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15 Jul 98 - 07:39 PM (#32619) Subject: Mud Cat (UK) From: Mick Lowe I'm just wondering what % of the people that access and enjoy the Mud Cat Cafe Forum live in the UK or the Repulic of Ireland, No particular reason for asking apart from I the notice the times threads are posted. Either it it's due to the old "International time scale" ploy, or MudCats devotees watch this space 24 hours a day Yours eyelidsbwilting Mick |
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15 Jul 98 - 08:02 PM (#32620) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Brack& Well Mick, I'm from Altrincham, Cheshire. Where are you? Mick (also) |
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15 Jul 98 - 08:12 PM (#32623) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bob Bolton G'day Mick, I recognise at least 10 MudCatters as being Aussies like myself. I'm currently on our Eastern Standard Time which puts me 14 hours ahead of Mud Cat's (daylight saving?) time and 10 hours ahead of London time (give or take whatever adjustments are made for what passes for Summer, not to mention European meddling). Right now it is 10.15 am on a bright sunny (if brisk) morning, dead middle of winter ... 16 degrees Celsius expected. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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16 Jul 98 - 04:42 AM (#32654) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: AndreasW Hey, don't forget the other European countries, even if they are not English-speaking - there might be fans of folk even there (just like myself, I am German and love Irish music!!!) Andreas |
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16 Jul 98 - 07:29 AM (#32656) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Alan of Oz G'day, I agree with Bob that Oz is well represented here. At least three from The Western Suburbs Folk Music Club of Sydney (2 of whom are quite well known here). It's currently 9.30 p.m. and the expected top temp seemed like more than Bob's forecast of 16 celsius. Shirtsleeves were quite comfortable earlier in the day. Cheers, |
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16 Jul 98 - 08:55 AM (#32667) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Mick Lowe Brack&, I'm currently in Halifax, doing contract work, until the end of this month then it's back home to Hinckley, Leicestershire. Apologies Andreas, I must admit I hadn't thought of our European cousins when starting this thread. Very remiss of I know. G'day to you all down under. For the record here in Halifax, West Yorkshire it's Thursday 13:55 and the weather is 100BM (Bloody Miserable). Cheers Mick
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16 Jul 98 - 11:32 AM (#32678) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Brian Hoskin The more people, in the more countries the better! I'm currently based in the University of Wales, Lampeter. Brian. |
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16 Jul 98 - 05:46 PM (#32696) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Sam Hudson An occasional visitor from Nottingham... weather miserable here too. Have you noticed how as soon as a "UK" thread gets started we all talk about the weather? |
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16 Jul 98 - 06:21 PM (#32699) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bob Bolton G'day Sam, I know that a rather jokey set of national folk song definitions identified 'English' as any song that mentioned the weather in the first three lines, but I seem to have been the one that started the weather line in this thread. Ah well, we might have strong Republican tendencies but we do retain some English habits! BTW; Alan of Oz might have been in shirtsleeves yesterday, but he is 20 kilometres further inland. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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16 Jul 98 - 06:34 PM (#32701) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: BAZ Gorthugher da! Fatla genes? While we admit we're part of the UK. we don't admit to Cornwall being part of England, in fact if the Tamar were a couple of miles longer we'd be a separate island. Meantime in Greenwich it's 23:25 and the weather is hissing down! Out of interest (to who, I hear you ask)the Tall Ships race is due to start a couple of miles along the coast from where I live and the sight of 80+ of these beasts is awesome. It makes a shanty come to life before your eyes. Good luck and God bless you where ever you reside. Baz |
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16 Jul 98 - 06:47 PM (#32706) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Jim K Greetings from Ireland |
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16 Jul 98 - 06:50 PM (#32708) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: harpgirl oh please mates, sing me a capstan shanty! Baz I am so jealous! I was sailing back from the Bahamas with my folks one time on the Winlassie ( I lived aboard as a youngster up on on Lake St. Clair)and a tall ship came up on it's way by us. I was awestruck. I wish I could see them all together! and Mick thanks for the Lark in the Morning you sent. It does tie up the two I have been struggling with and I will sing it on our next Irish night in the piney woods... .. harp of Lambent late.... |
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16 Jul 98 - 07:16 PM (#32715) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Barbara Hey Harpgirl, where is this piney woods you talk of? Barbara who is in Oregon now but will be in Michigan in a couple weeks.... |
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16 Jul 98 - 07:27 PM (#32719) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Barry Finn Is that the same Piney Wood Home that Buffy St Marie used to sing about way back. Baz, if you happen onto the Polish wishbone schooner Zawisza Czarny, they'll be the best singers/musicians/dancers in the fleet, very slow vessel, but very welcoming to any one who does music. Barry |
