Bands that have disapeared

07 Jun 10 - 07:21 AM (#2922252)
Subject: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Bob the hat

Hello,
I thought I'd start a thread about bands that you liked but have vanished from the scene.
What happened to Crucible? I saw them at my local Folk club and at Bromyard, great four part harmonies, tunes with a rough edge to them. Wasn't quite sure about the girl with the pipes but overall it was a great sound. Have they stopped performing? Their website has no dates on it.

Bob

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07 Jun 10 - 07:27 AM (#2922257)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Ed

So you want a list of every band that people liked but has split up?

The Beatles

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07 Jun 10 - 07:36 AM (#2922260)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Bob the hat

Maybe I didn't make myself clear... I meant bands that have gone quiet and there has been no announcement of why.

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07 Jun 10 - 08:01 AM (#2922278)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Dave Hanson

The Invisible Men.

Dave H

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07 Jun 10 - 08:02 AM (#2922282)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,woodsie

Crcible still have a MySpace

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07 Jun 10 - 08:04 AM (#2922283)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Steve Hunt

As far as I know, Crucible just took a break while Jess and Richard Arrowsmith were busy having their baby.

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07 Jun 10 - 08:19 AM (#2922293)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: theleveller

In 1972 Mr Fox disbanded after less than 2 years together, and just before Bob and Carole Pegg split up. Great band and superb songs by Bob Pegg who, I believe, is now a professional storyteller.

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07 Jun 10 - 08:45 AM (#2922308)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Bob the hat

Ah, so they're not disbanded.

Actually, her piping is good. It was the singing and patter that grated with me. As you say, there is a lack of unusual instruments on the scene. I just said pipes as it distinguised her from the other girl in the band.

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07 Jun 10 - 12:33 PM (#2922430)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: maple_leaf_boy

The Gin Blossoms? I haven't heard of any news about them in years.
They were a good band.

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07 Jun 10 - 12:41 PM (#2922435)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: BusyBee Paul

Anyone know what happened to the Iron Horse?

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07 Jun 10 - 12:59 PM (#2922445)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: mrmoe

....ah yes, the gin blossoms.....hadn't thought of them for a long time until I heard it from you

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07 Jun 10 - 01:24 PM (#2922464)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,CAP

Anyone know of Tear, they came from the Dunmow/Saffron Walden area of Essex? Also would love to know what happened to ROAM ?

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07 Jun 10 - 07:53 PM (#2922739)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Herga Kitty

But Crucible aren't just the band, they're the singing concert band version.... 3 members of Crucible (not including Helena the piper) are playing in Hekety

Kitty

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07 Jun 10 - 08:02 PM (#2922746)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Bobert

Black Oak Arkansas...

Crow...

The Flying Burrito Brothers...

Mother Loves Bone...

Tangier...

Tesla...

New Riders and the Purple Sage...

Poco...

Grin...

Claude Jones...

Steelmill...

Jus' fir starters...

B~

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08 Jun 10 - 04:15 PM (#2923347)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: banjoman

I once played in a band called DIS. Every gig we played the audence called out for us shouting DIS BAND and eventually we got the message and did

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08 Jun 10 - 06:06 PM (#2923403)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Bernard

Norfolk and Good?

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08 Jun 10 - 07:05 PM (#2923453)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Nick

Invisible String Band

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08 Jun 10 - 07:06 PM (#2923454)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Nick

... incredibly I saw them once

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09 Jun 10 - 04:48 AM (#2923709)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Rusty Dobro

Haven't heard much from Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers lately......

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09 Jun 10 - 05:25 AM (#2923720)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work)

Crucible are still going strong. Jess & Richard do have a new baby. They apparantly did a storming gig at the Royal at Dungworth recently

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09 Jun 10 - 07:22 AM (#2923782)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Don Day

Maybe Dave Sutherland can remember what happened to Brown Gilroy's Giro. I cant.

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09 Jun 10 - 07:40 AM (#2923794)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Dave Sutherland

Brown Gilroy's Giro - resident band at South Tyne Folk and Blues c1969/1970.
What happend to them?
Well last I heard Matty Scott was living in the wilds of Northumberland near Wooler, Alan Rutter was still in Southampton and singing around the clubs there. Terry Kelly lives near Newark and has become a bluesman of no small talent; I am down here in Nottingham and you are in South Durham.
Maybe if one of these proposed STF&B re-unions ever come off we might meet again.

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09 Jun 10 - 07:59 AM (#2923809)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: naughtyforty

The Iron Horse as a band retired in 2001 but apparently continue to be at the forefront of the traditional music scene in other projects.

Anyone know what happened to The Island Girls - a group from Canada. I saw them at Warwick Folk Festival a few years ago but can't find any info on them now.

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09 Jun 10 - 08:16 AM (#2923818)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Dave the Gnome

ROAM broke up but we still see Colid Rudd periodicaly at Swinton.

DeG

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09 Jun 10 - 10:06 AM (#2923892)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: sharyn

I had one cut on a compilation CD by the Blue Rubies ("When You Were Mine"). I could find no trace of them even with an internet search.

My favorite defunct band was Out of the Rain, a San Francisco Bay Area band who recorded traditional and original songs in three-part harmony. All of the members are still around, although farther flung than they used to be.

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25 Jun 10 - 04:17 PM (#2934802)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: maple_leaf_boy

Is the Shawn Mullins band still around? I just thought of them today.

