Friday Night Review

Hiya gang, well what a shame the weather was so horrendous on Friday, I hope everyone managed to survive unscathed. It  was a big shame but thanks to those who did brave the rain, I've pointed out recently we've had some amazingly talented people coming to the club, last week was no exception, we had the superb Stuart Warburton. Stuart is a local singer songwriter from Bury and has been around the world playing his music, he only played a few of his songs, but he truly was excellent and I hope we can have him at the club in the future on a guest night, watch this space so you don't miss him.!! A big thank you too to Ian Sproson, Steve Woolley and Stuart Thompson for providing a much needed distraction from dreary weather, I hope Steve and Stuart had a good time at the Droylsdem Folk Weekend also thank you to Kevin for helping with the practical side of the club, it really is appreciated.  Next club night is 6th July and is a guest night, our guest is the fabulous Mike Bowden it'll always an entertaining night with Mike, looking forward to having him back to his roots!! Hope to see you all then luv Lxx
PS If anyone knows of anyone local to Blackley Manchester who can  help download a recording from a Nokia X6 to a DVD please can you contact me many thanks Lxx

Club Update

Hiya gang, hope everyone is ok, just a short note to let you know this Friday 22nd June is a club night, this week is a singers and musicians night and poets of course. Over the last few months we've had some really excellent talent come to the club but usually on guest nights, so there's not enough time to listen to them properly, singers nights are there for anyone to come along  try new songs or just join in with others or just simply enjoy the company. The next guest night is 6th July our guest then is Mike Bowden, hopefully we'll see you on Friday luv Lxx

Friday Night Review

Hiya gang, firstly my apologies for review being late, secondly, a short update on Ian 'Sproggy' Sproson, Ian's away on holiday in Russia!! yeah I was surprised too, but he ended up singing with Morris troupe & playing their big base drum?? I'm sure we'll get the full story when he's home. On Friday I was surprised that there wasn't more people to see Claire, although on a positive side those who had battled the bad weather were a really good bunch, also such an array of excellent talent. The night began with our 'temporary resident singer' the wonderful, Keep The Change Bob, who very kindly stood in for Sproggy and got the evening off to a good start. I've always tried to encourage diversity at the club, so I was really pleased when Alex Keelan, new to the club and a friend of Claire's got up and read poetry she had written, which was really good, followed by her sister Fran, who played and sang one of her own songs, excellent talent obviously runs in the family. Claire had asked that I let people perform in the first half of the evening then she would do complete second half, an odd way of doing things  I know, but it did work out well.  Michael Burns previously from Northumbria sang a couple of traditional style songs, then David Gordon and finally Steve Whoolley, time for a break me thinks!!

Claire opened the second part of the night with well known songs including Ordinary Rebel, The Fleece song, Enough is Enough and more. For Claire's final song at the end of the night, Claire gave out 'shaking ffruits' as percussion instruments and Dick 'Weymouth' one of our regular members now, was talked into  playing a slide whistle next to her and other audience member joined in from their seated places Michael Burns played Mandolin, Keep The Change Bob on guitar, and Di Williams on the tin whistle then all joined in for a big finish. I hope I can try to put a recording of that on the blogpage. What a finish!! hope to see you all next time, luv Lxx 

Club Update

Hiya gang, hope everyone is well, just a short note to tell you tomorrow night, 8th June is a guest night. Our guest this week is renowned singer songwriter Claire Mooney, Claire has been a supporter of the club since we reopened,  but this is the first time we have had a guest night solely for her. Claire is well known for her superb ability to write songs from protest songs to love songs and thought provoking lyrics, as well as being an excellent singer and musician, Claire also runs creative workshops and really is multi talented !! I think you'll be in for a treat if you haven't seen Claire before and if you have you'll know. If you click on the Guest Video Link you can see a preview of two of Claire's songs. well worth seeing I suggest you get there early to make sure you get a seat club tarts at 8.30pm look forward to seeing you there luv Lxx

Friday Night Review

Hiya gang, I was sorry to hear a few of our regular members were unable to make it on Friday due to other plans that were unavoidable, we did miss you and hope to see you back next time. The night started off quite slow really, the weather didn't help either, so we were using brute force to open windows lol, we even managed to open the door to the veranda, which hasn't been opened to my knowledge for the last year or so!! With the room a bit cooler Ian Sproson got us off to a good start, we were also lucky to have two new artists to the club. Chris Rogan joined us and sang a beautiful song 'Set My Dreams Free' which he had written, plus others, a really talented singer songwriter, but I'm sure he has already been told that many times before. Steve Woolly came with one of my favourite musicians, the lovely Stuart Thompson and in no time they were all joining in with each other,  playing well known songs turning it into more of  a jamming session!  Another friend of Steve's Dave Hammond, came in late on in the evening and although he said he was a bit rusty he played and sang really well, plus as he didn't know the club was there, I'm sure he will be back again. Everyone seemed to be having such a good time, it was hard to get them to finish  We have had a good friend of  Mike Bowden's,  Dick (not Richard)  or 'Weymouth'  who has started coming to the club more regularly, and has restarted an old harmonious refrain we had many moons ago at the Cleveland at the end of the night, 'pass your glasses to the bar''!!  or 'Me Dad's Drunk Again'  which was always requested from Ian Sproson !! where did I leave my Tardis?? lol.  The next club night is June 8th with the brilliant Claire Mooney, not to be missed.  Until then enjoy the sunny weather luv Lxx  

Club update

Hiya gang, just a short note to tell you it's a club night tomorrow 25th May. It's a singers and musicians night so anyone is welcome, including poets, we have had a few new faces recently so why not come and join in. Our next guest night is 8th June, we have the brilliant Claire Mooney, if you click on 'Guest Video Link' feature on this page you can listen to two from Claire's numerous repertoire . Hope to see you tomorrow luv Lxx

New Feature

Hiya gang, I would like to explain a new feature I have added to the blog page which is under the heading of Guest Video Link. This new feature will allow previous guest or future guests to have a link of a recording for viewers to watch via the blog page. The name of the song will appear next to guests name just click on the artist/song.. For previous guest that would like to use this feature,  please send  a link and details to my email address. I hope you enjoy using this feature
The first to use this feature is Garron Frith,  the recording is from his new album and he will be a guest at the club on 31st August. luv Lxx