Sidmouth Excitement!

Subject: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 12:09 PM

ONLY 116 days to go to July 29th. :0)

AND....the excitment is starting to build! Down on the 'Sidmouth Silence' thread, people are starting to get anxious about tickets ALREADY! Always an excellent sign!

Personally...I'm excited, yet laid back...I never got my tickets from Steve Heap's Sidmouth until about June if I remember correctly and indeed a lot of tickets we bought on the day....as this depended so much on the weather. Not this year though, this year....all the concerts we're going to see will be in the dry!

Still.....good to see so many new threads starting about Sidmouth again!

Just think...soon Stevie Scarlett will be able to start ANOTHER thread up all about Sidmouth 2006!

Sidmouth could just end up in 'The Guiness Book of Records' as the Festival with the most threads, anywhere in the world!!!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Boring Boring Boring
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 09:03 PM

Lizzie you are so predictable and so very very boring.

You do Sidmouth Folk week a disservice by rabbiting on under your own name and all your thinly-disguised 'nom-de-plumes'

Put a sock in it gal.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: ConcertinaChap
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:11 AM

Whereas you, of course, are happy not to use a 'nom-de-plume', but wear your name proudly for all to see.

Chris Timson

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Frustrated
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:58 AM

Chris

I post anonymously now because I got fed-up receiving e-mails from Lizzie.

She's a menace and is turning people off Sidmouth.

Jim

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: IanC
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:11 AM

so, Jim

Why do you have to encourage Lizzie by responding to her postings then? You don't even have to read the thread.

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:34 AM

Dear Jim,

Sorry, t'wasnt me that e mailed you my 'ansome! I can see 'might make you proper 'Frustrated' mind! ;0)

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 12:47 PM

Told you. She's nuts.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: EagleWing
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 01:57 PM

Anonymous GUEST with a different nom de plume each post said:

"I post anonymously now because I got fed-up receiving e-mails from Lizzie.

She's a menace and is turning people off Sidmouth."

On the contrary, Lizzie is turning me on - to Sidmouth, that is.

I sincerely hope the place isn't going to be clogged up with anoracks with no sense of humour!

Frank L.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 03:39 PM

Well it won't will it? Lizzie is doing such a good job of keeping THEM away!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 03:58 PM

I promise not to wear an anorak Frank! :-)

epn

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 03:21 AM

Ted (epn),

No Anorak but you will be wearing your famous Akubura (is that how you spell it?) hat won't you:-)

Dave

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 05:33 AM

Hope so Lynne. I don't have an anorak! I DO have a crushed velvet, deep crimson poncho with loads of sparkly bits and long fringing though! ;0)

Hmmm...Akubura Hats.....never seen one of those Dave...Oooh! Yes I have...just 'googled' them...they're Cowboy Hats!

Wow! I thought I was excited at the start of this thread...but if you're all going to turn up wearing Cowboy Hats, I may not even be able to last the 114 days left until Folk Week! I think Cowboy Hats should be compulsory! Not really into that 'compulsory' word at ALL, but if we're talking Cowboys...well!!!! ;0)

Where's Tony Blair? Is it on his Election Manifesto? Shame there isn't a Cowboy Party to vote for! ;0)

I LOVE Cowboys! Pete Duel...Alias Smith and Jones..he was my favourite....and The High Chaparral...MANOLITO...Sigh! ;0)


Lizzie :0)

PS..Are you all coming in Cowboy Boots as well?.....Sigh! ;0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:17 AM

Poor little bunny rabbits........

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:36 AM

Drovers Lizzie not cowboys, it's an Australian hat and they don't have cowboys there in the occupational sense of the word. The proper thing to wear with an Akubra is elastic sided boots.
Giok.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,MBSLynne
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:32 AM

Jackaroos and cockies wear them...in fact anyone who works outdoors in Australia. I have one too, which I haven't worn for a long time, but perhaps I should!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:02 AM

AHA! I've got it now!

