Aussie-Girl Mudcat Member Whistle Player

Subject: Folklore: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: FIDDLE-4
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 08:06 PM

SEARCHING FOR A MUDCAT MEMBER -??YOU THE WHISTLE
PLAYER WHO CAME TO IRELAND AND LEFT A LIGHTER IN THE
BAR AT OUR SESSION IN MATTIES-OUTSIDE LARNE ABOUT A MONTH
AGO. WE'LL SEND IT OVER TO YOU.

Subject: RE: Folklore: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 09:45 PM

G'day FIDDLE-4,

Was that Alison? (Although she sounds pretty Irish to us Aussies - being from County Down - but she probably starts to sound Australian to the Irish!)

Alison plays whistles - as well as piano accordion and bodhran (and a few other odd instruments) ... I don't know if she was back on the old peat, at that time.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Folklore: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 09:49 PM

And, please FIDDLE-4, stop SHOUTING!! It's hard on the auld eyes....grin....

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 10:41 PM

well I was in Ireland at the time..... I do play a whistle
but I wasn't at Matties (I was at the Crown & Shamrock at Mallusk)and I don't have a lighter....

so I guess it wasn't me... *grin*

there was a thread of someone looking for sessions around Belfast.... I didn't think it was an Ozzie though....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 10:45 PM

could it have been someone from this thread??

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: FIDDLE-4
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 07:46 AM

I think it was the girl called alison.
she played me one of her own tunes a -reel, she
was with some relations,,her husband/boy-friend
played bodhran the lighter may have been his,it
had a geen shamrock on the front.,
Matties is an old name for that bar,if the girl
in question remembers being at sessions around
larne.- town,she's must be the one.This session
was through the day at 3.00 or 4.00 starting..
She had to go up to belfast that night with her
relation's. I think this was her last day in Ireland.
Also I think I've stopped shouting.

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 10:10 AM

Yes, and thank you! grin....

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: FIDDLE-4
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 01:27 PM

Found you

I will not bother you again -Hope you

enjoyed Ireland.if you or your husband want's your

lighter just go to our web -site

http://www.hastetothewedding.com/
and get peter our manager to post it over.all the very best..

jim mcauley.

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 09:33 PM

I hope you found her... but it wasn't me....
all the details fit except its the wrong pub. I wasn't at any sessions in Larne.... maybe next time


sliante

alison

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: erinmaidin
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 04:22 AM

Just for the record...is there another term for a whistle player??? Whistle player just seems so awkward. Could I suggest "Whistlist"?

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 07:11 AM

That will depend if you have an Irish accent

or not.erinmaidin


fiddler-4

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:25 AM

Well by now I'm exceedingly curious....

Alison, do the details that fit include that you or your boyfriend lost a lighter? If so, the one that FIDDLE-4 has must surely be yours. Unless it's a Dunhill or Davidoff, in which case it is probably mine. Or a solid-gold S.T. Du Pont, in which case it's definitely mine.

If you didn't get to Mattie's near Larne, did you at least make it to The Meeting House, Cairncastle? (Which is the same place.)

Anyway, FIDDLE-4, who do YOU think is the lighter's rightful owner? Who is you claim to have found? And by the way, I know who you are now. You played a nice tune on my whistle 2-3 years ago (at Billy Andy's, which have been intending to re-visit ever since).

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: FIDDLE-4
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 01:45 PM

Thanks
for coming to billy andys -saddly it
dose not have music in it any-more....

and to every-one at mudcat-I've found who
it was...mudcat ,girl found...now.

jim mcauley.

fiddle -4

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:06 PM

Hi fionn, all the details EXCEPT the name of the pub and the lighter.... hahahaha

BTW erinmaiden... I call myself a whistler

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:23 AM

Hello, I thought smoking was illegal in Ire;land?
so waht you got lighter in pub for then!

anyway, there is 2 Irelands [North Ireland, and South Ireland], which one is no smoking, or is it both of them?

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:43 AM

PS=my uncle is from Ireland, he's called Uncle Mick.

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: FIDDLE-4
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 08:44 AM

Alright enough of the craic

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 08:47 AM

Sir John, I'll watch out for Mick when I'm over there.

It's "South Ireland" as you put it (which also has the most northern bit) where smoking in public places is banned. So Alison would have been entirely within her rights smoking in Northern Ireland. I bet she wishes she hadn't been so quick to disown that lighter.

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 09:46 PM

OK... well lets get this straight then..... is it a good lighter?.... I mean... if its the gold plated one Fionn think it is.. maybe it is mine!!! especially if it has a few diamonds in it... it wasn't hiding underneath that 100 pound note I think I left in a pub somewhere near Larne????? *grin*

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 12:51 AM

Alison, are they paying hundred pound notes for jello wrestling in Larne these days? I'll spot you a match in Lisdoonvarna...harpy

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 09:48 PM

hahaha..... ah yes the undefeated mudcat jello wrestling team of harpy & alison takes on Lisdoonvarna allcomers during the matchmaking festival... should be fun

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 03:50 PM

II don't think the lighter ever existed. I think it was a chat-up line....

Subject: RE: AUSSIE-GIRL MUDCAT MEMBER WHISTLE PLAYER
From: alison
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 06:26 AM

well as chat up lines go..... "is this your $100"? would probably work better.... *grin*

well better than "do you come to Larne often?".......

slainte

alison