tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76617242681741477242024-03-14T02:41:22.043-07:00Coventry Folk Club and Acoustic Scene 1960's to PresentCoventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-89076187457982867982023-04-03T06:23:00.000-07:002023-04-03T06:23:14.801-07:00Welcome<span style="font-family: arial;">This blog is a part of the new <b>Hobo - Coventry Music Archives</b> focusing on the <b>Coventry Folk Scene</b> of the 1970's and beyond.<br />
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Hobo Coventry Music archives started out on Vox blogs in 2007, The site now closed is hosted on Typepad but provides an opportunity to reorganise the material on that site. Hobo was a Coventry Music and Arts Magazine c 1973 -75 run by <b>Trev Teasdel </b>and co-founded with <b>John Bargent (Bo)</b> and the Hobo Workshop at The Holyhead Youth Centre and later the Golden Cross was an important early music center in the history of<b> Two Tone</b> and the Coventry music scene.<br />
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This is the <b>Hub</b> to all the Coventry music sites below <a href="http://covmusicscenehobo.blogspot.co.uk/"><b>http://covmusicscenehobo.blogspot.co.uk/</b></a><br /><br />This is the <b>New Version</b> of the Hobo A to Z of bands called <b>Coventry Bands - 1960's to Now</b> Here <a href="https://coventrybands.blogspot.com/"><b>https://coventrybands.blogspot.com/</b></a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">
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<a href="http://coventrymusicarchives.blogspot.com/"><b>Hobo Coventry Music Archives</b></a> ( The main blog) (Hobo magazine archives, features, other alternative Coventry mags and more.<br />
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<a href="http://coventryartsumbrella.blogspot.com/"><b>Coventry Arts Umbrella Club</b> </a> The Umbrella was established 1955 and opened by the <b>Goons</b>. It produced an important Literary Journal which featured an essay by <b>Philip Larkin</b>. Held lectures by writers like<b> EM Foster</b>. Held the first Coventry Folk club. Was home to Coventry musicians, including some who were later in Two Tone bands.<br />
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<a href="http://coventrygigs.blogspot.com/"><b>Coventry Gigs 1960 - present</b></a> houses <b>Peter Clemon's</b> <i>Rock of Ages</i> columns for the <b>Coventry Telegraph</b> which charts gigs in Coventry (local bands and famous bands) from 1960 onwards. In addition I'm adding Disco DJ Venue Gig, Coventry Hits, <b>Pete Waterman</b> archives to this section and my 1971 diary of Coventry gigs as a resource.<br />
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<b><a href="http://covdiscoarchive.blogspot.co.uk/">Coventry Discos / Venues / Studios</a> - </b>Work in progress - includes music shops and more.<br />
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This blog with house copies of <b>Pete Willow</b>'s <i>Folks Magazine</i> from c 1978 and articles from it. My archive of material from the Coventry Folk Scene in the 1970s and other relevant articles, You Tube and links.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Visit <a href="http://www.covmm.co.uk/2016/">Coventry Music Museum </a></span></b></span></div>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0Coventry, UK52.4058375 -1.51266152.328342 -1.6705895 52.483332999999995 -1.3547325000000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-25466363588492963362023-03-24T07:20:00.009-07:002023-03-24T07:44:23.612-07:00The Heart of England Folk Group<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja6Bpi3qC6OVHMfylxBcND6bOAlOHfJe2NDq_RwdHh-RinT7WXgjyueY8EvAcJymjL-0QP8PyBh0TwViKTGJyp5EkH1RFsQJJwUnw1EPVrhj3ktmZFdi5_UXMC7VcR9tPkJ5Gx-Id_P4Sn-St-8B1-TE3Tf8Qcv4oCz-NZy-bIBgyP5oZOEZGQQGpi/s484/IMG_4058.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="484" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja6Bpi3qC6OVHMfylxBcND6bOAlOHfJe2NDq_RwdHh-RinT7WXgjyueY8EvAcJymjL-0QP8PyBh0TwViKTGJyp5EkH1RFsQJJwUnw1EPVrhj3ktmZFdi5_UXMC7VcR9tPkJ5Gx-Id_P4Sn-St-8B1-TE3Tf8Qcv4oCz-NZy-bIBgyP5oZOEZGQQGpi/w640-h614/IMG_4058.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was sent these by Mary Elson (wife of</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Ian Elson </span><span style="font-family: arial;">of Sneak's Noise) who says </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="font-family: arial;">I have a copy of a vinyl record on which "The Heart of England Folk Group" collaborated with Stan Kelly - a tribute to Liverpool Football Club. I am not sure whether you have this but it does list the group members at the time</span><i style="font-family: arial;">. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">The Heart of England) were from Coventry / Leamington.-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Stan Kelly </b>with the <i>Heart of England Folk Group</i> with <b>Barrie White,</b> <b>Jon McIntosh, Roger Cumberledge, David Barrett, Ian Elson</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Mary also sent me some photographs of Sneaks Noise which I will add to the Sneaks Noise post here <a href="https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/sneaks-noise.html"><b>https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/sneaks-noise.html</b></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CVfolk on Facebook </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CVFolk/">https://www.facebook.com/CVFolk/</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>CVfolk on YouTube </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJuFRaIPRkw&ab_channel=CVFolk"><b>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJuFRaIPRkw&ab_channel=CVFolk</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Programme</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6K7m7zD_UtLps5gjihoaRQhJqqYcSrfReKHH5Jrzj39gMZXXicDXUMMIcJeV0eNZhPLnF_fIR6HWyWW-_GS-matFCInkxS5hcLosvvU5y59AgsmRbOxAaAVCy1pehD58xqgfpS-tPPBsHmPe0fqCftG4tjurI-bJ1ubwbAkNllqSgp7GxCtBwfcTT/s1231/277252642_10227038920069082_7742760336788870683_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1231" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6K7m7zD_UtLps5gjihoaRQhJqqYcSrfReKHH5Jrzj39gMZXXicDXUMMIcJeV0eNZhPLnF_fIR6HWyWW-_GS-matFCInkxS5hcLosvvU5y59AgsmRbOxAaAVCy1pehD58xqgfpS-tPPBsHmPe0fqCftG4tjurI-bJ1ubwbAkNllqSgp7GxCtBwfcTT/w438-h640/277252642_10227038920069082_7742760336788870683_n.jpg" width="438" /></a></div></b><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Donate</b></span></div>Running total for Ukraine benefit now £1700 and rising. Let's see if we can hit the £2000 target: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cvfolk?fbclid=IwAR1ORG8SfYr-Z31Ju95u8Ed5J8QhCXgBUePewRrfuccS_mk_ONpPnMsBBnc">https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cvfolk</a></span></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The first part of the concert from the afternoon with many artists. Approx 2 hours. </b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WsUKIS9jw2U" width="320" youtube-src-id="WsUKIS9jw2U"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Part Two below, Evening Concert with Rob Halligan, Kristy Gallacher, Pauline Black and Kev Dempsey (Ex Dando Shaft).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div>
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He formed the Troubadours a group formed by Barry Skinner and consisting of John Allen, Dee Solomon, Pete and Marlene Roberts, Bryan Sutton, and Bob Bruce. Terry Illingworth. although not all at the same time. Barry Skinner was the main driving force behind the formation of Coventry Folk Club. Floor singers became a regular feature of the club, partly because the residents didn't have much material to cover the whole evening every week. Most of the music was traditional folk or skiffle. For well over a year the Binley Oak was the only place in the city where one could go and listen to live folk music on a regular weekly basis although interest spread as more and more people became interested. In 1971 he made an album for Argo Bed Battle and Booze with Martin Jenkins of Dando Shaft on mandolin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Here's a Bio from </b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.kinemagigz.com/'s'.htm#Barry_Skinner">https://www.kinemagigz.com/'s'.htm#Barry_Skinner</a></b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Barry Skinner started singing Folk Songs in the late 1950's. He formed the Coventry Folk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWC1ZPfJLDtPa9ubwT_wXvB6k9XbMOjk__7aBmEqTmIomG-Su9mLIENOc0wX7Mbb1nSA8g3pmUmb6KpVUCgaaLGDv-SISGtPyOPDU9wOWy8aXH15aITYcyo9LZ1_Fvvfe-4ZJ0uJOBL0/s359/Barry+Skinner.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="359" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWC1ZPfJLDtPa9ubwT_wXvB6k9XbMOjk__7aBmEqTmIomG-Su9mLIENOc0wX7Mbb1nSA8g3pmUmb6KpVUCgaaLGDv-SISGtPyOPDU9wOWy8aXH15aITYcyo9LZ1_Fvvfe-4ZJ0uJOBL0/s320/Barry+Skinner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Club in 1962 and sang full time professionally from 1964 to 1980. In sixteen years on the road he sang in innumerable folk clubs throughout the British Isles as well as at concerts, festivals, colleges etc. He also sang at clubs, concerts and festivals in Holland, Germany, Spain and the USA. Along with over 200 TV and Radio appearances, three solo LPs and various compilation albums, it turned into a very busy and enjoyable sixteen years.<br /><br /><br />1980 brought a change. Barry had always had a great love, knowledge and interest in the canals and had for many years featured a programme of slides and songs about canals. He joined Coventry Education Waterways Scheme, which ran two narrow boats as “floating classrooms” and for the next five years travelled the length and breadth of the navigable canal and river system in England and Wales. He also appeared on many programmes about canals on radio and TV during this period.<br /><br />In1985 he moved to Snowdonia, to work as an outdoor instructor, taking early retirement in 1998 as Chief Instructor and Deputy Head of Liverpool Hope University's Outdoor Centre at Plas Caerdeon, near Barmouth in Snowdonia.<br /><br />Barry sings both Traditional and Contemporary songs, as well as many of his own compositions. He plays guitar and banjo and is accompanied on the keyboard by his partner, Anne. Together they guarantee an entertaining and enjoyable evening.<br /><br />Barry once had his own 'Barry Skinner Folk Group' and played and recorded with Martin Jenkins in the folk/rock band '<b><a href="https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-day-thomas-martin-jenkins.html">One Day Thomas</a></b>'.</span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Below <b>Barry Skinner</b> with <i>Turpin Hero</i> with <b>Martin Jenkins</b> of <b>Dando Shaft </b>on mandolin <b>John McIntosh</b> bass and <b>Andy Smith</b> guitar.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Below Barry Skinner with <i>Turpin Hero </i>with <b>Martin Jenkins</b> on Mandolin and </span><b style="font-family: arial;">John McIntosh</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> bass and </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Andy Smith</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> guitar</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qQC02U6WzRA" width="320" youtube-src-id="qQC02U6WzRA"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Below - Barry Skinner with John Barleycorn and 2 sound bites Admiral Benbow and The Sailor and the String.<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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position: relative; width: 540.614px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Turpin HeroA2The Tailor's BritchesA3Calico Printer's ClerkA4YarrowA5Timothy Winters<br />Lyrics By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1420597-Charles-Causley">Charles Causley</a><br />Music By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1751434-Barry-Skinner">Barry Skinner</a><br />Lyrics By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1420597-Charles-Causley">Charles Causley</a><br />Music By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1751434-Barry-Skinner">Barry Skinner</a>A6Gaol SongA7John BarleycornB1Peg And AwlB2The CockfightB3The Hills Of Shiloh<br />Written-By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1497411-Jim-Friedman">Friedman</a>*, <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/679432-Shel-Silverstein">Silverstein</a>*<br />Written-By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1497411-Jim-Friedman">Friedman</a>*, <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/679432-Shel-Silverstein">Silverstein</a>*B4The Treble Tailed GypsiesB5Cotton Mill ColicB6Mother Get Up Unbar The Door<br />Lyrics By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1420597-Charles-Causley">Charles Causley</a><br />Music By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1751434-Barry-Skinner">Barry Skinner</a><br />Lyrics By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1420597-Charles-Causley">Charles Causley</a><br />Music By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/1751434-Barry-Skinner">Barry Skinner</a>B7The Telephone Ring<br />Written-By – <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/artist/864501-Sydney-Carter">Sydney Carter</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="640" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWG79jmWT5zOY9IB8cd44LvQJWrAP5ZJhZWx6mRhGQ-DlKfJA6g0JGXyTjUn_Y-LhsOTYJIimNao3cchF0jGkawLEZqXTbpl-pNBt2C4wZexcQi8o21ZdsKRZSCrSxZSjUu6NtdjuuJ80/w640-h326/6a00d8341c337553ef017d3d14f102970c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a tribute on Barry Skinner who pioneered the Coventry Folk scene in the 1960's,from this site <a href="https://www.salutlive.com/2012/10/barry-skinner.html">https://www.salutlive.com/2012/10/barry-skinner.html</a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Barry Skinner, who has died from cancer aged 71, was a popular singer and songwriter who made a strong impression on folk club audiences around the UK, also appearing in continental Europe and the United States, between the late 1960s and late 1970s.<br /><br />The end of his touring days coincided with the start of a remarkably varied new professional life that was to embrace instruction in mountaineering and other outdoor activities, canal sailing, the construction of custom-made dolls' houses, photography, painting, camping and writing.<br /><br />Those close to Barry tell the story of his life and times better than I can.<br /><br />This is from his son Matt's eulogy at the funeral earlier this month (October 18):<br />Barry was born in 1941 and grew up in the Coventry area. As a youngster, he was a keen sportsman, enjoying both football and cricket. He was apparently always taking up new hobbies, many of which would shape his interests in later life. He had something of the “butterfly” about him in this regard, as he would often abandon one hobby to throw himself wholeheartedly into his next.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />As a young adult Barry took up climbing and in 1961, he took part in his first mountain rescue on the Isle of Arran. The following year, another of his great loves – music – led him to form The Troubadours, a folk group based in Coventry but with, at the time, nowhere to perform. Typically, Barry’s solution to this problem was to start the first Coventry Folk Club, thus solving the lack of venue problem, and beginning a phase of his life that would see him performing professionally across Britain, Europe and the US for more than a decade. Many of Barry’s own musical compositions were centred on his love of the inland waterways of Britain, and in 1979 he began to preach the “Gospel of the Canals” by working with the Coventry Education Waterways Scheme, which gave young people a hands-on experience of life on narrow boats, run as floating classrooms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />In the mid-eighties, Barry moved to Snowdonia where he became a freelance Outdoor Instructor and where he also bought Turnpike Cottage with his partner, Orianne. When asked why he moved such a long way from the place of his birth, Barry would usually reply, “There weren’t really many career opportunities for a Mountaineering Instructor in Coventry!” Turnpike provided the perfect setting for another of Barry’s creative activities: the designing and building of scale model dolls’ houses. Along with his love of painting, drawing, photography and wood-turning, the cottage soon became a hive of artistic production.<br /><br />After the sad loss of Oreanne , Barry remained at Turnpike, shortly afterwards retiring from full time employment as Plas Caerdeon’s Chief Instructor: a decision described by Barry as “the best career move you can make!”<br /><br />Some years later, he met Anne, in whom he found a fellow artistic spirit and the two of them lived at Turnpike, running a popular and successful Bed & Breakfast business.