Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Cat in Plymouth
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 09:11 PM

Hope you have a lovely time..although somehow, I just KNOW that you will! ;0)

Lizzie :0)
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Thanks, Lizzie :D

I'll be arriving in Sidmouth all fired up from having been to Cambridge so i'll probably be one of two things a) exhausted and falling asleep in the sun or b) bouncing up and down the esplanade like a loony - if it's 'b' come and say hi - lol

mwah!
Cat x

http://www.myspace.com/TGA_Cat

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Chris Cole
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 06:31 PM

And lost in the earlier bickering.....
Hooray for the lemon lady. Her lemonade was fantastic last year and we'll be back for more this year. Honestly... my mouth is watering at the thought. Will you be in the same place this year (near the kid's stuff and crafts)?

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 03:48 PM

Cat....crossed wires somewhere I think.

SoH were asked, but sadly they couldn't make it this year. I'm sure they'll be asked again next year though, so fingers crossed!

And...as you say....there are so many *great* people to see this year, as indeed there were last year too. Great to see you getting so excited, getting near 'countdown' time now, not much longer!

Hope you have a lovely time..although somehow, I just KNOW that you will! ;0)


Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Cat in Plymouth
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 03:30 PM

hi again guys! long time no speak, i know...

i will be at SFW again this year - wooo!

was most disappointed, however, to see that SoH weren't on the bill, and in speaking to them to find out that they weren't even asked?!? *sob*

still, i'm going to be stalking the wonder that is Eliza Carthy for most of the week (did i say stalking - i meant "enjoying the concerts of")

soooo excited!!

mwah!
Cat x

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 08:17 PM

There have been occasions lately where I sort of thought I'd seen a ghost but not that of Marty.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:39 PM

Giok,

Just a whisper for your benefit - Marty's back - but he's wearing a dress! Gald to see you getting on so well this turn of the Merrygoround...

;-)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 10:11 AM

'Tis OK Johnnie Boy.....I'm the diabetic (truly!)....so the shark will be quite safe, for although my words may be too sweet for you...I survive on a diet of sugar-free wholemeal scones, thus balancing everything out!

Although if you're really that worried, perhaps you should start an SOS appeal...Save Our Sharks! Actually, I was reading the other day that with all this global warming they are actually starting to head this way.....

Fancy a swim Johnnie? ;0)

Anyway, I've decided, after you comment a bit earlier..to put you in my Swoon Book under 'M'.....now then....let me see....Ah Yes! Here you are!!

Miserable Maggot MacKenzie

Yes....that should make you nice and easy to find when I next need to blow you a few kisses.

Lizzie ;0)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 10:04 AM

I do hope that any shark that might consume LC, is not a diabetic shark!
G

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST,NicP
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:21 AM

People keep asking me why I rarely post to message fora.
See Above!

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:19 AM

Ooh! I've not gone yet John. You sound a *such* lovely man! I think I may even put you in my Swoon Book!!

You *haven't* seen When Harry Met Sally??????? Ah well....that'll be what the trouble is then John! ;0)

Have a lovely weekend, you cosy, gorgeous, charming little chappie!

Oh...and the sharks are already under orders to hunt for Sweetums I'm afraid, you should have booked them earlier! They're nearly as popular as Show of Hands you know....Book Early! Book Early!! ;0)

Do you know John....you sound just like Folky Grim from the Radio 2 board....another of my 'heroes'!!

Ah Me...Ah My....How lucky can a girlie get! TWO Beautiful Spirit Boysies!

And now....I really AM going down to the sparkling waves....so I'll leave you to...........




Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Dave Earl
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:18 AM

I thought the Tea with George was in the War Memorial Club so I'm not sure if they do "cream teas". I do know that they have a bar though.

Dave

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:16 AM

I saw Jaws in France where it was called Les Dents De La Mer.
I haven't seen The Mouth Of The Sid . . . but I've heard it.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:01 AM

The mean bit is that you'll be coming back to gush all over the Mudcat again.
No, in common with many people I haven't seen when Harry Met Sally, but then again you always assume that other people share things with you that they don't.
I never saw Jaws either, but as you're going to the beach I can only keep my fingers crossed!
Giok

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 06:55 AM

From George:

"Ah - Sidmouth. I'll be there, and no, I am not paid £500. Not even 1/xth of that. Come along on Saturday for "teatime with me" (honest, that's how it's billed!) and we'll do it for the fun of it."


