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Week #20 A 'House' Song

2011-07-18T07:12:00.001-07:00

Week #20 of the Songwriters Circle Challenge suggests that you can write a House Song.

This can be a song from the 1990's "House Music" genre, or a song about a house.

House Music has a specific style of rythm which I find hard to describe in words. It's basically four four with the accent on every beat, ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR-and-ONE-TWO....

Songs about houses are a somewhat UK centric phenomena, but I'm sure there are examples worldwide to prove me wrong as well.

From my own terrible memory alone, I can point to

"Our House" Madness
"Neighbourhood" - Space
"House on The Hill" - Kevin Koyne
"Country House" - Blur
"Bungalow Bill" - Lennon/McCartney
and of course... "House of The Rising Sun" - Animals/Trad

Looking forward to hearing your House songs!

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Podcast 38 Clean Living Blues

2011-03-24T09:19:00.001-07:00

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #38 comes out a day late, sorry about that. Here’s the download and play link etc:

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Andy Roberts Podcast #38 Shownotes

Show Notes for Podcast 38

The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts

Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts

Winter in Andalusia – Andy Roberts (abridged version)

Now that I’m Living Here – Andy Roberts

Cajun Cooking Song – Andy Roberts

Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan Song

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Podcast #37 – Soundcloud

2011-03-16T09:12:00.001-07:00

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #37 was put together from tracks which are hosted on my Andy Roberts Soundcloud account, and one extra song ( Work is Done) recorded live for you on Wednesday morning. The live show had to be canceled this week due to an unfortunate throat incident on the Tuesday evening.

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Andy Roberts Podcast #37 Shownotes

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Show Notes for Podcast 37

Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts

Hold On Below - Andy Roberts as featured on The Lost Folk Tapes

Work is Done – Andy Roberts

Never was to be – Daryl P Hall Andy Roberts

Highway Blues – Roy Harper

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Podcast #36 Instrumentals and Songs

2011-03-09T09:23:00.001-08:00

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #36 contains fragments of tunes, instrumentals and a few complete songs as well. I was going to do the new 12 bar blues completed for the Songwriters Circle weekly task but it’s so new I forgot the rhythm!

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Andy Roberts Podcast #36 Shownotes

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Show Notes for Podcast 36

Yellow is the Colour – Donovan arranged Andy Roberts

Winter in Andalusia – Andy Roberts

Narrowboats – Instrumental by Andy Roberts

The Biggleswade Stomp – Instrumental by Andy Roberts

Joan of Arc – Andy Roberts

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Podcast #35 – Lizzy B’s Session and The Streets of Paris

2011-03-03T02:13:00.001-08:00

The Live Session from Lizzy B’s acoustic night at the Essex Arms Brentwood takes up most of podcast #35 with one new song written for the Songwriters Circle challenge appended. There wasn’t a live podcast on livestream this week, so it was handy that I had these tracks almost ready to go.

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Andy Roberts Podcast #35 Shownotes

The first 4 songs were recorded at Lizzy B’s Acoustic Sessions in Brentwood, Essex

I also mentioned the Andy Roberts interview for The Lost Folk Tapes

The last song, was a contribution to the Songwriters Circle WK 2 Challenge

Mazet – Andy Roberts

Migration – Andy Roberts

The Last Subway Home – Andy Roberts

Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart

The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts

The Streets of Paris

The Streets of Paris by andyroberts

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Podcast Episode 31 Re-recorded

2011-02-02T07:50:00.001-08:00

Here’s another version of podcast episode 31 re-recorded on Wednesday morning with most of of the same songs roughly, as the one which went out live on Tuesday evening. So if you were there, online watching the show and chatting with Linda in one of the realtime boxes then you should notice this isn’t exactly the same performance. The instrumental guitar pieces for example, as improvisations will be will be very different. I’m sure one or two sings are missing too, and one or two added. That’s all part of the process. And the new strings will be over twelve hours old now as well, instead of being only 12 minutes since restringing. I had even thought of doing the restring live on the podcast itself, as a piece of performance a-r-t but Linda said it wouldn’t make a very good audio podcast and I came around to that point of view eventually.

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Podcast Episode 31 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcast Episode 31:

Episode 31 broadcast on February 1st, published on February 2nd 2011.

1) Mozambique

Words and Music by Bob Dylan

2) Shifting Sands

Words and Music by Andy Roberts

2) Reason To Believe

Words and Music by Tim Hardin

2)Last Subway Home

Words and Music by Andy Roberts

2)The Wreckers Prayer

Words and Music by Andy Roberts

2)Nobody Knows You ( When you’re down and out)

Words and Music by Jimmy Cox

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Yellow Boat, Yellow Taxi

2011-01-16T12:34:00.000-08:00

Another week at Havering Folk Club, my last before the refurbishment at The Golden Lion. Will it be the same when we come back in February?

I played Yellow Boat (My own song) and Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

After the break there was time for one more and I sang Loudon Wainwright's "I Am The Way"

Back in The Field The Dream is Over

2011-01-16T12:27:00.000-08:00

Back at Havering Folk Club after a break in Spain for the holidays I played two of my own songs:

The Dream is Over

and

Back In The Field

John Lennon Day at Havering Folk Club

2011-01-16T12:17:00.000-08:00

John Lennon Day at Havering Folk Club

Loudon Wainwright’s “Not John” followed by “Working Class Hero” written by John Lennon performed at Havering Folk Club on December 8th 2010 by Andy Roberts.

Later there was time for one more and I played "Bird On A Wire" by Leonard Cohen.

