tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post4123828019649411775..comments2023-10-30T00:51:36.361-11:00Comments on Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman: Dancing on the TableExmoorjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-89049319831838762732007-06-25T01:53:00.000-11:002007-06-25T01:53:00.000-11:00Oh you folkie you. I'm more a rock and roll stick...Oh you folkie you. I'm more a rock and roll sticky floor kind of door. Which you definitely don't get in Devon, I tag along to gigs with friends when imposing on them in London. I am the eternal plus one.<BR/><BR/>I had a dream last night I was going out with the Arctic Monkeys. he was only 19 and I told him I was worried about the age difference. Well I am old enough to be his, ahem, older sister.<BR/><BR/>I think it's a line from their new song "you used to do it in your fishnets, now you only do it in your nightdress"DevonLifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10771725641771199612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-23489796777268760542007-06-25T00:56:00.000-11:002007-06-25T00:56:00.000-11:00A pub near here has proper folk nights when old me...A pub near here has proper folk nights when old men dance over brooms, play spoons and sing lurid tales about 'Babby's Yed' must be quite frightening for an incomer! Me? I'm used to it ...and I know the words to 'Babby's Yed'snailbeachshepherdesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01397158758052413758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-62281015161036272992007-06-24T23:10:00.000-11:002007-06-24T23:10:00.000-11:00Know exactly what you mean! I miss the theatres a...Know exactly what you mean! I miss the theatres and exhibitions of London. My village has two pubs and one of them has regular live music but it is always tribute style bands which all sound alike. My favourite pub in the next village used to have spontaneous music when I first moved here, but the pub is very small and it has got too busy so there is no room for people to play any more..https://www.blogger.com/profile/16182740564390551192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-34776821269532588262007-06-24T20:51:00.000-11:002007-06-24T20:51:00.000-11:00had to laugh at SC and CM.....I think we have all ...had to laugh at SC and CM.....I think we have all had our folk moments..........there is a pub in Bakewell where people turn up with various instruments and play and sing together.....nothing rehearsed, just spontaeous. Lovely!Grousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511245766699609786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-81618598512877658982007-06-24T13:28:00.000-11:002007-06-24T13:28:00.000-11:00Hello Dear Jane,As ever, a truly wonderful blog. G...Hello Dear Jane,<BR/>As ever, a truly wonderful blog. Guinness, drank gallons of the stuff when I was in London and pregnant with first child, it was what I craved for. It had to be Draught Guinness though, straight out of the Barrell. There is a wonderful pub in Crawford Street, London W.1. called The Scotch House, where I used to go with my husband, they served it there, it was not far from my townhouse in York Street, which was just round the corner from the church there. I drank so much of it then, that when my waters broke, it was like a long gush of it.I agree with what you say about certain atmosphere for music, and I love Folk music, especially Fairport Convention. Thank you for your kind comments Jane, sadly my son does not go out with EDITOR,he has told me her name, but that is not what it is. Hopefully I will learn more about this very secret woman he has! Best of luck with the book Jane at Hodder, any more news on this yet?<BR/>Camilla.xxxCAMILLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741990891794651299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-83094305532641477232007-06-24T04:21:00.000-11:002007-06-24T04:21:00.000-11:00Have many bands in pubs here - especially in the s...Have many bands in pubs here - especially in the summer - brillaint - very late night/early mornings and now it is nigh on Highland Game Season. But we too get the 'we must get out more bug' . . . . answer who says so . . . .as long as you are happy . . . after all Lixtroll was watching paint dry on friday - I mean does it get any better than that!Westerwitch/Headmistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956764463959607416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-20954197443740457862007-06-24T02:45:00.000-11:002007-06-24T02:45:00.000-11:00We have 'real' music here, the fiddle, the box, th...We have 'real' music here, the fiddle, the box, the pipes, the spoons, good craic and even dancing on the tables! <BR/>Many people like the bands Skipinnish, Deoch 'n Dorus and the Vatersay Boys - have you heard of any of them? Sorry, not clever enough to do links !! Lots of local talent as well. <BR/>Tha mi toilichte gu do ionnsaich thu rud bheag Gaidhlig, ach tha mi duilich gu do caillte thu i a-rithist!! Le durachdan agus slainte mhath! xxbradanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11950997156844412011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-87491582974028993142007-06-23T11:58:00.000-11:002007-06-23T11:58:00.000-11:00Your blog was right on, Jane. Every year I buy a s...Your blog was right on, Jane. Every year I buy a subscription to the theatre in Victoria - otherwise we'd never go out. It just seems like so much trouble on a dark and rainy night when we like our own company so well! re the folk music - I couldn't agree more. We have a wonderful theatre here that is an old church - cozy, intimate and a good venue for folk music. Put it in an auditorium and it's all wrong.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-20863377317641306402007-06-23T09:29:00.000-11:002007-06-23T09:29:00.000-11:00I so agree with your every word (except the clever...I so agree with your every word (except the clever Cait bit!). Spontaneous music in a pub with good draught Guinness, sounds like heaven to me and what I enjoy in Ireland, especially good in Tralee as Irish Eyes I am sure will testify.