs" is the Star Club. They do have floor spots, and are very welcoming to new faces, but it's a folk club-format and not a session. It usually goes (as best I understand it but if anyone knows better, please correct me):

************************************
Opening Floor Spot (maybe 20 minutes)
Guest Artist
************************************
Break
************************************
Second Floor Spot(s)
Guest Artist
************************************

Admission to Opening Floor Spot is (again, as I understand it) free, but otherwise in the £5-£6 range.


Just thought you better know, in case you turned up, set for a sesh, and were disappointed....


Cheers



Steven

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 12:23 PM

i'll be there next week, and also i seriously recommend everyone turns up to see Peter Nardini on the 11th of september at the star. if you don't you'll regret it.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Kenny Caird
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 05:50 AM

Star folk club format.

Opening spot is generally arranged in advance, usually by invitation.

The club tries to marry up suitable support for the act that's on if possible.

The combinations are often unlikely but that's down to availability.

The second spot is turn up and ask Tom Holmes, or whoever's compere, and if there's space you may get a spot.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:12 PM

bump - anyone planning to go tomorrow? hopefully ill be there, though my dad wants me to go to a charity thing at sammy dows. hmmmm.

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 06:44 PM

Well, as per usual, (barring mishaps such as the sky falling on us) Kenny and myself will be there.

Not sure about Dita (John) or Daisy and her pals. Please do come along, Leo, singing starts just somewhere after 8pm - depending on number of people there.

I proabably won't be there till between 8:30 and 9. Which Sammy Dow's is it? You can bring your Dad too...

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 07:30 PM

i think it's the one near me. so near pollokshaws road and all that stuff. ill see what happens. ive a suspicion he's going to drag me along, though...c'est la vie.

and me dad's a bloozer not a foaker!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: GUEST,Daisy
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:18 AM

Anyone going to the singaround tomorrow - (Wed)? It'd be nice to see the folks who couldn't make it last time...

Daisy

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:35 AM

Yeah - see previous post (heads, sky falling on, etc.)

I'll (Me = Steven) be there, so will Kenny ( I expect ) and Dita (John) owes the Silver Fox an electronic tuner, so I suppose he'll have to come...

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 07:03 PM

i'll be there, i have absolutely no charity events or bar mitzvahs planned. i'll turn up at half seven and grab a cup of coffee if anyone wants to say hello. look out for shy person with guitar and hair. cheers!

Subject: RE: Young Scottish Folkies?!
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 07:12 PM

Look forward to seeing you, Leo.
I'll be the fat baldy bugger without a beard.
Ken will be the taller bald(ing) bugger with glasses.
Dita will be the balding bugger with a beard.

Daisy and her mates are all stunningly beautiful...
And not at all baldy.
Honest.