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Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)

11 Nov 99 - 03:26 AM (#134519)
Subject: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Steve Parkes

I se Roaring Jelly's name keeps on cropping up in threads lately. Are they still going? They've been around longer than I have, individually, at least.

Steve


16 Nov 99 - 03:27 AM (#136727)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Steve Parkes

Refresh ... come on, you guys!


16 Nov 99 - 06:08 PM (#137011)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Barry Finn

If you're talking about the Roaring Jelly that's been playing dances in the Boston area for at least the past 25 years, yes they're still around. Go to the NEFFA site & search performers you find an update of their current members. Barry


16 Nov 99 - 08:00 PM (#137066)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Bugsy

Barry, Unless you are talking about the Boston in Linconshire, England, I think you are talking about the wrong Roaring Jelly.

Cheers

Bugsy.


17 Nov 99 - 03:44 AM (#137260)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Steve Parkes

Sorry Barry - Bugsy's right! Er, about my question ...


17 Nov 99 - 05:24 AM (#137275)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Roger the skiffler

Sorry, Steve can't help, did have a friend who was a drummer in various bands including a 50s R&R band called Juggling with Jelly, but that was in Surrey and he's now exiled to Geelong in Australia (we sent them convicts, and now we send them drummers, and we wonder why they want to dump the Queen!).


17 Nov 99 - 07:24 PM (#137599)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Jo Taylor

I remember them Steve but that was early eighties - I've just done a search (trying to stay up late enough to see the meteorite thingy) and came up with a lot of hits for the Boston band, which is not at all the same thing as that bostin' band (correct usage?!) to which you refer, who seem to have completely disappeared... I bet you didn't know that there is a Siberian Iris called Roaring Jelly!
Jo xx


17 Nov 99 - 07:36 PM (#137607)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From:

"Roaring Jelly" is the title of a tune in one of the books of Gow's 'Complete Repository'. Elsewhere the tune is called "Smash the Windows".


17 Nov 99 - 08:03 PM (#137637)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Bugsy

Don't look like you're going to get much joy here Steve. Shame 'cos they were a great band.

Cheers

Bugsy


18 Nov 99 - 03:26 AM (#137802)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Steve Parkes

Sure were, Bugsy

Jo, nice to see you back! Siberian Iris - sounds like part of a line from Keats! I suspect it loses something in the translation, am I right?

Steve


18 Nov 99 - 07:11 PM (#138098)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Jo Taylor

Um, no, I wasn't being at all obtuse (unusual!) - my search hit on an iris identification page, there were lots of pretty pictures of flowers and one of them was called Roaring Jelly... and then it was p'ing down & cloudy and I couldn't see the sky show. Was one of them called Derek? (band not iris).
Jo xxx
PS Haven't been away, just haven't felt the need to put fingers to keyboard recently!


19 Nov 99 - 03:32 AM (#138271)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Steve Parkes

Ah, Uncle Derek, the kiddies' Friend? I don't suppose he calls himself that now! Derek What's-his-name, the melodeon player and vocalist; then there was a tallish(?) chap who played the guitar; and a rather Barry-Gibb-like young man (only good-looking with it), who played acoustic bass guitar. They sang 'Quenn Victoria, riding a motorbike/Upa and down the cobbled streets of Mansfield Town', and an hilarious Mum-dad-and-son version of Lord Randall: 'Where the 'ell 'ave you been, Lord Randall my son?'. Am them 'em?

Steve


19 Nov 99 - 05:07 PM (#138484)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Melbert

That's them! We used to have them play gig's a the kids' school when they were younger and I was on the PTA. Their version of "my old man's a dustman" was a hoot, as was "Big Valerie Wilkins". I have their album "Golden Grates" - it's one of my favourites.