<br /><br />Many guests were so impressed with Turnpike’s hospitality that they would book returns on a year by year basis. Indeed, several of Anne and Barry’s personal friends began their acquaintance as B& B guests. When they decided eventually to discontinue the Bed and Breakfast business, Barry and Anne bought a motor-home and enjoyed touring Britain, often writing articles for the national camping and caravanning press.<br /><br />Motorhoming continued until the beginning of this year when Barry’s illness first manifested itself. The trips became shorter but no less enjoyable, the motorhome proving very useful when making long drives for hospital visits.<br /><br />His final artistic venture was the Helfa Gelf art festival in September, when his paintings were on display to the general public both at home and in local art galleries.<br />...................</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="comment-content font-entrybody" id="comment-6a00d8341c337553ef01b8d255d0f5970c-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; visibility: visible; word-break: break-word;"><span id="comment-6a00d8341c337553ef01b8d255d0f5970c-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Lora;"><span style="background-color: white;">" </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">I met Barry in Coventry in 1963/4 and he took me round the folk clubs before finally persuading me to get up from the floor at the Troubadours I think it was, I have a photo of Barry and myself performing there. We did this and a few other clubs before I decided I liked singing and wanted to join a group which I did, the Kerries who ran the Cofas Tree Folk club in Coventry. I turned professional whilst living in London and owe it all to Barry . I remember him fondly and talk about his friendship and influence quite often.<br />Thank you Barry. Gil McWilliams (nee Sowter).<br /><br />Posted by: Gil McWilliams | January 19, 2017 at 11:50 PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(Gill was a singer with the Kerries and also the wife of David McWilliams who sand Days of Pearly Spencer.)</span></p></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">...........</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />“Mother get up, unbar the door, throw wide the window pane ...”<br /><br />That’s the opening line to one of the best songs I know, of any genre. Beautiful and chilling by turns, it tells of a woman, married and settled with a family, who is visited, “outside in the vicarage lane”, by the ghost of an old lover, killed years before at the Battle of Alamein.<br /><br />Don’t bother trying to find it on iTunes or YouTube or anywhere else that I can think of. It’s as obscure as Charles Causley, the poet who wrote it, and Barry Skinner, the folksinger/songwriter who put it to music and recorded it on an album, Bed, Battle and Booze, in 1971. Don’t bother trying to find that, either. The only copy I have any more is on a tape cassette, with no means to play it....With three under-appreciated albums under his belt, I don’t know whether he became discouraged by the lack of a breakthrough into a wider audience. But in later years, though he never gave music up altogether, Barry turned away from professional singing and moved to Wales. Always a talented artist, he drew, painted, worked as a wood-turner and built exquisite, individually designed dolls' houses to special order. The closing line to Mother Get Up runs: “I’m had by a dove in the tunnel of love; I can never come home again.”<br /><br />Barry Skinner has come home. Unbar the door.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Bill Taylor</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">From <a href="https://www.salutlive.com/2012/10/barry-skinner-rip.html">https://www.salutlive.com/2012/10/barry-skinner-rip.html</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>.........</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I have a signed copy of Barry Skinner-Bed, Battle and Booze, Argo record label 1971.Very nice record. <b>Ernest Sampson</b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hiE9_6Jw9CplZKyTxocyjSg9C6wXfy1hy7koSVwN0Hwe8MCDh6lUxYHJR8wVCMFPnj7TM0BAA2JF_K5WGVR9O5dQ9a1rpr0ppB5W8ErDriRp7ALOyFVRBKDr78SXmnkfgCgK3WvfAus/s500/R-2183855-1364743966-4089.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hiE9_6Jw9CplZKyTxocyjSg9C6wXfy1hy7koSVwN0Hwe8MCDh6lUxYHJR8wVCMFPnj7TM0BAA2JF_K5WGVR9O5dQ9a1rpr0ppB5W8ErDriRp7ALOyFVRBKDr78SXmnkfgCgK3WvfAus/w640-h640/R-2183855-1364743966-4089.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Barry Skinner appeared on The World of Folk album with Turpin Hero off his own album</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JoSFeXunE14EzpgAbElNS1IDJM6TKENzourCFqtb2_6Na6itZCBqqJYtO4wyMTEAnMbHUio78JneLYMUEbKyexWbqg5FM5KNHTcCOJ-XVXwaaEYvGwVRgqjwaih0eJQPObElLTBHPRc/s603/R-2183855-1511351313-3788.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JoSFeXunE14EzpgAbElNS1IDJM6TKENzourCFqtb2_6Na6itZCBqqJYtO4wyMTEAnMbHUio78JneLYMUEbKyexWbqg5FM5KNHTcCOJ-XVXwaaEYvGwVRgqjwaih0eJQPObElLTBHPRc/w636-h640/R-2183855-1511351313-3788.jpeg.jpg" width="636" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeXs2CDPlADpPHwz4t5fHVwkjQcdGw9m6rFRfWuNX0Dlvfo5qZOQW2SYkxg-AW0V1pFfVeDLHbIvVnHFzXIaluvvsLbq5vv4Lbaj41BiOS08V0WOYTaxW14gFwE9c8Y-xs2LBbh816a8/s277/download.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="182" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeXs2CDPlADpPHwz4t5fHVwkjQcdGw9m6rFRfWuNX0Dlvfo5qZOQW2SYkxg-AW0V1pFfVeDLHbIvVnHFzXIaluvvsLbq5vv4Lbaj41BiOS08V0WOYTaxW14gFwE9c8Y-xs2LBbh816a8/w263-h400/download.jpeg" width="263" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Barry Skinner</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">You can hear Barry Skinner singing Turpin Hero on this YouTube -fast forward to side 2 and the 2nd track on side 2. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q9sDqKoHw8Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="q9sDqKoHw8Q"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Thanks to Dave Webb for the heads up about two other albums by Barry Skinner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Bushes and Briars with Geoff Lakeman - Fellside Recordings FE 011 1978</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ldXXucFm0R74Azth-Fw7HCFrfBXCZbKsP_AyrKbJlzfIxUA5DYOyTXdNxTQpgQBVKt2l0Iu4jWVQx3TgZ_SYTVHO1k4LC-hInujrswdXYDjnVk7azr1E-JIVEHAGtC0rJ0gN_w_ALTM/s551/R-3625573-1379683285-4104.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="551" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ldXXucFm0R74Azth-Fw7HCFrfBXCZbKsP_AyrKbJlzfIxUA5DYOyTXdNxTQpgQBVKt2l0Iu4jWVQx3TgZ_SYTVHO1k4LC-hInujrswdXYDjnVk7azr1E-JIVEHAGtC0rJ0gN_w_ALTM/w640-h638/R-3625573-1379683285-4104.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Bass – John McIntosh <br />Chorus – Paul Adams, Tricia Adams<br />Concertina, Harmony Vocals – Geoff Lakeman<br />Harmony Vocals – Linda Adams <br />Lead Vocals – Geoff Lakeman <br />Percussion – John Astle<br />Recorded By, Producer – Paul Adams <br />Vocals, Guitar – Barry Skinner</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">From <a href="https://www.discogs.com/ko/release/3625573-Barry-Skinner-With-Geoff-Lakeman-Bushes-Briars">https://www.discogs.com/ko/release/3625573-Barry-Skinner-With-Geoff-Lakeman-Bushes-Briars</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Available on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bushes-Briars-Barry-Skinner-Larkin/dp/B007P3XIO0">Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bushes-Briars-Barry-Skinner-Larkin/dp/B007P3XIO0</a></span></div><div><div class="main_2FbVC" style="order: 6; width: calc(70% - 2em);"><section class="section_9nUx6 open_BZ6Zt" id="release-tracklist" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />A1 The Cheerful 'Arn<br />A2 Bushes And Briars<br />A3 The Dancers Of Stanton Drew<br />A4 The Buxom Lass<br />A5 Jack In The Green<br />Written-By – Martin Graebe<br />A6 Shepton Mallet Hornpipe/Dorset Four-Hand Reel<br />B1 Admiral Benbow<br />B2 Bread And Fishes<br />Written-By – Alan Bell <br />B3 Richard Of Taunton Dene<br />B4 Stone-Cracker John<br />Written-By – Martin Graebe<br />B5 The Sailor And The String<br />B6 Bonaparte's Lamentation<br />B7 Wassail Song<br /><br /><br /><b>ABROAD AS I WAS WORKING</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6DHJtCxVy8Exm6LIWX9nUiPWPGY5C9U64SJ0VelaK0Yu5tELNDAWYgHXrpntsAH8o5xcLuv8mzI0JCkvZLG2nufcsKfRWwNOEtvw1tIPG07Kh4lUtE9WftBF20ar5At9LEzmoYHwH9g/s360/Untitled.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6DHJtCxVy8Exm6LIWX9nUiPWPGY5C9U64SJ0VelaK0Yu5tELNDAWYgHXrpntsAH8o5xcLuv8mzI0JCkvZLG2nufcsKfRWwNOEtvw1tIPG07Kh4lUtE9WftBF20ar5At9LEzmoYHwH9g/w396-h400/Untitled.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />Musicians<br /><br />Barry Skinner: vocals, guitar<br />Tracks<br />Side 1Side 2<br /><br />Lord of the Dance (2.00)<br />Peace-Egging (Roud 614; TYG 53) (1.50)<br />Joseph Baker (3.20)<br />Knocker-Up Woman (2.20)<br />Ratcliffe Highway (Roud 598) (2.10)<br />The Deserter (Roud 493; G/D 1:83) (3.50)<br />Honiton Lace (3.10)<br />Peter's Private Army (2.35) <br />Arthur McBride (Roud 2355; G/D 1:78) (2.05)<br />John Blunt (Roud 115; Child 275; G/D 2:321) (2.10)<br />High Germany (Roud 904; G/D 1:96) (2.30)<br />Edwin in the Lowlands Low (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113) (4.40)<br />Nottingham Ale (Roud V16327) (2.35)<br />Twa Corbies (Roud 5; Child 26) (3.30)<br />Totie (1.15)<br /><br /><br />Abroad As I Was Working<br />Barry Skinner (1941-2012)<br /><br />Stoof Records MU 7417 (LP, Netherlands, 1975)Produced by Job Zomer;<br />Recorded by Jan Kranendonk at Fendal Sound Recording Studio, Loenen, in October 1975;<br />Photography by Job Zomer;<br />Layout by Bert Schinkel<br /><br /><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><b>Other records with Barry Skinner</b></div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><b>The World of Folk</b> (Argo SPA-A 132) Various Artists, The World of Folk, LP, Argo SPA-A 132, 1971</div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><br /></div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/_j3gk-2sQAA">The World of the Countryside</a></b> (Argo SPA 304) John Arlott and singers, The World of the Countryside, LP, Argo SPA 304, 1974 - <b>Barry Skinner </b>track 15 John Barleycorn.</div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><br /></div></span><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Jolly Jack & Friends: Rolling Down to Old Maui</b> (Fellside FECD140) Jolly Jack & Friends, Rolling Down to Old Maui: Shanties and Songs of the Sea, CD, Fellside FECD140, 1999. Track 7 <b>Barry Skinner</b> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Admiral Benbow. Track 10 </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Sailor And The String</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><br /></div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><b>Landmarks </b>(Fellside FECD203) Various Artists, Landmarks: 25 Years of a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD203, 2006</div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><br /></div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><b>The Journey Continues</b> (Fellside FECD272) Various Artists, The Journey Continues: Fellside at 40, 3 CD, Fellside FECD272, 2016 <b>Barry Skinner</b> Devilish Mary (Below)</div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="content_1TFzi" style="margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 5px;"><b>Destination:</b> Fellside Recordings 1976-2018 (Fellside FECD282) Various Artists, Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD282, 2018</div><div><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div></section></div></div>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-2039795512500953332021-10-02T11:27:00.019-07:002021-10-02T12:03:03.936-07:00The Coventry Folk Scene 1962 to Present<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b> The Coventry Folk Scene 1962 to Present</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>(This is a work in progress - More to do!)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Musically, Coventry is rightly renowned for its dynamic 2 Tone movement which put the city on the international music map and focused the attention, like the best of folk music, on urgent social and political issues. Coventry music might divided by genre on the surface but there is a dynamic interplay between all the genres - eg punk and ska / jazz rock and folk clubs often form a life-line for budding songwriters / performers in need of somewhere to get started, or to try out their material before moving on to join a band. Folk clubs and acoustic venues are often a broad church of styles and approaches, it's not all about traditional music. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In that context, it's interesting to note that Selecter vocalist, Pauline Black, who started off in Coventry folk clubs as Pauline Vickers c 1978, is now the Patron of <a href="http://www.cvfolk.com/">CVfolk</a>, an initiative of Pete Willow, with the City of Culture status in mind and which </span><span style="font-family: arial;">aims "<i>to establish Coventry as a national and international hub for innovative folk performance in its various traditional and contemporary formats</i>".</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Indeed one of the recent Selecter singles <i>Big in the Body </i>took its inspiration from Woody Guthrie's Bound to Lose -</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VwcKwGS7OSQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="VwcKwGS7OSQ"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Compare The Selecter's update on the song in <i>Big in the Body</i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DlQWuSZjnZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="DlQWuSZjnZM"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The latest Specials album Protest Songs 1924 - 2012 dives back to earlier forms of protest song and often the issues haven't changed much - just the protagonists! They revive songs by Malvina Reynolds (who wrote some of the biggest folk hits in the early 60's like <i>Little Boxes, What Have they Done to the Rain, </i>through to Rod McKuen, Leonard Cohen, alongside Bob Marley and Big Bill Bronzy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Folk music is not an anachronism therefore, its a living body of work that regularly informs or inspires new music and is constantly being added to. Where would the 60's music be without Dylan's reworking of traditional material in dynamic and inventive rock songs that inspired pop musicians from the Beatles, Stones and the Kinks to write songs about all kinds of subjects you wouldn't have previously heard in the hit parade.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>FOLK SONG REVIVAL</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. In Britain, it seems the Skiffle craze along with the café youth culture was a prelude to folk clubs, where young people brought along acoustic guitars and washboards and improvised around American blues and folk songs. The first folk club was started by Ewen McColl in London - the Ballads and Blues Club in 1953. By the mid-1960s there were probably over 300 folk clubs in Britain. By 1963 folk artists were hitting the pop charts - Trini Lopez <i>If I Had a Hammer</i> - Melvina Reynolds <i>What have the Done to the Rain</i> - Pete Seeger <i>Little Boxes</i> and Peter Paul and Mary with Bob Dylan's <i>Blowin' in </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">the Wind</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> and 1965 Bob Dylan and Donovan were riding high in the singles and albums charts and touring Britain.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>THE COVENTRY FOLK SCENE</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Coventry has an amazing folk history with some top artists and great music. According to an article written by Pete Willow for his 1978 magazine <i>Folks</i> (on this site as a pdf <a href="https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/folks-coventry-folk-club-magazine-no4.html">https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/folks-coventry-folk-club-magazine-no4.html</a> the folk scene in Coventry began in 1962...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Coventry Arts Umbrella Club</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1962</b> Coventry folk began at the <a href="https://coventryartsumbrella.blogspot.com/">Coventry Arts Umbrella club</a> . Pete quotes <b>Ben<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwb-a6fLyQpBYaPXtX7vJHiEXDXmjVx5JLOzKDl55_1poFHkrHFJECz94u3tA3MDVNC_y9Iitm86DYzbxHWaaOByWJaOHE60W-zh8XZUzO-W7XqaCi_-ADTX5ojuv8hzWHVebCZv6MJt8/s1600/32837397374_e0df76a5b5_o.