Review: Dick Miles

Subject: Review: Dick Miles
From: GUEST,Puck
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 02:14 PM

For those of you who have not checked out the tread 'unaccompanied and accompanied singing' there is an excellent blue clicky thing to Dick Miles site. Someone I have not been fortuneate enough to hear before. Excellent and haunting concertina playing and first class singing voice!! Also some great links to other sites incl. Oldpoetry.

P

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 03:39 PM

Thankyou very much.http://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 04:44 PM

Agreed, Puck.
Hey Dick are any of your CD's available from a US source? Button Box will order them but at a kind of exorbitant price. vl

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 05:14 PM

I can send them in the post,postage to the states for one or two cds wont be much.,its normally done by weight o.38 kg[1 book 1 cd] is 4 euros.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 04:18 AM

if people dont want to use pay pal send cheque to DickMiles,cooragurteen,ballydehob , co cork, eire.
I will accept dollar cheques,but in fairness ought to allow 2 dollars for the banks, commission for changing dollar cheques.http://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:17 AM

reviewed by Tom C a concertina net member since Jan 2007.
As an english tina player I studied Dick Miles book Song Accompaniment for English Concertina and worked extremely hard for three weeks learning Rounding the Horn.I then record it on my home recording system and amazed that what i wanted to do for so long has now become possible,
The best investment in a music book I ever made.http://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: mick p r.m s.c
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 03:30 PM

Hi Dick, do you know of a shanty group The Nooks and Crannies from Waterford area possibly Dunmore East. I know you are on the west coast but just thought you may know of them. I am after an email address for them or contact tel no.   
                         Cheers Mick.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Stewie
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:17 PM

What's with the outrageous prices! If you bought one of Miles' CDs from Oz, it would cost 23 Brit pounds or $A57. Even if you knock off $A10, assuming VAT would not be charged, a CD would still be $A47. Exorbitant or what? I wouldn't dream of paying that for any CD.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:28 PM

Ah Stewie: No doubt your money would be more wisely spent on some lessons in etiquette.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Stewie
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:38 PM

It's nothing to do with etiquette. I am stating a plain fact.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:47 PM

So Jim, I'm assuming you don't have a problem paying $52 (CAD) for a CD? ($41 without the shipping.) It's quite a bit more than I'd pay, but it may be that CDs routinely cost £18.00 in the UK.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:50 PM

I know you are. Etiquette involves not stating the facts. A whole new concept, I'm sure.
But hey, you could always go to my site and buy some for less than half, the price but I've listened to Dick's and they're more than twice as good.... hmm!
Somehow, I suspect that you'll do neither.
Cheers
Jim

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:51 PM

Without wishing to seem pedantic, can I just point out that Dick's CDs are priced in Euros, not GBP, which does have a bearing on the value in Aussie dollars!

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:52 PM

Jeri: I'd like to wriggle out of this now.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:54 PM

1.00 EUR = 1.52695 CAD

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:55 PM

Thank You Steve.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:30 PM

OK, $35 Canuckian is pretty cheap, isn't it? $38 Aussie, $30 USian. Not so bad, but still more than I'm used to paying. I'll put it down to differing economies and work on developing my symbol recognition skills.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Anglo
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:35 PM

Tha Button Box, Sunderland MA, has carried them in the past. Don't know if they have any in stock at the moment.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Stewie
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:35 PM

My apologies to Mr Miles. I assumed wrongly that a British site would have the cost in British pounds - I was unaware of the Euro symbol. If you remove 17.5% for VAT - which I assume would be the case with a foreign order - that would make the cost about $A32, including postage, which is about par for the course for the retail price of an imported CD here in Oz.

Steve, thanks for pointing out my error.

Jim the Lad, etiquette prevents me from retaliating in respect of your snide remarks and assumptions.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:51 PM

Irish, Stewie: It's an Irish site. And Thank You for not responding, in kind, to my snide remarks. You clearly are a gentleman.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Stewie
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:25 PM

Jim, mea culpa - my folly multiplies. Actually, I have been getting back into a bit of Irish music of late after a long love affair with American old-timey and roots stuff almost exclusively. Eleanor Shanley and Andrew Murray particularly take my fancy - both have been with De Dannan at times. Murray's 'Hell or High Water' album is particularly tasty and seems to have slipped between the cracks.