20 Nov 99 - 02:10 AM (#138661)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: roopoo

Never saw 'em, only heard 'em now and again on the radio. I thought they disbanded in the late eighties. Just something I remember hearing, but I moved in '87 to the rarified atmosphere of Yorkshire from North Notts. Try South Riding Folk Network (deals with N.Midlands and S. Yorks) on www.folk-network.com and see if there's a contact in there who might know something.

mouldy


12 Nov 05 - 12:39 AM (#1602894)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Martin Underwood

I have a recording (from a badly-tuned radio, unfortunately) of several songs that they sang at Towersey Festival in the late 70s or early 80s. Their version of "My Old Man's A Dustman" (including a West Indian version!) is delightfully irreverant, and "Big Valerie Wilkins" is great - it brings back memories of being "just six years old". There was another song about what happens when love goes bad, featuring the memorable line "I can see how the plot has been planned / It's as plain as the nose on your hand"!


12 Nov 05 - 12:57 AM (#1602897)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Martin Underwood

I've dug out the recording. Roaring Jelly are described as coming from Derbyshire and consist of Derek Pearce, Clive Harvey and "Master" Michael Hennessey. It is Michael Hennessey who puts so much passion into "Big Valerie Wilkins".


12 Nov 05 - 03:08 AM (#1602901)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: alanabit

"Where the Hell 'ave you been Lord Randall our son..." They were a hoot. I saw them in the mid seventies and again sometime in the early eighties. I think one of them doubled in the excellent guitar trio, Six Hands in Tempo.
Certainly not BS. They were goood players, singers, writers and entertainers.


12 Nov 05 - 05:30 AM (#1602936)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Leadfingers

I remember them doing a Hilarious comedy routine at Bracknell Festival back in the Good Old Days -The Inflatable Folkie - Absolutely brilliant .


12 Nov 05 - 05:39 AM (#1602941)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Blowzabella

They were actually the very first band I saw at a folk club - my bi brother took me, cos he felt sorry for me being in the house on a Friday night! That was only the start....

I remember seeing RJ on Tiswas - singng their 'cajun' ditty 'A Bucketful of Mud' - you can probably guess what happened....!


12 Nov 05 - 06:14 AM (#1602951)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST

Oh.. Memories!!!

What an absoloute delight they were. @chistmas in Australia was always one of my favouriotes!

Steve


12 Nov 05 - 07:57 AM (#1602971)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: PennyBlack

Don't mention "Christmas in Australia" - we released it on a CD a few years ago (2001) and as a CD single.

Jim Bowen (Radio Lancashire at the time) decided to have an early Christmas so it was decided that he would play our version of CiA, however we weren't allowed to say "Bloody" on daytime Radio so we had to re-record it as "Blooming" Not quite the same!

The original chorus(for them whot ain't heard it):-

Christmas in Australia is Christmas in Paradise
Christmas in Australia is Basically Bloody Nice
Bruce goes steady with Sheila, Sheila goes steady with Bruce
If you don't have a Christmas suntan, Your a Pommie and you ain't no use.


We still do the song, needless to say the Bloody's back.

remains of deleted CD cover

PB


12 Nov 05 - 08:38 AM (#1602996)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: R. Padgett

Roaring Jelly ~ Derbyshire based were brilliant live band
saw em at Wath and Redcar folk festivals that I can remember

Kenneth Johnson from Chesterfield ~ Derbyshire folkie still sings 'Valerie'lovely joining in song!


12 Nov 05 - 11:54 AM (#1603077)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: The Badger

A really great band. I had the pleasure of presenting them several times when I was running the Sun Inn FC at Doncaster in the late 70's early 80's. Always a full house night. They split at the top after a final performance at Stainsby Folk Festival - should have been 45mins - lasted 2 hours! They marquee was that packed we wouldn't let them off as we knew it was the last chance to see them on stage - marvellous concert.

Derek had been having increasing hearing problems and performing was becoming more and more difficult for him, so they set a date to call it a day. The 'chemistry' between them was such that it would have been impossible for one member to leave and be replaced and the band still be "Roaring Jelly". They left behind a legacy of many hours of great entertainment for thousands of people at festivals and in folk clubs.