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16 Jul 98 - 10:03 PM (#32739) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: harpgirl barbara and barry it's the north florida piney woods or whats left of it since the fires...haven't lived in Michigan for a very long time but are you going to Elderly or The Ark barbara? what's a wishbone schooner? harp whose hardly been anywhere... |
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16 Jul 98 - 11:18 PM (#32749) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Barry Finn Harpgirl, you were a liveaboard so I'm guessing my explanation may be fair to understand (I'm known for my discriptions that leave people lost). What would normally be the fors'l on the mainmast would be a stays'l if it had no boom & was rigged to the aft mast, now picture between the mainmast & the stays'l, which now has a boom & is no longeg loose footed, a sail that's like a wiskbone or a V, with a second boom at the top of the V, above which you'd fly a trys'l or a fisherman. It's a way to narrow a vessel's identity down by it's rig (the odder/rarer the easier) as you could with describing her bow, hull type, stern, etc. I hope you're doing alright with all the smoke, fire & ash. Wish you could've had some of our wet season. Good Luck. Barry |
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17 Jul 98 - 01:47 AM (#32762) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: John in Brisbane You know I've never really considered it before but we Australian Muddies are among the first of our group to start the weekend off..and sadly perhaps are among the first to return to work next week. T.G.I.F. John |
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20 Jul 98 - 01:26 AM (#32972) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Art Thieme AndreasW---A question! Around 1983 or 4 a Northern German band (hurdy-gurdys & bagpipe etc.) played on a Public Radio live concert radio show I used to host in Chicago (at the Old Town School of Folk Music.The show was called the Flea Market-- on NPR-National Public Radio. The name of the band was GUTZGAUCH (or something like that). I seem to recall that one of the band members was named Theo Smits. They spoke very little English but were extremely funny (using heavy accented broken English)--- and VERY TALENTED! Could you tell me anything about them? Are they still around? Are recordings of them available! I'm glad I had my wife tape that show for me. Art Thieme |
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20 Jul 98 - 12:15 PM (#32999) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bill D Art...tsk...you just missed 'em...the WWW says they were in New Ulm, Minn last week...HeritageFest
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20 Jul 98 - 12:26 PM (#33000) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bill D And Wisconsin Public radio seem to have played a tape of one of their concerts back in April...so I guess they are around..(boy, I love the WWW/net!..with a few tricks, there is little you can't find!) |
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20 Jul 98 - 05:49 PM (#33016) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Graeme Dunbar Just to add I stay in Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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20 Jul 98 - 05:59 PM (#33018) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Mick Lowe Graeme, Good old Aberdeen, once described by the Big yin as gaelic for hyperthrmia. What's the weather like at the moment? Cheers Mick |
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20 Jul 98 - 07:32 PM (#33022) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Art Thieme Amazing!! Thanks for pointing out Gutzgauch! Art |
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21 Jul 98 - 01:41 AM (#33042) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Suibhan I'm not in the UK but I am doing my part to make the Mudcat a 24/7 operation -- I am often here from 2 to 3 AM Pacific time. I can justify the time I spend here by reminding myself that it is too late to play my harp because the pesky neighbors will wake up and complain. |
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21 Jul 98 - 01:52 AM (#33043) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Currently in Wellington, Godzone (New Zealand to the rest of you) but still a man of Kent at heart. It's been a very mild winter so far. Wish I was back in Tavistock Baz, and could nip down to Falmouth (I presume thats where the tall ships race is? We do get our own version next year which I hope to be in on the Spirit of New Zealand (Barquentine), but we wont get the numbers you do in the North Atlantic. Pete M |
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21 Jul 98 - 01:59 AM (#33045) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Pete M Sorry pardon all, I sent the above from work (what a give away) and forgot to enter my name in the "from" box. Pete M |
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21 Jul 98 - 03:58 AM (#33048) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Graeme Dunbar Mick, Aberdeen - wet. I have a question relating to Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire. I think I'll start a new thread for it... |
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21 Jul 98 - 05:17 AM (#33054) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: AndyG Hi all, Just to say I'm in Cambridge (UK) and will be at the Folk Festival at the end of the month. (I don't get to many festivals). I'll be helping out round the Club Tent on Saturday afternoon 12:00 - 18:00 and if any MudCat readers happen by please pop in and say hello.
