Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No6 March / April. 1979
Edited by Pete Willow.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No5 Jan / Feb. 1979
Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No5 Jan / Feb. 1979
Edited by Pete Willow.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge
Edited by Pete Willow.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge
or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No4 Nov / Dec. 1978
Folks - Magazine of the Coventry Folk Club - The Pitts Head No4 November / December 1978 - Edited by Pete Willow.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No3 Oct. 1978
Folks - Magazine of the Coventry Folk Club - The Pitts Head No3 October 1978 - Edited by Pete Willow.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
Folks was originally posted on the Hobo site on Vox blogs c 2007 before it closed. They are now posted on this new hobo blog - the Folk section and here are some of the comments from the original site - although mostly now out of date. eg Pete Willow discovering his magazine Folks was mentioned and promising to send copies of the magazine - well here they are in successive posts.
Comments from Hobo on Vox blogs c 2007 / 8
[this is good] Amazed to come across this! I still have hard copies of every edition of Folks - somewhere in
the attic! I will see if I can dig them out. Arol and I were jointly responsible for the serialised story, The Adventures of Joe Folkie, featuring cartoons by Dennis Clarke - a ruthless expose of the sordid world behind the scenes of the glamorous, razzle-dazzle world of folk music. Incidentally, one of the covers depicted in this blog was a drawing by the late Hazel Lester who introduced me to the Coventry folk scene when I moved back to the city from London in the early 70s - I wonder of any reader of this blog remembers her!
Posted by: Pete Willow | 01/20/2007
Oh I remember Hazel. She was pally with one of the Gnome Crew, Tony (?),There were negotiations to
expand our folk content and at her behest Tony took me out to a folk gig out in the country somewhere, could it have been Braunstone or Brinklow?
I can date this very well to the time we were thinking of relaunching as a monthly after some of the inner core burnt out (British Gnome store period)
I can visualise her now telling me something and raising my enthusiasm.
I know I filed the review but it never got into print.
Do dig out those issues, Pete and let me see something of them for the first time. If you can get them online somehow I can surprise Arol and this year's Christmas dinner and catch up.
Posted by: BroadgateGnome | 01/20/2007
There's an evening of musical nostalgia on Sunday 22nd April when people who were active in the Cov folk scene in the 1970s play in a free concert at the Maudsley Hotel, Allesley Old Road, Coventry. The idea is for artisst to play the songs they used to perform then (although in some cases that probably hasn't changed that much!)
It's organised by Pete Grassby following a successful event last year. Guests include Rob Armstrong,Sean Cannon, Ninepenny Marl, Malc Gurnham, Ron Shuttleworth and yours truly - I'll be including one song with me old mucker Dennis Clarke.
It starts at 7.30pm. There's a charity raffle for cancer research.
Posted by: Pete Willow | 04/15/2007
[this is good]
Unfortunately I'm too far from Cov to come and watch this but a review, some piccys and some audio for the site would be welcome if the spirit is willing Pete! Will be uploading some more soon (grabbing globuals of time at the moment!).
Trev Teasdel
Posted by: HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine | 04/15/2007
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
Folks was originally posted on the Hobo site on Vox blogs c 2007 before it closed. They are now posted on this new hobo blog - the Folk section and here are some of the comments from the original site - although mostly now out of date. eg Pete Willow discovering his magazine Folks was mentioned and promising to send copies of the magazine - well here they are in successive posts.
Comments from Hobo on Vox blogs c 2007 / 8
[this is good] Amazed to come across this! I still have hard copies of every edition of Folks - somewhere in
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| Pete Willow in the 70's |
Posted by: Pete Willow | 01/20/2007
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Oh I remember Hazel. She was pally with one of the Gnome Crew, Tony (?),There were negotiations to
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| Arol |
I can date this very well to the time we were thinking of relaunching as a monthly after some of the inner core burnt out (British Gnome store period)
I can visualise her now telling me something and raising my enthusiasm.
I know I filed the review but it never got into print.
Do dig out those issues, Pete and let me see something of them for the first time. If you can get them online somehow I can surprise Arol and this year's Christmas dinner and catch up.
Posted by: BroadgateGnome | 01/20/2007
.................................................
There's an evening of musical nostalgia on Sunday 22nd April when people who were active in the Cov folk scene in the 1970s play in a free concert at the Maudsley Hotel, Allesley Old Road, Coventry. The idea is for artisst to play the songs they used to perform then (although in some cases that probably hasn't changed that much!)
It's organised by Pete Grassby following a successful event last year. Guests include Rob Armstrong,Sean Cannon, Ninepenny Marl, Malc Gurnham, Ron Shuttleworth and yours truly - I'll be including one song with me old mucker Dennis Clarke.
It starts at 7.30pm. There's a charity raffle for cancer research.
Posted by: Pete Willow | 04/15/2007
....................................
[this is good]
Unfortunately I'm too far from Cov to come and watch this but a review, some piccys and some audio for the site would be welcome if the spirit is willing Pete! Will be uploading some more soon (grabbing globuals of time at the moment!).
Trev Teasdel
Posted by: HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine | 04/15/2007
Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No2 Sept. 1978
Folks - Magazine of the Coventry Folk Club - The Pitts Head No2 September 1978 - Edited by Pete Willow.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
Folks - Coventry Folk Club Magazine No1 Aug 1978
Folks No1 August 1978 - The magazine of the Coventry Folk Club - The Pitts Head - edited by Pete Willow. PDF file
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
It was the late 70's and Coventry's folk club scene had been thriving since the early 1960's. Folks magazine is a good reflection of that scene and its culture, guests and artists, history and humour. Presented here as historic documents.
