Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004

Subject: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 08:20 AM

Can I draw you attention to this year's Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival?

18, 19th, 20th June

Confirmed artists:
Fairport Convention
Show of Hands
Levellers Acoustic
Shooglenifty
Demon Barber Roadshow
Simon Mayor & Hilary James
The Family Mahone
The Mighty Zulu Nation (Zimbabwe)
Nusantara (Malaysia)
Galena Street East (California)
Pete Morton
Baker's Fabulous Boys
The Boat Band
All Blacked Up
Keith Donnelly
Les Barker
Hamish Currie
The Middlewich Paddies
The Salt Town Poets
And more...
On 2 main stages + a Festival Club Stage + a large fringe festival.

Oh yes, there's also one of the countries largest narrowboat rallies.

web site www.middlewichfestival.org

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Rich A
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 08:56 AM

I'll be there with the morris team, excellent line up!
Hope it's the same company running the beer tent as last year. Good beer at reasonable prices, not the expensive rubbish you get at certain other festivals.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:06 AM

Hi Rich

You'll be pleased to hear we've got the same beer tent people!

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:29 AM

I went to the site, and first off it wouldn't load, so I had to restart. Then it loaded, and when I went to look into the cost of stalls, Norton Anti Virus kicked in with a 'Malicious Script' warning, and advised me to close the site down.
John

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:37 AM

Loaded just fine for me...
Woohoo! Demon Barbers on Saturday! Worth the ticket price just for that...

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Hamish
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 01:59 PM

Fairport Convention, Show of Hands, Levellers Acoustic, Shooglenifty, Demon Barber Roadshow... ...Hamish Currie...

Looks good to me (gulp!).

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Wombat at work
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 04:13 AM

hope the boats are back, there were very few last year due to cost I was be believe

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: fiddler
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 07:04 AM

It'll be hard work getting the baot to middlewich on a friday - no more hols but never mind might bring the landrover instead it can travel at more than 4mph and doen't hug the contours in teh same way!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: fiddler
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 07:07 AM

Just checked it - 6 days each way by narrow boat

A

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 06:11 AM

Mr Happy with his new group 'Senior Moments' will be attending frige events!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Josher
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 01:56 PM

This year the boats are back! They have reverted to the original system of no charge for mooring and mooring on a first come first served basis . for more info check the festival website www.middlewichfestival.org . As a boater and folkie this year looks really good both for folk and boat

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 05:39 AM

Yes - just to confirm, there will be no mooring charges at all for boats. British Waterways are no longer involved in the festival in any capacity and it was they who insisted on having a mooring charge last year. Please spread the word as much as possible as we want to see all our boating friends back this year. There is a registration form on the web site but this is just to give us a idea of numbers/who's coming etc. There's also an information sheet fo boater been uploaded today.

Re. web site problems. Make sure you're accessing the current site (www.middlewichfestival.org). There are still a few old sites that we can't ged rid of.

Glad to see positive comments about the line-up. Just hope I get to see some of it myself!!

Cheers, Ian.
Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 05:42 AM

Meant to say...

Additional artists confirmed:

Seth Lakeman & Benji Kirkpatrick

Attila the Stockbroker & David Rovics.

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 05:56 AM

This sounds like a good weekend away! What's the camping situation like and is it child (8 and 14) friendly?

That URL didn't work by the way!

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST, Hamish
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 06:29 AM

It should have worked. Try this: festival web site

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 06:48 AM

Many thanks - it did that time!

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Phot
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 12:57 PM

F*** me now thats a line up! I'll try and get there this year. Ican't think of a better way of combining two of my favorite hobbies!

And if I can get my Landy back on the road, watch out Fiddler, you may wake up on the wrong roof! :~)

Wassail Chris

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 03:24 PM

Hmmmm. If that coincides with the hubby's school chess weekend it could be one for me and the kids (they don't run around in concerts though)!

Cheers
Sarah (the other fiddler)

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: fiddler
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 03:45 PM

I'll wait and see Phot - I need to have a tent there B4 I climb up - unless there are lions about!

Andy

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Phot
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 05:39 AM

How can you lose a roof tent on a bright red 110?

Wassail

Chris

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 07:01 AM

Sarah asked about the camping.

We have a very large campsite. Its about 1/2 hour walk from the festival sites but there is a free shuttle bus. The campsite is right on the edge of the town with farmland on two sides and decent housing on the others so I would say it was child friendly. There are indoor toilet facilities that have been upgraded since last year. There will be breakfasts provided by the scouts and they will also be doing evening grub if you order it in advance. Ready for when you get back from the gig! The grub will be nice - my Mum is the cook!

