Alternative British Folk Awards 2005

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: breezy
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 05:55 PM

jealousy wont help.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: BB
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 12:25 PM

Of what? I'm hoping there was a hidden :) in your statement, Breezy!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 01:36 PM

You never can tell with Breezy, but he usually means well - heart of Gold & all that!

Anyway, Hear, Hear BB!!!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 03:20 PM

Glad to know that I am not the only facetious "foot in mouth" catter.
GUEST's statement is downright libellous and its publication in Mudcat can render this forum liable. I'll ask Joe Offer to delete the post - if that's OK with Shambles, that is.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: breezy
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 05:21 PM

Well is there fire?

It would help explain a certain bias.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Folkiedave
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 05:45 PM

Absolutely no truth in such a scurrilous rumour - she has much better taste than that.

And I have slept with her so I should know. And with Katherine Roberts. And at the same time.

Dave

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,(same one as before)
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 08:32 AM

OK, OK, I take it back quite readily.
But it DOES make you wonder, I mean, hardly a week goes by ...

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 11:07 AM

Can't believe MC Fat has not yet been nominated for the Horizontal award...!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 02:07 PM

Oops, butterfingers! I hereby nominate MC Fat for the Horizontal Award & invite him to Miskin at Easter for the grand elimination!!!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Cats
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:57 PM

For Life Time Achievement Awards I cannot split the nomination so I'll nominate two of the most dedicated folkies I know and both for the same reason. They have both given their lives to helping others find and enjoy folk music. Andy Jackson, who runs Miskin Festival and Alan White who runs Wareham Wail (and Sidmouth campsite). If anyone has ever been to either of these events you'll understand why and if you haven't... well isn't it about time you did? It's people like this who keep the tradition alive and well and make sure it is passed on to the next generation. Andy and Alan...

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 08:20 AM

Would come to the eliminator at Miskin but i'll be practising being horizontal in Barnsley that weekend but I've got to say that I'm chuffed to be mentioned gosh even choked ( I think I'll have a Gweneth Paltrow moment at t'wards ceremony)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,banzai
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 07:57 PM

From: eric the red
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:23 AM
You forgot a nomination for the worst presenter of folk music on the radio EVER. Obviously only one nomination, Mike Hardly, oops Harding.

dear eric - i cant support these remarks about mike - in fact i think you are must be having a fool's interlude to say that. Dont you think Mike knows the ropes and the score. He knows and loves what happens at grass roots level. He mans the widest media opportunity to entice people into the genre with laudible discernment given commercial criteria that allow it to be there at all. People move from his programme to exploring folk clubs and their own desire to hear and contribute to live self-entertainment. Get real dude!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 01:32 PM

My nomination would have to be Archie Fisher, as I can't make out a word he says.

It drives me daft,when I'm trying to get a CD title or information on a performer.

Maybe somebody could send him a new set of false teeth...Ake

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Hawker
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 04:47 PM

I'll second Cats on Alan White and Andy Jackson. Both tireless in their efforts and worthy of the accolade!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:52 AM

NOMINATIONS CLOSED

Nominations have now closed and THE COMMITTEE is now scanning them.

Voting will commence when the committee has done drinking.

:-)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:04 PM

IanC: Dont forget, we haven't had the Grand Elimination for the Horizontal Position yet...............

teehee - think the plan has worked, it can't possibly be 3 years running now

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 05:29 PM

Guru - we will be testing your reputation as La Grande Horizontale out this weekend.
All will be reported back to this forum......
Mary

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Cllr
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 12:02 PM

thank you for the nomination (i think)Id rank a litre of Port and brandy at miskin so i suggest we start off with that before we get down to the serious drinking. Mines a barrel of bombader nbomaner bonameer err Charlie wells Cllr

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 04:16 AM

Mudcat 2005 Alternative British Folk Awards - Nominations Accepted!

THE COMMITTEE has met and the following nominations have been accepted (please PM me if there are any omissions which you feel need to go in at this stage and THE COMMITTEE will consider them).

1. PUB/CLUB FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
(A) Bob Fox
(B) Christine Connolley ("Moses")
(C) Jeff Hankin
(D) George Papavgeris
(E) Ken Stevens

2. PUB/CLUB MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
(A) John Breeze
(B) Pete Coe
(C) Geoff Higginbottom
(D) John Kirkpatrick
(E) Pat Smith
(F) Miranda Sykes

3. BEST "NON COMMERCIAL" GROUP / DUO
(A) Blake's 3
(B) Charlie & Adrian Button (Of Hobgoblin store in Nottingham)
(C) Mary Humphries & Anahata
(D) 'Moses and the Ref'
(E) 'Pig's Ear'
(F) Pat Smith & Ned Clamp

4. BEST "NON COMMERCIAL" CD
(A) "Donovan Songs" -Pete Rimmer
(B) "Echoes of Mingulay" - Les Sullivan
(C) "Guide Cats for the Blind"
(D) "Too Far From The Shore" - The Boarding Party
(E) Jeff Hankin's CD (anybody tell me what it's called?)

