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17 Dec 09 - 12:25 PM (#2790424) Subject: BS: Perfect Present for a Father in to Folk From: GUEST,Yulie Tide I am trying to get a Christmas present for my Dad who loves folk, of the traditional English variety. For the last 3 years I don't think he has really liked my presents and am keen to get him something that will make him happy. Does anyone have any ideas at all? I'm keen to hand him something on the day, so I would need to buy it in person. I am based in London. Best wishes and thanks for reading so far! Yulie Tide xxx |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:29 PM (#2790428) Subject: RE: BS: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener Thats a very big question, especially as he might already have lots of Traditional English CD's Do you know what he has already? Who are his favourite performers in the Folk world? |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:36 PM (#2790437) Subject: RE: BS: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST I'm not sure what he has already but I think he likes performers like The Copper Family, Martin Carthy and The Waterson's. Does that help at all. |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:38 PM (#2790440) Subject: RE: BS: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Maybe you should get him a pole dancer who loves folk? ;0) |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:39 PM (#2790441) Subject: RE: BS: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST Am not sure my Mum would be all that keen on that! |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:44 PM (#2790444) Subject: RE: BS: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener Have a look at this website and click on the albums link. Her probably would like one of those if he hasn't already got one. http://www.watersoncarthy.com/ Where abouts are you living in the UK? |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:45 PM (#2790446) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST In London. |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:45 PM (#2790448) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST Ooops sorry - was a bit trigger happy then. Thank you very much for the link. |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:45 PM (#2790450) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener Correction Have a look at this website and click on the albums link. He probably would like one of those if he hasn't already got one. http://www.watersoncarthy.com/ Where abouts are you living in the UK? |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:46 PM (#2790452) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST Thanks very much! |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:46 PM (#2790453) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener LOL I said Her instead of He :-) |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:47 PM (#2790456) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener You will have to secretly raid his CD collection and see if he has any :-) |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:48 PM (#2790458) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Lol Villan - I think the poor lass has said 'London' about three times now! Err, does he go to folk clubs or festivals? Is he a tankard touting beardy type? Does he sing or play music? Does he like to watch DVD's or read books? |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:50 PM (#2790462) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish - what happened to my cookie? "Am not sure my Mum would be all that keen on that!" Oh well, you could get her the same, but one of those chappies instead. Do chaps pole dance? Whole new thread here..Whoa! 'Arrogance, Ignorance & Greed' by Show of Hands, that'll go down almost as well as the pole dancer! :0) |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:50 PM (#2790463) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST Oooh the Waterson/Carthy link looks great. Thanks too Crow Sister. He is a singer and goes to a lot of folk clubs. He likes DVD's and books too. He also has a beard! |
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17 Dec 09 - 12:57 PM (#2790476) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) London based? You could have a browse at Hobgoblin Web shop here: Hobgoblin on the web |
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17 Dec 09 - 01:10 PM (#2790495) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener Go for Waterson Carthy, I don't think you could go wrong with that. Crow sister - I know. I need to go to the opticians LOL |
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17 Dec 09 - 01:12 PM (#2790497) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener I love this song by them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmtEy_2rv3Y |
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17 Dec 09 - 01:12 PM (#2790500) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: open mike GET HIM A MEMBERSHIP IN MUDCAT...IT'S FREE!! |
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17 Dec 09 - 01:16 PM (#2790505) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener Don't do that, you will never get him off the PC Maybe you could buy him a ticket to see WatersonCarthy live in London. They are brilliant live. |
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17 Dec 09 - 01:19 PM (#2790511) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Topic records is another place worth looking at (though I find the website not very user friendly). In fact they've got a box set on offer now: Mighty River of Song |
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17 Dec 09 - 02:07 PM (#2790554) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Dave Sutherland See above - the Topic presentation set "Three Score and Ten" looks mighty. I certainly hope all the massive hints that I have dropped regarding it have been noted! |
