Lurgi?

A great night at The Blackheath Folk Club last night. I have now finished jury service and am back at work again. I don't think I will be at folkmob tonight I feel a bit sick, hope it's not the dreaded lurgi flu. Oh I nearly forgot, I went to Colin's session at the Pelton Arms on Sunday and that was great too! Here are some pictures:

Jury causes lack of interest in folk

Well I've been on jury service again this week, so haven't had much time to put anything on here. Both Blackheath Folk and Folkmob were sparsely populated this week. I'm off to The Star & Garter tonight, so lets hope that this fares a bit better.

Star & Garter

I went to the new session at The Star & Garter on Friday with Pete and Graham. It is run by Steve Bowditch and Fred Dylan. Fred was away on holiday in Crete, so we missed his "Sounds like Bob" show. The host Steve Bowditch was excellent with his unique brand of comedy and song with guitar accompaniment. His current theme is "I'm A Pirate" and it had the audience in stiches! Especialy his take on Village People's "In The Navy" I didn't get the name of Steve's mate, who was co-hosting the evening but he was really funny as well, joining in on percussion and backing vocals with Steve and some of the other acts. There were a couple of old faces performing, Tony & Keith also a couple of bands "Warpigs" and a tro who's name I didn't get (Little something people) who's singer sounded just like Sandy Denny.

British Oak

It was a good night at The Blackheath Folk club last night. We had our youngest performer Daniel Goodwin aged 10 who played Ukelele and piano for us.

Moldy Moldy Men

We went to The Royal Standard last night. Funny all the years I've lived in and around the Blackheath area I'd never been in this pub before. Anyway they are going to try live music for a few weeks on saturday nights, so we thought we'd give it a whirl. The duo playing were The Moldy Moldy Men. They comprise of Jonathan Glew and Niall Costigan who are both regular performers at Blackheath Folk club. They did a two hour set of a mixture of covers and original material. Very good stuff and I recommend that you see them.

Swimming in a putrid pool

I had a good birthday on Wednrsday, my head was still spinning the next day, but I managed to get to work OK. Bruise were very good at Folkmob and the beer was certainly flowing. As part of my new "get fit" regime I went swimming in the new Eltham Centre this morning. The water smelt bad of putrid human sweat. I noticed that the water was not chlorinated, so it must be a hotbed of bacteria and all sorts of infectious stuff.A load of schoolkids had just left the pool, so they had probably pissed in it as well, dirty little bastards. I didn't stay in there very long as the stench was overbearing. I think I will have to give up alcohol for a few weeks, I am getting to like it too much! I'm off work for a few weeks with jury service starting on 20th July. Not looking forward to commuting daily to Tthe Elephant & Castle.

British Oak

Went to the British Oak last night for the folk night. There was some big threatening looking git standing at the bar shouting "go on the Irish!!" "Oi diddly diddly" "Go on you catholics" and shit like that, during performances throughout the session. The thick bastard didn't understand that folk music can be played and sung by any nationality, in fact apart from myself I don't think there were any Irish in the pub and there certainly were not any Irish songs or tunes performed. It's brainless scum like that that can ruin the night. Other than that it was another good night with some outstanding players and singers.:

Nuclear bastards

Although it is good news that the russians and americans are talking again about arms reduction and cutting back their nuclear stockpiles. I don't really think it will make the world any safer, because it all means nothing when there are still loads of hateful, evil bastards such as Korea, Pakistan and Israel armed to their rotten teeth with nuclear weapons and threatening the very stability of our planet. Let's hope that when the LHC finally gets up and working, the magical secrets that it reveals are never shared with the likes of these filthy warmongering scum. These sacred secrets should be kept in the hands of reason and used to ensure world peace and the exploration and eventual colonisation of deep space... Amen

Where did the time go?

This is my last night shift. When I finish in the morning I will be off work for the rest of the week and then all next week. Then from 20th July I will be on jury service so, with a bit of luck I won't be back at work until August. Looking forward to Wednesday, when I shall be looking backwards at my life so far! It will be my birthda, 54 years old, thats an old man! And here's me I still haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up. As Sandy Denny once said "who knows, where the time goes" I certainly don't. Anyway the great duo Bruise will be at Folkmob and I will buy my friends a beer or six.

Wanna kill some peasants? Here have some dosh!

I've just read this on the BBC news site:

"The UK is to spend £1bn a year in overseas aid on countries that have recently emerged from conflict"

The UK is a Trillion pounds in the red and one of the poorest countries in the developed world. Who the fuck decides to give away money that we haven't got to countries that will spend it on murdering their own citizens?

Blues Abused!

Went to the British Oak last night to see The Steve Morrison & Mark Walker incarnation of Blues Abuse. Although we missed Al Richardson's harp playing, it did mean that Steve could treat us to more guitar solos than is normal when Al is blowing full steam. Mark's drumming and occasional backing vocals added a new dimension to Steve's sound. There were also some new (for me)songs, as well as different versions (harp free)of old stuff. Good to see lots of my friends from the folkmob at the gig, This is a great pub and worth a visit if you haven't been yet!

Clattershack

I went to The Crown in Chislehurst last night with my mate Pete. This is home to a monthy session run by old friends Missiuri Gutts. Here are a few snaps: