Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?

Subject: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:33 PM

Mr Happy's New Improved Band of Fiends will be present here:




http://www.hardrawgathering.com/


Anyone else going?

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: fiddler
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 03:13 AM

Bl**dy H*ll WOW factor and that is just for the location - I can come - I think - will come - I think I can just about scrape a weekend a thisw year having been restricted by work form attending that well known south coast town for 2 weeks!

Is there a web site?

Can I help other than 2 be there

Andy

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 11:14 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: LesB
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 08:01 PM

Interesting that the line up includes Last Nights Fun, when their website indicates that they are in Eire & Scotland that weekend!
If I don't get have a good time for me.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 07:29 AM

Fiddler Andy - 'Is there a web site?'

Yep! Mr Happy's link works - it's right above yer own post!

Also - 'Can I help other than 2 be there?'

Try ringing organiser Steve Fairholme on 01943 467 189

The whole w/e is to be based on 'participation' events
- singer's sessions, playing sessions, dance sides etc.
Very few organised 'concerts' as such - and as much outdoors as the weather allows - utilising the bandstand in the grounds leading to Hardraw Force.
Campsites both there in the grounds of the Green Dragon and a large 'independant' one next door.
Should be a very relaxed affair.
Cheers! HFA

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 03:21 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Gatherer
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 08:30 AM

Looks like a great location and a promising weekend. I'll be there.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 10:22 AM

Coming Saturday afternoon

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 10:23 AM

Oops that last one was me (Muppett)

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Duncan
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 10:26 AM

That's grand Muppet - wouldn't be quite the same singers session wi'out you there!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 12:35 PM

This is a great location and a wonderful pub - but be warned, the midges are vicious so take some good repellent or be prepared to wear a bag on your head for the outdoor bits of the event.

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 12:48 PM

Hello, should be there Sat and Sun. Cheers Dunc.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Tig
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:19 PM

The Badger and I have just sent off for tickets - an alternative to Warwick the weekend before which we can't afford.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: nutty
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:40 PM

The Durham Folk Party makes a great alternative to Warwick and its a lot cheaper.

See last years pics CLICK

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: fiddler
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:02 PM

Hope to get there
T~hursday and Leave Sunday

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,HardrawForce
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 04:43 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 12:01 PM

'er indoors is likely to be accompanying me here.

She's into hill walking.

Are there any rambling/walking clubs in the area she could have a led stroll with?

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Gin Crewe
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 06:51 PM

We'll be there too! What's the camping like?

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 07:34 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Gin
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 04:41 PM

So what's the camping like. I need to know- I'm not a good camper!!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Jul 05 - 10:55 AM

check out the website link i gave above.

otherwise, having not been myself b4, i guess camping'll b like usual- sitting around eating,drinking, sining, & cavorting!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 07:58 PM

Tig,

Be good to see you & John again- will he be bringing the badge machine?


http://www.hardrawgathering.com/

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Tig
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 09:03 AM

We weren't planning on it Mr H. However that doesn't mean he may not have a large bag of badges secreted somewhere about his personage;-0

Anybody wanting a Mudcat badge taken there needs to ask nicely by about Wednesday.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Hardraw Force
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 09:35 AM

Gin, The Green Dragon has rooms - if camping doesn't suit ya.
see the website via link above.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 06:21 AM

Tig,

Asking nicey, some of fiends would like badges, can you fix it for them, please?

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Tig
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 09:05 AM

PM me with names Mr H and we'll see what we can do - I assume you mean Mudbadges.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Excited
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 05:53 AM

Jez Lowe is on wi' the' Bad Pennies. There's workshops too I believe. Me and the good lady will be there. SM

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: fiddler
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 05:56 AM

contrary to my previous posting - Now not going - double (actually triple) booked - earning money form Music - Sacrilidge

Enjoy it you lucky g*ts!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:24 AM

Bit of promotion (self-promo if you will - but there's no one else to do it for us, so why not?)
The Duncan McFarlane Band are at Hardraw all week end - the acoustic version of the band, and the full electric version who'll play outside on the bandstand at 2pm ish (if wet, in the Green Dragon concert room)
I'm doing a guitar workshop too (Drop D, C Modal, aw, whatever folk ask about) in tandem with local blues and ragtime specialist Gerry Cooper.

As luck would have it, the 'Music Room' offered me a place working their stand as 'strings person' at Cambridge Fest the same w/e - a free ticket! Dammit. Missed out again. Pity about the clash.

Prob'ly just as well, we (the leccie band) need a good run out afore playing the Ham Marquee on Friday 5th Aug with the Battlefield Band as part of the climax to Sidmouth Festival.
8pm we're on there. Please do come and say hello and share some beer after we're off (at 9).

