MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club

Subject: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,Leraud
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 01:46 PM

Mawkin will be appearing at the Waltham Abbey Folk Club on Monday 19th April. They are an excellent band based in Essex comprising of David and Jamie Delarre and Danny Crump. If you have never come across them before, this is an evening not to be missed. They are talented and enthusiastic and I can't wait to see them again. They are also on at the Oxford Festival this weekend, so should be well 'played in' for the Waltham Abbey Club!

Waltham Abbey Folk Club meets every Monday at 8:30 p.m. at the Royal British Legion, Brooker Street, Waltham Abbey, not far from Junction 26 of the M25.

For further details contact [e-mail]

Lynne

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:03 AM

I agree with Lynne.

Think I saw them last year at Moreton. Very talented young band.

Should be a good one.

Simon

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:10 AM

Hurrah for Mawkin! I'll see them tonight in Oxford but I'll come to Waltham Abbey if I can work out where it is...

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:33 AM

If you don't know where it is, contact me and I'll give you EXACT directions. Don't want to lose any custom!

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:41 AM

Countess Richard

Not sure where you'd be coming from but we're just off the M11/M25 interchange on the Essex/Herts border. Can't do a blue clicky on this computer, but key in Waltham Abbey Folk Club on google and we'll come up. If you need more specific directions, request them on this thread and Ill post them.

Enjoy Oxford folk festival.

Simon

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:44 AM

Sorry Lynne

Our last posts clashed

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 09:10 AM

Hello, just to say, it all sounds so exciting but I will be going to The Bull at Barton, Beds on Monday, to the sing a round and to see Steve Last and The Ahswell Mummers, but I will be in contact soon, bye.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:27 PM

The club publicity dept has written the following limerick

By car, or by bus or by walkin'
You can get here, for entry fee forkin'
Out only four pounds
For the traditional sounds
Of wonderful music from Mawkin

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:35 PM

Whoever wrote that must be a genius.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:13 PM

He is a genius. Surely you've heard of his book 'Cool Bananas'?

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 01:39 AM

Cool Bananas? No.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,Ken from Enfield
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 03:34 PM

May check this one out. Only up the road from me. Monday's difficult but I'll try and get along .

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 04:01 PM

Dear Ken

Please do try. Mawkin are excellent and you can be assured of a warm welcome (whether you want it or not!)

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 04:16 PM

Forkin' four quid?
Four forkin' quid?
'Tis nothing, don't stand there just gawking.
So no ifs and buts
Just get of your butts
and have a forkin' food evening with Mawkin

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 04:20 PM

And it is for shame,
I know I'm to blame;
Having written the above, I can't make it.
But please don't look ascance,
I will do so, next chance!
When it comes, I'll be certain to take it.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: breezy
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 04:25 PM

oh no!!

all this squaking
about mawkin
let their music
do the talkin.

spotlight
tonight
alright?

well tomorrow really

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 05:32 PM

Here's a map The arrow points to the British Legion Hall.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Lanfranc
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 07:18 PM

Can't make it this week - running the Compasses session at Littley Green, Felsted (between Great Dunmow and Chelmsford for anyone from Essex or Suffolk who fancies a visit). Waltham Abbey is only just in Essex - postally it's in Enfield!

Pity, I'd have liked to have caught up with Mawkin again.

I'll be there the following week, though, for reasons that may later become obvious!

Alan

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 08:02 PM

Mawkin are a band
So I understand
Who come from the old Essex Region
They're lively and young
Full of talent and fun
And you can see them at the Legion

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 12:38 AM

If from Enfield you hail
These directions won't fail
Just hit Waltham Cross on the A10
A map you can spurn
Perform a right turn
To the sign, Waltham Abbey, mate an'

When you come to the sight
Of the Abbey, bear right
Round to three or four shops It'll take ya
Turn right down the road
Till you reach our abode
Though hitting the gig, I can't make ya

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: breezy
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 08:00 AM

Lancfranc wont be there
So we will have clean air

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 09:25 AM

My four pounds I'll surely be forkin'
For an enjoyable evening with Mawkin
But I will need a lift
So if Russ gets my drift
I'll be there, but I won't if I'm walkin'

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,Leraud
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 06:04 PM

But a walk is surely good for your health
so if Russ can't drive yer
Get there yerself.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 06:54 PM

Hello Lynne & Harlow Poet
Just got back from Oxenford
Much too tired to make up rhymes
Just been having THE BEST of times.

