Beverley Folk Festival 2008

[the button]

Otherwise, I'd never get to post in this forum.

http://www.beverleyfestival.com/

Featuring those fine performers of traditional music, er, The Buzzcocks.

But also the mighty Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, and many, many more.

Off up for the entire weekend, but just got "day tickets" for the Saturday, cos that's when the people we want to see are on. Like all folk festivals, there'll be a massive "fringe" of free stuff happening in the local pubs, often featuring the festival artists who turn up and do stuff for nowt, and join in with other people. I remember playing one of my squeezeboxes in a pub session at Beverley many years ago (I was a teenager), being accompanied by Martin Carthy, who just sort of chipped in & started playing along. I was shitting myself.

 

[the button]

Sorry. Forgot the traditional "Anyone else going?" question.

 

[cesare]

Travel's still quite cheap if you book now.

And it looks as though it's cheaper to work out who you want to see and buy tickets like that - rather than weekend type ones.

Also, EMI have now signed Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, so small affordable personal gigs might possibly start to be a lot less common in the future.

 

[the button]

If, for some inexplicable reason, Londoners don't fancy travelling all the way to the jewel of the East Riding to see Rachel Unthank, they're doing the London Lovebox Weekender in Viccy Park in July.

 

[the button]

Sorry. Forgot the traditional "Anyone else going?" question.

Perhaps I should start a thread about it in the local forum for local people, to see if any of the Yorkshires are going.

 

[Tacita]

was looking at it - local and bands I like just got to convince my tribe to add on another festival to the growing list £££

 

[Firky]

LMAO it's just button and cesare posting

 

[the button]

LMAO it's just button and cesare posting

Will be seeing Rachel Unthank again, though, so we still win.

 

[aqua]

would love to go, was in beverley yesterday and i do miss the place but can't do that weekend

 

[Firky]

Will be seeing Rachel Unthank again, though, so we still win.

I get to see the Buzzcocks and Symarip.

Punk and ska trumps folk

 

[the button]

I get to see the Buzzcocks and Symarip.

Punk and ska trumps folk

Ah yes. But if you look again at my exquisitely-crafted opening post, you will see that The Buzzcocks are doing Beverley Folk Festival as well.

Win.

 

[cesare]

So, ner

 

[the button]

So, ner

And, indeed, faynites.

 

[cesare]

And, indeed, faynites.

Heheheh

I knew I should never have taught you that.

 

[Firky]

 

[retribution]

Might pop along to something, probably the Tony Benn thing if I'm home from uni by then. I'll always remember seeing Gleen Tilbrook there three years ago with some mates and my sixth form geography teacher (who was a massive fan)...ended up going 'backstage' and speaking to the man himself That was a week before my first glasto, too...good times.

And yeah, as you say, the pubs of Beverley are always good during that weekend. Although Nellies had upped their prices to something hideous like £1.41 a pint last time I was home!

 

[aqua]

I showed bees nelly's yesterday he loved it

sadly we didn't have time to stop for a pint

 

[the button]

And yeah, as you say, the pubs of Beverley are always good during that weekend. Although Nellies had upped their prices to something hideous like £1.41 a pint last time I was home!

There'll be no live music in Nellies this year, I reckon. Sam Smiths booted the folkies out a while back. Plenty on at The Tiger, Forester's Arms, Hodgson's and the Sun Inn, though.

 

[the button]

I showed bees nelly's yesterday he loved it

sadly we didn't have time to stop for a pint

I bought my first ever pint in there. 70p, it was. [/memory lane]

 

[aqua]

it's a great place isn't it mind you theres a fair few nice places in beverley

still mourning the loss of burgess' ice cream shop though

 

[retribution]

Yeah, I think all Sam Smiths pubs have lost their music license. Still the best pub in Beverley (East Yorkshire?) though

 

[the button]

Yeah, I think all Sam Smiths pubs have lost their music license.

They have indeed. Not lost either, more "decision taken from on high not to renew." They're also taking (or have taken) an ultra-hard line on informal musical get-togethers on their premises. Thus (in Beverley at least. And Whitby, come to mention it) alienating a lot of their regulars. Stll a lovely pub though.

 

[mozzy]

Myself and some friends are heading for beverley this afternoon to check out the pubs which are holding the fringe events!! Maybe see a few of you there!

 

[Roadkill]

Yeah, I think all Sam Smiths pubs have lost their music license. Still the best pub in Beverley (East Yorkshire?) though

Yeah. A few years ago the live music in Nelly's used to be awesome. Last time I went to the festival - 2005 IIRC - there was none. Stupid fucking licensing laws.

Enjoy the festival, those who are going. Wish I could be there for it.

 

[aqua]

right well we ended up in nelly yesterday for a pint with my dad before tea - it's still ace and we adopted a local for a pint too

shame about the music license though

 

[mozzy]

Went to Hodgsons, The Sun and The Tiger yesterday.

Shame about the shite weather, but there was a good atmosphere in The Sun - The Tiger and Hodgsons were pretty quiet.

There were rumours circulating that this years event was going to be the last, but I don't know how true that is cause I reckon that gets said every year. I certainly hope not!

 

[the button]

I was in Hodgson's and The Sun (and Nellies) yesterday as well. We had an unknowing Urban meet-up .

That session in The Sun happens every Sunday, regardless of festival apparently. I kept my gob shut at all the sessions we went to as I am more than aware of the frosty reception that outsiders can get at these things. In fact, one of the few people I bumped into at the festival was a bloke who got the hump with me over 20 years ago because I played the same musical instrument as him.

 

[cesare]

Friday brilliant sunshine while on train. Saturday raining. Sunday high winds. Today sunshine again travelling back, grrr

6 hours in concerts on Sat, ah that was a brilliant day. For £43 each we saw Edwina Hayes (got her CD + signed for a tenner, £2 less than buying it unsigned from the CD stall), The Hut People (I really want one of those Turkish flat drums that you can get harmonics from) and Rachel Unthank. Then time for a curry before the evening concert of Chumbawamba - fantastic, I had no idea that they did that much accapella, brilliant live; then Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting (our own 2wheeledathiest used to play in a band with the latter 'Blowzabella') then Waterson:Carthy ... can't say more than that. Mind, I'd have liked 'The Good Old Way' as an encore but you can't have everything.

Sunday, fringe, mostly in the Sun Inn ... a few good hours there then a quick drink at Nellies before catching the last bus.

Brilliant weekend

 

[editor]

Was this woman as scary as she looks?


http://www.beverleyfestival.com/artists/cassandra-wye

 

[the button]

Managed to avoid her. Anyone booked on to a festival lineup as a "storyteller" deserves to be shot, IMO.