The band was Clive Harvey, Derek Pearce and Mick Hennessy.

Recordings : Golden Grates - Free Reed FRR013. This includes the "Mansfield Royal Visit" and the advice to play it at 78rpm "It'll be over quicker".

             In the Roar - with the tasteful nude cover photo. This includes "Valerie Wilkins", "Christmas in Australia" and "Not for the Soul" - the song about love going bad.

Six Hands in Tempo - another great band I had the pleasure of presenting - was Steve Bailey, Alan Harris, and Dave Proctor.


12 Nov 05 - 01:26 PM (#1603126)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Mrs.Duck

After Roaring Jelly closed, at least one of the members performed with a group named the Beverley Brothers.
Don't know what happened to them either...
Quack!
GtD.


12 Nov 05 - 01:58 PM (#1603140)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Blowzabella

I know that, for a time, Clive was with R Cajun & the Zydeco Brothers - but that was a while ago....

Oh, for a reunion!!!!


12 Nov 05 - 04:19 PM (#1603199)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Bainbo

Yeah, I remember Clive playing with R Cajun. He'd been introducing some "faux cajun" into Roaring Jelly anyway - "Donnez-moi le Cajun gumbo, il est froid ce soir, ce soir".

My abiding memory of is them at Durham Folk Festival, at a concert in the ancient town hall. Called back for an encore, they dashed off the stage and into the massive old stone fireplace (it was big enough to take all three of them) to harmonise an acapella version of I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire. Treasured memories.

Don't remember any of them being with Six Hands In Tempo, though. That was three teachers who only toured during the school holidays, wasn't it?


12 Nov 05 - 06:39 PM (#1603288)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: The Badger

Six Hands in Tempo were available all year round. Noteable for tremendous three piece guitar work and harmony they did a lot of songs from the 20's and 30's. They were not involved with Roaring Jelly.
Two LPs - well worth a play if you come across them - All in Good Time(Burlington-BURL006 and Desperate Digits (Plant Life - PLR054}.


13 Nov 05 - 06:41 AM (#1603642)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: MC Fat

Did have a conversation (through a third party) with one of Six Hands as part of an idea to do a reunion at Sheffield Folk Festival. I think one of Six Hands joined R Cajun which is where that mix up came from


13 Nov 05 - 08:07 AM (#1603670)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Diva

I remember them at Girvan festival, they were fantastic, complete mayhem and somewhere in my collection I have a recording of their set..........ahhhh everybody sing, Marracas in Carracas......


13 Nov 05 - 09:21 AM (#1603699)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Fantum

I have 3 songs of Roaring Jelly Christmas in Oz , Marracas and Valerie Wilkins are the lyrics for any more of their songs out there.

Fantum


14 Nov 05 - 11:33 AM (#1604674)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Larkin

Derek pearce is a good friend of mine - He's still playing a bit and writing occasionally but most of his time he is either a very talented sculptor or he's re-moddelling houses for himself or clients - he dida great job on my kitchen.

LARKIN


14 Nov 05 - 07:16 PM (#1605081)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Herga Kitty

Am I right in thinking they had a song about married sky-divers who drifted apart? And Mazzawattee tea break?

Kitty


15 Nov 05 - 03:23 AM (#1605293)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: SqueezeMe

Derek was also a member of Umps & Dumps, one of the earlier bands presenting English (underlined) dance music, along with John and Sue Kirkpatrick, Tufty Swift and Alan Harris. It was Alan who went on to join Six Hands In Tempo iirc.
MC


15 Nov 05 - 05:05 PM (#1605840)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

I just missed, but was immediately told about their performance on the main stage at Sidmouth one year, where they impersonated an eastern european group and released a "dove of peace" as part of the act. It was, of course, one of Sidmouth's resident pigeons.


