Similarly ‘woo hoo’!
Blur Song 2

None of the above are even trying.
If you sing a capella in the folk world, there is nowhere to hide, no instruments to bridge the gap while you find space to breathe. Deep breath …….

Jennifer Reid aka the […]

Indiscipline. Amen. Just so awesomely … other.

What you need is Twang’s request of the mods for a longer edit window.

Also a cycle race apparently. Interesting. I had always assume it was a Breton word, as so many Breton placenames start with Ker- and that is where I first came across it when working there in the early 80s, but […]

Couldn’t make it this tour, but this describes well the experience of recent previous years. Re: the triple drum thing, normally I am the first to fold my arms impatiently during a drum solo, resolutely not […]

Sorry, I have been negligent – too busy in the pub today singing songs about midsummer.

Fay certainly has one cracking backing band there; I was singing this very song with her just last month, but I must have […]

ooh, I love it when you post pictures of nyckelharpas.

Ah yes, tete de veau. I had it in Millau in the Massif Central on an Interrail holiday. I usually go for the item on the menu that I am least likely to prepare for myself, and that certainly met that criterion. […]

Ah, just this time last week I was eating oysters fresh from the beds surrounding the Ile de Re, off La Rochelle. It took me years to ‘get’ them, but now they are relished and delish.

Beetroot and dill soup – one of my specialities – a fantastic winter warmer.

Just been reading a whole article about Topic’s 80th and it never mentioned it! I’ll look it up.

Sandy Denny. It would barely matter what direction she’d gone in; that voice would always have engaged me.

Another shout for Nick Drake.

No third person springs to mind, so, while I know the car crash […]

Left school and went to work in the office of a local travel company. Three months later, with schoolboy French, I got the chance to work out there, which I did on and off for the next three years. It was the […]

It’s that the water cannon takes so long to stop dripping that frustrates. No matter how patient, you can never wait long enough to prevent that post-zip damp spot.

The eponymous grinning feline was inked into my arm in the tattoo parlour in Royston Vasey, I mean Hadfield, Derbyshire.

but you have to admire Fairport’s appetite for reinvention.
The country’s friendliest music festival has delivered a few stinkers, but the soaraway loser was Mrs Fripp a few years back. I had expected at least […]

I doorstepped for Labour before the last election in a rural part of a safe Tory seat. Not so much unpleasant as just a thoroughly inefficient use of your time. However I retain a certain pride in having got a […]

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They will be at Cropredy this year. That almost persuaded me to skip the last few days of Sidmouth.