WINTER 2021 / SPRING 2022
The NEWS section … is full of reopened clubs and plans for the future and
bookings for now. Organisers never cease to amaze with their optimistic outlook.
TUNE SPOT
PEMBROKE’S FANCY & WESTMORLAND Anahata ranges far and wide from Wales to
Westmorland for some 6/8 action.
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We say goodbye to LYDIA, she will LAIKE no more.
Jim Shipley (her carer!) reports that after a 10 year cycle she has decided
to "replenish her goblet with a double measure of the finest Chilean Merlot
and retire to consider half a century of Tykes trivia."
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A unique cover: Bellamy by Bellamy
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Chris Sugden's MY LIFE AS A KIPPER
Chapter 9: The ASTORIA STORY: A gig so bad it merited a ballad - if he could
remember the tune.
"Chorus: But we were never daunted, despite this small reverse; At least, we
thought, it can’t get any worse." …
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Verse and worse
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OBITUARIES
Michael Chapman - A Life Lived on His Own Terms
"As well as his native
Yorkshire determination and dogged belief in his own way of doing things, he
also possessed a highly developed, inbuilt ‘bullshit detector’."
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Steve Dumpleton
"Steve will be remembered in the folk world as a very fine
player of the melodeon and Anglo concertina, though he had also taught himself
to play the English concertina and the Northumbrian pipes. A keen supporter of
the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust (EATMT), he also had a particular
affinity for Welsh folk music, having worked in Carmarthenshire for a time and
played in a ceilidh band there."
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FORGOTTEN FAVOURITES
Vin's Tossin' a Wobbler. His fifth disk and full of Vintage Vin.
"The single most important element, though, is Vin’s absolute commitment to
his material . Picture him, eyes closed, head thrown back, giving everything
to the song he’s singing. In the moment … … In the zone,"
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Zoning out
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TAKE 5 … LIVE
And the Cat Came Back…
The Ship's Cat - after taking time off to raise a family - have reappeared on
the folk scene. Here are their influences and image.
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Cat Matters
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Alice Jones & Bryony Griffith
Chris Manners has a cuppa with Alice & Bryony and unearths some folk gold.
"Chris: Come on then, admit it: you were both so bored during lockdown that
you formed a duo out of sheer desperation.
Not so, they protest - we were bored before lock-down."
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A solo Alice
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A Demon Bryony
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COMING to TERMS No.36: FAIR
It's an ancient and multi-faceted word - Fair enough?
"derived directly from the Latin, feria, it first appears in written english
in this form in the mid-13th century. Usually translated as “holiday” by
Latin/English dictionaries "
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BOOK REVIEWS
Crawtherdale Tales: by Bruce Michael Baillie
"The whole volume draws inspiration from the songs of Bob Pegg and in
particular takes Fiddler’s Cross as a starting point for the whole process,
whose history is outlined at the end of this 150-odd page volume.” Says an
impressed Nigel.
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Graphic storytelling
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The Brightest Of Entertainers
Jig dolls from England and beyond
by Pat Pickles and Katie Howson
Originally by Rene & Pat Pickles: "The process of updating and expanding the
book has tended towards some unevenness in layout but this is a minor quibble.
Katie Howson and Pat Pickles have crammed a lot into 104 pages and are to be
congratulated on producing such an excellent, well-re- searched and
comprehensive publication on a hitherto neglected aspect of traditional
folk art "
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Read of Mr Jollyboys and his articulated friends
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On Track … The Incredible String Band by Tim Moon
"'Every Album, Every Song' claims the cover … Well, almost … Cometh the
Increds. Cometh Tim Moon. The songs are here in order, from Maybe Someday to
Ithkos, with a detour into the Mike and Robin solo albums made during the
band’s main existence "
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The Increds made credible
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CD REVIEWS
Including LOCK-DOWN ROUND-UP
(From their front room to yours)
“And it’s vanity will get you in the end, I’ll be bound.”
[with a nod to Cyril Tawney]
MAKE A DATE with FILOFOLK
…is back, In skeletal form, but with the promise of
greater things to come.
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