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(Date Posted:30/05/2007 02:09:43)
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From http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL - GRAND REOPENING WEEKENDOver the weekend of the 9th June 2007 Bellowhead are proud to announce that we will be taking part in the opening weekend of the Royal Festival Hall following its extensive refurbishment. We will be performing at various times on different stages.One of these will be on the 9th June at 1:30 pm on the "Hayward Stage" (facing Waterloo Bridge).We will be having an informal session and we would like to invite as many people as possible to come and join us with their instruments and partake in the first ever "Bellow-Session"!The tunes are all on their website here: http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/sessiontunes.htmlAnyone going? I am thinking it may be quite a hootIt will m
I saw this the other day and I must admit I'm very tempted to go, unfortunately I'm already committed to doing something else that day, and unless I can come up with a suitable excuse AND find time to get some practice in then I think I'm going to have to give it a miss.
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(Date Posted:30/05/2007 02:11:11)
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From http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL - GRAND REOPENING WEEKENDOver the weekend of the 9th June 2007 Bellowhead are proud to announce that we will be taking part in the opening weekend of the Royal Festival Hall following its extensive refurbishment. We will be performing at various times on different stages.One of these will be on the 9th June at 1:30 pm on the "Hayward Stage" (facing Waterloo Bridge).We will be having an informal session and we would like to invite as many people as possible to come and join us with their instruments and partake in the first ever "Bellow-Session"!The tunes are all on their website here: http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/sessiontunes.htmlAnyone going? I am thinking it may be quite a hootIt will m
I'm not sure how I got to reply twice to this! something to do with trying to get a smilie in there! :-(
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BohemianCoast
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(Date Posted:31/05/2007 03:14:05)
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We will be having an informal session and we would like to invite as many people as possible to come and join us with their instruments and partake in the first ever "Bellow-Session"!The tunes are all on their website here: http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/sessiontunes.htmlAnyone going? I am thinking it may be quite a hoot
I am thinking it will indeed, and am very tempted. I can play, oh, about half of those tunes. After a fashion and not too fast.
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(Date Posted:31/05/2007 14:15:39)
Am thinking about it too, but may only bring my whistle, 'cos I can play more of the tunes on it...
Ayla
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(Date Posted:31/05/2007 16:10:50)
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Am thinking about it too, but may only bring my whistle, 'cos I can play more of the tunes on it...Ayla
I am bringing my knitting as well as squeezybox for it is also Knit In Public Day. I shall do socks during the tunes I can't play 
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(Date Posted:31/05/2007 18:14:43)
Would love to go, but it clashes with the Croydon Jazz Festival, where tenor sax might be needed for the Surrey County Youth Jazz Orchestra. Maybe the Bellows brass boys would like to reinforce?
Bill.
Fee, Could you update your oxfordfolkfestival.com signature to the 2008 dates please.
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(Date Posted:31/05/2007 18:57:51)
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Am thinking about it too, but may only bring my whistle, 'cos I can play more of the tunes on it...Ayla
Thats a good point, if were talking about multi-instrumentals then I could perhaps manage the frying pan
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(Date Posted:03/06/2007 14:36:26)
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Am thinking about it too, but may only bring my whistle, 'cos I can play more of the tunes on it...Ayla
I am getting very excited despite total impossibility of playing Constant Billy and Cock o the North in A! Not to mention the Shropshire Lass....
Hope to see lots of you there. I will not have any knitting but will be 'en famille' so it remains to be seen how long we last......!
By the way did you all see on the Festival Hall main site that Jon and John are playing in one of the Bars in the morning and Bellowhead later in the evening http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/overture/?
Cathy
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(Date Posted:03/06/2007 15:18:55)
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Reply to : isla wightAm thinking about it too, but may only bring my whistle, 'cos I can play more of the tunes on it...AylaI am getting very excited despite totalimpossibility ofplaying Constant Billy and Cock o the North in A! Not to mention the Shropshire Lass....Hope to see lots of you there. I will not haveany knitting but will be 'en famille' so it remains to be seen how long we last......!By the way did you all see on the Festival Hall main site that Jon and John are playingin one of the Bars in the morning and Bellowhead later in the eveninghttp://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/overture/?Cathy
If you dig deep down into the Festival hall website there's a PDF of everything on for the whole weekend, it was quite hard to find last Friday, not sure if it's more prominent now.
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 13:33:53)
Reply to : Fee
If you dig deep down into the Festival hall website there's a PDF of everything on for the whole weekend, it was quite hard to find last Friday
Probably a bit late and/or inconvenient for most people, but Bellowhead have just posted on their blog to say they're doing an open rehearsal in the Purcell room (the smallest hall at the RFH) between 4 and 5 this afternoon. I'm just checking to see if my childminder can pick up my kids today...
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 14:36:16)
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Probably a bit late and/or inconvenient for most people, but Bellowhead have just posted on their blog to say they're doing an open rehearsal in the Purcell room (the smallest hall at the RFH) between 4 and 5 this afternoon. I'm just checking to see if my childminder can pick up my kids today...
Bohemian, If you manage to get to it (I hope you have an accomodating child minder) can you post back insider information tonight...? like, how damn fast are they playing stuff <eeeeeek  > and what tunes will they be likely to do!
Meanwhile and my fiddly friend (J&J Have nothing to worry about) shall be doing a rehearsal in my front room, fuelled by beer and cheese  .
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 15:27:29)
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Bohemian, If you manage to get to it (I hope you have an accomodating child minder) can you post back insider information tonight...? like, how damn fast are they playing stuff <eeeeeek> and what tunes will they be likely to do!Meanwhile and my fiddly friend (J&J Have nothing to worry about) shall be doing a rehearsal in my front room, fuel
Sadly it's looking very unlikely as the childminder has taken advantage of her day off to go out for the day, and various plausible friends are doing other things. So you'll have to guess that the answers will be 'too damn fast' and 'they'll play all the tricky ones'.
I've divided the tunes into three piles; the one's I'm really confident of (Winster Gallop and Speed the Plough), the ones that Just Aren't Going to Happen (Shropshire Lass, and the tunes in A ha ha ha), and All The Rest, which I'm practising furiously. Of those, I'm fairly sure I'll be able to join in some of them, though perhaps without the chords.
Hope to see you tomorrow. I will have my Serenellini Selli, which is highly spottable due to its VERY SHINY BUTTONS.
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Fee
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 16:52:39)
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I've divided the tunes into three piles
By pure coincidence, so have we!
I agree about the tunes in A hahahahahah. Even more confusing if you already know the tune in G.
I will have my Saltarelle Connemara II (on its very first outing) which is very shiny, and has all manner of scarves wrapped round the wrist strap so my had doesn't slip out.
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 18:12:40)
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I agree about the tunes in A hahahahahah.
Tunes in A are not impossible in a D/G box. An excellent one to start with is 'Britches full of Stitches' I think its actually easier in A than in G, but you do have to get used to the pushes and pulls being in different places. I use it as a second tune when teaching beginners, then those people should never have to handicapped by "knowing" that they only have a D/G box so they can't play in A.
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Fee
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 18:41:57)
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Tunes in A are not impossible in a D/G box. An excellent one to start with is 'Britches full of Stitches' I think its actually easier in A than in G, but you do have to get used to the pushes and pulls being in different places. I use it as a second tune when teaching beginners, then those people should never have to handicapped by "knowing" that they only have a D/G box so they can't play in A.
Knowing it in G - constant billy is the culprit - and then trying to relearn it in another key is quite mind bending (especially in this heat...  and not achievable for me in under four days I have learned to cross the rows a fair bit now, which *should* make things easier. And I would get to use my shiny new G# buttons 
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(Date Posted:07/06/2007 18:50:29)
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Tunes in A are not impossible in a D/G box. An excellent one to start with is 'Britches full of Stitches' I think its actually easier in A than in G, but you do have to get used to the pushes and pulls being in different places. I use it as a second tune when teaching beginners, then those people should never have to handicapped by "knowing" that they only have a D/G box so they can't play in A.
Oh, I know they're theoretically possible, and indeed, I can play Cock O' The North in A at, oh, approximately 10% of session speed without the basses. I'll have a go at Britches full of Stitches.
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Lester Bailey
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(Date Posted:08/06/2007 16:16:39)
I think what you need is a Streb. Most keys you would ever need at your fingertips. 
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(Date Posted:08/06/2007 18:08:45)
Hope lots of you made it and had the most fabulous time.... I was just too bushed today after all to make it down (having just spent the whole week walking from London to Canterbury...as you do...) - muchly jealous and looking forward to your posted reports.