Richard Chamberlain.....'The Thornbirds'.....horses.....dust....sheep....heat....Richard Chamberlain.....hats....burning sun.....Ayres Rock....Drovers...more sheep...galloping....bushfires....Richard Chamberlain.....Ned Kelly....CROCODILE DUNDEE!!!!!!!

Ohhhhh! NOW we're talking! ;0)

Listen....That's all brilliant...you can all 'ride into town' dressed as Drovers!!! I'll welcome you with 'Waltzing Matilda' and my Billycan, down on the beach and before we know where we are it'll be Sunset over Peak Hill and sheep....and Richard Chamberlain....and Ned....and CROCODILE DUNDEE!! ;0)

No Worries Guys! ;0)


Lizzie :0)

PS: Quick, someone ring Rolf Harris up and get him back again! "Tie me kangaroo down, sport!"

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:16 AM

you can get hats made out of kangaroos too...

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:39 AM

Oh dear!   Who'd be a kangaroo! Do you think they stand around in the bush saying:

"Loads o' Worries Roo!"

Sorry...couldn't resist that. Too much excitement! ;0)

I blame Richard Chamberlain myself!

Lizzie

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:44 AM

They're animals they cant talk, real life isnt like telly. They run away from people trying to shoot them.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:59 AM

Look 'ere lads and lasses.

I made what I intended to be a passing joke to someone who I regard as a friend about something he and I (and his wife) know about. I didn't mean to start a whole sub-thread although perhaps a little clarification was needed as to the subject matter for those not in the know.

So can we agree that the joke has been made (or failed) and get back to the "Let's all have wonderfull Sidmouth" idea.

Dave Earl

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 09:06 AM

Oh all right then Dave! Told you it was an exciting thread though! ;0)

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 10:41 AM

No longer Ayers Rock Lizzie, but Uluru [oolooroo] the proper Aborigine name. As for Kangaroos they taste very nice indeed, lean meat with not much fat, lovely cooked on the barbie.
Giok

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 01:41 PM

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Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 02:23 PM

I like Uluru. We should call Salcombe Hill......Uluru Mountain.

Much more in keeping with magical things like the Folk Festival.

There you go Dave....back on topic! ;0) (just no-one mention Ri.....!)

Lizzie ;0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 03:12 PM



Yes, why keep the ancient Celtic place name when we could rename it after an Aboriginal goddess?

Is Martin Carthy still patron BTW?

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:27 PM

I'd be a kangaroo if i had another "P", someone fallen down the well!
Skipy (single "P")

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:44 PM

Yes, Martin Carthy is still patron.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Rolf Nut
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:24 PM

Lizzie asked above for Rolf Harris to be invited back to Sidmouth.

Sadly there is no Sidmouth arena for Rolf to appear in this year and the marquee on The Ham wouldn't be big enough for him.

However you can see Rolf and his band at the Stroud and Eastleigh Festivals over the weekend of August 6 and 7, also at the Towersey Festival (still organised very efficiently by Steve Heap and Mrs. Casey Music) at the end of August.

Anyone who enjoyed seeing Rolf at Sidmouth should go and see him at one of those Festivals this summer instead of Sidmouth.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,crock o'dile
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:48 PM

Very bad luck too take anything from Uluru liz you've cursed Sidmouth now!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 05:00 AM



why no mention of this before? is he playing there this year?

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Rolf Nut
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 05:48 AM

Rolf isn't playing at Sidmouth now there's no arena but he is playing at Stroud, Towersey and Eastleigh - see his website or http://www.eastfest.co.uk

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:00 AM

i meant martin carthy, but good to konw rolfs busy

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 09:55 AM

You see...I knew you'd all have great fun on this thread! ;0) After all, that's what Sidmouth is about isn't it? Fun!

Right then...I'm putting my 'Serious Excitement Hat' on here.

What am I looking forward to at Sidmouth this year?

Well....my young lad has recently started to try and play the fiddle, Phil Beer and Seth Lakeman are two of his heroes, so we'll probably be going to some of the workshops being put on by the music students from Newcastle University. Sidmouth Town Council is donating money towards the children's workshops this year. So that will be fun down in Blackmore Gardens.