<BR/>I'll see if I can get some Loreena McKennitt tunes on the playlist, I have heard of her and read some of her lyrics.<BR/>I agree with you about 'going out', I hardly ever do, it's such an effort when you live in the wilds and you can't drink and drive either. There's not enough live music round here sadly, plenty in the house though when my son is playing.<BR/>CaitxCait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-13037288290341429692007-06-23T06:30:00.000-11:002007-06-23T06:30:00.000-11:00just catching up after a few non online days. I w...just catching up after a few non online days. I was at a super pushy girls school too - very familiar. I have resigned myself to accepting that if i am having a can't get it together day there is no point in beating myself up about it. I will wake up in a day or two and whizz around madly achieving all over the place.<BR/>Love your posh photo and the exmoor one too. We used to live in Manchester too so the places you mention are all familiar.<BR/>now going to go and look for more walker.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-66719035674297768032007-06-22T23:15:00.000-11:002007-06-22T23:15:00.000-11:00I spotted a poster yesterday,Hog roast! yuk live b...I spotted a poster yesterday,Hog roast! yuk live band! and ale! at the Griffin in llandyrnog. at this moment i really want to go but at 8pm i'll be ready for sleep..xxoobodran...https://www.blogger.com/profile/11838798193878553386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-14793384730778824002007-06-22T11:07:00.000-11:002007-06-22T11:07:00.000-11:00I'm in Manchester this weekend. Have just posted a...I'm in Manchester this weekend. Have just posted a short piece on the CCW site with an aerial view.<BR/><BR/>You're right about the country though. Idyllic as it might be, particularly where I live the only night out consists of a visit to the hen house.<BR/><BR/>I sometimes get out to the Chinese takeaway in Seahouses but apart from that....<BR/><BR/>Crystal xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-83883358867615465112007-06-22T11:06:00.000-11:002007-06-22T11:06:00.000-11:00Ah, I knew if I kept reading your blog, we'd get b...Ah, I knew if I kept reading your blog, we'd get back to the subject of small pubs again before long. As I remember it, the Poltimore Arms was too small for a folk group - but maybe my memory is at fault. Do you know the Woody Bay? Is Martin still the landlord? Sorry, very poor comments etiquette - off the subject of the blog entry by quite a long way now.Iota https://www.blogger.com/profile/08507184283437057648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-38243694719543111162007-06-22T08:40:00.000-11:002007-06-22T08:40:00.000-11:00What an interesting read. Only like folk/jazz in ...What an interesting read. Only like folk/jazz in old basic pub setting or down in the shacks at Southwold.<BR/>I used to date a folk singer and he used to burst into song (well not burst more drift into one if you get my meaning) and it drove me up the wall in the end. <BR/>I thought it wildly romantic to begin with and then wildly embarrassing at the end!<BR/>Mum said it would end in tears and<BR/>it did.countrymousiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094876554953194177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-53020038924052725682007-06-22T08:32:00.000-11:002007-06-22T08:32:00.000-11:00Chuckling at Sally's comment. It's weird that you ...Chuckling at Sally's comment. It's weird that you should write this, R and I have been banging on lately about needing to go out more, try some of the 'folk' pubs near us etc. Totally agree with you that you need to be somewhere casual and intmate for something like that - it needs to feel like the music's sort of evolving out of the evening rather than the other way around I think. R's new job is as a theatre director so at least I will get to see lots of theatre now. <BR/>How weird is that - we both have boys with the same name, born 8 days apart!Suffolkmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15123007594112557168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-12043647298186199272007-06-22T08:02:00.000-11:002007-06-22T08:02:00.000-11:00Oh why did I bang into the Bampton link ? the head...Oh why did I bang into the Bampton link ? the headline just set me off on one as my blog explains. I hate wimmin that go 'whoop whoop' like it's the best thing since sliced bread when its crap.Sally Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299690757779540854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-40883464212543845422007-06-22T07:13:00.000-11:002007-06-22T07:13:00.000-11:00Now tell me, do folk singers still stick one hand ...Now tell me, do folk singers still stick one hand over their right ear and tilt their head to the side with their eyes closed when they sing?Un Peu Loufoquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09387826515638192265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-70670277019064310442007-06-22T05:33:00.000-11:002007-06-22T05:33:00.000-11:00I so loved reading this. A couple of months ago, I...I so loved reading this. A couple of months ago, I went to see a folk group called "Waking the Witch" (think spice girls with instruments, decent songs and personalities). <BR/><BR/>The gig was at a little pub in an unremarkable village near Colchester and it was (at the time) the weirdest venue I'd ever been to. <BR/><BR/>It took place upstairs in a smallish room set out like a village hall hosting a school play with rows and rows of plastic chairs. <BR/>Unfortunately, we arrived slightly late due to lack of nearby parking spaces and had to stand rather conspiciously at the side of the room. <BR/><BR/>The band were really good though, and if you haven't already heard of them, you should check them out! I can't wait to see them again - probably in another venue though!<BR/><BR/>I've heard of Loreena Mckennitt (sorry if that's spelt wrong) and am now going to rush out and see if I can find an album to buy. (I only need to hear a favourable comment about someone and I'll buy just about any CD)FunkyMunkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417658638855569577noreply@blogger.com