Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...

Subject: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:23 PM

Well, by now you must have heard about Janet Jackson - so who has any tales of their own to relate?

Robin

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Sleepless Dad
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:26 PM

Well I did get my mandolin strap caught in my ponytail once as I was trying to make a graceful exit off the stage. Thank goodness it wasn't during a SuperBowl halftime show.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:29 PM

Would you count an open fly, discovered only after I got off?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:37 PM

Ahh, DaveO - and so early in the thread... as long as you weren't doing Irish Dancing....

Just as well you had a big guitar and didn't play the Accordion...

Robin

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From: Jeri
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:39 PM

Dave, explain 'got off' please.
(sorry)

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Peter Woodruff
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:39 PM

Never wear turtlenecks under sportcoats on stage under hot lights. Definately a sixties thing but you swet like pigs. Been there done that.

Peter

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Peter Woodruff
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:40 PM

turtlenecks not tutlenecks.

Peter

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:41 PM

Don't wear loosely knit sweaters when playing accordion. Those little pins that hold bits of the accordion together get stuck in the sweater, and you end up playing your clothing, which has big holes in it later.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Peter Woodruff
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:42 PM

What's a tutleneck anyway?

Peter

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Peter Woodruff
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 08:46 PM

Jeri, Did you ever play The Weavers' Song while doing that?

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 09:28 PM

Peter, that's what we call 'em down south. The ones that bite are called, snackin' tutles.

I can't exactly call it a wardrobe faliure...However, there was a time when my second song of the performance required the use of the capo that I had in the pocket of my sportcoat. The problem was that I was so nervous I couldn't get my trembling fingers to find the pocket while I attempted to introduce the upcoming song. Eventually they found the capo and all was well.

By the way, after the show someone remarked at how cool and collected I looked throughout the performance...If they only knew!

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Peter Woodruff
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 09:41 PM

Alan C, I'm glad you still have tutles down there too. It took a long time to become the thing I am to you? Oh I'm now listening to the Indigo Girls! Sorry!

Peter

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 10:00 PM

Allan C
obviously qualifies - if your wardrobe had been functionly correctly it would have given you the item immediately - after all, you looked so cool and collected... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 12:16 AM

Not exactly a wardrobe failure but in this case we LOST one tit!
One night our trio was playing at Earls in Chicago (Not The Earl of Oldtown - the place Earl had after that). Our guitar player had a few drinks to calm his nerves before the show and was feeling a bit tired by the middle of the set. For support, he leant on the back wall of the stage only to discover that it was just a curtain - no wall - and promptly disappeared backwards off a 12" high stage (guitar and all) in the middle of a song. He was slightly behind us (visually as well as musically), so we didn't see what happened. By the time we realized there was a problem, the curtain had flopped back into place and he was nowhere to be seen. The remainder of the group, suddenly a duo with a much lighter sound and looking frantically around us for our third member, struggled to the end of the song.
I wish I had been in the audience because it must have been quite spectacular.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: harvey andrews
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:59 AM

Germany 1970's TV show, national. Arrived late and had one clean shirt in bottom of bag, as it was the end of a tour. Quickly changed, ran in to studio, took marks ready for broadcast live in three minutes. I felt a cold atmosphere. Checked fly, etc, all okay. Ten seconds before going on air to sing a jolly song I glanced above me at the monitor and saw that the director had zoomed in on a badge sewn on my shirt pocket (sewn on badges had been a fad a couple of years before and I'd forgotten about it).
The programme started with that image as I began the song.
The badge was the Star of David, with "Never Again" underneath.
Now, the sentiment was fine by me, but I must admit there's a time and a place for everything.
They were very polite afterwards, but I drove without stopping until I crossed the Dutch border!

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: rich-joy
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 04:09 AM

OK, not in Folk Music, but in a play during which Folk Music was being performed :

Lorca's "Yerma" was an exciting, innovative, production in Darwin, Northern Territory (Australia) - c. 1990 - and all actors were seated on stage the whole show.

One lass, named Nic (appropriately), rose to her feet to begin her part, only to find the elastic in her knickers had lost its former qualities. All she could do was step out of them, kick them under her seat and then "on with the show"!! Of course, she was always known as "Knickerless" after that ...