I love watching the Morris Dancing and there are loads of teams coming down this year, so that's another thing on my list. The concerts on The Ham...well they go without saying...loads of artists that I really love or have wanted to see for ages.

AND I'm just excited to see what is going to happen!

The craft stalls are going to be done by local people I understand, I'd got a bit fed up with the same old Arena shops/crafts year after year....so that'll be a nice change. I'm excited about what is going to happen in Knowle Park, (The Arena) whether people ARE going to take their music and dancing up there and just do 'whatever they want'.

It'll do the grass up there good to have a rest too! Did you know that every year, after all the Festival things have come down...the grass is all dead....has to be re-turfed. So nature can have a break this year.

I'm also excited to see the future plans for The Arena. I noticed on the other thread that people thought the Arena would never come back, but I don't think that at all! There's a VAST FLAT area in Knowle Park. Why not put a marquee on the flat bit instead? Then rain or shine its all OK!

My back used to ache so badly sitting on that hill. Don't get me wrong, I used to love the view etc., but it was so uncomfortable and if it rained you started to slide down it! It is tremendously steep.
Great for roly-polying though! ;0)

And I'm excited about the colours, the sounds, the way my town will change for a whole week. And hearing Sandra Kerr's Festival Choir and John Kirkpatrick's Festival Band.

AND taking those torches for Gordon Newton and Eddie Upton and watching them being carried to the sea and the flames being laid to rest with the blessing of Sidmouth 2006 upon them.

AND I'm looking forward to knowing how much Sidmouth 2005 is going to raise towards Sidmouth 2006!

Only 113 days to go......

Lizzie :0)

PS.....And HUGS! I'm excited about the Hugs too! ;0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,bunny boiler
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:22 AM

liz no one asked you what you were excited about but i imagine men in fancy dress come into it somewhere. why not find one, get a room and leave the festival in peace.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:42 AM

Did my last post worried you then BB? ;0)

Don't worry...have taken Dave's warning....only serious Sidmouth excitement from now on.

Sorry...I wouldn't miss Sidmouth this year....not EVEN for Captain Jack Sparrow!

All about priorities.

Sidmouth is important. VERY IMPORTANT!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Mr Red who is being turned-on to Sidmouth
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:46 AM

Well what a lot of fuss and palarva. I ain't never been and this year I might. All I want to do is ceilidhs and sessions and that looks a bit dispersed. Anyways - if I am there it might not be that easy to spot - I have been acused of being at Sidmouth over the years so maybe it is a rouge magnet.

Never having done a whole week I don't know if I can survive the excitement. Perhaps I will be considered as a GUEST for the first year so I can slag off it and the festival goers.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,bunny boiler
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:57 AM

all your posts worry me liz my biggest worry is youll put people off coming to a festival many are trying to save. you may be well intentioned, who knows? but youre endless posts means people looking for information have to trawl thru hundreds of threads full of nonsense. to disparage the previous festival many of us knew and loved is an insult just because you didnt like the old festival you dont have to put it down

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 11:16 AM

Oh BB...I've worried you even more than I thought! Excellent.

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: EagleWing
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 12:20 PM

all your posts worry me liz my biggest worry is youll put people off coming to a festival many are trying to save. you may be well intentioned, who knows? but youre endless posts means people looking for information have to trawl thru hundreds of threads full of nonsense. to disparage the previous festival many of us knew and loved is an insult just because you didnt like the old festival you dont have to put it down

Firstly, Lizzie started this thread and she has kept to the topic of it so why should anyone be worried by it.

Secondly, I don't think I'm the only one who is more turned on to Sidmouth than turned off it by Lizzie's silly sense of humour.

Thirdly, anyone who is turned off a festival because ther might be a couple of silly people going, probably wouldn't be going at all.

Fourthly, why is it that people who find Lizzie off-putting, spend so much time complaining about her? There are other threads and people can always start one of their own if they're that worried.

