'Cara' for your Folk Festival.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:00 AM

Yes, indeed, I think that they are wonderful.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:18 AM

Hey this is fun. Can I join in?

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Oaklet
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:22 AM

No - you are too good.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:24 AM

No! May I just add to the general concencus that I also agree that Cara are a band of most excellent fancy!

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:24 AM

Oh, you big spoilsport, David!

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:31 AM

I would suggest that negative GUEST comments on here are avoided as they tend to stir trouble unnecessarily. Opinions by those who are registered on Mudcat, whether negative or positive should be taken on board(IMHO) as they will generally be given with honesty and integrity and can be answered or questioned in the normal manner.
Cara are well above pub band status, as someone already said in reply to a GUEST.....incidentally...all the Guests who have made negative comments on this thread could be the same person..do you think????
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:45 AM

Don't like to say this as it will inflate Oakleys already gargantuan ego, but he and the other lads in Cara are quite good really

Actually I saw them at Saddleworth earlier this year and they were superb, tremendous melding of the musical talents of all three

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:47 AM

we should track moany guest down, tie him up, then piss on him.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:10 AM

I'm sure someone could think of a whelk based torture instead Sir jOhn!

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Pat Cooksey
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:29 AM

Just had a listen, Cara sound very good to me, keep it up lads. I don't see any harm in a bit of self promotion, your music deserves it. All the best to you all and Happy Christmas.

Pat.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,Busybee Paul at work
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:58 AM

Sorry, forgot to put my handle to the whelk gag. Wouldn't want anyone to lump me in with the other "guests" on this thread!.
Deirdre

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,Yet another Guest
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 03:51 PM

Two points:

1. All Guests are not the same. I'm nothing to do with the other Guests that have posted here. The reason I don't reveal my name though is simple. I want the freedom to express opinions on other artistes including Cara without it being held against me. I think one of the band knows me so if I say that Cara are not as good as some people are claiming I don't want said band-person to pick a fight when we're next at the bar.

2. As this thread is headed 'Cara' for your Folk Festival, will one of the Cara Cheer-Leaders please state how many Festivals have so far confirmed bookings for Cara in 2005? I have mentioned the band to several Folk Club and Festival organisers over the past week and most hadn't even heard of Cara. I gave up asking as I had to keep explaining that Cara are nothing to do with Cara Dillon.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 04:19 PM

"I think one of the band knows me"!!!!!!!!! But do you know the band? very questionable if you are approaching this from a negative angle. If you are trying to belittle the future of the band, I hope you are doing it on a firm basis. Caras following is growing and I personally have not known them for long, I can however hear the quality in their music and have had the pleasure of seeing them live at Gainsborough Folk Festival where I am sure they will be welcomed warmly back next year.
As I said before...anyone in a Guest mode who is being negative on here is best ignored, as anyone could be "stirring it" from any part of the world and to say "I think one of the band knows me" is no reason for hiding!. Have the courage of your convictions "GUEST, yet another guest", whose writing style is similar to the previous one regarding bookings at festivals. Identify yourself and perhaps if that establishes you as a valid critic, a known musician or someone in a position of respect...we might listen!
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Pat Cooksey
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 07:31 PM

I have just returned from my local bar, sorry guest, I don't get your point, naturally your contacts do not know of CARA but in time
they will, these lads play really well.
There are allways people who knock talent, perhaps they have many
friends, which perhaps you don't, I know in the world of folk music
worldwide friendship is all important.
When I began to write songs, longer ago than I care to remember, I had also many critics, I think my songs lasted longer than them.
GOOD LUCK CARA, I like your music.

Pat.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,Yet Another Guest
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:03 PM

Thank you Georgiansilver. Now can you please answer my question: How many Festivals have so far confirmed bookings for Cara in 2005?

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,yet another guest
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 09:08 AM

and while you're at it, "Georgiansilver", you could apply the criteria of your last sentence to yourself.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: MR
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 09:28 AM

yetanotherguest
Lovely to see you sending 'Best wishes.' to Georgiansilver.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 09:51 AM

To Guest yet another Guest, how many festivals are YOU playing and which one's, from this I may be able todeduce who you are and come and pour Whelks down your trousers half way through your set !

I'm listening to Abbeyfeale at the moment, albeit the Punch the Horse version, and it is truly moving, a beautiful piece of music

Oh God there I go again inflating Oakleys ego ..... damn

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:13 AM

GUEST, Yet another guest. You suggest I apply the criteria of my last sentence to myself..but why?.
I believe I have only shown myself as an encourager, to a good band, on this thread who has "hazarded a guess" that Cara will be booked for Festivals this year if people listen to their music on the site.
I have not suggested I am a critic, a performer or someone in a position to "Judge" them as you seem to have done.
I have no idea of Caras business dealings, nor would I want to have but because I know that they were thoroughly enjoyed at Gainsborough Folk Festival and in surrounding Folk Clubs (and other Festivals I am given to understand) I believe they are on the "UP" in the Folk world.
To that end, I will not be discouraged or wound up by your negativity as only time will prove whether or not I am correct in my humble assessment...not your discouraging words. So, meanwhile I will continue to encourage an excellent Folk trio, who are above average, and whose latest CD is one I play regularly
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: GUEST,Yet Another Guest
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:30 AM

Just to confuse all including myself, there seem to be two of us posting under the same name of 'Yet Another Guest'.

To Georgiansilver. Fair comment. I know you are only trying to "encourage an excellent Folk trio". Nothing wrong with a bit of promotion (or self-promotion) on Mudcat.

However, as this thread is headed 'Book Cara for your Folk Festival' I'm just intrigued to know from Cara and their promoters how many Festivals have actually booked Cara for 2005.

It would seem the answer is zero so far.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: The Beast of Farlington
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:38 AM

Guest

Isn't the whole point of Mudcat for people to share and tolerate each other's opinions?

'I'm just being honest' - fine, you are entitled not to like Cara as are others who do like them. Why does it then have to turn into an argument about whether you are right and they are wrong? Neither is right nor wrong, it's just opinion.

I will check Cara out and make my own mind up. But I'm not going to have a go at Georgiansilver for wasting my time if I don't like them. I'd rather thank him for giving me the opportunity to check a band out.

And so what if it's friends of the band promoting them? That's how any commidity gets sold, by promotion. People make their own decisions about whether they buy.

If you talked to a load of promoters about Cara you may well have done the friends of the band's job for them!

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:43 AM

I can't class myself as a friend of the band as I don't know them that well on a personal level. I do however appreciate their music and will do all I can to encourage and promote them..simply because I think their music is worthy of it.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:47 AM

Raggy, I'm so pleased you're listening to the proper version of Abbeyfeale. It still makes me cry.

Sorry your thread seems to have been bolloxed, chaps. Would quite like to have an evening of Cara myself sometime. David, you must let me know when you're playing.

Peter (yet another Peter) Giles Dean, D.o.B. 20/8/67, 32" inside leg, skinny, blue eyes, grey hair, crooked teeth, moderate to crap on the guitar, mandolin, bazouki, falling off motorcycles, likes a beer, F1 motorsport, hates football, resident of the glorious city of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Just in case there was any confusion.

Subject: RE: 'Cara' for your Folk Festival.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 03:08 PM

GUEST Yet another guest. I have been trying to figure out any possible reason, you would have personally, for even wanting to know the extent of Caras bookings. It seems to me that if I were anything to do with the band, and believe me I am nothing to do with them, other than taking an encouraging interest, I would be telling you to mind your own business as their bookings etc are nothing to do with you.
If you have something against the band or a member of it, please save it for another forum, like approcahing the member who might know you direct in a Gentlemanly manner..If not, then can I suggest that a bit of encouragement for anyone in Folk music does not go amiss, neither does a little promotion from people who have nothing to gain.
As I previously said, I believe Cara are on the "UP" and as such will encourage/promote/advertise in an attempt to further other peoples knowledge of a great Folk trio. To interest them in the website costs me nothing and if they wish to use what they hear, that's fine...if they don't they don't...they have the choice.
Can I please also encourage you to think positively.
Best wishes.