Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 09:50 PM

Sounds like you're disagreeing with yourself now Steve.

And when someone starts talking to himself, isn't it the first sign of madness?

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: steve_harris
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 08:45 PM

[START QUOTE]Most of the Sidmouth regulars I have spoken to share Steve's concerns about this year's plans.[END QUOTE]

I would point out that my concerns appear to be gradually being addressed.

I have (and have not had) any particular concerns about licensing.

Possibly my mistake was believing that everyone here would understand the symbol ":-)" to imply sarcasm/lack of seriousness. And when I quote something (complete with quote marks which I'm now being explicit about) I do it to put my remarks in context - it doesn't mean I agree with the quoted text.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 03:37 AM

Now this is what I call a chat. But such talk of silliness at Sidmouth, as if I would be seen in a dress (red again, or shall I try my little yellow number?). And as for not dancing in the Ford, I haven't done that several times, once not even wearing flippers and a snorkel. Walking into the sea?? Who would ever do such a thing, especially when raining?
Anywaysup, well done Lizzie for starting such an entertaining thread. Oh by the way a certain gentleman with big voice and ponytail will be at Miskin at Easter as usual if you can't wait till summer. Its closed Season during Easter though so no poaching..Oh and Eldorado is available on his CD "Simply Songs"( short burst on Miskin website soon)

Andy

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:06 PM

Can someone put in a good word for me and my delicious drink? I have contacted one of the organsiers and am still waiting to hear if I can come.

Sal

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,MBSLynne
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 09:50 AM

Yes Lizzie, Jim is going to Sidmouth...so is Annie!!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:38 AM

'Well Hello Boys';0)

Dave...thank you for asking. You were quite right, I was replying on behalf of my household, and my house is going to be brimming with people this year, who, having spent many a year sliding down the Arena hill in the mud and rain, and who are looking forward to being able to sit in the dry this year, no matter what's happening outside.

Just to clear up any confusion above, I don't know Steve Harris. He doesn't know me.

So, hopefully Dave, I shall come and give you a hug this summer, Somewhere in Sidmouth. Ooh! By the way...am busy formulating my 'How to kidnap Jim McAdams without Annie noticing' plan at present!
I hope he's coming too!! ;0)

Looking forward to putting some names to faces. And Lynne ....have taken note in the other thread of where you'll be. See you all there.

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Adrianl
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:34 AM

Dear Guest TopCat

As I said before are you sure you and the people you have been talking to are referring to the same Steve. There are several Steves posting to these Sidmouth threads

Steve in Sidmouth = Steve Wozniak, a Sidmouth resident who runs the seered website.

steve_harris = Steve Harris not a Sidmouth resident.

there are others

GUEST,not THAT Steve in Sidmouth = another Sidmouth resident?
GUEST, Steve Vernon
and maybe others


Adrian

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 09:28 PM

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Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,TopCat
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 09:08 PM

If Steve Harris is a long time supporter of Sidmouth and its ceilidhs as Adrian1 suggests then Steve's current criticisms of Sidmouth Folk Week 2005 carry more weight than those of other assorted anonymous critics.

Most of the Sidmouth regulars I have spoken to share Steve's concerns about this year's plans.

A couple I know are so unsure as to who to believe that they actually phoned the council for reassurance that the campsite and the Ham marquee have been licensed.

They were told by a very helpful lady that no temporary campsite or outdoor venue has been granted a licence as yet.

Some of my friends will still attend this year. Many will not. All agree that it's a great shame that such a wonderful festival faces ruin thanks to the lack of funding support from the District Council and Sidmouth traders.

Bring back Mrs Casey Music!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Cllr
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 07:15 PM

thanks for the info breton cap I shall sign up regards Cllr
Sorry to have missed you at the reunion Lizzie

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Adrianl
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 06:14 PM

Breton Cap

Steve Harris is not local to Sidmouth. Maybe you are confusing him with another Steve.

Adrian

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 06:05 PM

Adrian,

I link the two of them because Lizzie and Steve H are both local to Sidmouth.

Lizzie goes on at length about her love of the Festival. Steve, from my view of things, comes at it from a somewhat different angle.

All I wanted to do was to bring the new newsletter to peoples attention and emphasise the Supporters group.

Both of them can take the information or not, it's up to them what they do. Lizzie seem to have taken it in the way I intended. Steve can do what he likes.

If people misundersood my intention I apologise but I meant it to be a lighthearted pointer in the direction I feel supporters of the Festival should be looking.

Dave

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Adrianl
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 05:52 PM

Breton Cap

Why the hell do you presume to say what Lizzie or Steve Harris should do with regard to Sidmouth. And why do you link these two people together since they have no connection apart from Sidmouth and posting to Mudcat. I do not know Lizzie but I have met Steve and know that he is a long time supporter of Sidmouth and its ceilidhs.