16 Nov 05 - 10:44 AM (#1606441)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: sandyandy

I saw them at Sidmouth that year.They did a song to the tune of the banana boat song about getting arrested for exposing yer bum to a policeman "I fall on me bum and bruise de bone"

Great stuff

SA


21 Oct 06 - 02:07 PM (#1865169)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Dartford Warbler

Fans of Roaring Jelly will be pleased to learn that two of the members (Clive and Derek) have formed a trio with a new bass player.
They are called Omega 3


22 Oct 06 - 05:50 PM (#1865930)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Surreysinger

And Omega 3 are booked at the Electric Theatre in Guildford,Surrey on February 20th 2007 as part of the Electric Voices series of events. As soon as tickets become available, I'll post something here - no point in trying the box office at the moment as there aren't any available yet (or unlikely to be before December)....so watch this space!


22 Oct 06 - 07:08 PM (#1865994)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Herga Kitty

Who is the new bass player?

kitty


22 Oct 06 - 08:24 PM (#1866073)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Dartford Warbler


Apologies, the full title of the new trio is The Omega 3

The new bass player is Da'aboth.

From the organ grinders themselves:

Back in the 70s and 80s a band called Roaring Jelly worked their socks off,
on the folk scene and beyond, proving you could make a living specialising
in utterly bizarre songs (and long sentences). The Guinness Who's Who of
Folk Music described them as "pioneers of alternative comedy before the term
became fashionable." Twenty years on - reupholstered, revitalised, fortified
with vitamins and fish oils and now calling themselves The Omega 3 - they're
back with a new bag of quirky, genre-busting songs plus some old favourites,
in a fresh bid to seduce the world with ridiculousness.

The Omega 3 are: Derek Pearce (vocal/mandolin/guitar/fiddle/banjo), Clive
Harvey (vocal/guitar/ukulele/banjulele) and Da'aboth (vocal/fretless bass
guitar).


28 Nov 06 - 07:22 AM (#1894473)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Dave Lewis

Anybody got the words of Christmas in Australia.Where can I buy any of Roaring Jellys records?


28 Nov 06 - 07:38 AM (#1894486)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: BanjoRay

Dave Proctor who was in "Six Hands In Tempo" is a member of R Cajun. A superb left handed fiddle (and everything else) player on right-handed instruments, is one of the best Old Time and Cajun fiddlers in the UK.
Ray


28 Nov 06 - 07:55 AM (#1894504)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Paul Burke

Is roaring jelly related to growling jam, squealing haggis, susurrating celery, mumbling marmalade?


28 Nov 06 - 10:57 AM (#1894662)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)

Dave Lewis

John Dalton at Little Pot Stove Records had 2 of their records (vinyl) available on the last list I got from him:


Golden Grates: ­ Free Reed - £5
In the Roar:   ­ Topic ­    - £4

He can be contacted at JohnDaltonATlittlepotstoveDOTcom


Mick


03 Dec 06 - 07:05 PM (#1899180)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Girl Friday

Until last Friday I'd never heard of Roaring Jelly, apparently they've reformed under another name.


04 Dec 06 - 04:53 AM (#1899410)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Scrump

Seems daft to me - reforming under a different name, I mean. Why not use the name that made 'em (sort of) famous? What is the new name, anyway? I'll have to look out for them.


04 Dec 06 - 05:15 AM (#1899419)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Blowzabella

Scrump - the details are up above.....


04 Dec 06 - 05:21 AM (#1899421)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Scrump

Oops, sorry - I'd forgotten that (well it was over a month ago) :-)


04 Dec 06 - 05:50 AM (#1899438)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST

OMG!!!

Just spoke to Guildford...no tickets yet...

I cant wait...much of my mis-spent teenage years was sspent listening to the Jellies...I was a soldier married to a Nurse, both of us folkies! Valerie Wilkins lives!