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1232" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwb-a6fLyQpBYaPXtX7vJHiEXDXmjVx5JLOzKDl55_1poFHkrHFJECz94u3tA3MDVNC_y9Iitm86DYzbxHWaaOByWJaOHE60W-zh8XZUzO-W7XqaCi_-ADTX5ojuv8hzWHVebCZv6MJt8/w154-h200/32837397374_e0df76a5b5_o.jpg" width="154" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben Arnold</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> Arnold</b> from Ben's folk magazine 1967 <i>Folk Crying Out Loud </i>" The first move towards a folk club began at the Umbrella Club 18, Queen Victoria Road, Coventry's home grown arts centre. It provided opportunity for the pioneers of Coventry folk like <b>Ron Shuttleworth</b> and <b>Barry Skinner</b> to generate an interest in folk music. A folk club or folk and poetry sessions continued at the Umbrella until 1974. However the Umbrella wasn't licensed for beer, but it did serve as a starting point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>COVENTRY'S FOLK CLUB</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1963 </b>Thursday May 1963 - the first Coventry Folk Club opened at the Binley Oak, Paynes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTe-ODgkU6fdyw7ZJBs6FJzd6QEHxS_b19ZQ08aBwU9PMU-oULPtX8dU3D-H47b-5WOYUXXJnr-DUhpl3pZCOCA7fkWkZDWcy8N5irWPSVzJ_aLfls7Gdoz9fmLlI9mdlEVy72-IqG2rY/s602/binley_oak_paynes_la.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="602" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTe-ODgkU6fdyw7ZJBs6FJzd6QEHxS_b19ZQ08aBwU9PMU-oULPtX8dU3D-H47b-5WOYUXXJnr-DUhpl3pZCOCA7fkWkZDWcy8N5irWPSVzJ_aLfls7Gdoz9fmLlI9mdlEVy72-IqG2rY/s320/binley_oak_paynes_la.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Lane - where later both the Specials and the Selecter rehearsed. It was called Coventry's Folk Club. To quote Ben Arnold "<i>Coventry's first folk club was created out of a common love of what at the time was an esoteric form of expression and desire to bring to the public at large something which had been theirs for hundreds of years.</i>" The Hosts were <b>The Troubadours</b>. a group formed by <b>Barry Skinner</b> and consisting of <b>John Allen, Dee Solomon, Pete and Marlene Roberts, Bryan Sutton</b>, and <b>Bob Bruce. Terry Illingworth</b>. although not all at the same time. Also involved were <b>Brian Curtis, Dick Newton</b>, who later joined the <b>Down Country Boys</b>. Barry Skinner was the main driving force behind the formation of Coventry Folk Club. Floor singers became a regular feature of the club, partly because the residents didn't have much material to cover the whole evening every week. Most of the music was traditional folk or skiffle. For well over a year the Binley Oak was the only place in the city where one could go and listen to live folk music on a regular weekly basis although interest spread as more and more people became interested.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Binley Oak was where both the Specials and the Selecter rehearsed 16 years later and the building, now repurposed, has a Pete Chambers Two Tone plaque on it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_JcbKhP1f0ab9XGAOCh0inVjm6_1aE1jDK8I3uRaYqOw5SDKE9SgS90FESHzBlU5FdgspKsGVK5H_Zrb3OyeB1jRf-7XYoldQHfzvXi9q-zjh-m9HPckjBZ4bWOBLSJ_3rdHYJ9JAB8/s600/The-Binley-Oak-The-Specials-and-The-Selecter-Plaque.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_JcbKhP1f0ab9XGAOCh0inVjm6_1aE1jDK8I3uRaYqOw5SDKE9SgS90FESHzBlU5FdgspKsGVK5H_Zrb3OyeB1jRf-7XYoldQHfzvXi9q-zjh-m9HPckjBZ4bWOBLSJ_3rdHYJ9JAB8/w400-h266/The-Binley-Oak-The-Specials-and-The-Selecter-Plaque.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In August 1963 another attempt was made to start an new folk club at the Cheylesmore Community Centre. This proved to be nowhere near as successful as the Coventry Folk Club.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1964 THE TAVERN FOLK CLUB</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In June 1964 the Tavern Folk club opened and met every Sunday at the Swanswell Tavern,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQq1DQ5NriuCWwozKZDDnJxMo2OWHqiO4GS2VzRGwSYPTHD45fbAlPt-jCtYVDMAutKLj82dMCdZJn1ShczNvj1lODShiQmWWBTMSX6xQf1uwHKPCU7pgAAVdWWk8xyEXPHx94p0mbMQ/s1024/41389570461_8de1364c80_b.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQq1DQ5NriuCWwozKZDDnJxMo2OWHqiO4GS2VzRGwSYPTHD45fbAlPt-jCtYVDMAutKLj82dMCdZJn1ShczNvj1lODShiQmWWBTMSX6xQf1uwHKPCU7pgAAVdWWk8xyEXPHx94p0mbMQ/s320/41389570461_8de1364c80_b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <b>Ben Arnold</b> was the compare, and among the many acts establishing themselves were The <b><a href="https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-kerries.html">Kerries</a></b> (Kerry singers). The club was short lived but successful. They moved to the wine lodge in the Burges and the club became known as the Cofa's Tree. This became one of the most important clubs in the development of folk music in the city, and very well attended. The change had been made to accommodate the growing numbers of audience which regularly topped 200!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Below - The Kerries</i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZ1E-iWz2TRB1TmfnS3KivxazklJga8TbEGNjmkrd3jiNIEjy774tygSMY8RC-bS8-GId2gtYI2ckuFZLXKKkReQK1MmJ8UU0s36Bc8KehWm63I3WdVn5jNd39sQOhSTpZXc4wvEb8bQ/s634/Kerries.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="634" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZ1E-iWz2TRB1TmfnS3KivxazklJga8TbEGNjmkrd3jiNIEjy774tygSMY8RC-bS8-GId2gtYI2ckuFZLXKKkReQK1MmJ8UU0s36Bc8KehWm63I3WdVn5jNd39sQOhSTpZXc4wvEb8bQ/s320/Kerries.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Kerries</b> recorded on the Major Minor label in 1967. They made one album called<i> The Kerries. </i>The Kerries were named after Kerry Todd, a Scotsman who settled in Coventry, England, in the 1950s. The Irish community in Coventry were a huge influence on the early Coventry folk scene and that continued over the decades. <i>"Irish people have settled in Coventry for over four centuries. The greatest population rises were because of the famine in the 19th century and for work in the 20th century."</i> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/stories/irish/coventry-irish-history.shtml">https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/stories/irish/coventry-irish-history.shtml</a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9WQse4kekU8" width="320" youtube-src-id="9WQse4kekU8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">More by <b>The Kerries</b> on YouTube <b>Coulter's Candy</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/CXdyeJoIySE"><b>https://youtu.be/CXdyeJoIySE</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>McTaggart <a href="https://youtu.be/Bl6f9Jq0X6g">https://youtu.be/Bl6f9Jq0X6g</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Gill Thurlow</b> of The Kerries, a 24-year-old singer and "Tin Whistle" player was associated<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOODzKkhUm8wT9XtEoxM6o4-c_l49kbtcRSOPcmbtoJRZhtQVDRvMw01rCCp080cFbyk9YtVlZJQLxMZFbZj-UjeUZ7kQZxqQdwWYNXnxuSvyPplJjFN_w2seK0bp2IrYYeBnlz4yMvI/s225/gill+thurlow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="168" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOODzKkhUm8wT9XtEoxM6o4-c_l49kbtcRSOPcmbtoJRZhtQVDRvMw01rCCp080cFbyk9YtVlZJQLxMZFbZj-UjeUZ7kQZxqQdwWYNXnxuSvyPplJjFN_w2seK0bp2IrYYeBnlz4yMvI/w149-h200/gill+thurlow.jpg" width="149" /></a></div><br /> with rock groups in her early singing career but had a strong leaning towards blues which led her to the Kerries. She married David McWilliams who recorded the 1967 hit single <i>Days of Pearly Spencer. </i>They met while she was singing with the Kerries.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4VDS8uArR0A" width="320" youtube-src-id="4VDS8uArR0A"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5-6CVbD7UZHxR2GYiIgQ9dMyIHx7GYXsCjHBhS_UgIAMg7Yz3V0oJnhEAqDSnZVn0-ROFPerJHgu6EkgoK5EHLzp9v010C3h7NDIKLSS3JQmcNbprA95Bc5z_GFWJkVl9v-0Ffhl9H0/s900/p03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="671" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5-6CVbD7UZHxR2GYiIgQ9dMyIHx7GYXsCjHBhS_UgIAMg7Yz3V0oJnhEAqDSnZVn0-ROFPerJHgu6EkgoK5EHLzp9v010C3h7NDIKLSS3JQmcNbprA95Bc5z_GFWJkVl9v-0Ffhl9H0/w478-h640/p03.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Top guest artists were booked every week. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Beverley Martyn (Kutner)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One regular singer / guitarist at the Swanswell Tavern was Coventry born <b>Beverley Kutner</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpJrdKD2XNIXmCtoPtl4frwBdZMnlmbyucFYuUinTy3YiqQw5572FhcucH13Oea99gcE8fzKl61m9ehXS0nlI-ac_UsYcFscAKuv0ync75FDP2NL9FzG_vlj15sVy6vvUiMoqgKGoIYg/s265/images.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="190" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpJrdKD2XNIXmCtoPtl4frwBdZMnlmbyucFYuUinTy3YiqQw5572FhcucH13Oea99gcE8fzKl61m9ehXS0nlI-ac_UsYcFscAKuv0ync75FDP2NL9FzG_vlj15sVy6vvUiMoqgKGoIYg/s0/images.jpeg" width="190" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b> - later better known as <b>Beverley Martyn</b>. She was a singer with a jug band called <b>The Levee Breakers</b> and when she was 16 she recorded her first single. "<i>Babe I'm Leaving You</i>", which was released on the Parlophone label in 1965. Martyn was then signed as a solo artist to the Deram Records label. In 1966 she released a single, "<i>Happy New Year</i>" (b-side "<i>Where The Good Times Are</i>"), written by <b>Randy Newman</b>, on which she was accompanied by J<b>immy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins</b> and <b>Andy White</b>. she was taught guitar by <b>Bert Jansch</b> who encouraged her songwriting. She recorded songs by <b>Cat Stevens</b> (<i>I Love My Dog</i>) and <b>Donovan</b> (<i>Museum</i>). She met Paul Simon who invited her to New York. On the Simon & Garfunkel album Bookends, she contributed to the track "Fakin' It", in the middle of which she is heard saying: "<i>Good morning, Mr Leitch, have you had a busy day?</i>" She later appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival on 16 June 1967, as did Simon & Garfunkel. Later she married John Martyn and they made the album Stormbringer together.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KPnkjJBK2hs" width="320" youtube-src-id="KPnkjJBK2hs"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R4H7Eodayss" width="320" youtube-src-id="R4H7Eodayss"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Beverley is heard saying: "<i>Good morning, Mr Leitch, have you had a busy day?</i>" Mr Leitch being Donovan Leitch!</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XLjHt5tkRFo" width="320" youtube-src-id="XLjHt5tkRFo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Beverley also teamed up with another Coventry legend Rod Felton at the Swanswell Tavern and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the Cofa's Tree (see 'Rod and Bev' in the advert)</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmEPUD4WvrDsE2kgQ17AzD1QLb-m8TU-j8TdNM7atK9tznjted0oAetgF6ONTL_KXhj0XKR69A4N-LNtvXZ77ecpmpBRRFpe752WsYGvUoOWYff4_BdCwFWv8lVloaXI36lt_3KBgk2M/s712/32867057363_2311fd1c19_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="692" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmEPUD4WvrDsE2kgQ17AzD1QLb-m8TU-j8TdNM7atK9tznjted0oAetgF6ONTL_KXhj0XKR69A4N-LNtvXZ77ecpmpBRRFpe752WsYGvUoOWYff4_BdCwFWv8lVloaXI36lt_3KBgk2M/s320/32867057363_2311fd1c19_o.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><br /><b>Rod Felton</b> was just starting out about this time, and a press article in 1965 described him as being in the 'Bob Dylan tradition' - of course Dylan was at the top of his game in 1965.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKutZfMHjRyqmy7oTo8QYIFqsXvBZJvcPC85bSCF8HCewWcUyIAPyr8vbDpe6HHvK8d5htU7fzJ1FFSJhkvwxpyQ8qOC-jXakg8ifWQRlDaKL5Msrc_5aN7PRntLPLyQrmaIl2385770c/s700/Rod-Felton-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKutZfMHjRyqmy7oTo8QYIFqsXvBZJvcPC85bSCF8HCewWcUyIAPyr8vbDpe6HHvK8d5htU7fzJ1FFSJhkvwxpyQ8qOC-jXakg8ifWQRlDaKL5Msrc_5aN7PRntLPLyQrmaIl2385770c/w640-h384/Rod-Felton-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i><br /></i></span></div><p></p></div>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-82213731119555991352021-09-08T06:38:00.000-07:002021-09-08T06:38:05.351-07:00The Gaels<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> The Gaels</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37R8K6dOXY5PndmNtiOsO7TjAbg7TaobeNeO9848s898FDodiVY7d8AlKsWjkzipx-o2JItWURamZyfyyzDlyqwKygLhKoKFdY0dqWDz6WnwmenOMpqWjHeB3lDkVCrxsxWcDjXmbB5I/s325/sc_01_gaels_325.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="325" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37R8K6dOXY5PndmNtiOsO7TjAbg7TaobeNeO9848s898FDodiVY7d8AlKsWjkzipx-o2JItWURamZyfyyzDlyqwKygLhKoKFdY0dqWDz6WnwmenOMpqWjHeB3lDkVCrxsxWcDjXmbB5I/s320/sc_01_gaels_325.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Gaels 1969—Midland Sound Recording MID 1350 LP</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;">The GAELS</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">c 1968 - </span><span style="font-family: arial;">First Coventry based Irish band in the folk revival. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">traditional Celtic folk group, founded in 1966 as </span><b style="font-family: arial;">The Phoenix Folk Group.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Line up</b>: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Sean Cannon</b> (later with The Dubliners 1982). </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Bill Hartnett</b><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1799990-Se%C3%A1n-Cannon">Seán Cannon</a><br /><b>Brian Patten</b><br /><b>Ian (Skid) Rennie</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Gaels 1969</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Track list</b><br /><br />Whisky In The Jar<br />Poc Ar Buile<br />Lark In The Morning<br />Rothesay-O<br />Kishmul's Gallery<br />Medley<br />The Galway Shawl<br />Barnyards Of Delgaty<br />Blow Ye Winds<br />Lock The Door Lariston<br />Sliabh Na Mban<br />The Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe<br />Red Haired Mary<br />Banks Of Marble<br />Farewell To Ireland<br />Sweet Thames Flow Softly<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From <a href="https://www.discogs.com/The-Gaels-The-Gaels/release/6100658">https://www.discogs.com/The-Gaels-The-Gaels/release/6100658</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>From the sleeve notes of the album</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> In February 1968, the GAELS opened an upstairs room at the Denbigh Arms, Monks Kirby in Warwickshire, and another such Folk Club was born. The group, originally started by two of its members in 1966 as the Phoenix Folk Group, has four members, who between them play a wide range of instruments. The club soon earned a reputation for good music, talent and entertainment and the membership now stands somewhere over the 2,000 mark.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Many national and international guest artistes and floor singers have appeared at the club and much has been written about the group themselves in Folk circles. John Foreman wrote “an outstanding group, playing a variety of instruments between them. I agree with many others in rating them very highly", Thus the Denbigh Arms Folk Club, Monks Kirby—almost in the middle of nowhere—earned its name for a “good Saturday evening's entertainment!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> In addition to the clubs in the Midlands the group has made several visits to Ireland, and is perhaps as well known in parts of Ireland as over here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Three members of the group hail from the “Shamrock Isle". Brian Patten is a native of Donegal on the borders of Northern Ireland—Sean Cannon was born and raised in Galway City and Bill Hartnett, their acknowledged leader, comes from County Limerick. The fourth member Ian (Skid) Rennie is an exiled Scot from the Burns county of Ayrshire and completes the Celtic circle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> It is hardly surprising that the GAELS possess by virtue of their inheritance, a richness of fine traditional material. Their style is not, however, confined to the traditional, for with their natural talent and instrumental versatility, they are able to produce a varied sound and style to suit all folk enthusiasts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Finally, by popular demand, this record has been produced. It is dedicated to all club members and friends for their encouragement, enthusiasm and support, and is the GAELS own contribution to the furtherance of good Folk Music to Folk lovers everywhere.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkw6pn7AcdZ-bJ9DcuA_PzfXdrPeZM1Bd1M65ctVsGnZxK0B5Pth3QsCyg7P_gPlmW3dHZCLUszKp2yAuntAl8t1bpmaNP3I6CRieszaC7tmJMqjANjJX4EZgz5STH61YwdWrlkgJ_sgM/s600/R-6100658-1411073306-1562B.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkw6pn7AcdZ-bJ9DcuA_PzfXdrPeZM1Bd1M65ctVsGnZxK0B5Pth3QsCyg7P_gPlmW3dHZCLUszKp2yAuntAl8t1bpmaNP3I6CRieszaC7tmJMqjANjJX4EZgz5STH61YwdWrlkgJ_sgM/w640-h640/R-6100658-1411073306-1562B.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmHf09q5VF81e2oPiKOB-3cw0z6eYBvzPoRKPr-du7EsH57PkDERFbU0AXzlvqRDHH8oNuGZysxBlpdLwvCxJaPT0YjkRIxMUHlXDMECAxve_WDFd5OBxqYfG-UDZB1PhYJxIPFB_tbU/s600/R-6100658-1411073311-3899.