Episode 28 – From Andy Roberts Music on YouTube Most Viewed

2011-01-12T16:36:00.001-08:00

For this week’s podcast because there couldn’t be a live show, so I’ve done something a bit different. Instead of recording the show and then maybe ending up with some songs for youTube, I’m making the podcast out of videos that I have already on there. It’s the best of my youTube channel from 2010, my pick of five from the most popular songs on there, strung together with a little bit of introduction.

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Episode 28 Shownotes

One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views)

Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute

Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again

The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club

I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song

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Beatles - A Day In The Life - Bungalow Bill at HFC

2010-12-09T11:43:00.000-08:00

Last time I made it to Havering Folk Club I played two Beatles songs, "A Day In The Life" and "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"

A Day In The Life - Beatles

Bungalow Bill - Beatles

Then there was time for one more after the break so I sang one of my own songs, The Wreckers Prayer.

The Wreckers Prayer

Camborne Hill : Ca Sert A Quoi?

2010-11-24T01:03:00.000-08:00

Wednesday 17th November, an ordinary singers' night at Havering folk club but they did have some special Cornish beer on tap which meant I had to sing in French. So here's "Ca Sert A Quoi?" written by Maxime le Forestier:

It was late in the evening, almost the end in fact, and then my guitar strap broke. So I put it away and sang unaccompannied or acapella as it's sometimes known. "Going up Camborne Hill Coming Down" is a good old Cornish sing song staple, more often heard in rugby clubs, late night drinking sessions or ex-pat reunions than at folk clubs but it does have a serious side, commemorating the historic first ever steam engine ride on Christmas Eve 1801 by Richard Trevithick, the Cornish engineer. I don;t get all the words exactly right, but the beauty of this is how quickly people who've never heard the song before can pick it up and join in.

Crownstreet at HFC & How Does it Feel

2010-11-11T05:13:00.000-08:00

I didn't make it to Havering Folk Club last night, we sneezed a lot and didn't feel up to it, but the week before ( Wednesday 3rd November) was a good one with Crown Street as the guests. I'd link to their own site if I could find it. Have you ever heard a folk saxaphone section? Lots of other instrumentalists as well, and a fine old Martin guitar.

I wanted to play my newly learned version of Roy Harper's "How Does it Feel" so my guitar was open tuned down to C, and it's a long enough song anyway to just do the one.

* Found Crownstreet now.

Acoustic Guitar Podcasts: Episode #19

2010-11-10T05:40:00.001-08:00

Episode #19 in Andy Roberts series of acoustic guitar podcasts was recorded on Tuesday 9th November 2011 and published today on the 10th.

Inspired by friends’ lists of 15 songwriters tagged and copied in Facebook, I played songs by Neil Diamond, Steve Tilston, Andy Roberts, Loudon Wainwright and a bonus track Roy Harper song at the start of which there’s an unfortunate inbound telephone ringtone but I didn’t let that faze me at all, oh no. If you do happen to be listening on an iphone or in a house then the effect could be unpredictable.

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 19 Show Notes

“I’m a Believer” – by Neil Diamond

“One Man Band” – Music and lyrics by Steve Tilston

“The Rowan Tree” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts

“Samson and the Warden” – Music and lyrics by Loudon Wainwright

“Migration” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts

“I’ll See You Again” – Music and lyrics by Roy Harper

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How Does It Feel? Podcasting

2010-11-05T15:31:00.001-07:00

I announced a new series of podcasts back in the summer and I've published 18 episodes so far. The original idea was just to provide another distribution method for the live house concert that I broadcast weekly for the past year or so. So it's just me and my guitar, not much chat or conversation, and I try to feature my own compositions as a matter of course, with the covers creeping in as and when I feel like it.

But this week I actually went and learned a Roy Harper song that is new to my repertoire - the classic "How does it Feel?" And then I went and performed it live at the Havering Folk Club at somebody else's guest night, with some good reactions, but not necessarily from the usual suspects.

So I thought I'd do a post here on Stormcock.net, an exercise in listing each of the individual podcasts where I've included a Roy Harper cover.

The Andy Roberts Podcast is hosted at http://andyroberts.me and can also be accessed from iTtunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885

So starting with the last first,

Episode 18 Track 4 - How Does it Feel? download

Episode 15 Track 1 - Don't You Grieve download

Episode 12 Track 1 - IF & Track 4 - The Same Old Rock download

Episode 3 Track 7 - When An Old Cricketer download

Episode 1 Track 3 - I'll See You Again download

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Andy Roberts Podcast #18

2010-11-03T10:14:00.001-07:00

On this week’s podcast which is episode number 18 we have mostly Any Roberts own compositions and one classic Roy Harper song which hasn’t been covered here before at all, or by Andy Roberts ever, in fact.

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 18 Show Notes

“The Nutmeg Tree” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts, from Album 1

“The Show Carries On” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts, from The Andy Roberts Tapes

“Joan of Arc” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts from The Andy Roberts Tapes

“How Does it Feel” – Music and lyrics by Roy Harper

“Change Is” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts from The Last Nail

Some youTube Videos of the same songs

The Nutmeg Tree

The Show Carries On

Joan of Arc

How Does it Feel

Change Is

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Live at Havering Folk Club

2010-10-03T05:33:00.001-07:00

Mostly I’ve been documenting which songs I’ve played at Havering Folk Club on which dates over on the Andy Roberts Music blog on blogspot but I decided a short while ago that I’d start putting those posts here instead, I just haven’t stuck to it very well! The idea was that by tagging posts with song titles, I’d be able to look up very easily and keep track of which songs I’m playing mor often than others, and help me seek out those elusive numbers that I’ve forgotten about for long enough that they suddenly seem fresh and new all over again. But the tagging system never works out quite as tidily as you might imagine, and the dates become a bit blurry as the habit of reporting promptly wears off.
So one date that was remarkable was the date when the Australian duo Cloudstreet came to the Golden Lion to do a long awaited guest spot for Havering Folk Club. Wednesday 15th September. They didn’t disappoint, it was one of the most enjoyable evenings we’ve had there over the years, and I even managed to track down their own blog afterwards so I can keep up with where they are touring, ready for next time they are in the local area.
cloudstreet
As one of only a small number of floor spot artists I had the chance to play two songs, and these were:
Joan of Arc
Sometimes this happens, and my voice hadn’t warmed up in time for the first song, so I’ve trashed the video and instead here is the song as performed for podcast episode 10. I think I’ll leave this one for a while now.
Followed by The Cajun Cooking Cajun Music song.
There’s a nice bright image on that video, thanks to Linda innovating with the video settings on her relatively new stills camera.

