Sale Folk Club

Newsletter No 18 - 24 February 2009

After being warned that the cheers of the football crowd may disturb, Pepper Street presided over a triumphant evening with not a whimper coming from the United supporters next door. Setting the tone, Don & Heather took us Down Where The Drunkards Roll with one of Richard's new songs, Who's The Fool Now, carrying on the theme. Later on Old Brown's Daughter was chosen from his rapidly extending repertoire. It was nice to see Kath & Stan back and in even better form with favourite Ring Ring The Banjo followed by New York Girls and Sleepy Desert. Similarly, Jan & Mark were early birds and reminding us that St David's Day is on Sunday 1 March she sang a couple of Welsh songs, The Ash Grove (translation) and Goch! Goch! Goch! and Mark celebrated Dai The Motorbike Man before they teamed for a Jug Of Punch. Robin then gave us an elocution lesson explaining about his clipped vowels, nothing to do with his masculinity, before singing Delta Dawn (not Don) then a cheeky Lay You Down, as in I would like to, and as the evening was coming to a close, Where Peaceful Waters Flow.

Ed was also an early starter with a serious Welcome Paddy Home but as usual with him humour is always close at hand and there was plenty of craic going on. In full headgear Sue joined him in a comical look at Morris Dancers and then on the bohdran in That Bloody Song Again, a parody of Fields of Athenry. Derrick then got the sniff and gave us the brilliant Les Barker, Harold The Ventriloquist (On His Hawk With His Hand Up His Horse) followed by an expose on the vagaries of computer language. Then newcomer Wendy, after claiming she wasn't ready and would maybe perform in a few weeks, couldn't contain herself any longer with A Letter From God. We look forward to her next visit with friends of course. Accordion John joined the fray with Tit Willow and Under The Bridges of Bury which he claimed was written many years ago by his dad and stolen by some French girls and converted into, you guessed it, Bridges of Paris. We believed him?!? Sandra & Phil then chipped in with Ulysses a Jake Thackray special and obviously challenged and pushing the boulder away from the door, Eric stirred himself into action and absolutely blew us away with Grandes Jacques (Less Too Easy), The Ramparts of Dundee, about a lady putting herself about a bit, and Thin Man Blues of which the highlight was the expression on people's faces when he demonstrated the point by taking his shirt off. Come on girls top that!!

Back on the straight and narrow, Carl a