Ducklington Morris’ Day of Dance on Saturday. Signs were ominous in the weeks leading up to the day. Firstly, an unusual number of sides either couldn’t make it or had to pull out, and until shortly before the day, we were looking at only two teams able to make it. Red Stags then added their [...]
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Cornbury 2009
13 July 2009, 3:05 pm
Spent a pleasant weekend at Cornbury Festival. We weren’t doing Melomania this year (only three of us could make it, and there weren’t any giants or singing plague victims, so it wouldn’t have been much of a procession. Fortunately, Ducklington Morris were dancing on the Saturday, so I was still able to get in without [...]
Little Musgrave
27 April 2008, 11:19 pm
At open mic night at the Hobbit a couple of people have performed versions of Matty Groves (also known as Little Musgrave, along with a variety of other titles) over the last few months. Both stuck fairly closely to the version Fairport Convention recorded on Liege & Lief (which is also quite similar to Joan [...]
OFF5
14 April 2008, 4:05 pm
Well, I’m back from the fifth Oxford Folk Festival.
Friday evening, saw the last few minutes of Jack Harris’s set, then saw Telling the Bees, who were good. Went over to the main stage and saw Three Daft Monkeys, who weren’t all that good.
Did the usual procession thing with Melomania on Saturday, then went off to [...]
Non-suckitude
7 March 2008, 1:52 am
Woo.
Last time I played at the Hobbit, I sucked. I don’t really know why, but somehow I just had a really bad night. My playing was flat and uninspired, my singing was out of tune as often as not, and it just didn’t work somehow.
Then last week I went along, hoping to redeem myself, but [...]
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Seven Years
28 February 2008, 8:33 pm
This week I headed home for a few days. The reason for this was that Becca (a friend from Morris) was performing a jig as part of the Henry Box Sixth Form Variety Performance and wanted me to play for her. While there, it occurred to me that it had been seven years since I [...]
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Open Mic
4 May 2007, 1:37 am
Well, I can now reveal that what I was planning to do was to go down and play a spot at the Hobbit’s open mic night. And I’m glad to say it went very well. Although I think the novelty of having someone playing melodeon probably helped a lot, my set went down really well. [...]
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Oxford Folk Festival
2 April 2007, 3:31 pm
Well, that was a good weekend, as usual. Concert on Friday evening was headlined by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, who were, I think even better than when I last saw them at Cropredy the year before last.
The street procession with Melomania went well, although the promised appearance of John Kirkpatrick turned out to [...]
Cornbury
11 July 2006, 12:55 pm
Well, that was a good weekend. Robert Plant’s set was, as anticipated, most excellent. Melomania stuff went well, although to my disappointment we ended up still performing while Robyn Hitchcock and the Minus 3 were on, whom I’d been hoping to see. Still, the festival was otherwise good.
The best thing about playing an instrument…
27 April 2006, 9:57 pm
…is that you get to go to festivals for free. Yes, I’ve finally got around to posting about O.F.F. two-and-a-half weeks after it actually happened.
Friday night, saw wRants, Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing, John Thompson and Short Drag Roger, all of whom were enjoyable but none of whom stood out as particularly outstanding. Then moved [...]