Simon Loake (Folkie Loakie) had a Radio Northampton sunday show in those days, and he used to play concerts from the locale...RJ was one of them-from the Old Sun Nether Heyford if I remember right-I had the tape until a few years ago...It was in the car when it got nicked! Lost forever boo hoo!!


04 Dec 06 - 03:22 PM (#1899924)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Dartford Warbler

There is a picture of The Omega 3 here: http://www.dartfordfolk.org.uk/omega3.htm


04 Dec 06 - 03:44 PM (#1899941)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Blowzabella

I have to say, Roaring jelly were my first introduction to the 'folk club scene' when i was just a gel of very tender years. If i see a snifter of Clive Harvey and Derek Pearce within travelling distance....

Does anybody know, is there any suggestion that they are going to be different but simmilar???

Or is Omega 3 a completely different animal????

And was Mick Hennessey not to be persuaded or is he otherwise engaged???

Those three have got a lot to answer for....(all good)


05 Dec 06 - 05:29 PM (#1900989)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: old girl

We had some great nights with them at the Islwyn folk club in Ynysddu S/Wales I'v still got their records somewere I must dig them out, Thinking about it I think they performed their last gig at Ynysddu.
Rose


07 Dec 06 - 02:03 PM (#1902615)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Dartford Warbler

Islwyn folk club in Ynysddu S/Wales

What excellent folk festivals they held at Ynysddu. I stayed in the hotel several times. Memories of Tundra, The Battlefield Band, Downes & Beer and a virtually unknown duo called Huw & Tony Williams ;-) :-) What great days!


07 Dec 06 - 06:21 PM (#1902846)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: old girl

those were the days,we still see some of the old gang at newport folk club.


08 Dec 06 - 01:26 AM (#1903151)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Bugsy

'Ello Rog'.

Bugsy


08 Dec 06 - 12:37 PM (#1903566)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST

Which one had the long bendy legs?


08 Dec 06 - 05:03 PM (#1903860)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Blowzabella

Think that was Clive...


28 Dec 06 - 09:11 AM (#1920456)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Clive (The Omega 3)

This is a new experience for me - replying to a thread, instead of hanging by one. Hi to all on this thread. I'm Clive Harvey, ex-Roaring Jelly and now one of The Omega 3. From the ashes of Roaring Jelly, Derek Pearce and I have risen, still wobbling a bit, to re-gel extremely recently as The Omega 3. We have a new bass player, the mysterious Da'aboth. We have new silly songs. We have old silly songs. We have a website: www.theomega3.co.uk. Hope to see you!


28 Dec 06 - 01:47 PM (#1920625)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Surreysinger

Guest of 4th December - the tickets for The Omega 3 performance at the Electric Theatre in Guildford on 16th February (note date change from my original posting) are now available from the box office on 01483 444789. (£11 in advance - £13 on the day, if any are left by then that is!!)

Looking forward to hearing you in action Clive!!


09 Jan 07 - 01:41 PM (#1931570)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Houston_Diamond

I remember a 7" record of Roaring Jelly that my dad had. I'm not too sure but I think it had a double B side of 'Christmas in Australia' and 'I'm Only A Poor Little Turkey' which me and my sisters kinda sing every Christmas.

I was trying to find it a couple of years ago to no-avail.

Glad they are coming back on the scene as Omega 3... Will they disappear for another 20 years and come back as Omega 6?

Come on lads... get the original recordings of Roaring Jelly put them on digital format so as we can all buy them to reminisce.   :-)

Houston


09 Jan 07 - 01:56 PM (#1931586)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Houston_Diamond

BTW... Checked out the website Clive... Very funny and glad your at Sidmouth this year... Looking forward to that (I might even sneak out to see you at Cecil Sharp House).

Do you not have a MySpace account? if you do can you add me on your friends list?
My MySpace Account


10 Jan 07 - 06:08 AM (#1932150)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Big Al Whittle

Who were the Six Hands in Tempo people who were in the Etchingham steam band with Ashley Hutchings?