Would love to meet some of you Catters at either venue. Do say hello! Cheers - HFA

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Tig
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:28 AM

You buying Hip? I'll bet you forget to take your Mudcat badge!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 06:01 AM

It's in the gig bag, packed to go, already!
You're not going to ask for me to pay for it yet again are you? ;0)
I'll buy you a drink though. Cheers! HFA

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Tig
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:20 AM

Hee, hee, hee. Not if you don't need another yet Andy. (I still am blushing with embarrassment)

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Mollycat
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:22 AM

We'll be there all weekend. Let's hope the weather stays fine, it would be such a shame to have the outdoor concerts moved indoors!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Mr Happy
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:57 AM

T'weather forecasts not good for w/end- looks like rain & cold.

Anyone know if campsite's prone to flooding?

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Mollycat
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 11:11 AM

The site behind the pub is next to the beck so I'd be suprised if it doesn't flood. I don't know about the other site, that's further down the road. Take a dingy & you'll be fine.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,Mr Happy
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:31 PM

Digging out inflatable dinghy to pack- just in case!

[it's not a dingy dinghy!]

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,GDM
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 07:29 AM

the campsite has never flooded before!
Don't be put off! - Green Dragon Man

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: fiddler
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 08:24 AM

Envious - I should be there with you all - have a damnably good weekend chaps and chapesses!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: IanC
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 08:35 AM

Site behind the pub's fine. It's well above the level of the (fairly small) beck.

Hardraw Force itself seldom looks like the illustration. We renamed it "Hardraw Drip" when our children were small. It wasn't bad when we stayed there in May, though.

:-)

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Firecat
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:29 PM

Well, parents are there now and they've left me to trash the house! :-)

Hope you all have a great time if you've got chance to see this before you go.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: nutty
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 01:52 PM

Well ... how did it go??

Was Green Dragon Man telling the truth???

Was the waterfall more than a drip???

Given the rain we've had over the weekend ... I'm full of curiosity

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Tig
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 03:08 PM

It was a brilliant weekend and is going in my diary for next year! Lots of music, lots of real ale, lots of good company (Thanks for the drink Hipflask).

There was more water coming over the force today than yesterday but even so it wasn't 'in spate'.

The weather was nowhere near as bad as it could have been and today was even sunny so the concert at the bandstand could go ahead outdoors as planned.

Thanks to all who planned, worked so hard etc, especially Mark who's establishment it is.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 04:42 PM

Wow. What a great weekend. God bless this army, god bless this war, god bless the landlord we had a bed of straw. Cheers Dunc, your band sounds great, and I love the hair.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: Gin Crewe
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 05:34 PM

Super company, so many sessions, ...and it hardly rained at all! Well, nothing like what the forecast said it would! Wonderful pub, and we loved the Friday night concert!

For those who wondered- we didn't camp after all!

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 05:10 AM

Hats off to tireless landlady Yvonne and our host Mark!
Big raps to 'new' organiser Steve!
The place was heaving all w/e.
This first ever partnership tween those three was
a resounding success! Long may you now run.

Cheers Tig - your drink? A pleasure, my new friend.
Thanks for sorting out my hand!

Glad you liked the leccie band Martin.
On Sunday I was shown a videophone clip
of you doing my 'Robin Hood's Bay' in a singaround.
Went off to lie in a darkened room! You rogue!
Good on ya for coming up all the way up from Barton
See you at Walton mebbe?

Thanks for the 'Policy' doc Badger. Cheers!

Rain? Flooding?
Hardly any of the first on Fri and Sat, gloriously
sunny on the Sunday (appropriately!)
No sign of flooding at all, who came up with that idea?

As I slowly come to after a grand w/e I'll keep posting
up odd snippets as I gradually recall them.
More later..... HFA

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: muppett
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 08:51 AM

Sounds like it was another good gathering, was planning to come over Sat. Eve. was going to get train upto Garsdale Head then cycle down, but missed the train, so spent night at HOME, oh well there's always next year.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: GUEST,GDM
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 11:58 AM

There were sessions in five different rooms of the Green Dragon all at once. Some rooms made it till 3am Fri and Sat night. Missed Sunday, had to go home but caught the dancing out on the street at the front before going. Spectacular!!!!
Loads of free goings-on evrywhere.
The folk rock outdoor concert on Sat took place indoors not out on the bandstand in the camping area cos it looked like rain would come, but didn't. two hours of top class stuff for free.
The weather perked up for Sunday no end and the folk rock concert for Sunday afternoon went ahead as planned I'm told. Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies rounded off the Friday night concert which was excellent. Julie Felix topped off the Sat evening concert with style.
Same 'team' already been asked to, and said 'yes' to running it again next year. Should be even better, specially if the weather isn't so gloomy.
get it in yer diaries now. Same weekend.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 01:05 PM

I will look forward to seeing that, if I can. Don't remember to much about it at the end. See you soon. Onley or what ever it's called. MFB.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 05:10 PM

Cheers Piers. Great to see you again. See you soon dude. Happy squeezing.

Subject: RE: Hardraw Gathering:Who's going?
From: fiddler
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 04:09 AM

Madly Jealous - The only compensation my gig was great fun and paid well but - next year??????