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Podcast #13 : 3 Andy Roberts Songs

2010-09-30T13:23:00.001-07:00

Episode #13 brings three Andy Roberts compositions, two of which are longer than average songs. The first is the almost completed song which has undergone some serious birthing difficulties, but I hope you will think it’s been worth it eventually… “Change Is” began life as two separate songs appearing ten weeks ago in Podcast #3 provisionally entitled “Trevellas” and “Summerhouse”. So that’s just one track now, coming in at still only about seven minutes long, which is a lot shorter than fourteen verses of The Lincolnshire Poacher. A fair comparison, I’m sure you would agree.

The second song is a rare live rendition of “Gernika” which I’ve written about elsewhere, and is the title track to my album of songs all written during one week in Spain.

Then I attempt to lighten up with a little ditty from 2009, Yellow Boat.

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 13 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 13 broadcast on September 28th, published on September 30th 2010.

1) Change Is

Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the album “The Last Nail”

2) Gernika

Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the album “Gernika”

2) Yellow Boat

Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the album “The Last Nail”

The Tree of Gernika in 2003

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Apple releases new product without a keynote

2010-09-24T09:23:00.001-07:00

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BBC Four launches month-long celebration of the singer-songwriter

2010-09-17T00:25:00.001-07:00

Something worth watching on the TV at last.

BBC Four today announces an exciting month-long celebration of the singer-songwriter, led by a new series of specially commissioned concerts titled Songwriters’ Circle.
The celebration, which starts on Friday 1 October, presents an insightful and varied array of programming and features some of the world’s best pop and rock singer-songwriters, including Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Chris Difford, Elton John and Cat Stevens amongst many others.
The channel celebration also includes, Singer-Songwriters At The BBC, alongside classic BBC In Concert shows and recent concert acquisitions such as James Taylor & Carole King at The Troubadour.
Richard Klein, Controller, BBC Four, says: "BBC Four is the home of contemporary music and to have some of the best singer-songwriters playing for us in specially created concerts is a real delight"
In the new series, Songwriters’ Circle, the singer-songwriters perform their classic songs in turn, while helping each other out musically with harmonies and the odd guitar part. The four shows are filmed live in a small London concert venue, with the artists only meeting an hour or two before going onstage. In between performances, the artists take the viewer inside their work, chatting about their songs, their history and background.
Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega and Loudon Wainwright kick off the series, swapping songs at West London’s Bush Hall, including signature tunes like Thompson’s "Vincent Black Lightning", Vega’s "Luka" and Wainwright’s "The Swimming Song".
Thompson helps out with acoustic guitar fills throughout and Wainwright and Vega duet on a ’countrified’ song on the impact of the recession on failing marriages and couples who can’t afford to divorce, in "House".

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Loudon Wainwright and Richard Thompson together in concert.

UK Podcasts - Andy Roberts

2010-08-26T01:20:00.000-07:00

This is just a listing post for the entry of Andy Roberts Podcast at the UK podcasts directory:

UK Podcasts - Andy Roberts

New Videos from Andy Roberts music 21 August 2010

2010-08-21T00:29:00.000-07:00

New Videos from Andy Roberts music 21 August 2010

Posting a selection of new videos that have been published on the youTube channel in the last week or so. two of them are from Havering Folk Club taken with the canon camera and the others are edited out from the Ustream recording which is taken directly from the built in webcam.

* The Last Nail - Andy Roberts boat building folk song
* Wrecked Again - Michael Chapman cover Andy Roberts hfc
* You Can't Say "NO" to that Woman
* Deep River Blues + Nobody Know You When You're Down And Out
* You Can Count On Me | Andy Roberts
* Doing it all alone
* Hesitation Blues - Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 6

Three of the songs are Andy Roberts original songs and the rest are covers or traditional

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Beginning August Havering and Romford Folk Club

2010-08-08T08:56:00.000-07:00

Let's see now where are we.... The last entry here was for HFC on 21st July and since then I've done two podcasts, episode 4 the Loudon Wainwright Special and episode 5 on Folk Music, missed a week at Havering when I was still in central London due to a trackside fire at Romford, and last week made a first appearance at Romford Folk Club on the Tuesday, right after the podcast, which is not to be confused with Havering folk club which is also in Romford.

Both folk club events were member's special nights which I didn't want to miss.

Romford Folk Club

Clive and Linda aka Ploughman's Lunch guested at Romford Folk Club which is held every Tuesday downstairs at the Sun pub, not all that far from the Golden Lion really.

THE SUN
Address: 47 London Road
Romford Essex
RM7 9QA

Since Clive and Linda sing mostly traditional agricultural folk songs I played one of my own that's kind of in that style, The Rowan Tree

So it was the first time I'd ever been to that venue, due to Tuesday's not being a good night fr us usually, but it was interesting that we managed to get there after the podcast show finished at home around 7.30 and arrive in Romford and find the place still in plenty of time before the evening kicked off.

