UK: Barton Sloop session to move again

Subject: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 05:21 AM

We have had to do some surgery to save the old Sloop session from dying, as it has not successfully survived the move from the Coach and Horses.

For those keen on UK pub session history, but not in possession of the facts, the Sloop Inn in Barton (sans) Upon (hyphens) Humber was the perfect location for a long-lasting and particularly successful mixed song and tune session that was eventually killed off by the outgoing PEL system, combined with landlord change.

Jo, the then manager of the Coach and Horses gave us a new home, and provided masses of really good grub, and the session's future seemed assured. However, she turned a failing pub around so successfully that the brewery allegedly bumped up the rent exponentially and she could no longer afford the pub. One of her last acts as manager was to find us a new home for the session at the George, and initially numbers held up.

However, the last few weeks has seen interest wane, and numbers have now dropped consistently below the level required for a viable session, as most bands have more members than we currently have sessioneers.

The concensus at last night's poor old do was that we had to move in order to attract some of our old regulars back, and that we had to find a pub with a PEL, and a sympathetic landlord who is likely to remain in office for some reasonable length of time. So we chose the Six Bells in Barrow Upon Humber, which is where we have had some cracking ad hoc Saturday night sessions, and subsequently the old Wootton session for the last several months. Barrow is three miles to the east of Barton, so shouldn't put folk off coming from near or far.

We also agreed that we would move the Barrow Last Sunday session to another venue, and that will hopefully be the Nelthorpe Arms in Brigg (aka Scanlons). That is still to be confirmed, and I will post updates as they happen.

I then called into see Jim in the Six Bells on my way home. There is a reasonably sizeable session room there that accommodates listeners as well as musicians (which includes singers!). He was delighted at the decision, and is up for seeing us next Sunday for the last of the Sunday sessions, and then again on Tuesdays in perpetuity. He will also provide some grub for the sessioneers, so please turn out in force to secure this venue as a long-term session.

See you next week!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Thornton Curtis
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 05:39 AM

Presumably - the Humber Bridge will be closed on the Tuesday evening to ensure the intelligentsia thread contingent from Hull will not be allowed to cross.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Thornton Curtis
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 05:48 AM

Presumably - I too am excluded, owing to the fact that I'm a total wanker!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 06:21 AM

The genuine Thornton Curtis is welcome, as are poor imitators.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 04:09 PM

Having been one of the stalwarts at the George last night, I must say it's a pity to have to move again so soon. BUT the Six Bells is a welcoming venue and we have had some cracking sessions there. North bankers need not fear, it is only five minutes - or less - further away than the Barton venues. If this could become as good a home as the Sloop was, then it will all be fine. Wonder what the grub will be like...

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 27 Nov 03 - 04:48 AM

Will we lure you back to the sarf bank, Smallpiper, being gifts of very cheap outboards?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 27 Nov 03 - 05:24 AM

Well I was there the session before last, outboard in hand but you were in Cleckie (I believe). I will be over when finances allow.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 09:14 AM

feresh.

One of jOhn's other personas 9the one that spells correctly, constructs grammatically correct sentences and expunges 9s) admitted on Folkinfo that he didn't know where the Sloop session had relocated to. He does now.

First one tomorrow night. Shall we lure any north-bankers?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Noel Thread
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 10:47 AM

Can I come?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Noel Fred
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 10:48 AM

No!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 12:35 PM

I may if I'm not in forn parts

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 04:08 AM

feresh, its tonight at 9.
i might go, if i'm not doing nowt.

john

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 05:13 AM

I'm afraid I'm going to be at Brid Spa, jumping around like a lunatic to melodic tunes as performed by that world renowned traditional folk group, Status Quo. Does that qualify as a sick note?

Pete.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 05:30 AM

By 'eck, Peter, 'twer in 1979 that I did the same thing in the same place, and me an Essex Man, too!