Adrian

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 04:49 PM

Lizzie,

Are you speaking for your household or Mr Harris as well

Dave
(working late tonight to build up the lieu hours for the end of the month at Miskin)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 04:21 PM

You bet we will Dave! ;0)

Lizzie

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 01:19 PM

See the latest newsletter at www.sidmouthfolkweek.org.uk.

You will need Adobe to see it with pretty pictures in full colour.

Also look at the Supporters group form. Sign up and get a few benifits/discounts.

Lizzie get your cheque book and pen out and sign up now.

Same goes to you Mr Harris.

Dave Earl

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Sidmouth Supporter
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 09:52 AM

To Frank (Eagle Wing). No. Of course a couple of silly mudcat postings wouldn't stop us attending Sidmouth after 20+ years.

Scores of silly postings plus some serious ones asking serious questions about whether venues are licensed or not and whether events scheduled for those venues will actually happen or not do concern us though.

We have always travelled to Sidmouth because we love the music and the friendly atmosphere in this particularly beautiful corner of south Devon.

You can't blame us for wondering whether the atmosphere will be as friendly this year after reading all the Sidmouth postings on mudcat. Neither can you blame us for wondering whether the breadth, depth and quality of music, song and dance will be as good in 2005 as it has been for many years past.

We may still attend. We may choose to go elsewhere. We may even decide to support Andy (fiddler) by volunteering as campsite stewards. We've done it before.

One thing is certain though. The various threads on mudcat are unfortunately not good advertisements for Sidmouth this year. That is why we posted earlier suggesting the likes of Lizzie and Steve Harris would do more to help Sidmouth by saying less themselves.

When even hardened Sidmouth veterans like us are being put off think of the effect these postings are having on people thinking of attending Sidmouth for the first time?

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 07:57 AM

Splutter....giggle....chuckle!

My town is going to be filled with hilarious, laughing, smiling, loving people this Folk Week. We may well be held up as a shining example for the rest of the Country. We've all become SO miserable lately. Roll on sparkles and sunshine!

I'm just watching the BBC 4 Celtic Connections programme from last night....Kathryn Tickell's on. She's superb! And Bellowhead are on later too!

For the first time EVER we're going to be buying our tickets well in advance. We used to hold back and see what the weather was going to be like for the Arena, but this year it doesn't matter if it's pouring down, because of the Marquee. Hope one day they're able to put a Marquee of some sorts in The Arena too.

Got to dash...Mike McGoldrick's just turned up on the television....sigh! All this wondrous music!! Aren't we all privileged to know about it? Two years ago I knew nothing about any of it. It was a totally hidden world!

Now I'm so grateful to have fallen deeply in love with it all! And that's entirely due to Show of Hands! They're the ones who started me on this journey of discovery....they're the ones who brought it all out into the open. Can't wait to see them on The Ham! Also The Battlefield Band, as I've never seen them before.

Many thanks to all the good people who are making Sidmouth Folk Week happen!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: The Barden of England
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 07:34 AM

Finally - that GUEST has gone to sleep!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 06:25 AM

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Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 06:21 AM

Shhhhhh! Adrian, don't tell them that there's any chance of any of these things happening! People might think we are not serious folkies! I mean, really...who would do such silly things as those uyou've mentioned?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: EagleWing
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 04:53 AM

"The continuing silly postings by the likes of Steve Harris and Lizzie are making even my family, Sidmouth regulars for 20+ years, think twice about attending this year."

You mean that Sidmouth is such a serious gathering that people will stay away because a couple of people exchange silly remarks?

Ooh er!

Frank L.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 07:53 PM

Thanks, Cllr, for informing us of what does NOT happen at Sidmouth
This will probably explain the ghost images on my video film!

Colyn.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Cllr
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 07:23 PM

as a responsible politician I abhor this dancing in the ford which does not happen at threeo'clock on the friday or the walking into the sea neither of which have a license Cllr

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Adrianl
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 03:17 PM

Yes we can't have silliness at Sidmouth. Before we know it we will be having a ceilidh dance in the ford, or men will dress up as women and sing in the dark basement of a pub or a group of festival goers will walk into the sea and sing. Nothing silly like that can ever happen at Sidmouth could it.

Adrian

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Sidmouth Supporter
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 03:09 PM

No Lizzie. I don't love you really. I think your continued postings and the hostility they attract are doing Sidmouth Folk Week no good at all.

To Andy (fiddler). Thanks for answering my question. I hope numbers improve. As you say it is early days yet.

Maybe Lizzie might volunteer as a campsite steward?