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22 Jul 98 - 12:42 AM (#33114) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bob Bolton G'day all,
I was thinking that the time differences make MudCatting from Australia a different game than it would be on its own ground. We seem to be, currently, 14 hours ahead of the local (Summer?) time. If we post something early afternoon, it's after midnight locally, and if we post in the evening it is still early morning form hometown MudCatters. This means that we rarely see any immediate response - we wait until the next day, whereas I see some very quick repsonses to US postings. I guess we just have to cultivate a team of insomniacs ... or shiftworkers. Anyhow, best from the bright, sunny early afternoon of the local midwinter. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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22 Jul 98 - 01:55 AM (#33115) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Another Sydneysider heard from, although I am looking for a house in the Mountains to get away from this tropical weather :) Murray
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22 Jul 98 - 06:17 PM (#33163) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: BAZ Pete M. Your right about Falmouth. The ships left on Sunday just after lunch. Every point from Falmouth to the Lizard was lined with people to see them off. We kicked off the Farewell Shanty as they sailed away and this was picked up almost everyone even if they couldn't follow the words they hummed along. Magic moment Reards Baz. |
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24 Jul 98 - 10:10 AM (#33277) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Anne Cormack I'm a Scot from Edinburgh living in Perth - Western Australia that is!! Mid-winter here, but still warmer than summer in the UK |
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24 Jul 98 - 10:52 AM (#33279) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bill in Alabama Well, here in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, thete |
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24 Jul 98 - 10:53 AM (#33280) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Bill in Alabama Sorry About That--I pushed Submit when I meant to hit Clear! |
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24 Jul 98 - 08:09 PM (#33298) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Mick Lowe There's a distinct preoccupation with the weather in this thread. Anyone know any good Weather songs. Stormy Weather would be a good one for the summer we've been experiancing so far in Yorkshire. Cheers Mick |
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25 Jul 98 - 08:01 AM (#33319) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: DianeW Hi, I've just joined - I live in Croydon, Surrey, England. I'm likely to post threads as almost any hour 'cos of trying to keep down the phone bills! |
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25 Jul 98 - 08:15 PM (#33345) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Mick Lowe Diane, Do you mean you'll post threads whilst at work, i.e. no cost involved, or you haven't signed with a ISP that uses a local rate number? Cheers Mick |
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26 Jul 98 - 12:37 AM (#33362) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: BAZ Hi Diane I have sympathy with the phone bill problem. Not all of us have the opportunity to use company time and even local rates before 6pm can be expensive. This might seem a daft question but those of you that use company time does your employer know? Or is it your own company perhaps? By the way Diane is there much of a Folk club scene around Croydon these days? There used to be back in the seventies. We seem to be lucky here in Cornwall with a lot going on mainly centred on the pubs. Regards Baz. |
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26 Jul 98 - 01:12 PM (#33389) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: DianeW There is still a folk song club on Monday nights and I gather there are folk dance clubs too but I don't attend any. I sing with a West Gallery choir in Kent, and Next week I'm off to Sidmouth for the festival. I've been gathering lyrics for entertaining friends there! |
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26 Jul 98 - 06:15 PM (#33403) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Graeme Dunbar UK phone bills - I think what Diane W was saying is that in the UK the cost of even a local phone call mounts up quickly unless you make your calls in the evenings or weekends. :-( |
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27 Jul 98 - 01:39 AM (#33426) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: BSeed I'm here in California where I've spent most of my life with the exception of a fair amount of travel and military service and the Peace Corps, but I have roots in Moneyderra, Analong, Belfast, on the slopes of the Mountains of Mourne. My grandfather inherited a business that included both a funeral parlor and a saloon, and my grandmother, a temperance activist, made him refuse the inheritance so he came to America to work on the railroad. I learned the song The Mountains of Mourne from a Kingston Trio album, but my mother had known it all her life. She and her sisters tried to get me to add to the version I sing a fifth verse: "We saw England's king from the back of a bus; we didn't know him but he seemed to know us. . ." I could never make myself sing that one, whig that I am, despite my aunts' royalist tendencies. Anyway, I still have relatives in the Belfast area, Orrs and Gordons, whom I hope aren't Orange fanatics. |