5. HORIZONTAL AWARD (Best drinker)
(A) Damian Barber
(B) Cllr (preferring otherwise to remain anonymous)
(C) Crispin Bartlett
(D) Avril Betts
(E) MC Fat
(F) Vaughan Hully ("Snuffy")
(G) Splott Man
(H) Hilary Ward ("MGAS")
(I) hris Wilson (Of the Wilson Family)

NOTE ... voting for the Horizontal Award this year is complicated by the fact that a number of the participants appear to have agreed to take part in an "eliminator" at Miskin on the weekend of the 4th - 6th March 2005. Your vote may be wasted if you vote for a nominee before the eliminators have been undertaken (!)

6. BEST FOLK CLUB
(A) Bothy Folk Club Southport
(B) The Carrington fc, Nottingham
(C) Llantrisant
(D) Seaford Folk Club
(E) Spotlight club, St Albans
(F) Windward, St Albans

7. BEST PUB SESSION (Regular)
(A) The Bull at Barton-le-Clay
(B) Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge
(C) The Guest House Southport
(D) Ram Inn, Firle, Sussex
(E) Y Mochyn Ddu, Cardiff

8. BEST PUB SESSION (Festival)
(A) The Bar Room, Miskin
(B) Bricklayers Arms (Whittlesea Straw Bear}
(C) The Endeavour, Whitby
(D) George Garside's slow English session at Whitby
(E) The Tap & Spile Whitby

9. BEST FOLK FESTIVAL
(A) Banbury
(B) Bridgenorth
(C) Miskin
(D) Saltburn
(E) Towersey
(F) Whitby
(G) Whittlesea Straw Bear

10. BEST FOLK DRAMA (non Mummers)
(A) 'Unsung Heroes - The Lost Gardeners Of Heligan' by The Cornwall Songwriters

11. BEST FOLK DRAMA (the "We do it in the road award" ... originally intended for Mummers Plays)
(A) The Mummers Play at The Tap and Spile, Whitby
(B) The Tonbridge Mummers (performing in monsoon conditions at last year's Broadstairs)

12. BEST REGULAR DANCE EVENT
(A) Haddenham Ceilidhs
(B) Phoenix Ceilidhs
(C) RUFF ceilidhs, Cardiff

13. BEST LOCAL FOLK MAGAZINE
(A) The Folk Diary
(B) Folk North West
(C) Stirrings
(D) Taplas
(E) Unicorn

SPECIAL AWARDS

14. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
(A) Vin Garbutt
(B) Andy Jackson (Miskin Festival)
(C) Chris Pitt, for misdemeanours in song (including the for Boars Head Parody)
(D) Dave Swarbrick
(E) Cyril Tawney
(F) Alan White (Wareham Wail and Sidmouth campsite)

15. WORST PRESENTER OF FOLK MUSIC
(A) Archie Fisher
(B) Mike Harding
(C) Splott Man

Votes should be PM'd to me as a single line of text (I don't much care what else you include, but it won't count) in the form 1A2B3C... etc. It's also easier if you include all numbers and simply put a" -" for categories you don't wish to vote for. Notes, comments, blatant self-promotions etc. here please, so everybody can see them and join in. You may vote for items which you have previously missed out at a later date.

GET VOTING!!!

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 04:30 AM

Sorry, I've been down with the office flu all week so haven't been around.

Does anyone have any comments on, or information about any of the nominees?

Also, do we have the results of the Miskin eliminator for the HORIZONTAL AWARD?

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Mike Harding
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 07:04 AM

Bugger off you lot!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 07:06 AM

Can I be considered by proxy as I couldn't attend plus is the mummers play at Tap the Sooty and Sweep one ?

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 10:27 AM

MCFat

Yes and Yes, I think.

Sooty, Sweep & Sue nominated themselves for the Mummers Play.

Also, unless we hear that anyone has been eliminated, all the nominees above are regarde as suitabl for voting for in the HORIZONTAL AWARD. I note that your name does appear in the above list.

GET VOTING FOLKS!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Kate Rusby
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 10:34 AM

Bugger off you lot!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 11:52 AM

I've slept with Mike, and he STILL didn't play my CD!

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Oaklet
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 12:11 PM

Riven York stone flags - the true path.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 05:27 PM

Ian Dear, Miskin doesn't happen till Easter, so no-one's been eliminated yet *smile*

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 03:37 AM

True enough ... better keep voting then!

:-)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 03:41 AM

VOTING ...

Votes for the awards are coming along nicely. Voting will close on Monday 28th March so that the awards ceremony can be held on its traditional date if 1st April.

KEEP THEM COMING IN, FOLKS.

Also, any comments or information about any of the niminations would be MOST USEFUL.