There are some very out-of-the-way corners of the camp site where you might hide her!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 02:41 PM

So I woke up in the night with a terrible thought! In my last post I was burying the Health & Safety Officer up to his neck in pebbles, just in front of the in-coming tide, where he'd have to stay until he signed the Independent Free State of Sidmouth Document! :-0

How can he sign it if I've buried him up to his neck???? Oh Lordy! This is seriously bad! :0( Do you realise that if I don't rescue him from my strange imagaination I'm in grave danger of drowning a possibly innocent supporter of Sidmouth Folk Week!!!! EEK!

This would undoubtedly result in me being carted off to Exeter Gaol where I will probably be detained for at least 25 years! Thus missing not only this year's Folk Week...but the next 24 years of Sidmouth Festival as well!! Oh! Woe is Me!

I'm just off down to the beach now to free this poor man! Hope it's not a Spring Tide! Don't worry...he'll be safe in my hands! ;0)

Oh and Siddy Suppporter above who said this:

<...The continuing silly postings by the likes of Steve Harris and Lizzie are making even my family, Sidmouth regulars for 20+ years, think twice about attending this year>

Ah go on...go on...Go ON! You Know You Love Us Really!!! ;0)

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: fiddler
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 03:34 AM

Early days yet but not enough!

Andy

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Sidmouth Supporter
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 07:38 PM

The continuing silly postings by the likes of Steve Harris and Lizzie are making even my family, Sidmouth regulars for 20+ years, think twice about attending this year.

Please put a sock in it both of you.

On a more serious note, fiddler, how are the campsite steward numbers looking?

Whether all the normal stewards are reporting for duty as usual is probably as good a sign as any as to what attendance numbers will be like this year.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: steve_harris
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 07:27 PM

"I may even dance with 'Limehouse Lizzie'"

Careful!

1. Have you got a license?
2. She has the potential to go belly up

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: steve_harris
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 07:25 PM

"It's purely because I'm left-handed you know!!

I suspected that, Lizzie. All the best people are :-)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: steve_harris
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 07:23 PM

"Hmmm.... I don't know why but I sometimes think Ms. Lizzie has taken leave of her senses and lives in a different world to all the rest of us."

Yup. wonderful, isn't it? - and come August you can hop aboard a spaceship and enjoy it too :-)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 01:33 PM

Hi Robbie,

That's great to hear. You will be most welcome. Remember to include the Bedford Hotel sessions in your plans. We'd love to have you there.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:56 PM

Hmmm...Barbies on Beaches Andy....Are we talking Sausage and Beans or Barbie and Ken? Now my imagination is off and tumbling! If it's a Hot Barbie and the Health & Safety Hootenannys turn up, we shall bury them in the pebbles up to their necks...just in front of the in-coming tide...where they'll have to stay until they sign a document stating that Sidmouth is now an Independant Free State and thus exempt from ANY Health & Safety Regulations pertaining to the rest of the UK or indeed, the world! I know how to make these Health & Safety Munchkins suffer! ;0) We shall also put a plate of Freshly Barbied Tatties, Beans and Saussies just under their noses! Oh! Sweet Torture!   

Now...Barbies and Kens! Well...this conjours up an entirely new picture! The resident Barbies and Kens are as you know Extremely Ancient...however they do still have twinkles in their eyes and I'm sure they'd love to join in the fun! We just won't let them go skinny dipping as this could put us all off our Beans and Saussies Bigtime!! Ooh! Just had a thought! Didn't Barbie dump poor Ken recently? Gosh...what's the name of her new beau then? What a trollop that Barbie's turned into!! On the other hand I think we'd better not go to far down the Barbie Road, as things might get a little strange!

Anyway Andy...Live Dangerously...Sleep On The Shore! Tell them you're just shielding your eyes from the stars! Rebel a Little...In Fact....Rebel A LOT!!

Blimey Sidmouth's sounding more fun than even I'd thought! Wonder if Bellowhead like Bangers and Beans.....we'll need several truck loads to feed all of them! Hmmmm...Bangers, Beans and Beer...could be a song in there somewhere!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Another Guest
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:31 PM

Robbie - If you enjoy small gatherings then I'm sure you'll enjoy Sidmouth this year as many of us who have enjoyed past festivals are going elsewhere this summer.

It's sad the festival is nothing like what it was but I'm sure the Middle Bar Singers and others will still have a great time.

Sidmouth may not be a real festival anymore but a sunny Sidmouth is still a lovely place to be in late July.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:38 AM

Sorry I didn't realise I had come in Cookie-less. The guest above was me. Looking forward to coming to Sidmouth for the first time. Have to admit I have been put off up to now by the shear scale of the thing but am really looking forward to making music for a few days.
love Robbie

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:34 AM

I think she is more likely to be smiling at the prospect of having a good time in August with a lot of other people intent on having a good time. Sounds good to me.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Lizzie in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:29 AM

Hmmm.... I don't know why but I sometimes think Ms. Lizzie has taken leave of her senses and lives in a different world to all the rest of us.