Havering Folk Club

Wednesday 3rd of August was a special members night for Phil Duffield which gave him a chance to show a wider repertoire than we normally hear from him. There was a new song Phil has written as a proposed new national anthem for Wales, which is a fine ambition to have, and the song certainly has a lot of potential become something like that with the right sort of take up.

I played a song of my own which Phil has asked me to make sure I do a bit more often so this was the perfect opportunity, the song is called "The Dream is Over" and here's the video taken with Linda's new camera:

Havering Folk Club July 21st 2010

2010-07-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

Havering Folk Club July 21st 2010

I went along to Havering Folk Club last Wednesday after a week away on holiday and tried to do a vesrion of one of the new songs I haven't finished yet. I know It didn't work out very well, partly because I don't have the lyrics memorised yet and I tried reading from a crib sheet on the music stand, which has never worked out for me in past and probably never will. I can sing and play at the same time, sometimes I can sing, play and read at the same time, but not it seems in front of an audience, standing up and without reading glasses. So I've uploaded the podcast versions of the unfinished songs to youTube instead. The one called "Untitled 1" in the episode 3 shownotes is provisionally called "Trevellas" now, and unfinished 2 is called "Summerhouse" but I also have a plan for combining the two songs into one single work that would be longer and more complex. We'll have to see.

Sitting On The Bank

To recompose my composure, finding myself with a capo on fret 4 I decided on the spur of the moment to sing "Sitting on the Bank" which is a simple song I wrote when I was about 15 or 16 and thinking about leaving home soon. While uploading I noticed that the melody is developing slightly even now, I'm not sure it's correct to call it a revival though, as it's never really been out of the repertoire.

The Mighty Quinn

After the break and with the list of floor singers completed there was a little time left and Pep kindly asked me to do another, so after 3 pints I decided to do a singalong that everybody knows though it turned out not everybody at Havering Folk Club knows that the Mighty Quinn was a Bob Dylan song. The Manfred Mann cover version was better known in the UK in 1960s and afterwards.

Quake and Tremble

2010-07-08T00:29:00.000-07:00

It was Dave and Linda Worley's members' night at Havering Folk Club last night, Wednesday 7th July and despite the football on TV, a good crowd turned out.

I took along my six string guitar and played a couple of songs to start off the second half, after the break. Linda's camera battery failed again so I don't have any fresh video capture of that particular performance but I can post alternative versions from my ever growing collection on youTube in order to maintain the record of which songs were performed when.

Yellow Boat

If I had a Yellow Boat I'd sail it to St Martin's
Moor it off the white sand bay
Bobbing in the turquoise sea

Wonderwall

Wonderwall is a very famous song from Mancheser band Oasis, in the 1990s

Two Roy Harper Covers

2010-07-06T05:40:00.000-07:00

I seem to have had a bit of a Roy Harper fest recently and did two of his songs last week:

Highway Blues - by Roy Harper

Evening Star - Roy Harper

It was a quietish week and I had time for one of my own as well:

Swimming Pool ( or "Searching for Venus")

Big Eyed Beans From Venus - Captain Beefheart

2010-07-01T14:27:00.000-07:00

Distant cousins, there's a limited supply.
And we're down to the dozens, and this is why:
Big Eyed Beans from Venus! Oh my, oh my.
Boys and girls,
Earth people around the circle,
Mixtures of man alive.
Big eyed beans from Venus,
Don't let anything get in between us.
Beam in on me baby,
and we'll beam together
I know we always been together,
but there's more.
Mister Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note,
and let it float.
Men let your wallets flop out,
and women open your purses,
Cause a man or a woman without a big eyed bean from Venus
Is suffering with the worstest of curses
Yeah, you're suffering, with the worstest of curses.
Put 'em out in the sun, and when the night come
You don't have to go out and get 'em
They'll glow with you
They'll go with you
They'll show with you
Ain't no losers
Cause they're on the right track
Cause they're on the right track
You can be on the right track, woman,
Of course, of course
Ain't no SNAFU, no fol-de-rol
Check these out, Big eyed beans from Venus
Oh, let a few out, let 'em pass in between us
Distant cousins, there's a limited supply.
And we're down to the dozens, and this is why...
Don't let anything get in between us!
Big eyed beans from Venus
Big eyed beans from Venus.

Isis - Bob Dylan Desire Album with Jaques Levy

2010-07-01T14:26:00.001-07:00

I married Isis on the fifth day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

I came to a high place of darkness and light
The dividing line ran through the center of town
I hitched up my pony to a post on the right
Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down

A man in the corner approached me for a match
I knew right away he was not ordinary
He said, “Are you lookin’ for somethin’ easy to catch?”
I said, “I got no money.” He said, “That ain’t necessary”

We set out that night for the cold in the North
I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word
I said, “Where are we goin’?” He said we’d be back by the fourth
I said, “That’s the best news that I’ve ever heard”

I was thinkin’ about turquoise, I was thinkin’ about gold
I was thinkin’ about diamonds and the world’s biggest necklace
As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold
I was thinkin’ about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless

How she told me that one day we would meet up again
And things would be different the next time we wed
If I only could hang on and just be her friend
I still can’t remember all the best things she said

We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice
He said, “There’s a body I’m tryin’ to find
If I carry it out it’ll bring a good price”
’Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind

The wind it was howlin’ and the snow was outrageous
We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn
When he died I was hopin’ that it wasn’t contagious
But I made up my mind that I had to go on

I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty
There was no jewels, no nothin’, I felt I’d been had
When I saw that my partner was just bein’ friendly
When I took up his offer I must-a been mad

I picked up his body and I dragged him inside
Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover
I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied
Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her

She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise
Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed
I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes
I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead

She said, “Where ya been?” I said, “No place special”
She said, “You look different.” I said, “Well, I guess”
She said, “You been gone.” I said, “That’s only natural”
She said, “You gonna stay?” I said, “If you want me to, yes!”

Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child
What drives me to you is what drives me insane
I still can remember the way that you smiled
On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin’ rain

Two Revived Songs at HFC

2010-06-29T04:36:00.000-07:00

I've picked out two songs from my old back catalogue of songs from an earlier era and relearned them, adapted slightly for my current style. Then I played them both for the podcast prototype 3 and then the next day at Havering Folk Club ( HFC ).

Unfortunately these songs don't really go together back to back very well, being both in the same key and also having some of the same words in each's title so I sandwiched something else in between each time.

The War is Over

Yesterday

The Dream Is Over

Future Music Blogs

In the future most of these little blogs recording which songs I played where are going to be posted over at the new site I've set up for the podcasting, andyroberts.me

The Same Old Rock

2010-06-23T09:46:00.000-07:00

last week I took my 12 string guitar along to Havering Folk Club and at the last minute decided to play a version of Roy Harper's The Same Old Rock, just because I felt like it. Tis my favourite song after all. Not my best rendition ever, but I enjoyed myself anyway.

Podcast Prototype Number 1

2010-06-15T08:54:00.000-07:00

Well I didn't get to Havering Folk Club last Wednesday because I was on holiday canal boating on the Kennet and Avon canal on board Isabella.
So instead I'm blogging here about what's happening with the Tuesday evening live streaming music show that I've been doing for almost a year now, most weeks. I've decided to turn it into a podcast as well. That means you don't have to be there live at 7.00pm on a Tuesday in order to hear the show. You should be able to subscribe with iTunes or similar feed reading software, and have each episode downloaded as an mp3 file to listen to as and when you have a spare moment.

The show itself is pretty much the same unrehearsed music and chat as always except that I don't stop to mess about with the record/stop button and saving the description and tags etc in between each song. The whole thing gets recorded as one block and then the audio is stripped out and distributed through the podcasting channel via one of my websites called andyroberts.me

We're still in the prototyping stage so this could change but for the present the new url for the podcast feed should be at

http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast

Try putting that into your iTunes subscriptions . In my version you have to go to the overhead top go to the top of page drop down menu and select "Advanced" then "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste the url http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast into the box which pops up. Your mileage may vary.

I can still edit out individual songs for uploading to youTube so there's nothing lost in that respect and here are the five songs from last week's Andy Roberts podcast prototype number 1

The Wreckers Prayer

People Are Strange

Cormorants

Here Comes The Sun

Narrow Boats

May 26th People are strange, When the Waters Rise

2010-05-30T15:25:00.000-07:00

May 26th at Havering Folk Club ( HFC ) after missing a week for no particular reason.

People Are Strange - The Doors

A cover of the Doors song People Are Strange

When The Waters Rise

San Francisco

After the interval at Havering Folk Club there was time to do one more song each and I decided to play San Francisco the song by Mazime Le Forestier

May 12th HFC The Last Nail, Sitting on the Bank

2010-05-14T06:40:00.000-07:00

On May 12th 2010 at Havering Folk Club I played two Andy Roberts songs,

Sitting on the Bank and The Last Nail

May 5th - Golden Brown

2010-05-14T06:37:00.000-07:00

On May 5th 2010 I played my version of Golden Brown by the Stranglers, at Havering Folk Club for the Hillbilly Express members night.

Golden brown

2010-05-04T03:34:00.000-07:00

Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown

Every time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes both my hands
Never a frown with golden brown

Golden brown finer temptress
Through the ages she's heading West
From far away
Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown

Never a frown
With golden brown
Never a frown
With golden brown

The Drugs Don't Work

2010-05-02T10:16:00.000-07:00

C
All this talk of getting old
                 C2  Am      Am7 
It's getting me down my love
                 Em                 F
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
         G        C         C2       C    
This time I'm comin' down
               C
And I hope you're thinking of me
                 C2  Am     Am7   
As you lay down on your side
                        Em
Now the drugs don't work
                        F
They just make you worse
            G            C         C2       C           
But I know I'll see your face again
                        Em
Now the drugs don't work
                        F
They just make you worse
             G           C         C2       C  
But I know I'll see your face again

               C
But I know I'm on a losing streak
                      C2  Am      Am7 
'Cause I passed down my old street
                    Em
And if you wanna show
                     F
 then just let me know
         G             C       C2       C  
And I'll sing in your ear again

                       Em
Now the drugs don't work
                        F
They just make you worse
          G              C         C2       C
But I know I'll see your face again

            F
'Cause baby ooh
G            Am
if heaven calls
             G
I'm coming too
                 F
Just like you said
G                  Am
if you leave my life
                 G
I'm better off dead

            C
All this talk of getting old
                  C2  Am      Am7 
It's getting me down my love
                  Em
Like a cat in a bag
               F
waiting to drown
          G       C      C2       C
This time I'm comin' down

                       Em
Now the drugs don't work
                       F
They just make you worse
       G                 C         C2       C
But I know I'll see your face again

            F
'Cause baby ooh
G             Am
if heaven calls
             G
I'm coming too
              F
Just like you said
G                 Am
if you leave my life
                  F
I'm better off dead

                    Em
But if you wanna show(want a show)
                   F
then just let me know
              G        C       C2       C
And I'll sing in your ear again

                       Em
Now the drugs don't work
                       F
They just make you worse
          G              C         C2       C      C2
But I know I'll see your face again

C           C2                      C      C2
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
C           C2                      C      C2
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
C           C2                      C      C2         C
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
C           C2                      C      C2         C
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

C                             C2                          
I'm never coming down, no I'm never coming down
C                                   C2
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
C                         C2                          
never coming down, no I'm never going down   
C                                  C2
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
C (Arpeggio up(let ring))

People Are Strange - The Doors

2010-04-28T01:15:00.000-07:00

People Are Strange - The Doors

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

21st April Mazet

2010-04-24T08:28:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday 21st April at Havering Folk Club I talked a little bit about Paris and the cafe Mazet then played the song named after the bar

Mazet - Andy Roberts music and lyrics

Northcountry girl

This video is in fact from another occasion because I kind of messed up last week and forgot one and a half verses, not sure why that happened exactly, just a bit unprepared I suppose.