But I did grow out of them after they executed Alan Lancaster.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 11:03 AM

Well? How was were there lots of people there? Just because I couldn't make it 9due to being in forn parts) doesn't mean we don't want to know how it went.........

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 11:28 AM

.....Well, assuming you mean th Six Bells, rather than the Quo, it went bally well!

You would've liked it particularly, Juan, as there was a surfeit of pipers, two in fact. Ploughflyer brought one of his mates, a Thistle Dodger, who played them smallpipes you favour, and he's a braw player, too. Other'n that, it was a fairly small gathering that struggled to wipe out the truly excellent sandwiches that were laid on. It was a good atmosphere, and we were made very much at home.

So it's a runner, even if the bogs aren't down to standard.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 01:21 PM

Ploughflyer? - Thistle Dodger? - really, Greg, you've got to stop it, it will just send us all mad. Apart from that, it was a good session, and the place feels like home already. Let's hope the Barton/Sloop session (Barrow chapter) has found a long term home at last.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: ploughflyer
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 02:41 PM

As pleasing to the eye as to the ear.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 07:11 PM

I don't effing believe it. The landlord has been at the Six Bells since Methusalah was a lad, and we move there as a long term bet. Tonight I was told that someone wandered in off the street and offered some ridiculously large sum to buy the pub, and BANG, he's leaving on next Monday. Quite where that leaves us is unknown. The good news is that the pub has a PEL, the bad news is worse, in that it is the same pub chain 9allegegly) that bought and subsequently threw us out of the Nag's Head at Wootton. We have tried to resuscitate the Sloop session. Is everyone agreed that we stop trying?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 09:06 PM

No, dony stop trying!
there is plenty flok people in , this area,
maybe we buy a pub, some pubs is leese get sold for cheep, ie 3 or 4 tousand, we make a whip rouind , and every prople put monet, and but a good sessdion pub, and tell all the music people to go, i had this idea before, and i tell some people, like bassic, and smallpiliers, .
and if you get enought people, then we only haf to pay about 500 pound each, we wont make any money, but we get a goof session pub, and waht you exepect for 5 00 quid, we all put money, to makea folk pub, and them with no job, like basic, and littlepliers, do turns behind yhe bar there, and other people like me and you. [i could do tuesday, as my day off is tuesday], just see how many is interseded, =
like i said, we wont make loads of money, BUT we get a session pub, and every body share it, all do waht they can etc, ,maybe 1 person knows about bookpeepimg, so he does thsat, 1 person knows abourt, booking babnds, punch the hoese, cara etc, so he does thast, 1 person knows about the law,fire exits, etc [eric ET, does that, everybody does there good thing they good at, ie, i think you are a buyer for a animal feed company, so you do the buying, negotiate the best price, for drinks etc, every other people do waht they can, every ex sloop sessioner has certain skills, lets use them!
if a barton area pub lease is for sale at [for example £5000], we only need 10 people putting in 500 quid, we work for no wages, till its busy, then share any profits 10 ways, or reinvest it in the pub, booking acts, etc.
giving up is no good, thats waht giving up people do!
not sure if any pubs in the area are for lease, but we sould look at The Morning Advertiser, and Daltons Weekly.
I ran a pub for 6 months, bassic has loads of licenced trade experience, etc.
we will never surrender!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 12:30 AM

Just don't mention that you have ever been to, or heard of, the Nag's Head at Wooton. And do please keep us posted on developments, preferably in English. I'm trying to keep a reasonable listing for E Yorks/ N Lincs going on the YFA website, but it does seem to be a remarkably volatile area and I'm buggered if I can tell who most of those pseudonyms are. I suppose it's the usual Fen Country problem?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:18 AM