Thank you all for your suggestions
But I still have some awkward questions
(Oh, I'm getting the hang of this!)
Mawkin don't know where you dwell-
Have you got a STATION?   Please do tell...

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Lanfranc
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 07:42 PM

Me and El Greko
Will be taking a decco
At clubs (not run by Breezy)
Where the smoking is easy

I'll keep smoking for some time as
I'd like something to get me
Before Alzheimer's

Waltham Abbey has no station
Trains only go to the Cross
No rest for a Queen on her last peregrination
But Harold, with his hawk, on his hoss.

Alan

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 07:55 PM

'So will Harold and his hoss
Pick me up at the Cross?'
Quoth the countess (hopefully)

Or what would be better
If some young go-getter
When Mawkin is over
Revs up his Rangerover
And drives me all the way home...

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 04:33 AM

I am at work so have no time
to sit and write another rhyme
If you tell me what time your train will be there
I'll pick you up and charge no fare.

Seriously, if you want to come tonight, you need the train to Waltham Cross and provided you can get there between 7:45 and 8:00 I'll pick you up. Give me a ring today on 01920 870027 or email me at [e-mail]

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:22 AM

Mawkin
I thought they were fawkin good.
If I were you, I'd see them I would.

At the Oxford Folk Fest
They were probably, not quite, at their best
Through late night boozin'
When they should have been snoozin'.

But they are such nice and talented fellas
And when you've seen em you'll say,
"You didn't need to tell us!
They were stormin, they could play,
I'd go see 'em again another day!"

So go along and have a ball,
And if any of you have the gall
To say they were not so hot,
Well, one man's meat is another's poison, is it not?

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 02:14 PM

Sounds great, have a nice time and see you soon. From everyone at The Friendly Earth and Fretless Acoustic Club.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 04:02 AM

Thank you to the Friendly Earth and Fretless Club. We had a fantastic night. Mawkin are highly recommended for all clubs and festivals. Excellent music and humour.

Hope you all had a good time as well.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 05:54 AM

Great evening at a friendly club and a really storming set from Mawkin that included three broken strings and a Battered Hake.

And thanks for the lift there, Lynne, and to Dreadnought for the one back.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Dave of Mawkin
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 08:05 AM

Dear Poets,

Would any of you genius's mind if I steal a few of my favourites and stick it on our website?

Were all really chuffed.
Thanks for a terrific night Lynne, you have a great atmosphere in the club, we really enjoyed the night too, the floor spots were excellent as well.

For those who have never been, try to get to it, its a great night out for all.
(especially if you get to see Kevin Shiels sing!)

Dave Delarre :)

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: harlowpoet
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 08:29 AM

Dave

You'd be welcome to use anything I posted.

Good luck with the band. You're a talented bunch

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 08:39 AM

Dear Dave

Use whatever you like! It was great to see you all again and to meet Alex (I know his name now). Lovely interplay and humour between you all.

Lynne

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Dave of Mawkin
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 08:39 AM

Thankyou Harlowpoet, would you be Simon Vogel by any chance?

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: harlowpoet
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 09:07 AM

Dave

That's what they sometimes call me.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 10:05 AM

Hello yes we a great time, Steve Last was on fire, we had a one man mummers play, a bit like the one at Waltham Abbey last week only with just one man playing all the parts. And a chewing gum and sugar experiment. More about that when I next visit. Sounds like you had a great time. I will save up some money, and I might book them next time they are in the area.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Singing Referee
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 10:07 AM

Before anyone asks; it's OK they've put me out now!

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 10:29 AM

Dave

I'm not averse to you using
Any of my verse of your choosing
Three w's mawkin
Will have everyone talking
So I hope no poet is refusing

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 12:40 PM

Just been on a night out with Mawkin
You get tunes, tunes, tunes and no squawkin'
You should see them strings break
As they play Battered Hake
And the 'Worms shriek 'That's our tune, yer farkin'.....

Or,

Oxford Festival booked this band
'Twas Mawkin, finest in all the land
They went in search for a kebab van
Said Squeezy Spiers, 'I'm your man'
Through Oxford's moonlit streets they trod
Past dreaming spires and the book-filled Bod
Till at last they spied that kebab fella
Plying his trade of salmonella.
Alas poor Jamie got left behind
Alone with his fiddle in the rain and wind.
He strode off up the road to Woodstock
Thinking to find that window to knock
At the rear of the Half Moon pub.

Years have rolled on since this happened...