Another night in the same show, a couple were doing a wild dance scene, when one breast escaped the costume. Unlike Ms JJ, this was accidental though ...

Cheers!
R-J

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 04:11 AM

Tip of the day::
The woodworm died in my wardrobe when I put a folk music CD on.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Bobjack
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 04:13 AM

I've never played in a wardrobe. Where do the audience sit?

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 04:48 AM

Oh that's sooo Nowtro

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 05:57 AM

My mother sarong decided to attempt to escape when we were standing on stage once. Fortunatly she caught it in time!. We then spent a minute or two hunting for a safty pin.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:04 AM

Richard and Judy have asked me to mention when she popped out of her dress at an awards ceremony - Judy said she thought she'd put on a bigger show - 100% and not 50%.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:33 AM

Although not strictly a folk event, at one Inland Waterways festival two friends of mine were collecting money for the "Waterways Recovery Group" in a pantomime-style canal horse costume. It was a fairly warm day and the Lesley in the front end was only wearing a tee shirt on her upper body. They were ushered into the main marquee to receive a prize for making the biggest WRG collection. The National Chairman of the Inland Waterways Association asked them to come out of the costume to accept the award. Lesley took off the head portion and her tee shirt stayed with it. She didn't realise immediately what had happened and there is a wonderful topless photo of her - she is a very big girl in that department. It definitely wasn't planned.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:52 AM

I've learned from bitter experience never to wear a shirt which has buttons on the right when playing fiddle. I have managed to catch the heel of the bow more than once in the gap between buttons and have it fly out of my hand mid-tune.

Also, limit long dangly earrings to the right ear only as they will invariably catch in your strings, as will long hair not swept back over your shoulder.

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:03 AM

I was a member of the Young Farmers club here in UK when I was young and in my prime. We used to take part in the Entertainment competition held every other year. I was given the part of Olivia Newton-John in her role in "Grease". I wore a low cut tight black top and black satin jeans. (yea yea) I had to wear a strapless bra. The bit I performed (the last scene in the film "You're the one that I want" etc) went well, Then we all had to come back on for the curtain call. We all ended up on a loud note and our arms in the air... then I looked down! I had four (4) boobs! My bra had slipped and I don't know when it happened! Appropriate really considering we were farmers!

Sal

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 09:21 AM

Robin...Good idea!

Last summer my guitar/fiddle duo was joined by a friend on various hand drums (talking drums, bodhran, djembe etc) for a community concert in a park overlooking Lake Huron. As the sun set on the cool summer evening we played two full sets of tunes and shared a wonderful social time during the intermission. Had a great time.

Later photographs revealed that the drummer (who stood for the whole thing) was flying low with his shirt tail pulled through the zipper, and my sunglasses (we faced the sunset) were crooked. If anyone noticed I hope they thought it was part of our image.

Sorry, no boobs other than the band members.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:33 AM

Does morris dancing count? If so, I was playing for a solo jig at a street fair. The vigorous young fellow dancing the jig wasn't about to stop dancing just because of a silly little thing like a split crotch seam in his breeches. He also, apparently, wasn't about to wear briefs under said breeches, which became *extremely* evident when the squat capers began and his dingle-dangles dingle-dangled...much to the consternation of the onlookers.

Claire

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: VIN
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:48 AM

Turtle necks? hmmm sure they were called 'roll neck sweaters' or were they herrings? (nope thay're called roll mops, vin) or even polo necks? or 'Clancy Brother chunky specials'?.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Folkiedave
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 11:10 AM

Last year, main stage Sidmouth. Grenoside Sword were performing and one of their members' trousers dropped off as he raised his arms.

Now there may be some who are not aware of the expression "Commando Style" but I am sure you can work it out!! Some people (Janet Jackson/Grenoside Sword team) will do anything for cheap publicity. Janet just has better PR people.

Dave
www.collectorsfolk.co.uk

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Melani
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 01:22 PM

Not folk music at all--in fact, the lady in question was a Barry Manilow fan (!). She was a well-endowed animal lover who was telling me about incubating a baby bird by carrying it around in her bra, saying, "It was great! I had three, and one cheeped!"

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:25 PM

can't help but mention the most relevant wardrobe failure IN folk music..
from "William Taylor"

"A storm blew up upon the ocean,
She being there among the rest.
The wind blew off her silver buttons;
Then appeared her snow-white breast."