LOL Malcolm, and embarrasingly true! Sound advice, too, about not mentioning a previous defeat. You are doing a sterling job with the session listing, so here's the definitive list for North Lincolnshire as far as I am aware. Last Sunday session at the Six Bells, and until we are possibly evicted, every Tuesday at the Six Bells. Quite what happens down Grimsby/Cleethorpes way I am unaware

jOhn, please will you PM Malcolm with your knowledge of what happens on the north bank, and support the work he's doing on the YFA website. Thanks, mate.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:20 AM

..........and that pub idea is a good one, jOhn, but the word on the street is that the Six Bells went for half a million quid. Allegedly.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:23 AM

harf a millyion quid?
wahta bloody rip off!
thsts more than me and all my mates got, all put together!

if you see about any cheap pubs, let us know.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:33 AM

Whoops, sorry Malcolm. Every Wednesday at the Brocklesby Hunt at Goxhill, instrumental session augmented by sandwiches. Now that is it for the list of sessions!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:42 AM

Sorry to have missed last night's session - the fog kept me from venturing up your end (er...).
It's almost uncanny that everywhere this session moves to gets jinxed before many weeks have passed.Where's the old landlord moving to? Anywhere we might tag along?
Also, is not the last Sunday session to be held at Scanlon's Greg, as once mentioned - and if so would that be on for the 27th (day after st Stephens?)
Plan to be over at 6 Bells on Tuesday next but will check here first I guess!
Dáithí
Is that Goxhill session on tonight? - might head north if the fog clears.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:05 AM

Hiya Daithi. The old landlord is going to curl his toes up in the sun,and he doesn't want us on his beach. Secondly, there was a sentimental backlash at the last Last Sunday session to keep the session at the Six Bells, so I guess we just turn up next Tuesday and act normally. Ho Ho.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Beverley Barton
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:16 AM

Why not just sell up over there and move to Beverley?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:37 AM

Would that we could, Bev, old love. We'd have to sell South Ferriby just to rent a skip in Tesco's yard in Beverley. It's Benson's Tripe Works, see?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 09:00 AM

Beverley, I need immediate access to the whelk pens and there is simply too much folk music in Beverley's pubs. One can hardly get a game of darts in the East Riding for all the banging, twanging, squeezing scraping and bawling; let alone the issue of house prices. I think I'll stay put.

When Mr Benson fires up his old autolave, we can scrape a large quantity of a nutritious meaty snack-food from our roofs and windows if the wind is in the right direction. We call it "stringy grey butter".

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Beverley Barton
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 09:49 AM

It all sounds perfectly dreadful! Thank goodness my husband and I are resident in Cottingham, the home of several real folk clubs.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 04:39 AM

Fair enough then Skipper - I'll fire up the old bus and head for Barrow on Tuesday then. What time is kick off usually? As for acting normally, i suppose there's a first time for everything....

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 04:59 AM

I had a midnight call from the bogus Muslim cleric last evening to tell me that Jo from the Coach & Horses is being linked with the Six Bells, in that she will allegedly be installed as manager. This may be conjecture on the part of the people concerned with pub management issues in North Lincolnshire, but if it does turn out to be true, at least we have a friend at Court.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 05:13 AM

Jo breeds prize cockles in pens at Barrow Haven uder contract for Super Cockle - white coat clad freelance vendors of dangerous, stale closing-time seafood to those who have had sufficient alcohol to see vertues in consuming a tiny luke-warm dish of tired shellfish, drowned in vinegar for £3.00. What was the subject again?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 05:54 AM

David, that was actionable. I suggest you withdraw. Super Cockle are notoriously litigious.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 07:03 PM

Oaklet, again the mescaline has taken control and what is left of your brain is sparking like a sparkly thing. Stop it, or we'll have you put down (Mrs Trimfrittering's drawers)
Re the session, We are all frappé dans la bouche that our new home may turn out so temporary! But I suppose we'd better turn up next week and see what is happening. Come what may, a Tuesday evening session in this part of the world is a tradition - albeit a recent one. So let's keep fighting for it.
Daithi, look forward to hearing your whistle next week.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bassic
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 08:58 PM