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29 Jul 98 - 06:27 PM (#33640) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Sophie Hello everyone, I just recently found this list and I a harper based in Brighton, England. Diane, if you ever come down here (it's not far), drop me line) Andy: Will go to Cambridge folk festival but could only get a ticket for Sunday.:-( Suibhan: I symphatize with the neighbour problem. We have a neighbour like that. He goes so insane you'd think I was playing heavy metal. Sophie |
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03 Oct 98 - 11:03 AM (#40275) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: skw@ Art, on 20 July you asked about a band called Gutzgauch. Sitll interested? Gutzgauch is an occasional band of German folk musicians, apparently created specially for the States. They went there about 1983, and again in spring 1998. They come from different bands. Theo Schmitz used to be in SCHMELZTIEGEL, by now probably the oldest German folk band (celebrating 25 years in 1999), but left them years ago when moving to southern Germany. Another member of Gutzgauch, Reinhard Spielvogel, is still with Schmelztiegel, and also with BRUMBORIUM, doing what you might call 'themed folk music' like pirate songs or medieval songs with appropriate instruments and clothing. Schmelztiegel happen to be based in Kiel, my home town, and I happen to know them because they are involved in all kinds of folk events around here. The other participants of that American tour were, I think, Christoph Peters and Reinhard Zielonka, who usually play in an outfit called "mit voller Spielmannswucht", who do a marvellous impression of medieval itinerant musicians ('Spielleute'), with songs and hilarious patter. I've just phoned Reinhard S., by the way, but he had to go out and has promised to tell me more about Gutzgauch and its history tomorrow night. So - more about this later, if you want to hear. I don't think they've made any CDs, btw, but Schmelztiegel have - worth listening to.
BTW: What put an end to this interesting thread? - Susanne, from Kiel, Germany, on the waters of the Baltic Sea. |
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03 Oct 98 - 12:08 PM (#40278) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: skarpi Iceland. Greeting from Iceland. |
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04 Oct 98 - 01:34 PM (#40330) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Dale Rose So far as I can tell, I am the only one here from Arkansas, though Gene grew up here in the long ago. I still think we need a section which gives a brief bio, interests, etc. I have seen such in other places, notably the Rankin Family Chat Room that I used to go to, before they made it practically unusable with java. Concerning the time of posts, since I retired, I pay practically no attention to the clock, either for going to bed or getting up, so the times listed on my posts reflect that failing. |
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04 Oct 98 - 02:59 PM (#40334) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Paul Just a quick hello from Overton, Hampshire. Weather here is terrible and I've got the worst cold in the whole world. I wish my neighbors played the harp ! These uneducated fools don't know what they're missing. On that note, are there any U.K Mud Cat peeps out there into paganism. I know several people into being druids who play a variety of folk type instruments (harp. mandolin..) and was wondering about the possible cross overs ? Oh well, merry meet and all that. |
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04 Oct 98 - 04:54 PM (#40340) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Ewan McV I'm startled to find I'm the only person from central Scotland checking in. As regards German bands, I did hear of one who played Irish tunes and called themselves The Rambling Pitchforks, but they've since seen the light. |
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04 Oct 98 - 11:08 PM (#40356) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Einnor I am from B.C. CAN. The great stuff over here is we have found a skeleton 10,000. years old [the oldest found in N. Am.] so now when we have Cetic type events we can say we are back. I was at our fall fair last weekend and watched mock battles with authentic looking armor and listened to music which I WAS TOLD WAS POPULAR FOR THE TIME OOps forgot the Caps Lock. darned new computer. |
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05 Oct 98 - 03:18 PM (#40389) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: The Shambles Hello I am lucky enough to live on The Isle of Portland in Dorset. |
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06 Oct 98 - 11:05 AM (#40552) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Celtic-End Singer Hi, I'm from Glasgow in the West of Scotland where the weather is uncharacteristically dry and sunny at present. One way to get round the phone bill problem is to go to university and use all the JANET provided facilities for free. Although I suppose it's not that economical given the governments £1000 tuition fees disgrace. |