Shifting Sands, Wrecked Again, Dead Skunk

2010-04-24T08:21:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday April 14th 2010 at Havering Folk Club:

Shifting Sands - Andy Roberts music and lyrics

Wrecked Again - Mike Chapman

Dead Skunk in the middle of the road

Dead Skunk by Loudon Wainwright

Two More Andy Roberts Songs

2010-04-11T06:49:00.000-07:00

So last Wednesday April 7th at Havering Folk Club I decided to play two more Andy Roberts Songs, both from the Spanish collecton, in fact written on the same day in the French Pays Basque Pyranees. One comes from the bottom of the mountain and the other from the top. Perhaps one day I'll write a song for the little rack and pinion mountain railway that connects the two.

Blue

Sitting On Top Of The World

Wednesday March 31st Havering Folk Club

2010-04-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

Wednesday March 31st Havering Folk Club

Open Night, 2 Andy Roberts songs

The Rowan Tree

The Last Nail

Truro Agricultural Show

2010-03-25T06:11:00.000-07:00

My version of "The Truro Agricultural Show", a traditional Cornish folk song, with a knocked about archtop guitar at Havering Folk Club last night, Wednesday 24th March 2010.

Interestingly four seperate people made enquiries to me about the origins of the song, having some sort of Cornish connections.

The lyrics are published earlier on the Andy Roberts music blog somewhere down there...

The Last Nail - Andy Roberts boatbuilding folk song

2010-03-23T05:26:00.001-07:00

The Last Nail by Andy Roberts

Recorded live at Havering Folk Club

The Last Nail

2010-03-19T05:22:00.000-07:00

The Last Nail is the title of my latest new Andy Roberts song, it's a folk song ballad sea shanty whatever that laments the closing of a boatyard inspired by the story of St Monan's in Fife, Scotland where I spent some time recently.

Hers is the video of the first live performance of The Last Nail at Havering Folk Club on Wednesday March 17th, St Patrick's Day as it happens.

These are the Lyrics to The Last Nail:

Above the stone walled harbour, or down the winding hill
That's where they built the boatyard, and the structure stands there still.
Not much boat building happens now, just repairs and fitting out
but when the wind rattles the boatmasts, you can hear the old boatbulders shout:
Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place,
Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race.

Our grandfathers put up the boatyard, to build the fishing fleet,
more than fifty boats in the harbour, and shops all down the main street
then the steam age brought in the drifters,
boat builders became engineers
Now the wind blows straight through the boatyard,
there'll be no more boat building here
Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place,
Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race.

With a keen eye for staying in business, they switched over to build leisure craft
And the weekend yachtsmen snapped them up, no expense spared fore or aft
Then wooden hulls went out of fashion, the order book emptied last year
So the bankers foreclosed on the boatyard,
and there'll be no more boatbuilding here
Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place,
Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race.

Now the Vikings invented the clinker for both strength and shallow seas
and the herring boats followed the coastline, until the canning ships found the key
There's a regatta here every August, and the whole village turns out again
But the Sea Queen's no real competition, and it's guaranteed to rain
Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place,
Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race.

Above the stone walled harbour, or down the winding hill
that's where they built the boatyard, and the skeleton stands there still.
No more boat building happens now, not even fitting out
but when the wind rattles the boatmasts, you can still hear the old boys shout:
Will you pass the last nail over, we'll knock it into place,
Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race.

Why are we sleeping

2010-03-19T04:56:00.001-07:00

Why are we sleeping - Kevin Ayres Soft Machine

It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse
Making life easy by making it worse
"My mask is my master", the trumpeter weeps
But his voice is so weak, as he speaks from his sleep

Saying: "Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?"

People are watching, people who stare
Waiting for something that's already there
"Tomorrow I'll find it", the trumpeter screams
And remembers he's hungry, and drowns in his dreams

Saying: "Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?"

My head is a nightclub with glasses and wine
The customers dancing or just making time
While Daevid is cursing, the customers scream
Now everyone's shouting, "Get out of my dream!"

Back In The Field - Norwegian Wood - Wreckers Prayer

2010-03-18T04:25:00.000-07:00

That was a whole week ago, so I'm getting behind with blogging the weekly songs which makes it more difficult to remember.

So the date was Wednesday 10th March at Havering Folk Club and the songs I played last week were Back in The Field and Norwegian Wood.

If I remember correctly there was also time for one last song at the end of the evening and I played The Wreckers Prayer.

Not to self: Must be more prompt when writing up these music blogs. According to youtube I seem to have played The Rowan Tree recently as well and that may well be a missing week.

Listening to the 12 string Guitar

2010-03-08T01:49:00.000-08:00

last week it was the turn of Simon Oliver to have a member's featured evening at Havering Folk Club, and he borrowed my vintage Guild 12 string guitar for a few numbers which gave me the chance to sit in the audience and hear what it sounds like, unamplified, in the medieval pub room upstairs at the Golden Lion, Romford. Sounded pretty good to me, Well done Simon.

I played "The Nutmeg Tree"

Fred Wedlock RIP

2010-03-07T03:19:00.001-08:00

THE FOLKER

(Fred Wedlock)
I am just a folker and my story's seldom told
I have massacred folk music with a yard of German plywood and a capo
I do requests--just the ones that have two chords in them and I disregard the rest
Na na nya na na na na na na nya etc . . .