This has been offered before, and I have not pushed it while there have been the tuesday Bewverly session and the Barton/Barrow sessions in good health, but the Admiral Hawke in Hessle is emppty on a Tuesday night, just over a year ago there was a regular crowd of participants and listeners at the formwer Hase session in Hessle, we hav3e a standing invitation to go back to Hessle and "do it again" in the Admiral, excellent Beer, (3 draft Ales ((Teltley, Spitfire, Castle Eden))at £2 apint, usual choice of largers and guinesses etc) and possibility of interesting "quisine" if things take off. Is it a goer? If so I will organise. expressions of interest below please otherwise I will shut up and keep quiet.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 03:41 AM

What of the toilets, Bassic?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Beverley Barton
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:12 AM

The Admiral in Hessle is an excellent suggestion! What say you jOhn? The place does not smell of Tuna and whelks does it Gordon? My husband cannot abide shelfish of any kind.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:29 AM

Hessle? A Bridge Too Far for frequent visits for me I fear..
see youse at the 6 bells though Tuesday next - Bloke, is it easy enough to find in Barrow?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Ayatollah
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:01 AM

Lee - landlord of the George, Barton - told me yesterday as we were sipping fruit juice together (alchol is an abomination of the infidel) that he had it straight from the Coach and Horses ex mouth Jo, that she was to move in to the Six Bells, Barrow on Monday. I understand that she bought it! That would surely secure our future there. I suppose I could check this out along with Skippy on Monday evening (a daytime visit is out for me as I am due to visit a mosque in Scunthorpe).

Allah came to me in a dream last night and said that KJ was about to reveal in stark detail Skippy's facilities. Be ever vigilant. It's going to come about. I can feel it in my water.

                   Sayings of the Prophet No 13 (or so) :

             A man with halitosis is better than no man at all.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:53 AM

Yer 'tis, Daithi

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:58 AM

Gordon, thank you for the kind offer of the Admiral, yet again. May we see how the Six Bells session progresses over the next weeks, and revert on this if it bites the dust.

I'm sure there is enough north bank support for the Admiral session anyway, as we seem to tempt few enough to pay the ruinous bridge tolls these days, so why don't you go for it anyway. We will mount occasional cross river raids to support you, by publicising that the Six Bells session is cancelled for those particular weeks.

Good luck with it.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: KJ
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 07:23 AM

Won't be able to make it next week I'm afraid as I'm working, but following week, all the deities be praised, I could do with some xmas cheer & Col could do with drowning his sorrows, so hopefully it'll still be gooing strong.
Ayatollah THY WILL BE DONE VERY SHORTLY

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 07:25 AM

Go raibh míle maith agat Skip! Yer honour is a scholar and a gentleman an' no mistake, God bless yer..
(Sorry...just slipped into grateful peasant mode for a minute)
I'll slide up the A1206 on Tuesday then
Dáithí

(BTW Skipj, last time I heard "yere tiz" or somesuch, it was from my English Aunt who hailed from Cheltenham way. She used it to refer to the toilet. Not a comment on Oakely's favourite criterion for pubjudging by any chance then?)

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Ayatolla
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 06:49 AM

Allah's will not mine KJ. If I don't see you before, very merry Xmas to you both and any other infidel intimates of yours.
   I will be at the 6 bells, Barrow tonight God willing.
   Tina Turner rang to say she's coming (the mind boggles). I trust Skippy will make an appearance.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 08:00 AM

I was going to stay in and wash my hair, but seeing as Mr Bennet is trusting in me, I, the same God willing, will be present and voluble.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 09:52 AM

I will not be there as I will be in forn parts however both myself and Niknak will be making an appearance at Goxhill the following evening. Skippy I've had no luck with the tank thingy sorry.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 02:11 PM

Will attend, with pleasure, of course, the more the etc.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:28 AM

Skipjack is buying a tank?
9them barton people are crazy!