Peace, Stewie.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:31 PM

I didn't notice the Euro sign either so Dick's only one and a half times better than me. I can live with that.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 04:16 AM

AROUND THE HARBOUR TOWN contains 70 mins of playing time,Nautical and is approximately the same length,cant remember about BOXING CLEVER,so 2 CDS give you quantity.
I am not sure of the price of Around the Harbour town,from brewhouse music,Their website is www.brewhousemusic.co .uk
VINYL LPS used to have 40 to 45 mins playing time,now there is 70 mins on mine,are other cds as long as this.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 11:43 AM

sorry, Mick I cant help you
http://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 03:18 PM

Nice web-site Dick. I'm sure I told you that before.
Tell me what's "Nautical Time"? .... "70 mins of playing time,Nautical"
Cheers
Jim

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 04:22 PM

nautical time, is similiar to quality time.particuarly if your being naught with a JennyWren,it becomes nautical and nice.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: Jim Lad
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 04:33 PM

So time spent with Dick Miles would be .....?

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 07:12 AM

My concertinas probably dont like being banged on the head every day ,They probably dont regard my playing of them as quality time,so I suppose it depends who you are.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 03:45 AM

I am at present working on a project,it being more arrangements of traditional songs for english concertina.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:39 AM

here is a review of Boxing Clever,one of the cds avauilable from me,
This recording features the concertina in a variety of guises including accompanying traditional folk,blues and music hall songs and performing marches and morris dances.It demonstrtes very wellboth the versatility of the instrument and the virtuosity of a number of performers.
As a dance musician myself I am particuarly impressedby the playing of John Kirkpatrick.He plays with such rhythmic drive and lift that you may feel the urge to get up and dance impossible to resist.
Dick Miles,performance of Just as the tide is flowing is delightful,he has an unaffected style of singing and playing that make both this and Impudence Schottische sound effortless.
   Over The Waves ably played by Harry Scurfield and an impressive Administration March,played by Tim Laycock capture the light hearted mood of the album.
Boxing Clever contains good songs,well sung and good tunes well played and there is such a variety that it will appeal to a wide range of people.Lizzie King Folk Newshttp://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: GUEST,A cross Dartford River
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 07:51 AM

I don't recall Dick Miles ever being booked at the Isle of Wight Festival.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 08:26 AM

quite right ,however I have played Isle of Wight folk club many times,at one time there were two folk clubs there on a friday night,I did them both.,But not on the same night.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 05:51 AM

Ihad the pleasure of meeting Bob Roberts,on the Isle of Wight,he was a good friend of Jim Jewell. who used to help run one of the clubs.
Heres a review of Around the harbourtown,Sailortown has a cheery conviction and Bogies Bonny Belle is imbued with the resigned acceptance of injustice that the song demands and deserves.Dicks name should be familiarto most people as a singer of traditional songsand as a skilled Wheatstone english concertina player.
the reviewer says also that with a sound so slight on some tracks and Miles,nasl vocal style[well I dont sound like pavarotti,OR Peter Pears],that its journeyman stuff.
He also says that the recordings present a profile of an accomplished singer and a talented musician.please feel free to visit my website and listen to the audio clips
http://www.dickmiles .com

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: GUEST,A cross Dartford River
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 12:10 PM

My goodness Dick, you do like the sound of your own messages don't you!?

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 12:53 PM

its called publicity.unfortunately its a necessary evil.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: greg stephens
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 07:59 AM

Dick: you keep publicising, dont mind them. Some brifgt young lads are selling enough records to employ publicists, but the likes of us have to blow our own trumpets. However, to give you a bit of a break, I'll blow your conceryina a bit myself.
   I've just had the pleasure of listening to Dick Miles' CD "Around the Harbourtown". A fine collection of songs and tunes; luckily Dick doesn't mind including plenty of well-known chestnuts, because they'll only stay well-known if someone sings them. There's a kind of nautical theme, with plenty of seasongs and hornpipes. Occasionally he takes a little run ashore, for sheep fun with "Our Sheepshearing's Done", the pleasures of watching the small fish glide in "Bogie's Bonny Belle", and then a trip about as far inland as you can go,with the Buffalo Skinners(featuring some nifty Sarah Gray banjo). There's also plenty of Dick's fine English concertina playing (I much enjoyed the Madame Bonaparte's set).
    So if you're in the Ballydehob region, watch out for an ancient mariner sitting on a bollard with a concertina, beckoning. A man with a fund of good songs and tunes, and (as all Mudcatters will know) the ability to talk a load of old bollix on any topic. I suggest you take him into the nearest West Cork pub, buy him a pint and see what happens.

Subject: RE: Review: Dick Miles
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 07:43 AM

thanks ,ive never been the same since I kissed the blarney stone.