In the Seabeen Pub I clean forgot the 42nd verse,
So I sang the 27th twice as loud and in reverse and no one notice.
I laughed for hours the tears ran down me trouser leg
I thought I'd wet me drawers

Well, I stand on stage the hero a martyr to me trade
And carry the reminders of all the gigs I've played in like the Irish Club
Where I fled in mortal fear—with the imprint of a Guinness bottle stamped across my ear
Na na nya na na na na na na nya etc . . .

Seeking twenty with expenses I went looking for a gig
But I got no offers--just a come on from a groupie up in Boulder
I do declare--I was feeling rather randy and I had her then and there
Na na nya na na na na na na nya etc . . .

Na na na-ya Na na na na na na na-ya
Na na na-ya Na na na na na na na-ya
Na na na-ya Na na na na na na na-ya

Well, I've sung the folk tradition with my finger in my ear
Cause half the stuff I'm singin'—I just can't bear to hear—it's a load of cobblers
Bar after bar--to the rhythm of an out of tune Japanese guitar
Na na nya na na na na na na nya etc . . .

Well, I met this great guitarist and I asked him for advice
But the message that he gave me--wasn't very nice or even civil
Stick it where--and if I did how could I tune it with it shoved way up there
Na na nya na na na na na na nya etc . . .

Now I've got my thing together, man, I'm really freaking out
Reading “Melody Maker,” mainlining on draught stout and having hang ups
And like the rest, I'm having trouble with my sex life since I fell and broke my wrist
And my other songs are twice as bad as this

Playing the Saz at Havering Folk Club HFC

2010-02-24T04:01:00.000-08:00

Last week I finally got around to taking my SAZ along to Havering Folk Club. It had been lying around sadly out of tune for months and then I managed to wrestle it back on form and tried out a few tunes on the Tuesday Night Show. There's a long story about how I bought the SAZ in Turkey and brought it back, the story used to live on a wiki of its own but now should be available on a blog post somewhere, I'll dig it out and link to it later. Anyway, in order to take the fragile instrument out on a journey I had to first give it a bit of s clean up with furniture polish and stuff, then figure out a way to make it fit in a guitar bag. The Saz is a long necked lute and a bout two inches longer all told than a 12 string guitar, but with a tear drop shaped bowl instead of a guitar body. I found that I could just get it into my biggest guitar case, the one I bought for the 12 string, sideways on and with a bit of strain on the zip.

On arriving at Havering Folk Club, upstairs in The Golden Lion pub, Romford, I was pleased to find teh Saz was still in tune and signed up for a floor spot.

I played a tune which I call "Istankoy" and then another which segues into a version of Buddy Holly's Rave On.

Istankoy is in fact the Turkish name for the island known as Kos in Greek.

Istankoy

Rave On

2010-02-16T10:45:00.000-08:00

A-well the little things you say and do
They make me want to be with you-oo-oo

Rave on, rave on and tell me
Tell me not to be lonely
Tell me you love me only, rave on to me

Rave on, it's a crazy feeling and
I know it's got me reeling when you
Say, "I love you," rave on

The way you dance and hold me tight
The way you kiss and say good-ni-hi-hight

A-well rave on, it's a crazy feeling and
I know it's got me reeling I'm
So glad that you're revealing your love for me

Rave on, rave on and tell me
Tell me not to be lonely
Tell me you love me only, rave on to me

The House Is An Allegory For The Mind

2010-02-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a song called "The House Is An Allegory For The Mind" which is explained in the video to some extent. This was Wednesday 10th February, an open night at Havering Folk Club, and the second song is Down Drinking at the Bar by Loudon Wainwright.

There was even a spot left in the second half so I played Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene

Time for The Music

2010-02-04T03:49:00.001-08:00

Last night it was the turn of Steve O'Kane and Fiona McBain to guest at Havering Folk Club (or HFC).

I played early, no video from this session but the songs were Time for The Music and The Biggleswade Stomp.

Time for The Music

The Biggleswade Stomp

Cajun Music Cajun Food - Memphis Tennessee

2010-02-01T03:31:00.000-08:00

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

2010-01-28T02:28:00.000-08:00

"Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" is the title of the song by Loudon Wainwright which I sang at Havering Folk Club on Wednesday 20th as part of a new series featuring tributes to recently deceased musicians. Loudon Wainwright is still alive (at the time of writing), this was in memory of Kate McGarrigle

On the video clip, there's also the main part of another song, "Waiting" which is an old Andy Roberts song.

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play | Andy Roberts Guitar Music

2010-01-14T05:06:00.001-08:00

First outing to Havering Folk Club this year, it's been a while due to various things.

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play | Andy Roberts Guitar Music

I decide to leave the video in one piece rather than edit out the two songs in this one, so you get See Emily Play first, followed by another version of "Yellow Boat".

Right at the end I got a chance to do one more which was "Mozambique"

Thankyou Mr Hubble - Loudon Wainwright - Andy Roberts

2010-01-09T06:11:00.000-08:00

Thankyou Mr Hubble - Loudon Wainwright - Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts sings Close Your Eyes by James Taylor

2009-12-05T02:11:00.001-08:00

Andy Roberts sings Close Your Eyes by James Taylor at Havering Folk Club. Video by Linda for Andy Roberts Music channel on youTube.

Winter in Andalucia

2009-12-04T12:44:00.000-08:00

Here's another version of my Spanish Christmas song called "Winter in Andalucia" which comes out at seven minutes long this time. It is a bit sad because we won;t be going this year, but at least that means we'll be able to a Christmas dinner at home for a change.