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:28 PM

and who can forget:

O there wis a butcher laddie, an' the laddie cam frae Crieff.
There wis a bonny lassie an' she cam tae get some beef.
He's gi'en tae her the middle cut an' doon she did fa',
an' the wind blew the bonny lassie's plaidie awa'.

Chorus:

For the wind blaws East an' the wind blaws West,
the wind blew the bonny lassie's plaidie awa',
the beef wis in her basket an' she couldna rise ava',
an' the wind blew the bonny lassie's plaidie awa'.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: rich-joy
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 05:35 AM

Then there's "Cathy Shaw" (Roger Watson, Muckram Wakes) :

"But then one day a fall of stones had pinned me to the ground
And all the lads come rushing up, aye, and quickly gathered round
And as they tried to pull me clear,
               well, you should've heard them shout
For me pitshirt was all ripped away, and so, they found me out"

OR, "The Female Rambling Sailor" (trad) :

"When a snowy white breast in sight it came
It appeared to be a female frame
Rebecca Young it was the name
Of the Female Rambling Sailor"

no doubt there're many more!!

Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: DMcG
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 06:33 AM

"So come all young men, come listen awhile,
I'll tell you what happened at Firelock Stile,
When a stump of a nail catched hold of her clothes
She fell down, and did expose
Her old Rump-a-tump tooral looral laddiedy
Rump-a-tump tooral looral day.

A gay young buck was standing by
The sight of her **** so dazzled his eye
She said "Young man, I feel amazed
To see a young gentleman stand and gaze
At my Rump-a-tump tooral looral laddiedy
Rump-a-tump tooral looral day."


(Edited for those who don't like to be caught unawares like this - but see the DT if you do!)

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:07 PM

Performance: (in)appropriate dress codes?

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:12 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:36 AM

Phil Cunningham told a nice story about Fergie MacDonald who was playing his accordian at a ceilidh. The clip at the bottom which keeps the bellows shut, caught on his kilt as he lifted the instrument and exposed him to his audience. An old ladie went up to him and said "do you know your willy's hanging out" to which he obliviously replied, "No. How does it go?"

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: matai
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:46 AM

My wardrobe has never failed during folk music but my folk music wardrobe fails a lot of other places.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Juan P-B
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM

Shortly after the Superbowl 'boob' an interviewer asked Dolly Parton if she'd ever consider such a publicity stunt.

In that great accent of hers she replied, "Honey if I did that It'd take out the first four rows of the theatre"

Juan P-B

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 12:23 PM

If you use a plectrum occasionally, but play mainly fingerstyle, don't store the plectrum between your teeth while doing an intro to a song. Singing with a plectrum between your teeth ain't easy - trust me; I speak from experience.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 01:03 PM

I've been fortunate, but I've watched (from the stage) others not quite so lucky.

A few years ago at a St. Patrick's benefit for a local school, we all held our breath as one of the kilted female sword dancers had her kilt let go. She managed to not miss a step, but only had one arm aloft -- the other was clutching her kilt to keep it wrapped around, close and ON. We ALL breathed a sigh of relief when the tune and dance finished and she could escape modestly.

What a trooper.

Linn

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: GUEST,12 STRING STAN
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 01:57 PM

The group in which i play landed a very posh function gig in a five star hotel in Dublin, way out of our usual venue catagory.

For the occasion, we decided to wear a uniform (shudder) so we brought with us black trousers, with rather strikng bright orange shirts, with black and orange striped ties.

In good form we drove to Dublin, in jeans and sweatshirts, arrived at the gig, where we discovered to our absolute horror, that our "uniforms" were identical to the uniforms worn by the bar staff. even the bloody ties were the same.

As we had no choice we donned the uniform, minus the ties, as that would have been too embarrasing, but it was commented on quite frequently throughout the evening

Lesson?: NEVER WEAR A F***ING UNIFORM TO PLAY!!!

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:03 PM

So I take it it wasn't a Catholic Pub? :-)

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Peace
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:08 PM

I have never caught my tit in my shirt.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:46 PM

Dave Bryant - I think you mean "wearing on her upper body only a teeshirt", not "only wearing a teeshirt on her upper body", as otherwise the rear of the horse whould have had an interesting time.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Mark Ross
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 10:33 AM

Utah Phillips used to joke about having changed his name from Zipper, not being willing to see a headline in the trade papers about ZIPPER OPENS IN CHICAGO. One night he told the joke with, well you can guess the rest.......

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 04:26 AM

Just Beware you Follkies! ROFLMAO!!!!!!

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Date: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:55 pm
Subject: Super Bowl tragedy one year on


WASHINGTON, DC—As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the Super Bowl XXXVIII tragedy, an FCC study shows that millions of U.S. children were severely traumatized by the exposure to a partially nude female breast during the Feb. 1, 2004 halftime show.

Above: Jackson irrevocably damages millions of American children. "No one who lived through that day is likely to forget the horror," said noted child therapist Dr. Eli Wasserbaum. "But it was especially hard on the children."

The tragic wardrobe malfunction occurred approximately 360 days ago, during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's performance of "Rock Your Body," when Timberlake tore Jackson's costume, accidentally revealing her right breast.

"By the time CBS cut to an aerial view of the stadium, the damage was done," said Wasserbaum, who has also worked extensively with orphaned and amputee children in Third World war zones. "I've found that children can be amazingly resilient, but this event was too much for many of them to take. The horrible image of that breast is likely to haunt them for the rest of their lives."

According to the 500-page report filed by the FCC, more than 90 percent of the children who saw the exposed breast said they were "confused and afraid."

"Mommy has dirty chest bumps," said a 5-year-old boy quoted in one of the thousands of case studies compiled by the FCC. "She's like the bad lady on TV. I'm afraid Mommy will take off her shirt and scare everyone. I hate Mommy."

Girls were traumatized as well, often expressing apprehensions about sexual development. According to Wasserbaum, one 8-year-old girl told her parents that she didn't "want to get evil breasts."

Wasserbaum said children of both genders associate their trauma with footballs, presumably because of the context in which they were exposed to the breast.

A great number of children who witnessed the tragedy are still plagued by nightmares of sun-shapes that recall Jackson's nipple ring. Of the infants who saw the breast, 76 percent are unwilling to breast feed or use a bottle, forcing their parents to nourish them intravenously.

"When the tragedy took place, we knew it would cause psychological trauma, but we had no idea how long the effects would last," Wasserbaum said."Our worst fears have been confirmed. It will take years to repair the damage."

Cases of deviant sexual development induced by breast-glimpsing are widespread amongst older children. Pathologies range from schoolyard exhibitionism to gender-role confusion and violent shirt-tearing.

"The FCC imposed the maximum $27,500 penalty on each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations," Wasserbaum said. "But the government offered no recompense to the individuals exposed to the breast. And neither Jackson nor Timberlake has ever specifically apolgized to the children whose lives they ruined, or donated a penny for the adolescents' psychiatric care."

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:06 AM

Geez....I hope that report isn't serious!!! I saw the 'incident' too when it was shown on TV. Now I am afraid to take my clothes off to take a shower in case I accidently see my own naked breasts.

Oh dear.....

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:14 AM

The horrible image of that breast is likely to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Do mothers blindfold their babies before they breast-feed them?

Or do they actually not only let them look at the horrible image of breasts but even let them suck at them?

How many babies are traumatized each year in that way by their own mothers?

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:06 PM

The largest wardrobe failures tend to be during festivals. Quite often the organisers don't expect performers to change costume, so there are quite a few of us behind stage trying to change as fast as we can, with half the town walking past...

BTW Bat Goddess, part of the costume specification foe highland dancers, of both sexes, is 'discreet underwear, in a plain colour, prefably black'

The real thing to worry about in the sword dance is kicking them across the room, or just out of place enough to make your steps more awkward

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: Burke
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 06:11 PM

Yeah, right! I understand why Foolestroupe did not provide a link. Here's the source.

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 06:47 PM

Ah, The Onion! Indeed...

Anyone not already familiar with this wonderful publication, save the URL and check in weekly ~ new nonsense every Wednesday!

Subject: RE: Wardrobe Failures during Folk Music ...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 07:53 PM

Actually, it was forwarded to me without attribution - thanks Burke - still worth a smile, maybe even a Song Challenge....