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Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Puncher — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:11:20 GMT

Jandyt:
We got to my house an hour or so later, I had bought some bottles of weird and wonderully named 'real ale' for Craig and I got some Holsten Pils for myself. Carol had told me on the 'phone previously that "on no account" should I get Newcastle Brown Ale for Craig!
We sat up late, talking, drinking and looking through my 'Spark to Icon' book. Before we knew it, it was four o'clock in the morning!
Off we went to bed, at the end of a really enjoyable evening.

Wimp

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Bunie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:42:35 GMT

Jandyt:
.....and here is Craig.

Andy, love the photo. Although the view of the Cathedral was slightly obstructed was Craig's ample frame.

Carol

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Craig — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:38:32 GMT

Nice to see the thread has started up..................again.

Craig

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:59:43 GMT

.....and here is Craig.

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:58:48 GMT

Next morning, I got up at ten o'clock and went down for a coffee and a fig before texting Craig to get him up gently. (he's a big guy, you know). He came down and we had Honey Nut Cheerios, more coffee and figs and, after listening to many MP3s on my 60s Beolab 5000 amp, set off back to Manchester.
Our first stop was to look round the magnificent cathedral.
This is me outside

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:51:45 GMT

We got to my house an hour or so later, I had bought some bottles of weird and wonderully named 'real ale' for Craig and I got some Holsten Pils for myself. Carol had told me on the 'phone previously that "on no account" should I get Newcastle Brown Ale for Craig!
We sat up late, talking, drinking and looking through my 'Spark to Icon' book. Before we knew it, it was four o'clock in the morning!
Off we went to bed, at the end of a really enjoyable evening.

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:44:31 GMT

Craig and I left at around half past ten and meandered back to my car. On the way, we discussed what we would do tomorrow.
Tomorrow's concert with Martin Simpson wasn't due to start until eight, with admittance at seven or half past, so we had plenty of spare time in the morning and afternoon. We decided to come to Manchester early and do a bit of sight-seeing. Manchester Cathedral for sure, and I have always wanted to go in the Town Hall. Apparently there is a wonderful floor mozaic there, with bees on it, symbolising industry.

We crossed over the River Irwell and paid at the car-park pay station which is directly over the river.
I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of the river, but there were two car-park men in a little yellow kiosk. They would be sure to know, after all, they spend a third of their life on top of it!
"Excuse me mate" I said through the glass, "What's the name of the river?"
A big black man replied "Twenty-four hours."
He obviously mis-heard me so, shaking my head and pointing rapidly down to the river beneath the cobbles under my feet, I said loudly "Name----River?"
"Open all time, twenty-four hours"
"No, no, no, no" I said, still shaking my head. Well, he eventually came out of his hut and I pointed more obviously at the river and said
"This river, what is it's name?"
He shrugged his shoulders, looked all round himself in a 360 degree circle, and then, spotting a cast iron plaque on the bridge, said
"Victoria Bridge River!"

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

KingStreet — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:11:26 GMT

Anyone living in the North West who came along and enjoyed Martin Simpson ( or anyone who didn't for that matter ) may be interested to know he is playing nearby, at Bury Met , next Thursday. The Met is a fine venue, and only a couple of minutes from the M60.

http://themet.biz/diary/?id=marti1213902000

Accompanied by Andy Cutting so this will be a night to remember - although it maybe won't sound as good as the in store event here, as we won't be providing our Beolab 5's for Martin and Andy to play through !!

More info below. Highly recommended if you live in the N West, and like to hear a good song well played.

Winner of best album and best original song in the 2008 Folk Awards, Bury Met regular Martin Simpson has had a phenomenal twelve months which have seen rave reviews and soaring sales of his album Prodigal Son. Joined by accordionist Andy Cutting, BBC Radio 2's Folk Musician of the Year 2008, this is a night of top class musicianship.