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmHf09q5VF81e2oPiKOB-3cw0z6eYBvzPoRKPr-du7EsH57PkDERFbU0AXzlvqRDHH8oNuGZysxBlpdLwvCxJaPT0YjkRIxMUHlXDMECAxve_WDFd5OBxqYfG-UDZB1PhYJxIPFB_tbU/w640-h640/R-6100658-1411073311-3899.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkWMkf4W0o_fRTaVK9EsLXUw9aZ0Ns5a4r0Xi2GjclAGko-A8Jg3jlvvohKzZoB9IKZ9kdE1N0bY4amAJnQdxY2qP3KTycLe7YnO2vi6MDJQnDi3aciDS3_U7BtKijDx-ib-Vkh7Hx-Ks/s600/R-6100658-1411073315-2298.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkWMkf4W0o_fRTaVK9EsLXUw9aZ0Ns5a4r0Xi2GjclAGko-A8Jg3jlvvohKzZoB9IKZ9kdE1N0bY4amAJnQdxY2qP3KTycLe7YnO2vi6MDJQnDi3aciDS3_U7BtKijDx-ib-Vkh7Hx-Ks/w640-h640/R-6100658-1411073315-2298.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Seán Cannon</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Born: November 29, 1940</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dubliners' member: 1982-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Following from - <a href="http://itsthedubliners.com/sc_01.htm">http://itsthedubliners.com/sc_01.htm</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Born and reared in Galway, but spent most of his adult life in England. His interest in folk music started in 1962 in Germany where he lived for a short while. For several years he moved throughout Europe living in Germany, Switzerland and Spain and eventually settling in England in the late 60's. He first appeared with the Dubliners, when he played support in two concerts in the 70's at Coventry and Redcar. He has also toured extensively with Planxty throughout Britain and Europe.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For the last dozen years he has played in practically every folk club from John O'Groats to Land's End. Sean is married and based in Yorkshire and is likely to remain there as most of the Dubliners' work is throughout Europe and Britain.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">source: 25th Anniversary - Tour Program</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Seán was born in Galway but has spent a good deal of his adult life in England. His wanderings began in the early 60's when he moved to Germany for a year with a view to developing his linguistic ability- During his time there he became interested in folk music. His next move was to Switzerland where he appeared on several radio and television stations as well as acquiring an excellent command of the French language. With rucksack and guitar in tow, Seán then moved to Spain where he taught both German and French, acquiring in the process fluent Spanish to add to his already established multilingual repertoire. Eventually, he was to settle in England in the late 60s and went on to become a renowned solo artiste, playing the many folk clubs that had mushroomed during these folk revival years. Seán had been a dose friend of The Dubliners for many years and appeared with them as a guest artist on a number of occasions before accepting an invitation to join them in the Autumn of 1982. As a solo artist, Seán has toured extensively with Planxty and Moving Hearts throughout Britain and Europe and has appeared at almost every folk club and festival between John O'Groats and Lands End. These days, because of his commitments with the band, his folk club appearances are a rarity, though his popular "One Man Show" concerts are to be seen at quite a number of Arts Centres and theatres throughout the country. Seán is an experienced cook, specialising in Indian cuisine. He once did the entire catering for a Moving Hearts' tour, providing a change of menu each day in addition to catering for the vegetarian needs of some of the road crew. His "Cannon Catering Trailer" was also a popular site at many festivals during this period where he, and his wife Pam, provided a healthy and balanced alternative to fast food catering. His main hobby, however, is languages and, as a result of his travels and natural ability in this area, he now speaks German, French and Spanish fluently and, of course his native Gaelic. He can also manage some Russian and has surprised many an audience (and indeed the group) in Iceland, Hungary and Yugoslavia by introducing songs in their respective languages. On tour he's usually to be found with his head buried in a dictionary. Sometimes he catches the rest of the group by surprise when he lapses into English.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(Above shows the Gael's playing a Music Marathon November 1969 at the Coventry Arts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNh7zroGIQtj5EjyTk_baR6UDEgc9G_tJ-v9ESF2QjKTqsFlHKHJDBe3N5IEJDDHH-uvnk1GlWbrS2ZWUhG6dGMh_cJ2sP8NQNvbClh_UtrcuQkCO8ld-gfL9mwMwpUdNogMekqHDpjyA/s600/Umbrella+Marathon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNh7zroGIQtj5EjyTk_baR6UDEgc9G_tJ-v9ESF2QjKTqsFlHKHJDBe3N5IEJDDHH-uvnk1GlWbrS2ZWUhG6dGMh_cJ2sP8NQNvbClh_UtrcuQkCO8ld-gfL9mwMwpUdNogMekqHDpjyA/s320/Umbrella+Marathon.jpg" width="187" /></a></div><br /> umbrella Club. 18, Queen Victoria Road with Last Fair Deal (an offshoot of Wandering John).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ANOTHER PIECE ON SEAN CANNON ON HOBO - COVENTRY FOLKCLUB SCENE</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/sean-cannon.html">https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/sean-cannon.html</a></span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></span></p>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-90254240009133691062021-07-14T13:38:00.003-07:002021-07-14T13:38:18.017-07:00Torqwood<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> Torqwood</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Torqwood</b> were a Coventry area folk outfit in 1970's with <a href="https://www.cachetuk.com/acatalog/Ron_Ablewhite.html">Ron Ablewhite</a> (Guit / Vocals) - now an artist in the Lake district. I think percussionist Roy Brewster was in this group - both joined Ron joined Trilogy in 1973. An acoustic trio with Al Hatton also on guitar and vocals. Al was an early member of Indian Summer and for a short while in 1972, part of Al Docker's Coventry supergroup Runestaff with Roy Butterfield, Bill Jackson, Ron Lawrence.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilygMfJlJolNWSkiVBXuIZI2Abr7f65INSUiSihsqgySFPLJ2BoN3iczX7cRQHnD6AYS6AYKCIufRIZqpMN56HgzrvXQbbEcW3f9eaphNW87jyBr7Xo3dnToktmgaw0PnutC2uNj-ZmVY/s525/Geoff+poems162.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilygMfJlJolNWSkiVBXuIZI2Abr7f65INSUiSihsqgySFPLJ2BoN3iczX7cRQHnD6AYS6AYKCIufRIZqpMN56HgzrvXQbbEcW3f9eaphNW87jyBr7Xo3dnToktmgaw0PnutC2uNj-ZmVY/s320/Geoff+poems162.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Although I saw Torqwood several times and Roy Brewster played percussion on my floor spot set at a folk club in Coventry one time I can't say much about them. If anyone has any further information then get in touch.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ron Ablewhite's biography is on his artist site "</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Ron Ablewhite - Artist Biography</b><br /><br />"Ron Ablewhite spent many years in commerce and advertising in the Coventry area,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7lFz03FaAf5sM4sGECEhYeYS0Uri3mRoKoMeWIrglNDkvJg0oK-I0SCYxTQiglh7TfMr1qUiBxMPkPxYjK6Nu_0r-MMsYCnHgXvxm3DdFjHoKNS2d9LB4JY0tthP9xjUHhWdcbmHitE/s320/DSCF00712.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7lFz03FaAf5sM4sGECEhYeYS0Uri3mRoKoMeWIrglNDkvJg0oK-I0SCYxTQiglh7TfMr1qUiBxMPkPxYjK6Nu_0r-MMsYCnHgXvxm3DdFjHoKNS2d9LB4JY0tthP9xjUHhWdcbmHitE/s0/DSCF00712.jpg" /></a></div><br /> painting on a part-time basis, before moving to Cumbria in 1993 when he became a professional artist. He created and developed the “Collectables Range”, a unique portfolio of over 60 limited edition prints of scenes in Cumbria and the Lake District. These images capture moments in time, which are reflected in the atmosphere, unique light conditions, buildings and livestock that make Cumbrian images so universally popular."</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.cachetuk.com/acatalog/Ron_Ablewhite.html">https://www.cachetuk.com/acatalog/Ron_Ablewhite.html</a><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Known dates from my 1971 diary.</b><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">January 22nd 1971 Torqwood played the folk club at Coventry Tech college</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">April 4th 1971 Torqwood played at the City Arms folk club in Coventry</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><br /></div></div></div>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-37593457441771008802021-07-04T04:56:00.006-07:002021-07-04T04:56:54.116-07:00City Arms Folk Club (Earlsdon)<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">City Arms Folk Club (Earlsdon)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Pete Clemons</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokCXdPEVjxNWjtZxW2iuVxlRFMHw1l7TPxpChR2Wu4k4A96tsJGMBMM6JVtuakU1UdJnEzzfANqjJ6qyTnAgz6Eat9E8ZqMved4A5NM8rIvP-cx7gIMHH8phYJ74msjMDOlJGjoU67wY/s855/1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="855" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokCXdPEVjxNWjtZxW2iuVxlRFMHw1l7TPxpChR2Wu4k4A96tsJGMBMM6JVtuakU1UdJnEzzfANqjJ6qyTnAgz6Eat9E8ZqMved4A5NM8rIvP-cx7gIMHH8phYJ74msjMDOlJGjoU67wY/w640-h480/1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The City Arms, for the last 20 years a part of the Wetherspoons chain, has been a popular pub in Earlsdon for over 150 years. The current building has stood since 1930 but a 'City Arms' has been on the site since the mid 1800s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">50 years ago the City Arms Folk Club, which attracted some of the country’s most talented musicians to Coventry as well as entertaining a generation of fans, staged its final event. The club first sprang up in 1966 and was initially hosted by Paddy Roberts.</span></p><p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By 1967 it was in the hands of popular musicians Rob Armstrong and Rod Felton who successfully ran this popular club for a good number of years. The pair had already become popular guests at the venue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">The British folk scene of the 1960s and 1970s has a fascinating history. The highs including the discovery of some genuinely wonderful singer songwriters. The lows must have been the endless financial difficulties, that the clubs seemed to be in, required for keeping them going.</span></p><p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">The following quotes I collected while researching the Earlsdon club. My apologies for not remembering from where and who:</span></p><p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">'Been going to the folk clubs since 1963. First to Coventry - Barry Skinner, The Kerry's, Rod etc – and then Earlsdon. Since 1971 I went to Bedworth and other clubs before they all closed. These included Barwell, Brinklow and Nuneaton. I remember Roddy, Dave Bennett, Barry Skinner, The Gaels, Sneaks Noise, too many to remember'.</span></span></i></p><p class="Standard"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">'I remember when the Gaels had Owen on fiddle before Brian Patten, do you remember Geoff Smedley and Bennie Christie who were residents at the City Arms?. Benita could down a pint in less than 3 seconds!. And Barry at the Binley Oak, that was the first club I went to, with Roger Bullen who I used to work with'.</span></span></i></p><p class="Standard"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></i><span style="font-family: arial;">'Rod was always involved with the City Arms, his lovely Mum May used to actually 'run' the club, but she did it in Rods name. More or less, Rod and Rob Armstrong were both the residents before they formed the Grunt Band, as was Gentle Touch (Geoff and Benita) and June Tabor was a regular singer there too'.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">'There were some top acts at the Earlsdon club. I don't know who actually booked them, but May, Rod's Mother, saw to the financial side of things'.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally a very brief history of some of those who appeared the City Arms Folk Club. These were in addition to the local artists who put in an appearance. Regarding the above quote, which mentions the booking of artists, I cant help but think that Rob Armstrong did a lot of the leg work in that department:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1966 – Initially it appeared to be a monthly club. But things soon stepped up and the club became a weekly event. Guests included: Dicken Reed, The Arden Folk, Rod Felton, The Embers, Sandy Denny</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1967 – The Hibernian's Folk Group, The Kiandra Group, The Folklores, Mick Stuart</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1968 – New Modern Idiot Grunt Band, Sneaks Noise, Mike Chapman, Alex Campbell, Martyn Wyndham Reed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1969 – Martin Windsor, Gilly Darbey, Jasper Carrot, Robin Dransfield, Hamish Imlach</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1970 – Shelagh McDonald, Diz Disley, Don Partridge, Colin Scott</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1971 - Gothic Horizon, Roger Williamson, Dave Turner, April,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The final club night appears to be when Dando Shaft appeared during September 1971.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWyvGo1GXH_iuGNtnbn37-dnzJ_DYr1Vt38eFgL-FQjIB1tT_kZkYBFDGDBEWJJi07v3iagwzmIv6cPvkst7uZiKq56FzVE1PdM9mrxmhBxXB-6oFaWmE8DV7uGFMS6s-4LbIflyVlwk/s247/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="68" data-original-width="247" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWyvGo1GXH_iuGNtnbn37-dnzJ_DYr1Vt38eFgL-FQjIB1tT_kZkYBFDGDBEWJJi07v3iagwzmIv6cPvkst7uZiKq56FzVE1PdM9mrxmhBxXB-6oFaWmE8DV7uGFMS6s-4LbIflyVlwk/w640-h176/6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Beverley Kutner (Martyn)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuw1oKy5Ow8TJbZhUZ_E636qIZOh2KayPG6y-zkL2Bf61qFcwsan0WMYDDqWqTPA5fiKztIEYVvnrgouY4vwAGeScF5gWVhT6QhSBMwSFe1MGNE8qXdvXm-SMDU-XMYj7x2pO844mgms/s1079/Screenshot_20210702-144228_Gallery+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="1079" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuw1oKy5Ow8TJbZhUZ_E636qIZOh2KayPG6y-zkL2Bf61qFcwsan0WMYDDqWqTPA5fiKztIEYVvnrgouY4vwAGeScF5gWVhT6QhSBMwSFe1MGNE8qXdvXm-SMDU-XMYj7x2pO844mgms/w640-h126/Screenshot_20210702-144228_Gallery+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-21514819501065681902018-11-01T14:39:00.002-07:002018-11-01T15:14:30.745-07:00A Song for Hazel Lester Film 1984<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to <b>Nigel ward, Pete Willow</b> and <b>CVfolk</b> for uploading this treasure of a tribute Coventry folkie <b>Hazel Lester</b> from 1984. I had fled Coventry by then but it's great to see this footage of those I knew back then - <b>Derek Brimstone, Pete Willow, Dave Ragtime Bennett, Margo Buchanan Smith, Martin</b> and <b>Ray Jenkins</b> etc. It's a great tribute to Hazel and a great time capsule of the Coventry folk scene and camaraderie therein.</span><br />
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Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-85403122145551420392018-11-01T11:52:00.001-07:002018-11-01T11:52:07.582-07:00Folk Fights Back - Coventry's CVfolk Inaugural Live Event in bid for City of Culture Status.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>This article is the blog for Pete Clemons articles - ie another of the Hobo Coventry Music Websites - <a href="https://coventrygigs.blogspot.com/2018/10/folk-fights-back-coventrys-cvfolk.html">HERE</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">"<b>Whippersnapper</b> was an English folk band formed in 1984, consisting of <b>Dave Swarbrick </b>(fiddle, mandolin, vocals), <b>Chris Leslie</b> (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), <b>Kevin Dempsey</b> (guitar, vocals) and <b>Martin Jenkins</b> (mando-cello, flute, vocals).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Swarbrick left the group in 1989, and the band continued as a trio until 1993, with the only album recorded that line-up being <i>Stories</i>. During that time, Dempsey and Leslie released an album called <i>Always With You</i> as a duo. The band split when Jenkins left the group in 1993.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Following Swarbrick's recovery from illness, <b>Whippersnapper</b> toured again as a full four piece in both 2008 and 2009. Martin Jenkins (born 17 July 1946, London, England) died on 17 May 2011, in Sofia, Bulgaria, from a heart attack."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">This folk outfit consisted of two members of Coventry progressive folk band Dando Shaft - Martin Jenkins and Kevin Demsey and from the 80's, I think, Dave Swarbrick - formerly of Fairport Convention, has lived in Coventry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">From here - <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/whippersnapper-mn0000247625">https://www.allmusic.com/artist/whippersnapper-mn0000247625</a></span></div>