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 07:49 AM

Some details on my nominees:-

Jeff Hankin - Art Teacher and talented songwriter from Cwmbran. Will be at Miskin and Upton festivals. His CD/tape ws recorded at Llantrisant Folk Club and is avai.able from him (sorry no contact details) or possibly from Miskin Man/Andy Jackson.

Pat Smith - or Pat Spoons to you. For 25 years half of Calennig. Excellent concertina and spoons player. Not bad on the fiddle either, but she's a bit shy about that. Runs (with help) Llantrisant Club. Does concerts and clubs with Ned Clamp who I've known all his/my life so I'm not at liberty to expound on his many talents (when they're visible - or is that risible?). If anyone heard the radio programme - A Poke In the Ear - on CBC in the late 70's, I'd like to hear from you. Surveys showed I had 2000 listeners a week in the Cardiff area, with a margin of error of 4000!

Blake's 3 - an occasional trio of 25 years standing, led by Martin Blake from Hereford, playing an incredibly varied repertoire of folk, blues, jazz, swing, klezmer etc. Tight as a ***'s **** on guitar, fiddle and sax/clarinet.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Frenchie
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:04 AM

Best folk singer/entertainer TERRY FREE
Best folk club   THE BUNKER DEVONPORT.....non like it anywhere!!
Best pub/session THE DOGS BOLLIX, NEWTON

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 17 Mar 05 - 09:35 AM

VOTING ...

Votes for the awards are still coming in, but don't miss your chance.

PM me with your votes please.

Voting will close on Monday 28th March so that the awards ceremony can be held on its traditional date if 1st April.

KEEP THEM COMING IN, FOLKS.........................

Also, any comments or information about any of the niminations would still be MOST WELCOME.

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Mar 05 - 09:48 AM

I can't see a category for Worst Performance on a Washboard so I won't attend the award ceremony!

RtS
('Tis a joy to be Thimble)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 17 Mar 05 - 09:54 AM

Roger

Easily amended, were you wanting to come ...

;-)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Mini Miskin Man (Toby Jackson)
Date: 17 Mar 05 - 01:19 PM

In regards to Splott mans comments and a previous question about the album name, firsly the last i heard Jeff was an English Teacher and not an art teacher, which explains why his songs are quite as cleverly written as they are. Also it explains the name of the album
So Many Words, being an english teacher imagine all the essays to mark... urgh
Anyway, thats my two pence
and also:
Vote Miskin at Easter and for my dad - Andy Jackson
Oooh, can we add another category this/next year, in the world of high-techery could there be nominations for best folk website?

i nominate miskinfolk.co.uk obviously

Toby

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Splott Man
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 03:47 AM

Thanks Toby.

I sit corrected.

And for best song I nominate his Queen of Autumn.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 09:07 AM

Also ...

KEEP VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING ...
Don't miss your chance.

PM me with your votes please.

Voting closes on Monday 28th MarchKEEP THEM COMING IN, FOLKS.........................

(any comments or information about any of the niminations remain MOST WELCOME)

;-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 10:37 AM

A plea!

Could you extend the voting period by a day to allow those at Miskin time to get back to their puters?
This may affect the Horizontal Award.

PLeeeease.

Splott Man.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 11:49 AM

Oh, OK then.

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 01:08 PM

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 01:10 PM

The above is me.
Thanks Ian for giving us an extra day to get home for the horizontal award.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: IanC
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:42 AM

Well,

no comments for a couple of days ... and no votes either.

So ...

KEEP VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING VOTING ...
Don't miss your chance.

PM me with your votes please.

Voting closes on Tuesday 29th March!

:-)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Matthew Corbett
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:59 AM

What's that, Sooty? Oh, Sooty says: "Bugger off, you lot."

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: Eye Lander
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:27 AM

Well said Barbara. Note there was no name to the guest

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,Sweep
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 07:09 AM

I'll get you with my water pistol Mr Corbett. In fact I'll soak you you pervert

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 03:14 PM

My vote for Best Folk Drama is at The Bull in Barton's 12 hour special, when they forgot to pay their electric bill and all the power went off across all of Barton for many hours. It was good timeing because there was a choir singing at the time and they were reading their words. Well done Ross Srivener, a history making night. My best sessions are many, ie Fox at Pirton run by Julie Dawson and the Sutton one, at John O' Gaunt run by Phil Lane. My over all winner really is The Blue Anchor in St Albans, Fishpool St. Run by "Run of the Mill's" Alan Halse.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 08:10 PM

Can I have a stand in at Miskin as I will be at Barnsley

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 05:53 AM

Best Festival "Towersey" by a mile. It's big, but compact, and has everything for everyone, just great.

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 11:14 AM

Well ... what're you waiting for?

VOTE THEN!

Last chance, last day, vote now, PM me.

:-)

Subject: RE: Alternative British Folk Awards 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 11:14 AM

No, you can't have 100!

;-)