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07 Oct 98 - 07:50 AM (#40672) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: John Nolan Dear Startled: I bet you are the very Ewan McV. who played guitar in my Partickhill flat years ago with Sean Damer, or was it Mick Broderick? Anyway, since then, I've enjoyed your book "One Singer, One Song" immensely. Well compiled, insightful notes. |
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13 Oct 98 - 10:16 PM (#41601) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Mo I'm a Glasgow Scot too and at the moment it 03.15 and is charateristically dreech outside - I'm still up at the moment because I'm jet-lagged and my mind thinks it's still in Maine - unfortunately for my body which is crying out for sleep!! Baz - the ships are coming to my neck of the woods next year, if you ever get the opportunity to sail on one do it - it's a magical experience, especially if you get folky/shanty singers on board! Had a great experience in Tobermoray this year - an impromptu jam session on the bridge of a 150ft schooner - guitar, fiddle, squeezebox, moothie, tin whistle and as many joining in the singing as wanted to, as the sun set over the harbour and the lights of the Mishnish pub beckoned. Bliss, absolute bliss... Cheers, Mo. |
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14 Oct 98 - 03:00 AM (#41626) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: mike G'day from Castleford in West Yorkshire |
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14 Oct 98 - 03:17 AM (#41627) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Ritchie Well Hello There ,seems a long ,long ,time... Greetings from the home of 'The Angel Of The North' The sun is out ,the sky is blue ,not a cloud in sight to spoil the view.....but please.....check out the Hamish Imlach thread. Ritchie Forster ...Gateshead..The North East of England on the banks of the Tyne or ower the watter from the toon signing oot cos its time t'dee sum work. |
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14 Oct 98 - 04:47 AM (#41628) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Graeme Hating to be left out............... I hail from the deep amongst the woods of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire............and the folk club I belong to is held in the village where the Hellfire Club used to be. Nothing much seems to have changed................ Graeme |
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15 Oct 98 - 12:01 PM (#41803) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Jamey Hi, Coventry UK is online, and I sing at the Warwick Folk Club (Rose & Crown), and Hinckley Leicetershire 9(Greyhound) If Dale Rose reads this in Arkansas, how near to Eureka Springs are you? |
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17 Oct 98 - 05:10 AM (#42048) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Jonathan Greetings from Cromarty, Black Isle. If I come down to Glasgow one more time and fail to find a tune on a Saturday night I may well just leave the town in smoking ruins. You have been warned. Jonathan. |
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17 Oct 98 - 11:06 PM (#42139) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Guy Wolff In 1972 I was working at a pottery in Penith Cumberland and someone lent me a blues record with the song "the Denver Train".Dose anyone over there have that old record? I would love to see the words to that song.I loved the north of England.When I left a bed and breackfast cost 1 pound even.All the good times are past and gone ,all the good times are ore....... |
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24 Oct 98 - 10:02 AM (#43065) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: David Harris Greets from Sunny Shropshire. Chucking it down this W/E but who cares. Ive got a site UK visitors might like to check out. http://www.g8ina.enta.net/irish.htm got loads of mirrored MIDI and ABC files from Barry Taylor, Kipp Doolan and all those other brilliant types. Hoping to get my own collection online soon and O'Neills when its available. All are welcome. Feedback good or bad invited, I can take it :)) Slainte David |
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24 Oct 98 - 10:39 AM (#43066) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: Big Mick Lane, not Lowe Hey Big Mick Lowe, not Lane, What a great thread. I had not read it, for some reason or the other, but I just now read it top to bottom and loved it. Hello from West Michigan to all my UK Mudcat friends. I love the weather comments. Here it is a beautiful fall day, a crisp54 degrees Fahrenheit, the trees are all dressed up for Saturday night and they look so beautiful that I am sure they are going to get lucky :-)) BTW, we have had the Tall Ships come into the Great Lakes, and we have a number of restored and recreated ships that home port in various places. The Great Lakes are very tricky sailing, specifically Northern Huron, Northern Michigan and Superior. There is a local band out of Traverse City (NW Michigan) called "Song of the Lake". All spring, summer and fall they have bonfires at a remote spot on the Grand Traverse Bay and sit around playing acoustic instruments and singing songs. A great experience. All the Best, One Big Mick among many. |
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24 Oct 98 - 10:45 AM (#43067) Subject: RE: Mud Cat (UK) From: The Shambles Hello David If you look at the 'Anything Irish' and 'World' threads you will see I have done a pretty goog job letting people know about your excellent site. But don't confine youself to the UK, this is the www after all. |