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Kevin Dempsey, and Martin Jenkins in Northamptonshire during 1983. Although none of the others could quite compare with Swarbrick's long experience or near-legendary status, each of the others brought something substantial to the table at the outset of the group's history -- Chris Leslie was a musical instrument maker as well as an experienced violinist (who had Swarbrick's playing as a model); guitarist, singer, and percussionist Kevin Dempsey had played in Dando Shaft, and had experience with Latin music as well as Celtic and English folk repertory; and multi-instrumentalist Martin Jenkins had played with Matthews Southern Comfort and was also an ex-member of Dando Shaft, as well as a Bert Jansch alumnus. As a result, the group's work was highly anticipated by folk enthusiasts, as a unique all-acoustic supergroup. The group made its debut in January of 1984 at the Burnt Post in Coventry and subsequently played the Cambridge Folk Festival, a performance that was captured on video as well.<br /><br />Their music was a deceptively complex brand of progressive folk, driven by the presence of four full-fledged virtuoso players. Whippersnapper spent most of their first year honing their sound and repertory, which started out fully formed, drawing on the songbags of all four members. As a result, their debut album, when it came time to do it -- recorded for their own Whippersnapper label -- came together very quickly. The Promises long-player was recorded in December of 1984 and in stores just about eight weeks later, and well received by fans and critics. A second LP, Tsubo, didn't appear until 1987, and it was similar in form and structure to the first. A third studio album was intended, but in the interim the quartet issued These Foolish Strings, a compilation of four years' worth of live recordings. The fourth album, Fortune, was released in early 1990, and also marked the end of Swarbrick's involvement with the group. The group continued as a trio of Leslie, Dempsey, and Jenkins, and Leslie and Dempsey recorded the LP Always with You, released in 1996. Dempsey eventually teamed up with Swarbrick anew, while Leslie joined one of the latter-day lineups of Fairport Convention."<br /><br /><br />View a recent <b>Pete Clemons</b> article on <b>Dave Swarbrick</b> for the <i>Coventry Telegraph</i> here <b>Hobo</b> - Coventry </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Gigs </span><b style="color: #7749a8; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://coventrygigs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/dave-swarbrick-fiddler-from-fairport.html" style="color: #7749a8; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;">http://coventrygigs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/dave-swarbrick-fiddler-from-fairport.html</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"<i>Geoff Smedley, whose clear, gentle voice and warm humourous personality has brought pleasure to uncounted numbers of people. I hope this LP will help him achieve some acclaim, Geoff is not - does not pretend to be - a superstar - but he IS worth listening to.</i>" </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Rosemary Hardman from the back cover of his LP Love is Mine 1972</b></span></span><div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">I don't know a lot about Geoff Smedley but he was a member of The Idiot Grunt Band (Coventry) in 1967. Becoming The New Modern Idiot Grunt Band (Dando Shaft, Rob Armstrong, Rod Felton) and breaking in 1972 (Armstrong forming "The Music Box").<br /></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Geoff was a contemporary of Rod Felton and Rob Armstrong on the Coventry Folk Scene in 1965, and when the Coventry Mummers visited Germany to perform, Rod Rob and Geoff went over too, playing solo or together as The Gentle Idea and it seems Geoff played sometimes with The New Modern Idiot Grunt Band.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In 1972 <b>Geoff Smedley</b> made a limit edition (200 pressings) folk album <b>Love is Mine</b> on the Westwood label.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Tracklist</b><br /><br />A1 Baby you've been on my Mind <br />A2 <a href="https://youtu.be/rbyr6gnLmxE">Susan's Song </a><br />A3 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzSf6lkJvhg&list=PL2eZVcRogFsBf_VSPGA9bA5B1Z3b3thZ5&ab_channel=GeoffSmedley-Topic">Andrew</a><br />A4 <a href="https://youtu.be/Dqss2tUKdTw">The Water is Wide</a><br />A5 <a href="https://youtu.be/iY9Qp8X909M">Have Faith in Me</a><br />B1 <a href="https://youtu.be/HdD_gJ-hOXI">Alberta</a><br />B2 <a href="https://youtu.be/LzB2NXG15pQ">Willie Moore</a><br />B3 <a href="https://youtu.be/so9MmYZhqnI">Bushes and Briars</a><br />B4 <a href="https://youtu.be/ElLNStBnvSY">Lady for Today</a><br />B5 <a href="https://youtu.be/lqOTTOaYIP4">Hedgehog's Song</a></span><br /></span><div>
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Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-45846097834775747702017-11-17T10:13:00.006-08:002021-10-25T06:43:59.449-07:00Dirty Stops - Coventry in the 1970's<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This new book by <b>Ruth Cherrington</b> captures the 70's music and entertainments scene in Coventry and includes a page on the <b>Coventry Folk Scene</b> and quite a lot of material from these Hobo - Coventry music archives sites - of which this one. Indeed <i>Hobo magazine</i> is featured in it too.</span><br />
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Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-91111866321784692802017-03-28T11:51:00.001-07:002021-10-25T06:45:07.393-07:00Ben Arnold - A Pioneer of Coventry Folk Scene in the 1960's<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The following cuttings were sent to me by <b>Larry Arnold</b>, son of <b>Ben Arnold </b>and are largely from around 1967. <b>Pete Willow'</b>s article on Coventry folk clubs in the 1960's, provides good background.Read more here </span></div>
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Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-68263346171928884772017-02-20T14:53:00.003-08:002021-10-25T06:45:46.653-07:00Paddy Prescott - Organiser of the Lanchester Polytech Folk Club, Coventry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The following memories of <b>Paddy Prescott </b>come from <b>William Arnold</b>, son of <b><a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/folk-crying-out-loud-coventrys-folk.html">Ben Arnold</a></b>, of which more is written on this blog as a Coventry folk club organiser and pioneer in the 1960's. William shared accommodation with Paddy at one stage.</span></i></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>Update</b> <b>9th January 20199 - William Arnold has informed me that Paddy Prescott sadly passed away yesterday 8th January 2019. Below is William's tribute to his life.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Paddy is and was a fascinating character and a genuine person. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I was introduced by Paddy to Irish music sessions at the <i>Four Provinces Club</i> which tended to be rather republican and a bit off putting for non Irish. Chapelfields, with its many pubs, was the setting for various Sunday dinner time sessions. Remember this was when pubs religiously shut early on Sundays. A long running one was at the <i>Nursery Tavern</i>, Lord Street where <b><a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dave-bennett-coventry-ragtime-guitarist.html">Dave Bennett </a></b>was a stalwart, amazing every one with the volume of his repertoire and his amazing skill and dexterity producing rhythm, bass, treble and harmony lines in perfect time with only 10 digits. A genuine virtuoso, he was never tempted to go even semi-professional, even though his skills equaled and exceeded many name musicians. Think <b>Chet Atkins</b> and<b> Les Paul</b> his material was mostly <i>western Swing</i> and <i>Ragtime </i>music. <a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/rod-felton.html"><b>Rod Felton</b></a> would sometimes appear and I am always grateful to him for the support he gave me when I needed it after too much to drink!</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In the 80's Paddy lived in Alma Street and worked as bar cellar man in the <i>Foresters Arms </i>pub, just over the road, which was run by Sid a character in his own right and a folk enthusiast. It was in the back room here that Paddy held court on Wednesdays for his nondenominational folk sessions. A group of friends and associates, yet not exclusive. Occasionally people just popped in and we'd always make them feel welcome. Lenny was a regular ,he had converted to Roman Catholicism and would occasionally lament the passing of his wild youth and poor taste, maintaining that the only real music worth bothering with was<i> Blue Grass</i> and<i> Appalachian Mountain music </i>and <b>Rod Felton</b> was also commonly in attendance and the hard core of Coventry folkies and they'd often continued until early morning at Paddy's minuscule bedsit. Most of the other residents had probably attended as well. Alma street had houses only on one side and they had all been gradually bought up by Paddy's landlord, not being a thoroughfare, occasionally he would hold street parties for his tenants, complete with music and dancing in the street!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Never one to take himself too seriously Paddy used half jokingly describe himself as an anarcho-syndicalist with Trotskyite leanings. he could of been described as a skinhead,outlaw biker / Irish folksinger with attitudes! I first met him in 1978 when we shared a 2 up 2 down in St George's Road, Coventry, with his two cats, Trotsky and Durutti! </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">As well as being External Affairs Officer at the Lanch Poly Tech, he was acting Entertainments Officer as the incumbent was not up to the job of hiring bands etc. In this role his greatest regret was turning down Dire Straits at £1000 as it was too expensive, just before they released <i>Sultans of Swing</i>. Strongly individual, he was not concerned that people laughed behind his back when at his parties he'd play the Trojan Story double LP and show off his skinhead and stomp dancing! This was not cool then but not too much later when the Specials and Selecter became Three Minute Heroes and every student it seemed had to know one, they stopped laughing. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Whether or not Paddy originated the Lanch Folk Club or not, he certainly gave it vigour and manage to attract large audiences both student and locals (unfortunately though I never paid to get in, and I can't remember who i saw there or even what night it was held!).</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br />It was held in the infamous downstairs bar of the Poly, where plastic glasses sat on desk type tables and the walls displayed murals from the 60's of scenes from Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> (these were painted over just before Lord of the Rings became cool again with the release of the film version). The admission was a modest fee and allowed for well known folk groups / artists every other week and each week local folk impresarios and floor singers with Paddy doing the comparing and launching into one of his unaccompanied songs to get things going.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The accent was always on entertainment and many a student who had attended out of curiosity was converted to the cause despite his student providence and Paddy had managed to become integrated into the differing folk scenes that were going on in Coventry, particularly those that had carried on from the 60's, when Coventry was a strong center of Britain's new folk-scene. Despite being the son of Ben Arnold, who was one of the movers and shakers of the 60's folk scene, it was Paddy that introduced me to the late 70's Coventry folk scene where i would meet people such as Rod Felton, Lenny, Gib Tod and others who considered me Ben's Son. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Paddy's enthusiasm for folk music stemmed from his enthusiasm for Irish culture, being irish by birth and happily adopted by a family of Norwich Catholics (he served as an altar boy in Norwich Cathedral) and wishing to establish an identity he mixed with the Irish diaspora acquiring, by osmosis, a non regional English / Irish accent that became stronger the drunker he became! Singing unaccompanied, sometimes adopting a Norfolk accent for songs like <i>3 score and ten,</i> a good example of folk songs with strong choruses that the audience could sing along to (<i>and its 3 score and 10 boys and men were lost from Grimsby town from Yarmouth down to Scarborough many hundreds more were drowned. Of fishing smacks and trawlers etc etc</i>)</span></div>
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Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-39030840682020841912016-06-27T16:12:00.002-07:002021-10-25T06:48:38.413-07:00ROD FELTON - THE SONGS - DOUBLE ALBUM!<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I've created a NEW site for Rod Felton and his music. Not all of <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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these tracks are on the site as yet but will be. The site is still in progress but already a lotof material on the site.The link is here</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">You can read MORE about Rod Felton hereon this site -<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/rod-felton.html">http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/rod-felton.html</a></span></span></b></h3>
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<b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">AND a link to Rod Felton's <a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/new-modern-idiot-grunt-band.html">New Modern Idiot Grunt Band</a></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipV4jYeK_FvPERp8_l_Nh64kOmrKbMmZrmAiqrz-QXCgCnPm0PNsn40VStmEy7aIDJ8ttJK7Pn_9dMFTpvoo_vnOhNhNzNskZjb_QtTPPyIIQ7Us_3No_I48VaaykublvTT4pu6fLLMe0/s1600/Feltonzs.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipV4jYeK_FvPERp8_l_Nh64kOmrKbMmZrmAiqrz-QXCgCnPm0PNsn40VStmEy7aIDJ8ttJK7Pn_9dMFTpvoo_vnOhNhNzNskZjb_QtTPPyIIQ7Us_3No_I48VaaykublvTT4pu6fLLMe0/s320/Feltonzs.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;">Rumour has that <b>Rod Felton</b> made an album for Pye Records in the 70's.There are tapes but nothing has surfaced so far. We believe it was through Barry Murray and Harry Simmonds – managers and producers of Mungo Jerry, Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack etc.</span></div>
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However, a number of people have uploaded live tracks on Soundcloud or YouTube or sent copies to me for this site. So I've created this hub page for those 20 odd tracks. They remain on the original sites but are linked here to make a kind of double album. If anyone else has any tracks they have uploaded of Rod's or want to send them to us for this page, please do so. You can send them here <b>hobozine@googlemail.com</b></span></div>
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<b>The Mountain Ash Band </b>were an electric folk band, in the style of perhaps of <b>Steeleye Span</b>, based in <i>The Hermit </i>- became a collectors piece in Progressive Music circles. and, for the purposes of this particular site, they do have a strong Coventry connection.<br />
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRa6ue4gYHPzZMUGKd7qBQhQDXm-spfDH8SLy6dgFc0y3iSP3BM2-kQ0k-srFzornONg5nm3ZJdHQGR3bIB-Pd3YuLFaphdX4ulPWuC0m5RAiNWzpP6jRyVSzp3HF530VeyRLRUY_jcc/s1600/6a00cd978b8c9bf9cc00d10a7903a18bfa-200pi.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRa6ue4gYHPzZMUGKd7qBQhQDXm-spfDH8SLy6dgFc0y3iSP3BM2-kQ0k-srFzornONg5nm3ZJdHQGR3bIB-Pd3YuLFaphdX4ulPWuC0m5RAiNWzpP6jRyVSzp3HF530VeyRLRUY_jcc/s1600/6a00cd978b8c9bf9cc00d10a7903a18bfa-200pi.jpg" width="225" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;">In June 1973, while we were printing the very first issue of <i>Hobo - Coventry Music and Arts Magazine,</i> <b>Colin Cripps</b> and <b>Lynda Hardcastle</b> (later of the <b>Mountain Ash Band</b>, were preparing <i>The Willenhall Free Press</i> for print also at the Left Centre bookshop in, Lower Ford Street, Coventry. The centre had a community Offset Litho which had been donated to the centre by <b>Edward Thompson</b>, author of <i> Making of the Working Class,</i> who at the time was a Professor of history<i>Warwick University</i>. Colin and Lyn were musicians, magazine editors and, I discovered live quite near to me in Willenhall, so naturally we became good friends and Colin and Lyn participated in the <i>Hobo Workshop</i> gigs at <i>Holyhead Youth Centre</i> (where the Specials and Selecter later began). They lived in a flat in<i> Ivy Walk</i> with their son and held regular soirees with poets, musicians and like minded people. <b>Colin Cripps</b>, who later authored the book <i>Popular Music in the 20thC </i>- Cambridge University Press 1988. Colin was an undergraduate at <i>Warwick University</i>, studying Literature at the time and they were both involved with a Community campaigning magazine The <i>Willenhall Free Press</i> and other forms of community activism. One of the poets, from Ivy Walk was R<b>ay King</b> (<i>Not</i> to be confused with <b>Ray King</b> of the <b>Ray King Soul band</b> - also from Coventry). Ray went on to write the lyrics for the <b>Mountain Ash Band</b>'s album - <i>The Hermit</i>. Colin and Lyn left Coventry in 1975 after Colin graduated and moved to Ilkley where they formed the Mountain Ash Band. Ultimately Colin was originally from Cambridge and Lynda from, I think, Filey in North Yorkshire. <b>Lynda Hardcastle</b> went on to sing with <b>Grace Notes</b>, featuring <b>Maggie Boyle</b> and <b>Helen Hockenhull.</b><br />