But the short version is, everyone found St Clements
And the session still plays on.

Any use Dave?

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 03:51 PM

I'm glad everyone had a good time. I was a bit disappointed for the lads when they played at the Oxford Folk Festival because the audience was a bit on the thin side; then again it was Sunday at 1pm and sore and sleepy heads might have caused this. Still, I thought they were great and I'll recommend them to the organisers at the local club.

Harlow poet has been an inpiration too eh what?

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 05:47 PM

Inspiration? HarlowPoet?
Yes, if you speak SerboCroat!
Me, I found his rhymes contrived, his lines a riddle.
From the heart one language speaks:
that what's spoken by the Greeks.
Why, I show more feeling when I take a p.....

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 05:56 PM

The above was writ in jest.
Thought I should explain it, lest
the unfortunates who don't speak Greek got shirty.
But why not begin a thread
where in rhyme all is said?
All you need's a keyboard, and not even QWERTY.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: tartan babe
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 05:58 PM

Hey, countess, you look really similar to James from Mawkin.
Are you his bird? (Or would you like to be?)
:-))
TB

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:06 PM

El Greko

Not sure if we've met, but I bumped into Mcgrath of Harlow this morning, and he said you wrote some good songs. So I'll let you off. Though I would anyway.

Come to our club sometime.
Simon

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:17 PM

Simon, listen to McGrath
for in songs great taste he hath.
I am joking, though McGrath's praise is no waffle.
And I'm glad you let me off
- it's the whiskey that I scoff -
and I hope real soon to split with you a bottle.

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:34 AM

Hi tartan babe! Who are you? Are you very short-sighted? I don't look a bit like James but I sure as hell wish I played as well as he does...

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: breezy
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 05:02 AM

some of El Grekos songs have already been aired at W-Ab FC although only he and Vin Garbutt do justice to Flowers in the Guns.

Your leader can tell you more and Jan too

So whose your next guest then?

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: tartan babe
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 05:39 AM

lol, ok, if you take a peak at your pic here

and Jamies pic here

There is a tad of resemblance, don't you think?
I am short sighted though! lol

:-p
TB

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Leraud
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 05:46 AM

Well Countess Richard - you've certainly changed since Monday night!

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 05:56 AM

errm..not with you Lynne. Same me, same fiddle. Just more inspired to practice it. And maybe let my hair grow as long as Jamie's and make it curl...

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Dave of Mawkin
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 07:22 AM

Sorry ladies but Jamie is taken.However the other 3 are single... ;-)

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: tartan babe
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 07:43 AM

>Sigh<
oh well. As a fellow fiddler, maybe a gutarist would be a better catch anyway!
I'll have to try to catch you guys at a festival.
Maybe we should all gather in the bar for a beer!
0:-p
TB

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 08:16 AM

Hey tartan babe! Come to Moreton Village Festival on 21 - 23 June, details on Mawkin's website. We can have more than one beer and lots of tunes.

There'll be a kind of prequel (that's if Mawkin get back from Cromer pier) at the Cellar Upstairs on 8 May when the Gloworms who are doing the Friday ceilidh at Moreton will be the guests. Mawkin should be floorspotting - and there could be mass Hake Battering...

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Dave of Mawkin
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 06:37 AM

Hey Tartan Babe!

A beer sounds great, in fact, thats where you'll find Mawkin at any festival,pub or club.Were doing plenty of festivals this year, so im sure you'll be able to catch us somewhere,However come to Moreton Folk Festival on 11-13th of June (NOT 21-23rd June Countess!) and im sure you'll have fun season passes including camping are £22.50 - Check out me website to see whos playing!

As for the Cellar Upstairs on the 8th of May, I dont think its physically possible, we may stay an extra day in Cromer. I better speak to the lads.

Finally, I personally think the guitarist is more sexy anyway....

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:00 AM

Oops sorry Dave. Must have been thinking of the Fleadh and confusing you with Bob Dylan.

Do, do, do try and make the Cellar Upstairs on 8 May. That's everybody - but especially Mawkin 'cos if there's one thing better than a Gloworms gig, it's a Gloworms/Mawkin confrontation!

Subject: RE: MAWKIN - Waltham Abbey Folk Club
From: Dave of Mawkin
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:15 AM

Actually, if you see an early picture of Dylan, I do look a bit like him, expecially when I get up with a hangover!

A Mawkin/Gloworms confrontation has only ever happened once in history, are the public ready for another?!