Are you doing a full cream tea George? I'll bet it'll even beat the cream teas in Fields or The Clock Tower Restaurant! And....talking of The Clock Tower...here it is....the cakes in there are what Meg Ryan was eating in When Harry Met Sally..MMMMmmmmmmMMMMMMOOOOOHHH! Oh! ;0)

http://www.woodlands-hotel.com/PICT0023.jpg

And here to whet your appetites even more is:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=Sidmouth&btnG=Search


And LOOK!!! It's all those people 'not dancing in the ford!' Press the middle photo:

http://www.vrsidmouth.co.uk/


Right....I'm away to the beach! (sorry guys, that's a bit mean of me isn't it!) ;0)



Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 06:41 AM

No the fault is with those who keep dragging her in "dicussions", BBC or anywhere INCLUDING THIS THREAD (Cllr's light hearted comment excepted - he could not have known Lizzie would attempt to use it and "Poor Kate" as an excuse for another "what they say on the BBC" festival).

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 06:20 AM

Surely it's Kate Rusby's fault?

Poor Kate!

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 05:27 AM

Radio 4 FM has gone from my steam-driven wireless, more or less anyway. The signal sounds as though it's coming via the rear end of a pantomime horse, thus I really ought to have known it was Mike Harding's fault.

(Explanation to those who don't remember/never knew on the first place: MH performed this role on the cover of Lea Nicholson's Horse Music).

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 05:11 AM

Including bad reception

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 04:30 AM

Everything to do with folk on radio is Mike Harding's fault. Apparently!!
Giok

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 03:02 AM

They are still crucifying Kate on the BBC radio 2 board, but it's Mike Hardings fault.

eric

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 06:20 PM

Good Lordy Stevie....you weren't that chappie who fell asleep on my shoulder during Kate's Siddy Gig were you?????

It was the lager that did it Stevie! And Kate's lovely voice too of course! Have they stopped stoning her over on the R2 board yet....or are they still droning on and on about poor Kate?

And...I didn't have the heart to move him....and it was you all along!! ;0)

Tell you what though Stevie....

"Anything you can do, I can do better....." ;0)

Press Song Number 2 and......

http://www.myspace.com/katerusby



....come on over here, that's it.....now then....put your head back on my shoulder, get cosy....and be transported right back to The Arena that night.....and as Kate began to sing Underneath The Stars....there was a hush that fell over that audience, that you could literally touch....practically the last song she sang....and up in the heavens...the stars twinkled gently....right above us......

Stevie? Stevie????????

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....."


Awwwwwww...Bless!


;0)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:57 PM

I'll settle for Kate Rusby any day - either all to myself or maybe singing in the Arena before 4000 people. Now that really would be Sidmouth - Underneath the Stars - on a warm summer night.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 04:08 PM

Suzi Quatro, Chrissie Hynde and Stevie Nicks, great women's voices of the 80s.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Chris Cole
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:46 PM

I hope to be there too George.
From my younger days, can I add Jim Croce - one of the first people to make me stop and listen to lyrics. Saw one of his CDs in the library the other day and it reminded me how much I enjoyed his music (within the contect of growing up with Suzie Quatro and Gary Glitter etc riding high in the charts).

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 02:57 PM

I'll be there without fail George
G.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 02:53 PM

Ah - Sidmouth. I'll be there, and no, I am not paid £500. Not even 1/xth of that. Come along on Saturday for "teatime with me" (honest, that's how it's billed!) and we'll do it for the fun of it.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 02:45 PM

With you about Karine, Giok. But time spent with Nancy Kerr or Nicole Murray is also rewarding musically - and I mean with James Fagan and John Thompson respectively also in company! Indeed, may of my favourite female performers are parts of duos or trios - did I mention Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer? And there is also the While-Matthews harmony powerhouse of course. Or the Threllfalls, the Tabbush sisters, and a recent find, Ember.

Beyond music, I have to confess to an early hankering after Doris Day! I did eventually grow out of it (we are talking 10 yr-old), helped on the way by Janet Fonda... But I was wasting time, and by the time I saw Felicity Kendall it was too late - I was already in a steady relationship. Felicity's loss, I fear...

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Cllr
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:46 AM

I used to play Tigermoth on my student radio show in the ninties and more recently I had dear maggie holland playing solo at my club before Tigermoth were playing at sidmouth festival ah happy days Cllr

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Dave Earl
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 07:44 AM

You got the 100 Giok

Terry (Leadfingers)must be asleep or out of the country.

Dave

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:48 AM

Terry?

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:47 AM

Where are you....................

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:46 AM

May as well confess to a hankering for a bit of time spent with Karine Polwart, if we're talking music that is. If it were to be anybody in the world, then it would have to be Goldie Hawn of course.
Giok

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Barden of England
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:42 AM

'Steves To Spend The Week With'

Nicks - but I'm still too old for her!!

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:42 AM

Looks like I'd just end up spending the week squabbling with Eric The Red ;-)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:36 AM

Well. I did put Jim Morrison on the Dead List . . .