I wish I could see Sidmouth through the same rose-tinted spectacles as she does but I'm afraid Sidmouth in 2005 just doesn't look as rosy to me as Sidmouth in 2004, 2003, 2002...

Still it is nice to know someone can still smile about the downgrading of the UK's best folk festival to just another small event in an events calendar peppered with similar small events.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: fiddler
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:18 AM

Lizzie,

Are there no rules about Barbies on the seashore - I know we are not allowed to sleep there - hence there is a camp site that needs stewards!!!!!

I am sure if there aren't restrictions there is time to get some in place before August :-)

Ho hum - what a good Idea!!!

Andy

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 06:46 AM

Dear 'Bellowhead ?Fan?'

Very pleased to hear you're going to be seeing the lads at Eastleigh. Hope you really enjoy yourself.

We're all going to be bopping to them as well down on The Ham, in Sidmouth,in the 800 seater marquee, just a stone's throw from the Sparkling Ocean, and afterwards, when our feet are hot and sore from all that dancing.....we're all going 'skinny dipping' in the shimmering, white, foam-crested waves!!! And after that....we may just all run up to Jacob's Ladder and have one of the biggest cakes in all the world, where the raspberries and cream literally ooze out of the deliciously light, golden sponge...and mermaids watch you from the beams......

....And after THAT!....we may all have a barbecue on the shoreline and then go skinny-dipping all over again....and after THAT....well...Bellowhead Fan....WHO KNOWS??!!! ;0) ;0) ;0) ;0)


See where Bellowhead PLUS the Sidmouth Ocean can lead you!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Bellowhead Fan
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:10 PM

Thanks Kate for clarifying the Bellowhead situation.

I see my favourite band are also appearing at Trowbridge and Eastleigh - the latter in the same week as Sidmouth and with a better line-up so I may go there this year.

Sure anyone still going to Sidmouth will have a great time at the Bellowhead gig even if there's fewer events elsewhere in the town compared to previous years.

Bellowhead blew the dance marquee apart last year. They were my highlight of Sidmouth 2004.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Blowzabella
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 06:50 PM

I might as well chip in and say that New Scorpion Band are also on at Sidmouth.....

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 06:23 PM

Looks like I will be there with other(s). Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,Kate, Queen Mab's Music.
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 06:20 PM

Hello everyone,

(posted on other thread too!)

Just been pointed in the direction of this site and thread, so I thought I'd drop in to say panic not, bellowhead will be at Sidmouth on the 2nd of August. the bellowhead website will be updated when John isn't busy touring with Eliza Carthy and Sharon Shannon!

Look forward to meeting you all in Sidmouth if not before.

Kate.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 01:33 AM

I was looking at the Folk Week website earlier to see what the current info is.

It now seems that Alpha coaches will be serving "All" campsites and the LNE.

I was a bit worried about about the trek to and from the Bulverton site when I agreed to help my mate Alan as a steward on the campsite he is running. It now seems I won't necessarily have to cadge a lift or spend cash on taxis.

From my point of veiw yet another reason to smile.

Dave

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: My guru always said
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 05:23 PM

Well done Lizzie for having the hugs card idea!!! Am soooo surprised that MBSLynne didn't think of it first... *ducks*

Did my badge give me away at the Reunion Lizzie?

Can't wait till August, it'll be FAB!!!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: GUEST,MBSLynne
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 03:06 PM

Hmmm yes...you've got me thinking Lizzie..a hugs card sounds like a jolly good idea!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 02:58 PM

I'd just like to confirm that Rhyzome are coming to Sidmouth too!
And I might just...no...I SHALL give Barry from Rhyzome a big hug for sticking by Sidmouth Folk Week through thick and thin!

So that's one hug definitely written down on my Hug Card then, Barry!
And one for El Greko too........

.......now then...where are Show of Hands, Battlefield Band, Whapweazel...and all the others??? Gosh! This 'HUG' idea could lead me into all sorts of exciting things!! ;0) ;0)


Lizzie

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 02:45 PM

Bellowhead Fan, I answered this question on the other thread. It's simply timing (John S hasn't updated his website yet). Give it a rest.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Sunshine and Sparkles!
From: rhyzla
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 02:42 PM

My band is playing at Sidmouth, and our actual dates and times have not been confirmed - but we are appearing!

I imagine it's a similar situation for Bellowhead - but bigger, better, more public, more well known, and easier to make a mystery about whether or not they are playing!!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .........good night!