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25 Jun 10 - 04:47 PM (#2934817)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GavDav

Crucible have been having a bit of a break from heavy duties whilst Jess and Rich had their gorgeous baby Lucy. We did a couple fo great gigs recently at the Royal at Dungworth and Raunds Festival.

We're putting together some Autumn tour dates at the moment and should be back to doing a lot more regular stuff in 2011 (booking now). I've been working on a solo album, and there are some other spin off projects afoot. We promise to revamp the website!

Still, it is nice to know someone misses you enough to care :)

Gav

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25 Jun 10 - 09:47 PM (#2934933)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Frank Phillips

I picked up the first CD in 2008 while on Vancouver Island but it appears they are not together anymore. If you google "island girls courtenay" you should get the following link.

http://www.cypherconsulting.com/nicollmusic/IG/islandgirls.html
Frank

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12 Jul 10 - 09:14 AM (#2943880)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Alan Rutter

Brown Gilroy's Gyro was usually spent on the way home, quicker than you could say - mine's a pint !

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12 Jul 10 - 10:11 AM (#2943910)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Essex girl

Anyone know if Three Sheets to the Wind (U.K) Still do anything. Tryind to get some news of Geoff Higginbottom?

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12 Jul 10 - 11:47 AM (#2943976)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Ray

Ask Ken Thompson about Geoff - Ken manages Hobgoblin in Manchester so he should be easy enough to track down.

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12 Jul 10 - 12:14 PM (#2943992)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: banksie

Proper Little Madams were very good but disbanded, I believe.

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12 Jul 10 - 12:43 PM (#2944010)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: The Sandman

The New Mexborough English Concertina Quartet, believed lost in the Mexborough triangle , there ghostly concertinas still be heard stil playing Colonel Bogey 25 years later on dank november evenings

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12 Jul 10 - 01:28 PM (#2944040)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Tug the Cox

Anyone remeber armony grouop'Arkies Toast?'

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12 Jul 10 - 02:18 PM (#2944062)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: banksie

And of course there was Eric - based around the late Nigel Chippendale and Ralph Jordan

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12 Jul 10 - 06:57 PM (#2944078)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Old Vermin

Ask Surreysinger about Ralphie.

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12 Jul 10 - 06:58 PM (#2944079)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Old Vermin

Or doesn't Mr Jordan come in here anyway?

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12 Jul 10 - 08:01 PM (#2944105)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Surreysinger

Mr Jordan does indeed post on here (as Ralphie) ...and I'm sure you can ask him about what he's been doing since then if you want to. In his current absence though, I would say though that, as Eric was a trio, they were not actually "centred round Nigel Chippendale (sic) and Ralph Jordan" ... I sadly never got the chance to see them in live action, but it's my understanding that Colin Thompson was very much an integral part of the band and the overall threesome.

PS It's actually Nigel Chippindale ... "i" not "e" :-)

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13 Jul 10 - 01:46 AM (#2944192)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST

The Vuvuzela orchestra is now, sadly, a blast from the past...

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13 Jul 10 - 03:25 AM (#2944212)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Geoff the Duck

The Mexborough Concertina Band Club is still in Mexborough.
They have been brewing their own beer for maybe 20 years now. Had a few pints the other weekend - Bengal Tiger and Old Dark Attic - excellent.
Quack!
GtD.

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13 Jul 10 - 03:40 AM (#2944217)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Ralphie

Thanks for remembering ERIC. Yes definitely a band of equals, All three of us inputting ideas. The sad death of Nigel obviously ended the fun, otherwise we'd probably still be going.

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13 Jul 10 - 03:38 PM (#2944480)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Dave Sutherland

Proper Little Madams were a very clever and inventive trio of young ladies who played around the East Midlands in the early eighties and I really thought that they would be a great success.
Hey Mr Rutter - why not join Mudcat then Don and I could catch up with you?

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13 Jul 10 - 04:44 PM (#2944515)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: oggie

English Tapestry - three part harmonies as good as any other band before or after.

Steve

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13 Jul 10 - 08:24 PM (#2944621)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Tug the Cox

Oggie, remember ET well. Came from Cambridge, I think, came on tours of London including Catford and farningham on successive nights.

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14 Jul 10 - 02:32 AM (#2944689)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Herga Kitty

Tug - there was an earlier thread about Arky's toast - whom, IIRC, I booked for the Heritage club at Oxford in the summer of 1972....

Kitty

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15 Jul 10 - 06:39 AM (#2945423)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Alan Rutter

Dave - I'd love to join the forum but whenever I try to register I keep getting a syntax error message and the help section is unavailable. All suggestions welcomed. Emailed Don last week on the address he gave but haven't heard anything from him.

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15 Jul 10 - 12:17 PM (#2945615)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: Dave Sutherland

Alan- Google www.tigerfolk.com if you want to contact me.

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20 Sep 10 - 08:38 AM (#2990211)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Rich A

Crucible is no more!

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20 Sep 10 - 08:47 AM (#2990219)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: GUEST,Joe G

That's a great shame - was really hoping to see you again after the great gig at Queensbury - is Glorystrokes continuing?

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20 Sep 10 - 10:32 AM (#2990260)
Subject: RE: Bands that have disapeared
From: squeezeboxhp

Hebric were a fair band around the west riding in the dim &distant past all still performing in other guises

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