Sidmouth could relocate to Père Lachaise. Meanwhile, let's have THE OLD HAT CONCERT PARTY (for when Tiger Moth needs a break). As for Steve Heap, does he feature on anybody's list of 'Steves To Spend The Week With'? (I'm having Stefans Grossman and Sobell . . .)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST,Liam
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:25 AM

Jim Morrison will sadly have been dead 35 years this Monday coming. That is unless the rumours are true and he is going to come and surprise us at Sidmouth...

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:24 AM

actually, though I do do a One Man Mummers with the hyats.

What about this for a link(!!) The first person I ever saw do a one man mummers play - and using hats for the characters - was Steve Heap. About 1966/1967

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:10 AM

Jims (as well as Eldon) I'd happily spend the week with:

Causley
Moray
Delarre
Raynard

DEAD LIST

Hendrix
Morrison

RESERVE LIST

Younger
Patterson
Taylor

(and any other old bloke Jims I've forgotten about)

NO-NOs

Boyes
Blunt

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: IanC
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 04:58 AM

More of an IanNess with me, actually, though I do do a One Man Mummers with the hyats.

:-)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Blowzabella
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 04:54 AM

But do you have Jim's quintessential 'Jimness' ??? (Heaven help you if you do!) *g*

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: IanC
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 04:52 AM

Er ... I've got a nice collection of hats, and I think we're performing at Sidmouth next year.

;-)

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Blowzabella
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 04:49 AM

I'd quite like to spend a week with Jim Eldon and his collection of hats.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 04:29 AM

Kathryn Tickell and Karen Tweed, sod the music.

eric

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:55 AM

If Ian Anderson and I have to spend a week in a virtual Carina's, we'll have the rest of Tiger Moth there and a copy of Stepping Up.

Who would you spend the week with and what music would you have?

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Dave Earl
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:10 AM

Maybe all this stuff about Artists pay etc should be in another thread!

I work in a Concert Hall and could tell you a few stories - but I wont here cos that's not what the thread started for!!

Dave

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST,Liam
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:05 AM

>>Acts are costing rediculous sums of money (including massive agency fees of course) eg £2,500 for a 45 mins spot and also imposing other clauses such as minimum hotel standards, the type of flowers they want in their dressing rooms, the right 'type' of water, free meals, transport etc.

Apparently Dave Allen did a tour in the late 80s and was perplexed why so many of the principal dressing rooms at the theatres he was playing were freshly painted pink. It turned out that Shirley Bassey had played most of the same circuit of theatres just before, and her contract stipulated that the Great Diva a pink dressing room.

I have yet to see a folk perfomer's contract rider stipulating the colour of their dressing room, or indeed demanding flowers (white lillies for Mick Jagger I'm told) but I have seen some other clauses that have made me shake my head in wonder. There are several performers out there that have been merrily shoving their prices up while dramatically shortening the time they play for. Those are the sort of performers that need to see rather less bums on seats at their gigs, in my view.

As to the great debate about whether "New Sidmouth" is better or worse than "Old Sidmouth", I think the only way to really know is to come and experience it. It is after all a rather nice place anyway, even without the music. What I do know is that the economics of Sidmouth in its old form had become unsustainable.

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 10:20 PM

Countess Dick!

In answer to your earlier reply re: MU rates and mercenaries. Well, I am a performer too and tax registered and have spent my time driving 500 mile round trips for 1 gig or driving home 200 miles after a late night gig cos the organiser has 'forgotten' to arrange something. I've been stuffed with filthy accommodation from festival organisers, unmanageable performance schedules and low fees so I appreciate both points of view based on experience.

But, all that taken into consideration, one £500 gig per week is equivalent to a gross annual income of £26,000 which aint bad for a part-time worker even if you add travel time (for one gig remember) and rehearsal time. Most people have to travel to work everyday of their working lives!

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Cllr
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 05:25 PM

I like lizzies comments i enjoy reading them and sharing the enthusiasm for well everything really (mainly for SoH who i think are brillaint)

I like countess richard. we have had intelligent discussions and i'm always happy to have a debate with her.

I love sidmouth festival, I havn't missed one for over twenty years so im biased.


I do not care what guest, feckless, clueless and nameless says as I believe they are trolling and add nothing to the conversation.
Note that guest in one form or another has attacked both CR and LC and Whatever one may think of them, LC or CR do not post annony annam anams err umm at least we know who they are.

I personally would be happy to buy either lC or CR a drink and discuss or views on music and hopefully will but guest can kiss my virtual shiny behind.

Cllr

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: Chris Cole
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 05:01 PM

Who do I have to be? Why is it relevant? Why can I not join in? who makes the rules?

Subject: RE: Sparkling Sidmouth!! :0)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 03:49 PM

Oh, so who is this pudperson anyway? I've no idea so will ignore it/him/her. Most people know who I am and know that I'm notoriously gangless. And that my appreciation of Sidmouth as a 'joy and a treasure' predates that of most around here.