Ayla
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(Date Posted:08/06/2007 19:34:24)
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Hope lots of you made it and had the most fabulous time.... I was just too bushed today after all to make it down (having just spent the whole week walking from London to Canterbury...as you do...) - muchly jealous and looking forward to your posted reports.Ayla
It was jolly good fun -- good thing it was sunny though cos it would have been complete pants in the rain. Everything was played a bit fast for me. Chris Pitt was there too from Walthamstow. I also met fab concertina player Ralph Jordan who was touting his new band Housewives' Choice (coming soon to a festival near you apparently, provided you're in Sidmouth or Towersey) and a couple who I met at the Bellowhead launch gig at Bush Hall and who often also go to the Magpie's Nest. And of course I finally met Fee by the process of looking for the Saltarelle with scarves round the wriststrap. Most scary moments were when they gave the tune to the audience. I think we'd have been fine if all the audience instruments had been together, but we were actually in groups of three or four around the place. Some of us went for a drink after too which was jolly agreeable.
Bellowhead are back on tonight at 7:30 by the riverside, and then, hilariously, at 12:30 am! as part of the late night RFH lucky dip concert I think. So we have grabbed tickets and have concocted a wild plan to put the kids to bed after Doctor Who and then get them up in the middle of the night and drive into London. I think they may be playing tomorrow too.
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(Date Posted:09/06/2007 01:26:33)
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It was jolly good fun -- good thing it was sunny though cos it would have been complete pants in the rain. Everything was played a bit fast for me. Chris Pitt was there too from Walthamstow. I also met fab concertina player Ralph Jordan who was touting his new band Housewives' Choice (coming soon to a festival near you apparently, provided you're in Sidmouth or Towersey) and a couple who I met at the Bellowhead launch gig at Bush Hall and who often also go to the Magpie's Nest. And o
Sorry you didn't make it Ayla (I am over curious about this walking from Canterbury to London thing though...do tell!). Nice to meet you Alison, even briefly. And great to see Cathy again, this time with family. Shame I didn't see Ralph, who was a supporter of Chris and my's student folky radio show a couple of years back.
It was really hot! My friend Vikki was afeared of frying and of her fiddle going on strike. It was great fun, though again for me a lot of it was very fast, I fell back on the trick of playing every other note or so on the stuff I wasn't that familiar with. I managed a few of the ones I know well. I got to learn a bit of a new tune to me (Oystergirl) and failed completely to play Seven Stars *at all* and so annoyed myself greatly (it was one of the first difficult ones I ever learnt). Anyway, it was a HOOT, Jon B wandered over with his fiddle to where we were playing at the end, which was a nice end to the whole thing. I really enjoyed it, and am now avowed to go to more sessions generally.
The rest of the day (until Bellowhead came back at 7.30) we wandered about, down to the globe and Tate Modern etc. There was a huge balls up on the Riverside Terrace before the Bellowhead perfprmance. Everyone who had gathered for Bellowhead by about 6.30 had to move so the "flag waving" people could come and wave thier flags at us at 7.15 (I think they should have had morris dancers, they wuld have been more entertaining IMHO). The South bank had either managed stuff really badly or completely underestimated Bellowheads draw, there were a lot of very annoyed people who'd bagged spaces early and then had to move. But the band were great as ever (with a dep for Giles, Sam Sweeny, we were on the tube with his Mum and Dad later, they told us he learnt to play bagpipes in six weeks for this) and we all went away bouncing, as you do!
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(Date Posted:09/06/2007 01:56:34)
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Sorry you didn't make it Ayla (I am over curious about this walking from Canterbury to London thing though...do tell!). Nice to meet you Alison, even briefly. And great to see Cathy again, this time with family. Shame I didn't see Ralph, who was a supporter o
Thanks for the reports back Fee and Alison, sounds like it was fantastic and am suitably miffed - and yes I am astonished at how often I completely 'lose' a tune I think I know upside down standing on my head!
The Canterbury thing was a walk I did with some people in my walking group, starting from the George Inn (site of the old Tabard inn where the Canterbury Tales pilgrims started from) last Saturday and ending up in Canterbury Thurs evening - and telling stories on the way, great fun! But had to pack extremely light so barely room for any changes of underwear let alone the box - and have only just picked it up today for the first time in over a week (wasn't as bad as I thought it might be...)