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 09:05 AM

Many thanks Ian, that sounds good.

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 09:05 AM

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,rob
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 10:06 AM

Hey dont forget the fantastic TAGGART AND WRIGHT they will be there somewhere somehow sometime.!

www.sky-web.net/taggartandwright/

for more info

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 10:15 AM

How could we. You remind us how good they are on nearly every thread!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,rob
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 10:25 AM

thats what they pay me for!

Seeing is believing!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 04:55 AM

Taggart & Wright were welcome guests at Middlewich's Winter Warmer Festival last November. I can certainly vouch for how good they were. I'm not just saying that to get this thread back up the board either!

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 05:58 AM

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST, Hamish (again)
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:10 AM

that you again, Ian?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,rob
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:59 AM

Thanks for the compliment Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 06:58 AM

Hamish - it was - is your day job being a detective!

Rob - not a problem - it's true! Taggart & Wright would be very welome guests at the Salt Town Poets Open Mike during the festival. I should imagine there will be a few more people there than there was at the Winter Warner one!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 06:26 AM

As people seem to be using this thread to ask questions about Middlewich...

Never been to Middlewich Festival. Is it mostly folk or mostly boats? Also what is the festival like for sessions & singarounds?

Andy (Gloucester)

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Josher
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:46 PM

Hi Andy
It's both lots of boats and lots of folk including singarounds and sessions, there is also a very active fringe with lots of venues, all free I might add, in the pubs. There iare also a lot of dance sides in the town over the weekend as well
There is lots going on and the town is taken over Friday, saturday and Sunday by Folkies and Boaties
so If I was you i would come on down and see what all the fuss is about

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:02 AM

The MFAB has one of the best fringe festivals around. Great friendly bunch of nutters the boaties and the folkies are not bad either.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:40 AM

Knowing nothing about boats I wanted to make sure that it wasn't a boat festival with a couple of concerts thrown in. I've since looked at the Artists line-up and can see that that is far from the case!

Reading the messages in this thread it looks like the camping facilities are pretty good and that there would be plenty of opportunities to have a go myself - I'll bring the guitar!

Cheers all, Andy.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Tracey Dragonsfriend
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:50 AM

And there'll probably be a stall run by my friends Jeff & Lesley Wyatt, with knotwork & pyrography. They're nice people, and do some lovely work - give them a look!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 02 May 04 - 12:10 PM

Just to let you know that the Daystar theatre group will also be performing and on the Sunday we have a horse drawn boat display.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 05 May 04 - 08:49 AM

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 05 May 04 - 08:50 AM

I see they've got Atilla the Stockbroker who I like. Anyone know anything about David Rovics whose playing with him?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 05 May 04 - 06:33 PM

Hi Andy,

You can check out more on David Rovics on http://www.davidrovics.com/

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 06 May 04 - 06:00 AM

Thanks Kate

Very interesting but what I want though is someone to tell me what he's like!

As he & Atilla "clash" with Show of Hands I need to decide who to go & see!

Anyone ever seen him before?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 08 May 04 - 09:20 AM

I haven't seen him before, but have heard good reviews and reports...

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 11 May 04 - 03:40 PM

this horse drawn boat - whats that all about?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 14 May 04 - 06:44 AM

It's a boat drawn by a horse.

Clever things horses although I don't know how they manage to hold pencils...

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Willa
Date: 14 May 04 - 06:53 AM

Is PTH taking part?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 14 May 04 - 07:49 AM

Er...

Not officially, so no. Unless they can say otherwise.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 15 May 04 - 02:42 PM

who or what is PTH?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 15 May 04 - 02:48 PM

Hi guest - more info about the horse boat...

Horseboating required great skill and knowledge. Working with and caring for horses was central to canal life, and we cannot understand that society without a much better awareness of the part played by horses. At its best, horse-power was a very efficient means of transport. At a steady walk, a horse could pull fifty times as much cargo in a boat as it could on the roads. Achieving this needed close working relationships between crews and horses, and between crew members themselves.

Re-introducing horseboating today is not easy. Some parts of the canals have been altered to make it hard for horses to work, and there are many issues of access and safety. Finding suitable horses with the training necessary for this work is difficult. Most of all, few people now have the necessary skills, and even fewer the detailed memory of how horseboating was actually done in its commercial heyday.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 04 - 08:55 AM

Guest, PTH is Punch the Horse which is a band followed by an annoying bunch of people from some poxy eastern county who seem to take over Mudcat from time to time with their illiterate ramblings. They have their own special thread so that can't annoy the rest of us. I'd keep well clear if I were you.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 18 May 04 - 08:42 AM

Now now! All are welcome at Middlewich.

Ian.