Use navigation buttons on the pdf below to enlarge or arrow to go to Google Drive to download free.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Furey Brothers and the Old Dyers Arms
The Furey Brothers and the Old Dyers Arms
"Often a couple of the Fureys, a famous radical Irish band, would turn up in the back room of the
Old Dyers Arms for the Sunday afternoon folk session and wow everyone with their pro-republican songs. Mavis always allowed a drinking 'stayback' when they played, because invariably the room would be heaving with Guinness drinkers, which meant more money in her till. It was an exciting place to be in the mid 70's." Pauline Black from Black by Design
"The Fureys are an Irish male folk band of four brothers - Eddie, Finbar, Paul and George, from Ballyfermot, Dublin, and of Irish Traveler heritage. They have also been credited as The Fureys and Davey Arthur.
The group formed in 1978 and consisted initially of four brothers. Prior to the band two of the brothers
toured as a duo known simply by their names as Eddie and Finbar Furey. Their brother Paul Furey had, together with Davey Arthur and Brendan Leeson, a band called The Buskers. Both were part of a successful tour through Germany called the "Irish Folk Festival", first in 1974, where they performed as The Furey Brothers and later as The Furey Family. Here they were joined by their father Ted, a famous fiddler, who was 73 at that time. Ted Furey had recorded a solo fiddle album Toss the Feathers released by the Outlet label in 1973.
In 1981, The Fureys released their most successful single "When You Were Sweet Sixteen", becoming a worldwide hit, reaching #14 on the UK Singles Chart, #1 on the Irish Singles Chart and #9 on the Australian Singles Chart. "The Green Fields of France" also gave them an Irish #1, remaining in the single charts for twenty eight weeks. They also had two Top 40 British albums called Golden Days and At the End of the Day.
Other notable songs include "Gallipoli", "The Red Rose Cafe", and "Steal Away". As of January 2008, the band is still recording and touring. In 2008 the band celebrated their 30th anniversary.
Finbar left the band to begin his own solo career and Eddie, George and Paul reformed with Davey Arthur to became a successful band. Paul Furey died suddenly in June 2002."
THE return of folk legend Davey Arthur to Coventry for a gig in Chapelfields was a reminder of the halcyon
days when he performed free at the Old Dyers’ Arms just down the road in Spon End.
Davey and the Furey brothers cut their musical teeth at the renowned pub in the early 70s after decamping from their native Ireland. They went on to global fame, had hit records and played at some of the most famous venues in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York. But for their old Coventry pal Eddie McNulty, who put them up at his Coundon home and remained a lifelong friend, the memory of the Dyers’ sessions lingers as if it were yesterday.
As their fame grew, Eddie McNulty found himself on tour with the boys.
“I even played the bodhran – a one-sided drum – on one track recorded in Hamburg,” he recalled.
Eddie, a former Jaguar worker, is still in touch with the band members and was instrumental in getting Davey Arthur to bring his “Evening with” show to the Maudslay Hotel in Allesley Old Road. Like the old days, Davey stayed over and the two pals dropped in at the Dyres to share a pint and memories."
"Often a couple of the Fureys, a famous radical Irish band, would turn up in the back room of the
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| Old Dyers' Arms lineup in the early 70s.Davey Arthur, second left, with the Fureys: Paul, Finbar, Eddie |
"The Fureys are an Irish male folk band of four brothers - Eddie, Finbar, Paul and George, from Ballyfermot, Dublin, and of Irish Traveler heritage. They have also been credited as The Fureys and Davey Arthur.
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| Finbar and Eddie Furey |
Other notable songs include "Gallipoli", "The Red Rose Cafe", and "Steal Away". As of January 2008, the band is still recording and touring. In 2008 the band celebrated their 30th anniversary.
Finbar left the band to begin his own solo career and Eddie, George and Paul reformed with Davey Arthur to became a successful band. Paul Furey died suddenly in June 2002."
Seeing folk hero's free gigs at the Old Dyers in Coventry
Coventry Telegraph
THE return of folk legend Davey Arthur to Coventry for a gig in Chapelfields was a reminder of the halcyon
Davey and the Furey brothers cut their musical teeth at the renowned pub in the early 70s after decamping from their native Ireland. They went on to global fame, had hit records and played at some of the most famous venues in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York. But for their old Coventry pal Eddie McNulty, who put them up at his Coundon home and remained a lifelong friend, the memory of the Dyers’ sessions lingers as if it were yesterday.
The music they played was amazing and musicians came from all over the country and Europe even to play with them,” he said.
“But for all the success they have had they are still the same great guys they were back then Eddie, now 66
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and living in Tile Hill Village, first met Finbar Furey at a folk gig at the Cedars pub in Coundon in the late sixties and was “blown away” by the sound of the Irish pipes.
Finbar’s brother Eddie also came over and they lodged with their new found friend in Cedars Avenue. The others, including Davey Arther, soon followed and the house became the unofficial HQ for passing folkies, while the Dyres had taken on the mantle of spiritual home. At one point Davey Arthur combined both and lived in a caravan parked outside the pub.
Finbar’s brother Eddie also came over and they lodged with their new found friend in Cedars Avenue. The others, including Davey Arther, soon followed and the house became the unofficial HQ for passing folkies, while the Dyres had taken on the mantle of spiritual home. At one point Davey Arthur combined both and lived in a caravan parked outside the pub.
As their fame grew, Eddie McNulty found himself on tour with the boys.
“I even played the bodhran – a one-sided drum – on one track recorded in Hamburg,” he recalled.
Eddie, a former Jaguar worker, is still in touch with the band members and was instrumental in getting Davey Arthur to bring his “Evening with” show to the Maudslay Hotel in Allesley Old Road. Like the old days, Davey stayed over and the two pals dropped in at the Dyres to share a pint and memories."
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