Fifthly, If bunny boiler's lack of humour and/or toleration become the hallmark of Sidmouth, that'll really put people off going.

Sixthly, I can't see where Lizzie has disparaged the previous festival. Maybe that's because I'd have to trawl through so many unnecessary complaints about her in order to find them.

Seventhly, lighten up, please, bunny!

Frank L.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 01:34 PM

Way to go Frank.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,MBSLynne
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 03:19 PM

I second that.

I'd also like to mention that, if people arre looking for information about Sidmouth, instead of reading threads on a forum which is actually nothing to do with Sidmouth, why don't they go to the Sidmouth Festival web site?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 03:25 PM

Nice one Frank! I can't see that these threads should put anybody (except a total deadhead) off - as you rightly say, if they do, then the reader would not have gone anyway!

For the first time in years, I am really looking forward to the festival this year, because it isn't going to be about the big names, and having lots of big concerts. It will be far more for the guys like us, who want to enjoy ourselves singing and playing.

And Lizzie - playing and singing up in Knowle Park sounds brilliant! - but not going roly poly at the same time...

epn

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 05:24 PM

I'm up for the roly poly! I did it at the byes last year!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Cllr
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:57 PM

me too alyjough i tink im a bit too rolypoly already Cllr

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:46 PM

It's obvious that ther detractors of Sidmouth Festival, such as Bunny Boiler and Rolf Nut, only seem to think of the Festival as the shows which have been put on in the Arena.
Do they not go to the sessions, singarounds, workshops, ceilidhs, concerts in the Bedford, the Church, the Manor or other places?
I understood that Folk festivals were about DOING things which often one did not have the chance during the rest of the year. The big performers can often be seen at other venues diring the year.
If Rolf nut is so keen on seeing Rolf Harris why not see him at one of the other festivals AFTER having had a great time at Sidmouth?
Colyn.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,Rolf Nut
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 09:00 PM

I have been a regular visitor to Sidmouth for some 20 years but it is the international shows in the arena I enjoyed as well as the open air concerts featuring well-known artists like Rolf.

I have never sung in an amateur session and don't intend to start now.

To those who only go to Sidmouth to listen to themselves, good luck. I'm sure you'll enjoy the sound of your own voices.

The many thousands who went to Sidmouth for the arena concerts won't disturb you. We won't be in Sidmouth this year because there is sadly nothing of interest to us.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,bunny boiler
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:39 AM

Eagle wing

thanks for your reply unlike rolf nut i will be at sidmouth but im not kidding myself it will be the same never mind better. lizzie seems to think the loss of the arena is a good thing i dont. when you see a thread called sidmouth excitement you think maybe someone new has been booked or even that ticket prices are confirmed only to find another thread full of meaningless drivel this time about ancient tv shows.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:08 AM

None of us are kidding ourselves that it will be the same. Nor has Lizzie ever said that the loss of the arena is a good thing, but there's nothing we can do about it, so the only thing we CAN do is go, be positive and enjoy ourselves. Anyone who does anything with the intention of having fun will almost certainly do so. Anyone who does anything with a negative attitude and expecting to be disappointed almost certainly will be.

Er....what ancient TV programmes?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: GUEST,bunny boiler
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:26 AM

the high chapperal alias smith and jones and the thornbirds are all tv shows iirc. if you read thru her many other posting about sidmouth she moans about how big it had become above she moans about the grass and how good this year will be as well be in the dry. dont kid yourself about lizzie shes a menace and has done sidmouth no good at all

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Excitement!
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:32 AM

Still looking forward to my first visit to Sidmouth, well done liz. Good attempt starting another positive thread to lose all the negative comments of the previous thread.

I knew from the thread title that this was one of yours. So presumably did Boring boring guest but still he felt he had to read it and tell you he doesnt like reading your posts. Strange person.

I have met quite a few of the positive contributors now at Miskin and at MBSLynne's session and am looking forward to meeting more in the summer.