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17 Dec 09 - 02:55 PM (#2790584) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Zany Mouse If you are rich then you could always buy him the Bronson set. If poorer then the abridged version would be very acceptable. Blessings Rhiannon (who has bought the set for Mick for Christmas) |
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17 Dec 09 - 03:03 PM (#2790590) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Ruth Archer I was going to suggest either Threescore and Ten or the Watersons' Mighty River of Song. Both are excellent. Also a great gift is The Carthy Chronicles, which tracks the many incarnations of Martin Carthy over the years. The Carthy Chronicles at Free Reed |
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17 Dec 09 - 03:03 PM (#2790591) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener I am going to tell him Rhiannon LOL :-) Hope you and Mick have a very nice Christmas Rhiannon. |
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17 Dec 09 - 03:18 PM (#2790604) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Zany Mouse, Yeah - a traddy singing folkie, would really dig the Bronson set! Maybe one day I'll get it myself? Meanwhile I make do with scavenging traditional songs from YouTube uploads and blagged copies of this and that... which I feel is rather in the spirit of folk music at least. |
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18 Dec 09 - 07:35 AM (#2791099) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST Thank you all so much for these great suggestions. Three Score and Ten is my favourite song that he sings. I also love the idea of getting him tickets to a live show. I might then even manage to drag him down to see me! I will report back on the outcome! Thanks again and happy, happy Christmas, Lxxx |
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18 Dec 09 - 07:47 AM (#2791105) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: theleveller I would suggest a Lowden Richard Thompson Signature Model guitar - and it he doesn't like it, he can give it to me. |
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18 Dec 09 - 08:33 AM (#2791129) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST I've just had a look for the Bronson set and can't seem to find it anywhere! Does anyone know where I might be able to track it down? |
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18 Dec 09 - 08:39 AM (#2791132) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Gedi In my opinion, one of the Mary Humpries and Anahata CD's would make an excellent gift. They are two of the most underrated perfomers around I think. I would like to recommend the Floating Verses album for some really beautiful traditional English songs. try this Mary H & Anahata cheers Ged |
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18 Dec 09 - 08:49 AM (#2791137) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Dave the Gnome I was going to suggest a Connor C/G Anglo concertina but leveller beat me to it! Seriously though, albums aside how about an instrument? OK - lots are too dear but a whistle or mouth organ? I have a triangle on my wish list! Not enough triangulation in folk clubs nowadays:-) Cheers DeG |
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18 Dec 09 - 09:03 AM (#2791146) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: theleveller Good idea, David, how about this: whistle kit |
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18 Dec 09 - 09:09 AM (#2791153) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: theleveller Actually, here is something any self-respecting trad folkie will love: http://www.murphyofireland.com/aran-sweaters.php |
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18 Dec 09 - 09:45 AM (#2791180) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Here's one place selling them: Bronson |
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18 Dec 09 - 09:53 AM (#2791183) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Edthefolkie Lisa Knapp (I'll get me coat) |
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18 Dec 09 - 02:31 PM (#2791441) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Gurney How about the CD of Bob Fox and Stu Luckley 'Nowt so Good'll Pass,' as a stocking-filler anyway. Chas and Dave should cheer any Londoner up, too. I wouldn't like to be without mine. |
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18 Dec 09 - 03:55 PM (#2791516) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Rasener He could come and see Mary and Anahata at Faldingworth Live http://www.faldingworthlive.co.uk/Saturday%20January%209th%202010.html |
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19 Dec 09 - 04:32 AM (#2791840) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: The Doctor Being a father who is into traditional folk, a performer, with a beard, a daughter living in London, and being also interested in books and DVDs, I could almost be this relative, thought I'm certain it's not me. 'Three Score and Ten' is one of my favourite songs but that was not the reason I put the Topic set on my Christmas list. I have a large collection of CDs, including Waterson/Carthy, Mary Humphries, Bob Fox, and I recently bought Bronson on CD. So on that basis I would say that all the suggestions made here are spot on. |
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19 Dec 09 - 06:02 AM (#2791867) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Folkiedave Go for the Topic set. Around £40.00 on Amazon. |
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19 Dec 09 - 06:14 AM (#2791869) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Dave Sutherland Agree with Dave buy on line I was quoted £56 in one High Street store. |
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19 Dec 09 - 08:21 AM (#2791923) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: GUEST Thanks so, so much everyone! I'm going to hit the shops now! |
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20 Dec 09 - 01:16 AM (#2792577) Subject: RE: Perfect Present for a Father into Folk From: Bert The best present of all - learn and sing some folk songs for him. And make a CD so he can keep them. |