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<b>The MP3's for the Videos were supplied by Colin Cripps and were first featured on the Hobo Vox / Typepad site in 2007 and Colins background notes are still on that site - here h<a href="ttp://coventrymusichistory.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/introduction-to-the-hermit-mountain-ash-band.html">ttp://coventrymusichistory.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/introduction-to-the-hermit-mountain-ash-band.html</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">Line up of the Mountain Ash Band</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Colin Cripps</b> (Guitar / Research and original concept, music for songs) –<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Ray King</b> (Lyrics) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Sean Mansley</b> (Narration) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Lynda Hardcastle </b>(Vocals and Recorder) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Alan Rose</b> (Vocals and Whistle) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Martin Carter</b> (Vocals and Guitar) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Geoff Bowen</b> (Fiddle and Recorder) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Graham Jones</b> ( Bass, Vocals and Recorder) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Kevin Slingsby</b> (Drums). <br />
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Production and arrangements including traditional tunes by <b>Mountain Ash Band</b>.<br />
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The album was recorded on 13th and 14th December 1975 by <b>Look Records</b> at <i>September Sound Studios</i>, Golcar, Huddersfield, West Yorks. Mastering and sound on songs <b>David Whitely</b>. Sound on Narration <b>George Parks</b>, edited by <b>Robert Whitely</b>. Sleeve design and artwork <b>Kevin Slingsby</b>. <b>Witches Bane Music</b>.<br />
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Tracks<br />
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Birth<br />
Journeys<br />
Stone on Stone.<br />
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A Long Winter<br />
Who Knows<br />
I'll Sing For My Supper<br />
The Outcast / Rebirth.<br />
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Bonus Tracks.<br />
Colin Cripps supplied a few bonus tracks that were played live after the Hermit project as part of another project or from their next project '<i>wind over the borderland</i>'. English Birds is an instrumental that never made it to the final album. You can hear these tracks directly here by clicking on them.<span face="georgia, 'times new roman', times, hiraminpro-w3, 'ms mincho', serif" lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<a href="http://a2.typepad.com/6a0133f436b043970b0133f43714f2970b-pi">English Birds</a><br />
<a href="http://a5.typepad.com/6a0133f436b043970b0133f43714f5970b-pi">Leading Lady</a> / <a href="http://a5.typepad.com/6a0133f436b043970b0133f43714f5970b-pi">November</a><br />
<a href="http://a5.typepad.com/6a0133f436b043970b0133f437156d970b-pi">The Patient's Song</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/116427640">The Hermit - Mountain Ash Band - Side One</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user36187872">Coventry Music Scene</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/116429831">The Hermit - Mountain Ash Band - side two</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user36187872">Coventry Music Scene</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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The Lyrics - by<b> Ray King. </b><br />
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Colin Cripps says "When <b>Ray King</b>, a friend from Willenhall, visited I told him the folk tale and he tuned in immediately and came up with a great set of lyrics. They had no verse and chorus structure because Ray was a poet not a songwriter, but there was enough to work with."<br />
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"Job Senior was a hermit. There are many ways of being a hermit. It was only for a short time towards his later years that Job lived on Ilkley Moor away from other people. For most of his life Job was a hermit in a crowd. The facts of his life, as far as they are known, are narrated on this album. The songs are not an attempt at story telling; more a series of glimpses of his world as we imagine it would have been seen by Job at the crisis points of his life." From the album cover.<span face="georgia, 'times new roman', times, hiraminpro-w3, 'ms mincho', serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>The Lyrics sheet that came with the album -<br />
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"The old sign over the entrance to the Hermit Inn at Woodhead carries a picture of the eccentric Job Senior. Both Bogg and Speight in their books about Wharfedale written a century ago mention him. In his early days he had been a labourer, willing to do any job in Wharfedale." <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Oddities,_Incidents_and_Strange_Events/Job_Senior,_the_Hermit_of_Rumbold%27s_Moor#:~:text=%E2%80%8B-,JOB%20SENIOR%2C,little%20money%20when%20he%20died.">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Oddities,_Incidents_and_Strange_Events/Job_Senior,_the_Hermit_of_Rumbold%27s_Moor#:~:text=%E2%80%8B-,JOB%20SENIOR%2C,little%20money%20when%20he%20died.</a></span></div>
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<br /></div>Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-79807764033507386362014-08-09T11:26:00.003-07:002021-10-25T06:57:28.130-07:00Lot Lorien<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The other day I got an email from <b>Lot Lorien</b>, a Bulgarian folk band now resident in Coventry. Further more they sent me a copy of their CD Elsewhere and it's musical alchemy!</span><br />
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<b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NEWS UPDATE - Coventry singer / Songwriter / Venue Organiser has joined Lot Lorien. You'll find an updated biography of the band below. September 4th 2014</span></b><br />
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<b>The beautiful Tolkien style cover of their album Elsewhere. The album is a joy to listen to with elements of Pentangle, Everything but the Girl, All About Eve and Bulgarian traditional music. </b></span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Lot
Lorien is a British progressive-folk band, combining in a modern way
the traditions of British and Bulgarian folklore with classical
music, jazz and progressive rock. Some of the main influences can be
found among great musicians and bands like Theodosii Spassov,
Fairport Convention, Dando Shaft, Pentangle, Rush, Steeleye Span,
etc.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The band, initially Bulgarian, first came into existence in 1996,
when the founders - Kiril Georgiev (guitars, lyrics, compositions)
and Zlatomir Valchev (drums, percussion) were joined by Petar Pavlov
(bass). After number of experiments and line-up changes the band were joined by Bora Petkova (vocals), Galina Koycheva (violin) and Nelly
Gancheva (cello, for few concerts).</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Being ardent fans of English fiction writer John R. R. Tolkien, the
band members were inspired to choose their name by Tolkien’s
Middle-earth works (the place where the stories of "Hobbit"
and "Lord of the Rings" unfold). Lothlorien is the
fairytale woods kingdom of the Galadhrim elves where time seems to
have stopped and every stranger entering this land forgets all
worries and pending threats. Inspired by this standstill of time, Lot
Lorien (they choose to spell the name as two separate words) begin to
create music evocative of fairytale images that prompt the listener
to forget their mundane worries.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Lot Lorien’s first serious performances started in 1998. Joined by
Alexander Kinov (sound engineer, technician) and Yasen Kazandjiev
(manager), the band made its first concert in Varna on February 14th
1998. The date is accepted as the official birthday of Lot Lorien.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">With the course of time, the band’s specific sound and style started to evolve and take shape with the great contribution of band’s
songwriter Kiril Georgiev and the non-standard use of instruments:
acoustic guitar, violin and gentle female voice were successfully
combined with synthesizer, bass guitar, drums and different folk
instruments like tapan, tabla, djembe, darbouka, didgeridoo. Unique
handmade instruments crafted by the band members themselves also found a place in the compositions.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"> In 2000 the band started touring abroad and was warmly accepted by
international audience and promoters.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">After numerous successful concerts and demo records (some of them
broadcast on the air), it was time for the band’s first album <strong>"Eastern
Wind"</strong>. The album was recorded in the summer of 2002 in
Balkanton studio (Sofia/Bulgaria) with the legendary sound engineer
Deyan Timnev and with the special support of Rudolf Carrera - founder
of Falcata-Galia Recordings and president of Carrera Linn Cultural
Exchange (USA). Renowned young opera singer Ina Kancheva was guest
performer in one of the compositions included in this album.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">New events and shows followed, and the creation of new compositions. At the
beginning, Lot Lorien were experiencing strong influence from
classical music and English folklore and later their style and sound were enhanced by inspirations of jazz, progressive rock and Bulgarian
folklore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2003 started with one of the most interesting collaborations of the band
with the great musician Theodosii Spassov *. The first result of this
collaboration was the participation at the Mobimak Balkan Square 2003
festival in Ohrid, Macedonia where Lot Lorien played their rearranged
compositions with the serious contribution by the great Bulgarian
musician. This and the following shows enjoyed great success. The
concert in Ohrid was recorded and part of it was later released under
the title <strong>"Live in Ohrid"</strong>, the second
album in the band’s discography.</span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>* Theodosii Spassov plays
</em><em><u>kaval</u></em><em> - chromatic end-blown flute
traditionally played throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bulgaria, etc.
Unlike the transverse flute, the kaval is fully open at both ends,
and is played by blowing on the sharpened edge of one end. The kaval
has 8 playing holes (7 in front and 1 in the back for the thumb) and
usually four more unfingered intonation holes near the bottom of the
kaval. The name kaval may once have been referred to various Balkan
duct and rim-blown flutes, accounting for the present day diversity
of the term’s usage.</em></span></span></div>
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International Folk Arts Organization.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Gradually the band started touring abroad more frequently, presenting
its original compositions and interpretations on Bulgarian folklore
tunes. By that time some music videos were created by the famous
Bulgarian director Todor Chapkanov – friend of the band. The first
music video was for the song <strong>"Mari Mariiko"</strong>
- based on folklore song from the Strandja mountain region of
Bulgaria.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The end of 2005 set the beginning of an ambitious project of working
title <strong>"Lot Lorien and Friends"</strong>. The band
purchased their own professional equipment and established a home
studio, which provided them with creative freedom for
experimentation. At the end of 2006, an album including 12
compositions was a fact: recorded and mixed in the band’s studio.
Featuring in this album were numerous guest musicians whom Lot Lorien
had met and worked with in Bulgaria and abroad: Roman Stolyar
(Russia): flute; Latif Bolat (Turkey/USA): vocals; Nikolay Yordanov:
flute; Dragni Dragnev: bagpipe and kaval; Petya Dragneva: folk
singing; Maryana Cvetanova-Milanova and Dilyana Cvetanova: violin;
Christian Nedelchev: rebeck; Snajen Kovachev: vocals; 84-year old
Kiro Dikov from village Brodilovo: vocal; Georgi Konstantinov:
lyrics; Rey Gonzales: lyrics. The album was released at the beginning
of 2007 under the title <strong>"Lot Lorien"</strong>. One
of the most interesting collaborations included in this album is the
song <strong>"Ballad for The Lost"</strong>, based on
improvisations with certain ideas and gradually upgraded with
numerous instruments, including small string orchestra, bagpipe and
tabla (used for the first time in band’s composition). The "icing
on the cake" is Latif Bolat, a long-time friend of the band and
renowned Turkish composer/musician living in the USA, famous for his
collaboration with George Lukas on the soundtrack of "Young
Indiana Jones". Latif and Bora (vocals) produced an interesting
multi-language vocal dialogue: Bulgarian lyrics by Lyuben Karavelov
and Turkish lyrics by Turkish medieval poet Yunus Emre. Tunes from
Turkish folk song are incorporated at the beginning and the end of
the composition. This song becomes one of the award winners in the
contest for intercultural dialogue "Other songs" of
Euromedcafe (held under the auspices of the Directorate for External
Relations at the European Commission, Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean
Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue and Fondazzione Mediterraneo).</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In 2007 Lot Lorien decided to join "You Are Not Alone"
initiative to support the Bulgarian nurses retained in Libya. Apart
from a series of concerts in connection with this initiative, with
the support of Stefan Sofiansky and the Union of Free Democrats, Lot
Lorien released a special edition of their latest album of which each
member of the European Parliament received a copy.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In 2008, after a couple of concerts, the band split with its
long time manager Yasen Kazandjiev. At the end of this year the band
celebrated its 10th anniversary with a grand concert in Varna Opera
House where the musicians present their recent and earlier
compositions and create a conceptual multimedia and special lighting
for each song.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In 2009 Lot Lorien continued their work with composing and arranging
songs for their next album. They had some participations as well,
one of which was at the prestigious Spirit of Burgas festival, rated
among Europe’s 10 best summer festivals for 2009.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2010 was year of dramatic changes for the band: Bora and Galina stepped out but their withdrawal was compensated by Yordan Danev, a virtuoso
accordionist who joined the group - a perfect team player and inspired
composer and arranger. Yordan Danev contributes to the band’s richer
and more diversified sound. Of course, the band would be incomplete
without suitable vocals and after a long search, at the end of 2010,
Lot Lorien were happy and proud to welcome Gergana Velikova, a young
singer who instantaneously fused in the band with remarkable vocal
range and technique. With Yordan and Gergana on board, Lot Lorien were
active once again and started preparations for their successive album
and concert performances.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">On February 14th 2011, the band’s 13th anniversary, the new members were officially announced and a new webpage and video was launched.
Тhe video was created by the team of the young movie director Stoyan
Yankov after the instrumental composition "Different faces"
from Lot Lorien’s forthcoming album <strong>"Elsewhere"</strong>.
