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September 2011

Newsletter No 151 - 27 September 2011

A great end to September was hosted by Don & Heather who started us off with Gerry Rafferty's bit frippery, I Live Under A Coconut Tree, swiftly followed by Kamran who had drilled a hole in his finger specially to get the real anguish into Honey Where You Been So Long which sounded like another version of Corrina, Corrina. Ruth, Kath & Stan next reminded us of our youth with The Night Visiting Song, Paul was Jackaroo and with a split personality Mike was Clancy, Dooley and Don McLeod. Then we had a tour de force from Jonathan Beech who had written his Dear Abby after reading the Daily Telegraph agony column, very funny and true, Ed was in The City Of Chicago but Rob was still going round The Old Pubs before they knock them all down. Robin then excelled himself with Now The Buffalo's Gone as did Ged with his unique version of Sweet Thames Flow Softly, with all the verses, and Carl reflected on the battles fought by the Salvation Army with his Looking For The Sun. A bit Of Fun came from Wendy but David was much more serious with his perspective on Ireland in From A Distance as was Eric with his contemplation of death in I'm Next taken from Brel's J'Arrive. Pepper Street were next down and dirty in that Black Muddy River just as Ian, on his way to work from Saltburn via Manchester Airport, walked through the door to sing about The Contender after finding us on the internet prompting Ruth, Kath & Stan to advise us to Let The Mystery Be. All of this lifted Karen's mood sufficiently to sing Follow The Heron's Home and Ian to come back with Ralph McTell's In The Dreamtime and Pepper Street to give us The Broad Majestic Shannon as we reached the interval.

August 2011

Newsletter No 147 - 30 August 2011

Carl started off the evening with Dandylion Clock and Kath & Stan were then on their feet to introduce the Wayfaring Stranger before diving down to the Sweet Sunny South which triggered Big Brian to break out with Jambalaya. Robin became altogether more serious with the Last Farewell and Arthur fantasised about Summer in December before Kamran broke out with a Guitar Rag. Colin then came up with Long Chain On before Richard Sails made a welcome return with Rounding The Horn and Pepper Street sang a great cover version of Diamantina Drover followed by that great song of man's efforts to find a North West Passage. Brian, with all those lovely 6-string chords, then insisted You Don't Know Me but regardless Banjo John declared that he was Gonna Lay Down My Burden leading to newcomer Stephen to say I Wanna Go Home. This handily led up to Isobel who closed the first round with the tune Stomach Steinwayman. Where do they get these titles from? Robin was again in good form with that well known Scottish tune written by Paul McCartney, Mull of Kintyre, swiftly followed by Keep The Change Bob with Young's Town and in the same vein Colin with When You Were Younger which is often asked for by Ged and was sung at his latest request, even though he wasn't there!! Banjo John then came with the great San Francisco Bay Blues to take us up to the interval, raffle and the usual fluid balancing act.

July 2011

Newsletter No 142 - 26 July 2011

As a kid Hill 60 was always hard to climb but we did it again last night with 25 performers and a massive audience just waiting to have their minds blown and blown they were. A quick start from hosts Don & Heather with Poverty Knock was quickly followed by Banjo John with Carolina In The Morning and Ruth singing, Kath piping & Stan banjoing Lazy John. Brian was next busy trying to get back with Sylvia before an inspired Robin, Don & Heather banded up for a lusty Rose Of Allandale with tremendous chorus backing from the crowd and newcomer Kamran was The Gambler. Next Dave Cashell reminisced with the humorous Sergeant Where's Mine and Ged empathised with I Got Stripes before The Bailey Sisters, in a welcome return, lulled us all with The Cradle Song. Mike was determined to Go No More A-Roving whereas Eric wrestled with Analogue And Digital and Jean Finney met up with Clive James', yes the Clive James, Beautiful Stranger. Carl's own Nights Round The Table was also reminiscent but, with gender adjustment, Richard Knott's brilliant new song Welcome To The World Of The Guitar Girl could have been autobiographical and Isobel's Rabbit Man & Henry's Cat was just brilliant. Colin Rudd mused on Dylan's lyrics Valentine's Can't Buy Her - Love Minus Zero/No Limit as did Big Brian with The Gnu and Richard Gray with a trip up to the North Country. Ed was off somewhere nearer when he had us all singing along to Pendle giving us no hint of how John Condy was going to become afflicted with memory loss and a fit of the giggles as he became Care Home bound not to say Waterbound and the only answer came from Banjo John who was Leaning on A Lamp Post and laughing his head off. Keep The Change Bob reckoned it was The Sign Of Things To Come before we ran for the interval with Peter saying I'll Tell My Ma.

June 2011

Newsletter No 138 - 28 June 2011

It all started rather slowly without much of a swing and although we had a good audience, some of whom were newcomers to the club, there were very few performers by 8.00 pm, maybe six or seven, so it was feared that it would be difficult to create an atmosphere, other than "cosy" but this is Sale Folk Club and performers did arrive at intervals and found themselves thrown onto centre stage immediately they came through the door! The things really hotted up when who should pay us an unexpected virgin appearance at singers' night but Stanley Accrington to whom we made a concession particularly as he just walked right past Kate on the door!! We finally had 19 performers altogether and every single one of them was outstanding in their delivery so craicing good night was had after all.

May 2011

Newsletter No 134 - 31 May 2011

Log jam? Jam packed? Any way up it was another huge night both in terms of numbers and performances. Don & Heather started the landslide with A Song For The Life followed by Banjo John who reminded us of the real meaning of "gay" with The Old Kentucky Home from way back in 1853 and The Young Banker from Mike was also gay. Merdy was also upbeat with I've Got Leather On My Shoes as was Richard Sails with the response and call John Kanaka, prior to his shanty week on a sailing ship, which prompted Derrick to ask Have You Any News Of The Iceberg on behalf of the polar bear that lost its family on the iceberg hit by the Titanic. Next Mark was that Worried Man but Jan was more concerned about avoiding a Dandy Man but Robin's Jock O'Hazeldean reckoned women were more tricky than men. Then in tandem newcomers Monologue John with Beat The Retreat and Dorothy with The Malvinas absolutely delighted us with their double act as Story & Song followed by Rob with Cheerly Man and Black Water from Ruth, Kath & Stan.

April 2011

Newsletter No 129 - 26 April 2011

A quieter start than usual due to the combination of Easter and Manchester United playing an important match did not deter that well known footballphobe Ed Bentham from opening up the night by singing Caledonia swiftly followed by Kath and Stan this time without Ruth with Nine Hundred Miles and Banjo John who played and sang Sweet Georgia Brown in which he encouraged us all to join in. After this David, the Poet, next to us he had written a short poem for his local hospice which he recited from memory, Double Contradiction, but Brian was unequivocal when he led us all in the Shirley Bassey hit You'll Never Know which also brought a huge audience response. The Bailey Sisters sang the two songs with an obvious link, The Oak And Ash And Thorn and A North Country Lass, and Carl came up with The Father's Song and Derrick recited one of his funny Monologues about Albert. Ann C unusually arrived without John and sang an emigration song from Somerset called Sweet England and she was followed by Colin who was requested to first sing Vincent and then he performed one of his own songs The Same Mistake before Joan Hall stepped in at this point and gave us all a lesson in French by singing a French folk song with all the actions of Felix Le Chat. We were all very proficient in the language by the end of the lesson and we had the actions off to perfection!

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