From quaytickets :

Martin Simpson has continually added new colours to his palette, expanding on his primary musical interests in British, Anglo-American and Afro-American traditional forms and building on the foundations and expressiveness laid down by Harry Cox, Blind Willie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Percy Webb and Blind Willie McTell. Gradually, hesitantly at first - with the full flush of 20:20 hindsight - he found a singing voice to complement his voice on the guitar. An influx of songs from Bob Dylan, Bob Franke, John B Spencer, John Tams and Richard Thompson, not to mention his own compositions on albums such as Bootleg USA (1999) and Righteousness & Humidity (2003), showed other sides of his musical character. Still, the basic rule of engagement remains: that of balancing the traditional and the contemporary. That said, with The Bramble Briar (2001), he concentrated on British story-telling of traditional kinds, whether derived from the tradition or tradition-based material from the likes of Peter Bellamy, Cecilia Costello, Louis Killen and Cyril Tawney. Andy Cutting is a rarity. A musician's musician: a soulful and technically outstanding melodeon practitioner with an ear for a fine tune. Many of his tunes have been purloined along the way: some considered contemporary classics on the folk scene. But then, Andy is also a warm and emotive performer, modestly engaging his audiences with his self-deprecating wit and then flooring them with downright staggering musicianship. There are few melodeon players who put so much feeling into their playing, whether it be a set of dance tunes, or accompaniment to a slow English ballad

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:32:56 GMT

Hi Dave and all.
Please forgive me for being so tardy with this thread. So much going on at the mo, and next week I'm off to France with Peter to collect some B&O equipment. We'll be paying a visit to Lee, Tim Jarman and others on the way down, so promises to be an enjoyable week.
I used to be quite good on the mandolin Dave. Good practice is to play along with some Dublinners tracks like "The leaving of Liverpool".
It's all in the wrist mate

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

KingStreet — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:17:50 GMT

Craig:

Jandyt:
For me, the star of the evening was our final artiste, Elizabeth, who was also the oldest of the five. I think she is 16.
Elizabeth played a piece with Spanish influence (Patagonian village) and also the more familiar "Pathetiqe" sonata.
It would not surprise me in the least to see Elizabeth appearing on the TV in the near future.
Have to agree with Andy, without doubt the star of the evening. For someone so young she played with such a passion it was truely amazing. To be fair all of the pupils were very good though.

Craig

Quite right Craig - all the kids who played were inspiring.

I just got back from a week hiding in a barn in Fryup Dale ( North Yorks Moors - very nice ) whilst trying to learn some Mandolin - bought whilst a bit too "happy" at 1am in the Hobgoblin tent at last years Cambridge Folk festival - and whilst I can now struggle through a few standards, when I think how accomplished and talented the Chets pupils are, its quite humbling.

Andy - nice work, as always, with the photo thread - interested to see the pictures of the blur that was Martin Simpsons left hand.

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Craig — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:36:48 GMT

Jandyt:
For me, the star of the evening was our final artiste, Elizabeth, who was also the oldest of the five. I think she is 16.
Elizabeth played a piece with Spanish influence (Patagonian village) and also the more familiar "Pathetiqe" sonata.
It would not surprise me in the least to see Elizabeth appearing on the TV in the near future.

Have to agree with Andy, without doubt the star of the evening. For someone so young she played with such a passion it was truely amazing. To be fair all of the pupils were very good though.

Craig

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:26:16 GMT

Jandyt:

Mark, your Father-in-law keeps turning up everywhere I go, bless 'im
He was at King Street both nights!

If it was John Parrott, I should have asked him for a sub, seeing his prize earnings to date are £3,149,525.00p

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:21:59 GMT

Mark, your Father-in-law keeps turning up everywhere I go, bless 'im

He was at King Street both nights!

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

The Plumber — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:14:27 GMT

Jandyt:

Our very own Jack (sonicnozzle) is in the foreground here.

You sure thats not John Parrot?

Re: King Street Birthday celebration.....................with photographs.

Jandyt — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:39:08 GMT

After they had all finnished, Dave thanked Murray and all the musicians for a wonderful evening of musical entertainment, and presented Murray with a bottle of Champagne.
Our very own Jack (sonicnozzle) is in the foreground here.