It is the beginning of a new great collaboration.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The main engagement for the band during 2011 was creating and
finishing the compositions for the forthcoming fourth album. At the
end of the year 11 compositions were recorded.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">At the beginning of 2012, the band started mixing the album. During
the summer of 2012 Lot Lorien won the audience’s prize at Golden
Spring Festival – a competition for new Bulgarian pop and rock
song, produced by the Bulgarian National Radio.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The new album <strong>"Elsewhere"</strong> was mastered at
the end of the summer and after a competition made by the band, the
visual design was created by Dilyana Delcheva – journalist at Metal
Hammer magazine for Bulgaria and professional designer for bands like
Sonata Arctica, Dreamtale, Absinthium, Gothmog, Leviathan, Amaseffer,
etc.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">At the middle of September, the band participated at the Festival for
new pop and rock song Sofia 2012, where they won the audience’s
prize, after voting with SMS messages. The earnings from the SMS
messages were meant to support the National charity campaign "Let's
be better" which is initiated by the municipality of Sofia for
building of a Center for treatment and rehabilitation of people
injured in accidents and people in "awakening coma". Lot
Lorien won the prize with <strong>"Gypsy song"</strong> –
composition from the new album, which had its video released soon
after that. The video was created by Stoyan Yankov’s crew again. At
the end of September the band started a small tour to promote
<strong>"Elsewhere"</strong> around Bulgaria.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In May 2013 Lot Lorien won "Varna" reward (Music category)
- prestigious reward given by the Municipality of Varna for great
achievements in the fields of culture and education.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">A few months later Gergana left Bulgaria and she was replaced by
Hristiana Dynkova - young, charismatic and very talented singer,
winner of many international rewards and student at the Bulgarian
Music Academy - Sofia/Bulgaria. With Hristiana on board, Lot Lorien
released one new song and won two prizes at the International Music
Festival Discovery 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The summer of 2014 marked a serious change. It was time for a new
beginning in the band's career - Kiril,<span lang="en-US">/songwriters</span>
in the West Midlands, well known for her enigmatic voice and
charisma...</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Zlatomir and Alexander move
to Coventry / United Kingdom. The area is well known with its music
traditions and connection with folk bands like Pentangle, Dando
Shaft, Fairport Convention, etc - some of them are recognized as a huge
influence on Lot Lorien. Soon after their arrival, the musicians were
joined by Justine Watson - one of the best folk-singers</span></div>
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To be continued...</span></b></em></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2007
- Award winner in the contest for intercultural dialogue "Other
songs" of Euromedcafe (held under the auspices of the
Directorate for External Relations at the European Commission, Anna
Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue and
Fondazzione Mediterraneo);</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2010
- Nomination for "Varna" reward / category "Music";</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2012
- The listener’s reward - 43-th competition for new pop and rock
music "Golden spring" 2012 - Bulgarian National Radio /
Horizont program;</span></strong></div>
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- The audience’s reward - Sofia 2012 Festival for pop and rock
music;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2012
- On top of the weekly music chart by the Bulgarian National Radio,
03.10.2012;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2013
- "Varna" reward / "Music" category. Official and
prestigious reward by the municipality of Varna (Lot Lorien's home
town) for the original album "Elsewhere", created in 2012;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2014
- "Music Innovation Prize" - XXIII Discovery International
music festival - Varna / Bulgaria;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">2014
- Winner of the Discovery International Radio Voting in Ukraine -
XXIII Discovery International music festival - Varna / Bulgaria;</span></strong></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Below with the current line up based in Leamington Spa.<br /><br /><b>Jake Wilson</b> – (ex Fairport Convention) vocals / vocal arrangements Lot Lorien: <b>Adam Jurewicz</b> – Spanish guitar / arrangement <b>Kiril Georgiev</b> – Steel-strings guitar /arrangement Lyrics: traditional Original music: <b>Kiril Georgiev</b> Recorded and Mixed by <b>Adam Jurewicz</b> at Red Diamond Recordings, Royal Leamington Spa, UK (2016/2017)</span><br />
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<br />Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-89861805985344006722014-06-17T10:15:00.006-07:002021-10-25T07:12:43.864-07:00Beverley Martyn <div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"</b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Beverley Martyn has led an incredible life: a beautiful woman and talented</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> singer-songwriter she was also muse, friend or partner to some of the greatest recording artists of the past forty years....Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, Nick Drake and of course her husb<i>and John Martyn. Along the way she played at the Monterey Festival in 1967</i>...."</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Below - Beverley on the cover of <b>Bert Jansch</b> <i>It Don't Bother me </i>album 1965 (thanks to <b>Dave Cooper</b> for that information)</span></span></div>
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<b>From Wiki -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Martyn"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Martyn</a></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"Beverley Martyn</b> (born <b>Beverley Kutner</b> on 24 March 1947) is an English singer, songwriter and <br />
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guitarist. Beverley was born near Coventry. While still a student, she was picked to front <b>The Levee Breakers</b>, a jug band featuring <b>Mac McGann</b> and <b>Johnny Joyce</b>, who played the folk circuit in south east England. At the age of 16 she recorded her first single. "<i>Babe I'm Leaving You</i>", which was released on the Parlophone label in 1965. Martyn was then signed as a solo artist to the Deram Records label. In 1966 she released a single, "<i>Happy New Year</i>" (b-side "<i>Where The Good Times Ar</i>e"), written by <b>Randy Newman</b>, on which she was accompanied by <b>Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones</b>, <b>Nicky Hopkins</b> and <b>Andy White</b>. "<i>Happy New Year</i>" was chosen, together with "<i>I Love My Dog</i>" by <b>Cat Stevens</b>, to launch <i>Deram</i> as the progressive branch of <i>Decca Records</i>. She also recorded an unreleased single in the same year, "<i>Picking Up The Sunshine" / "Gin House Blues</i>". These last two tracks also featured <b>John Renbourn</b> and <b>Mike Lease.</b> During this period she was taught the guitar by the folk guitarist Bert Jansch who also encouraged her songwriting. Her follow-up single "<i>Museum"</i>, written by <b>Donovan</b> was released in 1967, produced by <b>Denny Cordell</b>.<br />
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Closely involved with the folk scene at the time, she met <b>Paul Simon</b> who invited her to New York where she contributed to the track "<i>Fakin' It</i>" on the <b>Simon & Garfunkel</b> album <i>Bookends</i> on which she says in the middle of the song: "<i>Good morning, Mr Leitch, have you had a busy day.</i>" She later appeared at the <i>Monterey Pop Festival</i> on 16 June 1967, as did <b>Simon & Garfunkel.</b><br />
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In 1969 she met <b>John Martyn,</b> whom she later married. As a duo they issued two albums, <i>Stormbringer!</i> <br />
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and <i>The Road to Ruin</i> both of which were released on <i>Island Records</i>. Following T<i>he Road to Ruin</i>, <i>Island</i> persuaded <b>John Martyn</b> to resume his career as a solo artist because they believed that there was more public interest in solo singer/songwriters.<u> </u>Although she was spending more time with her children, Martyn continued to contribute to her husband's solo projects until the breakdown of their marriage. The couple divorced during the making of <b>John Martyn'</b>s album <i>Grace and Danger</i> in 1980 and she retired from music for years.<br />
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In the 1990s, with her children now grown, she was invited to join <b>Loudon Wainwright III </b>on his European tour. In 1998 she resumed her recording career with the release of the album <i>No Frills</i>.<br />
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In 2004 Martyn's song "<i>Primrose Hill</i>" about the simple joys of domesticity, which she wrote and sang on <i>Road To Ruin</i>, was sampled by <b>Fat Boy Slim</b> for the track "<i>North West Three</i>" on his 2004 album <i>Palookaville</i>.<br />
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At various times, Martyn has worked with <b>Levon Helm, Jimmy Page, Dave Pegg, Richard Thompson, </b><br />
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John Renbourn, Ralph McTell, Davy Graham </b>and <b>Sandy Denny</b>. She appeared in the photograph on the album sleeve of <b>Bert Jansch</b>'s 1965 album <i>It Don't Bother Me;</i> where she can be seen lounging in the background. On 3 December 2013 she performed the song "<i>Levee Breaks</i>" with her band at the concert A Celebration Of <b>Bert Jansch</b> at <i>London's Royal Festival Hall</i> alongside <b>Robert Plant, Donovan</b> and various members of <b>Pentangle</b>, amongst others. The concert was broadcast by BBC4 in the UK on 28 March 2014 under the name <i>The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk Blues and Beyond</i>.<br />
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Martyn released a new album in 2014 entitled <i>The Phoenix and The Turtle</i>. The album features a previously unrecorded <b>Nick Drake</b> and <b>Martyn</b> song, "<i>Reckless Jane</i>". The album features bass by <b>Matt Malley</b> (<b>Counting Crows</b>), drums by <b>Victor Bisetti</b> (<b>Los Lobos</b>), acoustic guitars by <b>Mark Pavey</b>, electric guitars by <b>Jakob Nebel</b> and <b>Michael Watts</b> with strings by <b>Owain Roberts</b>."<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Discography</b><br />
<b>Singles</b><br />
"Babe, I'm Leaving You" (McGann) / "Wild About My Lovin'" (Trad. Arr. Joyce) (June 1965 with the Levee Breakers)<br />
"Happy New Year" (Newman) / "Where The Good Times Are" (Martyn) (September 1966 as "Beverley")<br />
"Picking Up The Sunshine" / "Gin House" (1966 as "Beverley"; unreleased)<br />
"Museum" (Leitch) / "A Quick One For Sanity" (by "D. Cordell Tea Time Ensemble") (July 1967 as "Beverley")<br />
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Stormbringer! (February 1970 with John Martyn)<br />
The Road to Ruin (November 1970 with John Martyn)<br />
No Frills (1998)<br />
The Phoenix and the Turtle (2014)<br />
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In this cutting from a Coventry paper in the mid 60's (via <b>The Broadgate Gnome A to Z </b>of Coventry Bands), Beverley says "<i>My band will be the best in England</i>" and her early records had the likes of <b>Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones</b> on, long before <b>Led Zeppelin</b> came along and <b>Nicky Hopkins</b>. "<i>Good artistic pop records can be made and I am trying to prove this.</i>" Her early association with <b>Donovan</b> resulted in her recording <b>Donovan'</b>s <i>Museum</i> in 1967. Perhaps her two lines in <b>Paul Simon's</b> song <i>Fakin' It</i> "<i>Good morning Mr Leitch, have you had a busy day</i>" was a reference to <b>Donovan Leitch. </b></span></div>
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Beverley's sister ran the <i>Hub Boutique</i> in Coventry and the above article by the <i>Coventry Standard</i> in 1967 was conducted in a Coventry Precinct cafe not long after her return from San Francisco during which she recorded with <b>Paul Simon</b> and appeared at <i>Monterey</i> and appreciated by the <b>Monkees</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Pete Willow</b>, writing in <i>Folks </i>magazine (Coventry folk magazine Jan/Feb 1979) covered the history of the Coventry folk scene (his articles and magazines posted on this blog), included another cutting -<br />
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<b>The Daily Sketch</b> (Aug 23rd 1966) ran an article headed 'Now Beverley has the key to the top' which <br />
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read: " If there was an award for sheer will to win in the pop business it would this year to an 18 year old singer billed simply as Beverley. Just a year ago she came to London and <b>Demmy Cordell</b>, who makes discs for <b>Georgie Fame</b> and the <b>Moody Blues</b>, heard her sing in a club. Cordell told me: "I offered her a recording contract. She is the only person, other than Georgie and the Moodies, I've wanted to record. "But Beverley told him: 'I'm going away - I'll see you when i think I'm ready'..Beverley went back to her home in Coventry with a guitar - which <b>Denny Laine</b> of the <b>Moody Blues</b> had given her - and learned to play. Now she is rated by <b>Jimmy Page </b>of the <b>Yardbirds</b>, as ' <i>the best girl guitarist' he's heard</i>."<br />
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first record. The title is '<i>Happy new year</i>' (Deram)." " Beverley......wore a cool black satin pajama suit - with enormous flapping trousers - at London airport yesterday. To keep away the chill winter breezes she wore a snug fox fur on top. Beverley was flying to Munich to make a broadcast and make promote her new record....""She admires <b>Donovan'</b>s interpretations and was particularly thrilled when, in a London club recently, he stepped from the audience and offered to accompany her on guitar." "Beverley...claims that at 20 she has at last found her real self thanks to the Love Thy neighbour hippies of San Francisco. Beverley has just returned from Hippie-land after taking part in the Monterey pop Festival."<br />
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national folk/rock scene. When she married and worked with <b>John Martyn</b>, interest in her from the music media fell and lost much of its previous intensity. The sleeve notes on <b>John and Beverley'</b>s album <i>Stormbringer</i> simply refer to the fact that she once worked for a jug band in Coventry. Mentioning no names."<br />
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A few memories from <b>Dave Cooper</b> of <b>Dando Shaft</b><br />
"Bev and John had a basement flat in West Hampstead. I had a brief meeting there with <b>Nick Drake</b> in '71. Bev had been mates with <b>Ted Kaye</b> of <b>Dando Shaft</b> in Coventry. She was the perfect Hippy Chic icon, stunning, and a great voice. Bev is also on the cover of <b>Bert Jansch's</b> 1965 album "<i>It Don't Bother Me</i>" Glad she succeeded in releasing "<i>The Phoenix And The Turtle</i>" earlier this year.</span></div>
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<b>NEW ARTICLE BY PETE CLEMONS HERE (AND ONE BY PETE CHAMBERS TOO.</b><br />
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"<b>Sweet Honesty - The Beverley Martyn Story</b> ... as told to <b>Jaki da Costa</b>. Beverley was a rising star in<br />
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the 1960s' British folk/rock music scene when she met and married singer/songwriter <b>John Martyn</b>, who died in 2009. For years she kept silent about the abusive relationship they shared. Here she tells her story in her own words, taking us from her childhood in post-war Coventry through the making of classic albums "<i>Stormbringer</i>!" and "<i>Road to Ruin</i>" to today, where she survives as a woman beaten but not bowed and still a gifted musician in her own right." Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Honesty-Beverley-Martyn-Story/dp/1907211888"><b><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Honesty-Beverley-Martyn-Story/dp/1907211888</span></b></a></span></div>
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Information from the <b>Sale Folk Club <a href="http://www.salefolkclub.co.uk/index.php/2012-10-06-20-40-36/guests/24-guests-2011/96-isambarde">http://www.salefolkclub.co.uk/index.php/2012-10-06-20-40-36/guests/24-guests-2011/96-isambarde</a></b></span></div>
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"The </b> <b>Isambarde </b>story begins in late 2001, when <b>Chris Green</b> (vocals, guitar), decided to form a band. The only slight problem with this was the fact that he didn't really know anyone within twenty years of his own age who shared his taste for traditional English folk music. A lonely and brief solo career beckoned!</span></div>
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Chris had met <b>Emily Sanders</b> (vocals, fiddle) briefly at the <i>Bridgnorth Folk Festival</i> in 1997, but being Chris had promptly lost her number! They met again by chance at the <i>Boggery Folk Club </i>in Solihull in early 2002. Emily had been a regular fixture on the Staffordshire circuit since the age of 12, but was not involved with any band on a regular basis, so the other two lost no time in recruiting her talents and formidable repertoire of traditional songs and tunes.<br />
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<b>Isambarde’s </b>music is a powerful blend of traditional and contemporary folk songs, taking the English tradition forward into the 21st century.<br />
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Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-36763393651364333822014-05-15T10:12:00.003-07:002021-10-25T07:26:21.495-07:00Dando Shaft<span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Dando Shaft c </b>1968 -72 ( with later reunions) Described variously as Progressive / Folk Rock / Acid Folk.<br />
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<b>Dando Shaft - </b>Coventry's legendary Progressive folk band formed in 1968 and split up around 1972 - with various reunions afterwards - sometimes to fulfil recording contracts or for performances.<br />
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Backrow - L to R <b>Roger Bullen</b> / <b>Dave Cooper</b> / <b>Ted Kaye</b>. Front Row L to R <b>Polly Bolton</b> / <b>Kevin Dempsey</b> / <b>Martin Jenkins</b>.<br />
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<b>Martin Jenkins </b>- Vocals / Mandolin / Electric Mandola / Fiddle / Flute / Songwriter<br />
<b>Dave Cooper (Coopz) - </b>Vocals / Guitar / Songwriter<br />
<b>Kevin Dempsey - </b>Vocals / Guitar / Songwriter<br />
<b>Ted Kaye - </b>Percussion / Tablas<br />
<b>Roger Bullen</b> - Bass (Upright)<br />
<b>Polly Bolton - </b>Vocals / Piano<br />
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Later additions for reunions.<br />
<b>Roger Williamson</b> - Guitar / Vocals<br />
<b>Rod Felton</b> - Guitar / Vocals<br />
<b>Baz Andruszko</b> - bass<br />
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<b>An Evening With</b> ... (Youngblood 1970 SSYB006) 1970<br />
<b>Dando Shaft </b>S/T (Neon 1971 NE6) 1971<br />
<b>Lantaloon</b> (Neon 1972 SF8256) 1972<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Dando Shaft - Reaping the Harvest - </b>Compilation 1990 See For Miles Records SEE CD 291<br />
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<b>Sun Clog Dance / This Gift</b> - 1972 (RCA 1972 2246)<br />