Ayla
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(Date Posted:09/06/2007 04:38:34)
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The South bank had either managed stuff really badly or completely underestimated Bellowheads draw, there were a lot of very annoyed people who'd bagged spaces early and then had to move. But the band were great as ever (with a dep for Giles, Sam Sweeny, we were on the tube with his Mum and Dad later, they told us he learnt to play bagpipes in six weeks for this) and we all went away bouncing, as you do!
The end of my story... after going to the pub for a swift couple we went home, and I persuaded one of the friends who couldn't take my kids yesterday that she *could* take them today, properly pyjama'd up and provided with sleeping bags. So we watched Doctor Who (which was fabbo; that's three good ones in a row something is clearly Wrong) and then dropped the sleepy kids off with mate and *drove* into London where we parked for free right outside the RFH. Hall itself was set up for orchestra so we went off to get a drink figuring Bellowhead were on later, whereupon Steven made a 'Spot Hidden Melodeon Player Tuning Up in Bar' roll and sure enough, they were doing the sound check for the large open bar stage. It was set up with a few chairs (mostly behind pillars) and a big open space.
Bellowhead came on at 12:30 as promised to a crowd largely consisting of people who were enjoying the late bar and free music, not mostly Bellowhead fans as far as I could tell. Nevertheless, within about a minute everyone was moshing away merrily. There were lots of reels and chains going on so I chained my way to bang in the middle of the front row and then stopped. The audience seemed to love it all. They didn't really understand Death & the Lady and after that the band stuck to the livelier end of their set.
Anyway. Front row view, free show, free parking, free babysitting. I could get used to this gigs in the middle of the night thing. Have to sleep now cos we have to get the kids at *eek* 8:30am...
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(Date Posted:09/06/2007 05:04:16)
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Thanks for the reports back Fee and Alison, sounds like it was fantastic and am suitably miffed - and yes I am astonished at how often I completely 'lose' a tune I think I know upside down standing on my head!The Canterbury thing was a walk I did with some people in my walking group, starting from the George Inn (site of the old Tabard inn where the Canterbury Tales pilgrims started from) last Saturday and ending up in Canterbury Thurs evening - and telling stories on the way, grea
That does sound like a very fun way to spend a week! You do know that there's a fabulous session at the George on the first Monday of the month, right?
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(Date Posted:09/06/2007 11:44:22)
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That does sound like a very fun way to spend a week! You do know that there's a fabulous session at the George on the first Monday of the month, right?
Indeed I do, and can often be found there.. in fact missed last Monday's because I was obviously en route to Canterbury but looks like it was a good 'un judging by this and other clips on youtube: French session at the George
- Alan Lamb, melodeon and viol player extraordinaire, featured in this clip, sometimes makes an appearance and always livens things up, plus seemed to be some new young faces also.
A
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(Date Posted:09/06/2007 15:23:59)
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Sorry you didn't make it Ayla (I am over curious about this walking from Canterbury to London thing though...do tell!). Nice to meet you Alison, even briefly. And great to see Cathy again, this time with family. Shame I didn't see Ralph, who was a supporter o
Yes, a brilliant day! J& J did a great set in the morning too, starting with my top faves Oswestry Wakes/Morgan Rattler...... It was great to meet up with you Fi and ( all too briefly)Alison and to meet Nick and Vikki. Missed you Louise and Ayla. I thought the selection of tunes was brilliant ( Iwas still keen to avoid the ones in A though I can see that they work well once you get your head round it...! Being a north-west dancer ( yes.......!) I was well away with Oyster Girl and New Rigged Ship etc and exciting to ( try to) play them FAST! Kinda scary playing in quite a conspicuous way in the audience participation bit and I was very glad to be standing near you both Fi and Vikki. When I think that only two and a bit years ago I was too timid to let anyone hear me play in the privacy of my own home, never mind venturing out in public! Well that was before I went to my first workshop with John S, bought 'Bellow' and the world changed.....!
It was lovely too for Jan to get to play near the horn section, so often he's in a minority of one! Sorry we couldn't stay for Bellowhead in the evening, chaos and all. We too went to the Globe and Tate Modern but by that time Izzy was all done in and in anycase, engineering work on the all too unreliable Liverpool St to Norwich line meant we couldn't have got back before the wee small hours. Do any of you have any pics/film?
Izzy did her best with photos during the session but I think somehow we had it on the wrong setting.....
Thanks to all for making it so lovely....lets hope there will be a next time..
Cathy
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