10 Jan 07 - 06:12 AM (#1932152)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Scrump

I remember a 7" record of Roaring Jelly that my dad had. I'm not too sure but I think it had a double B side of 'Christmas in Australia' and 'I'm Only A Poor Little Turkey' which me and my sisters kinda sing every Christmas.

I think the other side was "Family Christmas" IIRC (?). I can't remember for sure (I think that track might also have been on one of the albums In The Roar or Golden Grates, but again I can't remember for certain).


13 Jan 07 - 07:11 AM (#1935157)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Houston_Diamond

Thanks Scrump,

I think you maybe right, it certainly rings a bell. It'll be nice if the single ever turns up (mind you, I doubt it cos my mum was notorious for throwing things out that annoy her, which isn't hard!!!)

Just hoping and waiting to see if their website gets a mp3 download section that sells those kinda tracks (or a CD selling area!)


09 Mar 07 - 12:57 PM (#1991658)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Dartford Warbler

Roaring Jelly's reincarnation, The Omega 3 are at Dartford Folk Club on Tuesday 13 March 2007.


10 Mar 07 - 10:48 AM (#1992528)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,MC Fat

Six Hands In Tempo (or SHIT) were three Nottingham lads who all played guitar with close arrangement all are still involved in various ways in the folk scene


02 Oct 07 - 05:04 PM (#2162299)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Blowzabella

Just catching up with this .... has anybody seen The Omega 3??? I am so desperate to see them I may be bullying people into booking em, if they don't venture north soon ....


02 Oct 07 - 07:47 PM (#2162405)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Herga Kitty

Omega 3 are booked for Haddenham festival on 1 December.

Kitty


29 Jan 11 - 04:20 PM (#3084851)
Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Raring for roaring jelly

hi, im a 34 year old fan of roaring jelly. my mum and dad used to play their lbum in the roar on every car journey we took. if you have any lyrics or guitar music or any info on how to get it i'd be very happy and you would be making my four year old daughter very happy. She has already had the pleasure of Valerie Wilkins and laughs her little socks off at the chorus.
Cheers for taking the time to read this.

Iain Matta

Ps my folks were part of Wildenrath folk club about 30 years ago. Dont know if you have any other references to it.


29 Jan 11 - 04:22 PM (#3084853)
Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Raring for roaring jelly

Sorry. My email is adasdaddy@hotmail.co.uk
Thanks.


29 Jan 11 - 10:43 PM (#3085025)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Surreysinger

Iain ..I'm assuming that you had checked out the website for Omega 3 which was mentioned above ? You could always try contacting Clive at the email address shown on the site. There is also information about Roaring Jelly available on Clive Harvey's own website , where you can find details of a compilation of Roaring Jelly tracks which he has available for sale.


30 Jan 11 - 05:06 AM (#3085116)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: Valmai Goodyear

Clive Harvey of Roaring Jelly and The Omega Three is doing an all-day ukulele workshop and evening performance at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club on Saturday 19th. Febraury. Full details, with a booking form, are on this thread. and also on the club's website.

Valmai (Lewes)


30 Jan 11 - 08:01 AM (#3085163)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Ian Gill

They used to do 'Why do all the thickies do woodwork?' didn't they ?
Great song. Didn't they call it a day because of hearing problems?


30 Jan 11 - 05:24 PM (#3085485)
Subject: RE: Roaring Jelly (not quite BS!)
From: GUEST,Susie

Dear Clive and Derek,
If you're reding this, thanks very much - rather belatedly! for coming to see me early eveing, before you played my club , Folk At the Malt" in Altrincham in March 1981, when I was in bed with pleurisy and double pneumonia [from burning the candle at both ends and in the middle with a blowtorch, setting up the first PERFORM conference at C Sharp House the weekend of Feb 28th 1981].
I never got to say how much I appreciated it. I hope I didn't fall asleep!
I'll look out for Omega 3 down yer in Powys / Hereford!
with love x
Susie