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"An Evening with Dando Shaft 1970" must have been one of the cheapest albums MD ever produced. I wrote five of the eight songs. Over the years various lease deals have been made with companies for compilations. Forty years later all the albums are available on iTunes. In all this time I have never received any form of statement or communication from MD/YBM or their many subsidiaries, they do not answer letters or emails. None of the band members receive royalties from the mechanical sale of this music."<br />
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Below - Three <b>Dando Shaft</b> songs - <i>Kalyope Driver / Railway</i> and <i>Whispering Ned</i> from their 1971 album </span></div>
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<b>ABOUT DANDO SHAFT</b><br />
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The Introduction (written by <b>John Tobler</b>) to <b>Dando Shaft</b>'s Compilation CD - <i>Reaping the Harvest</i> -released in 1990 on the <i>See for Miles</i> label, is perhaps the best description of Dando's formation, development and demise that we have, with contributions by the band members. And here it is -<br />
<b>Dando Shaft</b> are also onFacebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DandoShaft"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.facebook.com/DandoShaft</span></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dando Shaft - The Book of the Same Name</span></b></div>
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As mentioned in the introduction, the name <b>Dando Shaft</b> taken from a 60's novel by <b>Dan Calhoun</b> of which </span></div>
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" Dando Shaft works in an ad agency where he comes up with the taglines we all remember decades later at the expense of any useful knowledge. He's unhappy in his job and embarks on a scheme to become "Everyman's Millionaire." He takes out a full-page ad in the NY Daily News for donations and he will live the life of a millionaire for your vicarious thrills. The endeavor is partly successful at best - money comes in, but not nearly as much as he'd like, and his affair with the trampy hotsy-totsy Bunny Fairchild destroys his marriage.<br />
Disillusioned and broke, he has to pull himself back up from rock bottom.<br />
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On Amazon " <i>One example dealt with the account supervisor who resented the owner's son position in the agency. The son had just purchased a new homburg hat and was quite proud of it. The account supervisor bought the same hat in a size smaller and one a size larger and would then periodically switch the hats. There is also an on-going tale of the account supervisor and a woman he sits next to on the train every day during his commute to work. It ends in the most hilarious scene immaginable. This is a light-hearted book that anyone who has ever had anything to do with advertising will find totally enjoyable."</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dando-Shaft-Don-Calhoun/dp/0812817486">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dando-Shaft-Don-Calhoun/dp/0812817486</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">Jackson C. Franks - An Early Influence.</span></b></div>
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<b>Dave Cooper</b> recalls "At the age of 17 Jackson inspired me to write my first song "<i>This Weary Road</i>". Spent the summer of '65 (warm nights and groovy tunes) at the Barge Club in Kingston on Thames listening to his magical renditions. Like all maestro's he was humble and had time for anyone. Sitting on the upper deck of the barge he taught me some guitar how to hammer-on in G, and one night told me that "<i>all great art seeks the poetic</i>". I remember seeing<b> Paul Simon, Sandy Denny</b> and <b>Martin Carthy'</b>s jaws hit the ground when Jacko sang. Strangely our paths crossed again. In 68? Sue and I by chance saw an advert with his name on a board outside the short lived Jaguar folk cellar bar in Coventry. We went in and found Jackson sitting on his own in a virtually empty bar. We shared a drink and a chat remembering the Barge Club. We waited with him, alas no one came, no gig organiser or audience. Sometime after 8 we said our goodbyes and he walked off into the night. Bert loved his music about a year before he died he played me his version of "My Name is Carnival" as we shared memories at Robs house. Without <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jackson-C-Frank/106071122757496">Jackson C. Frank</a> no <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DandoShaft">Dando Shaft</a>" More about Jackson C Franks on this blog from Dave Coburn - Here <a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2012/08/jackson-cfrank-by-dave-coburn-folks.html">http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2012/08/jackson-cfrank-by-dave-coburn-folks.html</a><br />
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<b>Darrell Viner</b><br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbaZGBlUhi6oiDALJKY0JAcRftHvTuIXfJfK2A7lwz9vphAFmsbFqq_nFLShZoFj7SaZn-3ULHQ9rx1x-MQsxUdd3gv4QG_wg7imwU1tBsMSubIrLpLiJ1YczfsxHq6UCL-qBzNWJw5E/s1600/6a0133f436b043970b0133f43760cc970b-200pi.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbaZGBlUhi6oiDALJKY0JAcRftHvTuIXfJfK2A7lwz9vphAFmsbFqq_nFLShZoFj7SaZn-3ULHQ9rx1x-MQsxUdd3gv4QG_wg7imwU1tBsMSubIrLpLiJ1YczfsxHq6UCL-qBzNWJw5E/s1600/6a0133f436b043970b0133f43760cc970b-200pi.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;">Back in 2007 when I started the Hobo blogs (Coventry music sites), Dave Cooper sent me a message about Dando Shaft's involvement with the Coventry born sculptor / artist Darrell Viner. Dave said " Did you ever come across some of the 'Happenings' at some of the early Dando Shaft gigs at the <i>Pilot</i> on Sunday lunchtimes with Darrell Viner who sadly left the stage 2001?" Dave went on to say " In 1968 he built the first sound activated lighting system in the UK, before Pink Floyd or anyone. 20.000 Watt. I need to make a link as Darrells early involvement with ambience was special.<br />
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Darell Viner lived in the attic flat in the end house in Barras lane (the other end from <b>Martin Jenkins</b> of <i>The Rest</i>" when we all moved to London in 1970, gaining his place at Chelsea in 1971. The rest as they say is his story. Coopz. Darrell Viners obituary was in the Guardian and gives a lot more background to his development and later career in the art world - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/nov/23/guardianobituaries">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/nov/23/guardianobituaries</a><br />
Dando Shaft and where Dando started out). We had an ajustable lense projector quite powerful. We were<br />
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Darrell Viner (1947 – 2001) was a pioneer in the field of computer art. He originally turned to computers to pursue his interest in movement and animation and went on to apply the technology to kinetic and interactive sculpture. Viner was one of a small number of British artists, based at a cluster of art schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Hornsey and the Slade, who started to use computers as a creative tool. They learnt to write in code, developed their own systems and built their own equipment to further their aims."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interview with <b>Martin Jenkins</b> from 1980 on <i>Gentlefolk</i> Radio with <b>Norman Wheatley</b> May 2014 - http://www.gentlefolk2.co.uk/</span><br />
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<b>Polly Bolton </b> "is recognised as one of the leading exponents of the decorative style of traditional <br />
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British singing. She began singing professionally in 1970 in an acoustic folk-rock band, <b>Dando Shaft</b>. In the 1970's she worked in soul and folk bands both in the States and Britain, including <b>Bert Jansch's Conundrum</b>. In 1980 she left the music business to live and work on an organic smallholding in South Shropshire, occasionally gigging with guitarist <b>Kev Dempsey</b>. In 1985, Polly was persuaded out of hiding by <b>Ashley Hutchings</b>, to sing on his album, "<i>By Gloucester Docks I sat down and wept</i>". She also sang and recorded with the Albion Dance Band. Ashley produced her first solo album "No Going Back" in 1987. Polly has been much in demand as a guest solo singer working with Alan Stival on "<i>The Mists of Avalon</i>" and has sung on several <b>Show of Hands</b> albums and appeared at the sell-out 10 year anniversary gig at the Albert Hall in April 2001. She has also sung with <b>Steve Knightlyon</b> his solo album, "<i>Track of Words</i>". " There's more on her website here<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://www.pollybolton.co.uk/">http://www.pollybolton.co.uk</a></b></span><br />
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This is a beautiful track from Polly Bolton 1980<br />
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<b>You Must Be Joking</b><br />
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I went to see this at the Belgrade Theatre in 1971<br />
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A sample of the lyrics<br />
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"<i>Coventry City of Cycles and Slums,Everywhere in the air is the winding and grinding and factory hums,<br />and the men in the town making bicycle wheels whirl around.<br />There's Standard and Singer and Hillman and Humber<br />Riley and Rudge and a very great number,<br />of bicycle makers that<br />work in the City,<br />side by side, it would be a great pity if business should die..</i>"<br />
More found on the linked post.<br />
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From Hobo (Coventry Music and Arts Magazine) August 1973 - Edited by Trev Teasdel<br />
"<b>DANDO - NEW PHASE</b><br />
<i>Dando Shaft may be reformed in the near future with original members <b>Martin Jenkins</b> on fiddle and mandolins, Ted Kaye on congos and other percussion and joined by <b>Rod Felton</b> on guitar and <b>Baz Andruszko</b> on bass and accordion. But at the moment they are fulfilling other commitments. Martin, who recently wrote and played the music for the Belgrade's production Little Red Riding Hood has another production in London. Rod is due for a tour of Germany, I believe.</i>"<br />
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Two Coventry singer songwriters were involved in reformed versions of<b> Dando Shaft</b> in the early to mid 70's - <a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/rod-felton.html"><b>Rod Felton</b></a> and <a href="http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/roger-williamson-and-east-light.html"><b>Roger Williamson</b>.</a> Both are featured on this site if you follow the links.<br />
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From their first album on Youngblood. An Evening with Dando Shaft - Lazily Slowly.<br />
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Martin Jenkins with Bert Jansch Conundrum - Blues Run the Game - written by Jackson C. Franks<br />
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Martin Jenkins and Kevin Dempsey went on to play with Geordie folk outfit Hedgehog Pie and then joined forces with ex Fairport Convention fiddle player Dave Swarbrick in Whippersnapper. Martin's son Ray Jenkins also plays.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Stylusboy</b> are a current act and so have an excellent website so i won't duplicate too much here but refer you to their site <a href="http://www.stylusboy.co.uk/" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">http://www.stylusboy.co.uk/</a><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span>which has info on their gigs, discography, photos and much more. The are also on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stylusboy"><b>https://www.facebook.com/stylusboy</b></a></span></div>
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<br />Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-66644213962066473142014-03-07T06:56:00.001-08:002021-10-25T07:33:23.315-07:00'You Must be Joking' Play About the Coventry Car-workers c1970 - Dandon Shaft.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUnE9OOQmC4v8yp4hc_NalcgeofMhnj0STU2Tcj2ej7D-0V8-Bo8CmEh0zuaesVh7iYCHyO8-kFfb8xSczGzpSHVxYYG1TYzYm-ZJf_UcZLqYydvIBypiRTajTZ-5GzzzROptX2NW8NOc/s1600/Dando+Shaft2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUnE9OOQmC4v8yp4hc_NalcgeofMhnj0STU2Tcj2ej7D-0V8-Bo8CmEh0zuaesVh7iYCHyO8-kFfb8xSczGzpSHVxYYG1TYzYm-ZJf_UcZLqYydvIBypiRTajTZ-5GzzzROptX2NW8NOc/s1600/Dando+Shaft2.jpg" width="276" /></a><br />
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About 1970, the Theatre in Education team at the <i>Belgrade Theatre</i>, Coventry produced a play which, in <b>Paul Spaven</b> (the Deputy Stage Manager), in a communication to <b>Dave Cooper</b> of <b>Dando Shaft, </b>"<i>portrayed the harsh reality of the bicycle industry of the 1800's and the modern car industry of the then present 1970's</i>.".<br />
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Paul said " <i>Each night I stood in the wings and watched as Dando Shaft, onstage, wove the musical story that the actors verbalised......man it was magical.</i>"<br />
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I too saw the play, but not as a member of the production team like Paul and it made a lasting impression. later in 1976, while working as a <i>Welfare Rights adviser </i>for the <i>Coventry Unemployed Workers Centre</i>, Bardsley House, I attended my first <i>WEA (Workers' Educational Association) </i>tutored by members of <i>Coventry Workshop</i> - A trade Union research Unit and the course looked into the economic and social history of Coventry and its industries. Among the books / resources we had to look at, the syllabus said "<i>we shall also use transcripts of a play - You Must be Joking - on the history of the Coventry car worker, produced 5 years ago by the Belgrade Theatre.</i>".<br />
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<b>Dave Cooper</b> recalled "<i>I remember while we were rehearsing the Coventry Toolroom Rate rose to an unimaginable staggering £1 an hour! The title song had the lyric "£40 for 40 hours making motor cars, up and down the country we're the engineering superstars</i>" <br />
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However by 1976, Coventry was transitioning from a perennial boom town (it had even survived the depression in 20's and 30's) into a '<i>Ghost Town</i>'. The Rootes Group (<i>Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam, Singer</i> etc) was sold to <i>Chryslers</i> between 1976 -78, eliminating many of the Rootes brands in favour of imported brands with resultant job losses and moving of the industry abroad. Later they sold the company to <i>Peugeot</i>.<br />
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I remember in 1976 lots of car workers coming in for welfare Rights advice, confident that they would be back in a job within the week. They had never known unemployment. Back then you could walk out of a job and into another and because of the rates the shop steward movement had achieved for them, many had mortgages and financial commitments they would no longer be able to afford on benefits.<br />
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It was sad, therefore, to see the same blokes come back in 6 months later, when their Earnings related supplements had ceased and their NI contributions, pushing them on to the lower Social security rates. These guys looked crushed - the jobs were no longer there, their finances and marriages were suffering. it was wasn't going to get any better but a lot worse!<br />
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We were studying this course and read the script to <i>You Must be Joking</i> against this background. I had seen the play back in 1970 and so was familiar with it.<br />
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Because of the course, i had a copy of the script but unfortunately can't find it now, except for the cover picture of Dando Shaft, who wrote and played the musical score and the last page of the play. So I can't share the script with you or tell who wrote the play. Maybe the script will turn up in some hidden corner but I've searched the house!<br />
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<i><span data-reactid=".b.1:3:1:$comment10203298731379202_7285928:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$46:0">Coventry City of Cycles and Slums,<br />Everywhere in the air is the winding and grinding and factory hums,<br />and the men in the town making bicycle wheels whirl around.<br />There's Standard and Singer and Hillman and Humber<br />Riley and Rudge and a very great number,<br />of bicycle makers that<br />work in the City,<br />side by side, it would be a great pity if business should die...................<br /><br />[lone worker enters stage left]....<br /><br />To earn enough they work you off your feet,<br />no time for the wife in a factory workers life,<br />but at least we had enough to eat,<br />and the good times seem a long, long time ago.<br /><br />Friday's coming 'round again, I haven't paid the rent,<br />Pay day is Saturday but each day seems like Lent.<br />Thinking of the future all the time,<br />Thinking of the young men who are wasted in their prim</span></i>e...<i>and the good times seem a long, long time ago...... </i><br />
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Of the music, <b>Dave Cooper </b>has said<br />
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Here are some tracks from some Dando Shaft - not related to this play but excellent quality -<br />
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<br />Coventry Music Scene Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507690333577188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661724268174147724.post-52753956255753745892014-01-31T15:57:00.015-08:002021-10-28T16:07:01.030-07:00John Golding - Daventry Singer Songwriter<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuJaBB3GheDQihyxw79T-5sXBcd4fCXLiyKsdrJWI4NPOrdklMgwg1jMsRG5mBNXo3W8omVZryp8nJ47aaEaqkB1ymJ5Cor0GNELGEjEEAPEJrOm6GKEsS53kpRwKrVCR5tD1tZ36K2M/s1600/John+Goldingpic2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuJaBB3GheDQihyxw79T-5sXBcd4fCXLiyKsdrJWI4NPOrdklMgwg1jMsRG5mBNXo3W8omVZryp8nJ47aaEaqkB1ymJ5Cor0GNELGEjEEAPEJrOm6GKEsS53kpRwKrVCR5tD1tZ36K2M/s1600/John+Goldingpic2.jpg" width="181" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">"About September 1973, I was doing a gig for the <b>Birmingham Streetpress</b> in Moseley (Birmingham) at <i>Fighting Cocks</i> and after the gig started to hitch my way back to Coventry. Most of the buses had finished and i walked into the center of Birmingham around Digbeth and hardly a car went by. This was Birmingham right. Tired and despairing of a lift home to Coventry (or even part of the way), I sat down on the curb strumming <b>Vanity Fair</b>'s <i>Hitchin' a Ride.</i> Out of the blue came a car - I never expected it to stop but when I got in, I noticed a guitar in the back! It was <b>John Golding</b>, the Daventry folk singer who had also had a gig in Birmingham that night and was travelling back to Daventry and so passing by Willenhall in Coventry. How neat was that! I didn't know John up til then but we had a good chat and I went to see him perform in Coventry at the <i>Antelope Folk Club</i> in Coventry. John had just made an album and I gave it a plug in <i>Hobo Magazine</i>." <b>Trev Teasdel</b><br />
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About 1994<b> John Golding</b> was getting nowhere with major record companies. They liked his material and gave him studio time but said his songs were just not commercial enough for general release. So John set up his own production company - <b>Cottage Records</b> and launched his first album <i>Discarded Verse</i>.<br />
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Read more in this <b>Coventry Journal</b> cutting from March 15th 1974<br />
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