Back at Havering Folk Club

2009-12-04T12:38:00.000-08:00

Having two weeks off sick I was back at Havering Folk Club on Wednesday 2nd December and I've booked my Christmas dinner too. From the newsletters, I know its been busy of late but this week seemed about normal and I enjoyed listening to some of the regulars again.

For my own spot, I played Winter in Andalucia and then a short James Taylor song called "You can close your Eyes"

Last Chance Saloon

2009-11-11T03:41:00.001-08:00

So this is the recording of the longer twitcam experiment session last night, with a whole bunch of songs going on inside there. It's called "last Chance Saloon" because that's what I wrote when trying out the system.

Songs are:

1) I don't love you know more - Loudon Wainwright
2) Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
3) Knocking on heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
4) Redemption Song - Bob Marley
5) Now that I'm living here - Andy Roberts
6)
7)
8)

Twitcam Norwegian Wood

2009-11-10T13:02:00.000-08:00

We tried out a new webcasting service tonight during the weekly music show. So here's a sample, in fact the first song recorded with twitcam. It's Norwegian Wood

Don't you grieve - Andy Roberts song by Roy Harper

2009-11-05T02:45:00.001-08:00

Don't you grieve by Roy Harper song. Andy Roberts music guitar and vocals, here during one of the regular Tuesday evening live streaming sessions or webcasts.Baby dont you grieve after me, as on Roy Harper's LP Flat Baroque and Beserk.

A staple in the Andy Roberts repertoire for 35 years

Havering Folk Club Halloween Night

2009-10-31T16:14:00.000-07:00

Havering Folk Club likes to celebrate Halloween Night on the nearest Wednesday so this year it was on October 28th 2009. Some people dress up, most probably, but Linda and I were neither prepared nor really in the mood for costumes so we came as ourselves :-)

Last year's Halloween Night event was choreographed by the Hillbilly Express and this year was similar but even more chaotic, with Simon and Pep dual MCing.

Music and Poetry....

Having already rehearsed The Rowan Tree at the beginning of the month without video capture I was prepared to have another go especially for Halloween night and this was after my version of Loudon Wainwright's Be Careful There's a Baby in The House.

Be careful there's a baby in the house

2009-10-27T09:05:00.000-07:00

Lyrics to Be careful there's a baby in the house by Loudon Wainwright

Be careful there's a baby in the house,
And a baby will not be fooled
It will think and do what it wants to
until you get it schooled.

Be careful there's a baby in the house,
And a baby will play it for real
if your I love you is an IOU don't expect to get a good deal

look out momma, look out dad
your bundle of joy will not be had
if the blanket is blue if the blanket is pink
you'd best watch what you do you'd best watch what you think

Be careful there's a baby in the house,
And a baby can spot your schtick
all the coochy coochy coo is a lot of poo poo when you spread it on that thick

Be careful there's a baby in the house,
And a baby is better than smart
it can waddle through all the stuff you do never mind your big head start

Girl from the north country Trad/Dylan/Roy Harper

2009-10-27T08:18:00.000-07:00

If you're traveling in the north country far,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Please remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

If you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see for me she has a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howling winds.

Please see for me that her hair's hanging long,
That it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me that her hair's hanging long,
That's the way I remember her the best.

I'm wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often laid,
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're traveling in the north country far,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Thankyou Mister Hubble - Loudon Wainwright

2009-10-20T04:23:00.000-07:00

Thankyou Mister Hubble by Loudon Wainwright

unrecorded

Am................................Dm..............Dm7
Thankyou Mister Hubble, for your telescope
E............................................................Am.....................
We learned there's more than double now , the amount of rope
Am...................................................F....................................
We have with which to hang ourselves, things are so much worse
E..........................................................Am..........................E
There's so much more that's out there,I'm talking universes.

Thankyou Mister Hubble, for your telescope
Why go to the trouble now to push the envelope?
We're just so insignificant what the hells the point?
We're not handfuls but specks of dust in this gigantic joint

C..............................G.................C...................G......
We used to thing that jupiter and mars were pretty large
E............................Am...................E...........................Am......
and though our little world was small somehow we were in charge

The milky way so miniscule despite what we pretend
It's hardly worth looking at through your giant lenses

Thankyou Mister Hubble, for your telescope
I hate to burst the bubble but god there's not much hope
or faith that such a thing exists what is religion worth?
What in god's name would waste six days to make this puny earth?

If by Roy Harper

2009-10-19T04:26:00.000-07:00

Lyrics to IF by Roy Harper from the Once Album

Could be this weeks Roy Harper song for the Tuesday Night Andy Roberts Webcast

If it was right to be believing,
And write his name in blood
And then I met him when I died,
Well I'd have it out with god
But if it means
Degrading scenes
And sanctioning crusade
I'd know we couldn't stand man to man
Without feeling afraid, feeling afraid.

If it was wrong for not believing,
In fairytale facade
And then I met him when I died,
Well I'd apologise to dog
But if it meant
I went down on my knees
Well where's the spirit gone
Where's the love you're all talking of
When you can't stand man to man?
Man to man
When you can't stand man to man.

I find it hard to believe,
In these 'gospels' that I've heard
The forked tongue of the bible belt,
The ayatollah's word
I don't believe most anything
Spoken by anyone
As hell's fanatic paranoids
Fire heaven's loaded gun

If it was right to be believing,
Then it must be in this
That difference is beautiful,
And living it is bliss,
There are no teams
There is no side
That life on earth is done
By living the love you're only talking of
By standing man to man
Man to man

One More Cup of Coffee ( Valley Below ) Bob Dylan cover by Andy Roberts

2009-10-17T02:04:00.000-07:00

One More Cup of Coffee ( Valley Below ) Bob Dylan cover by Andy Roberts

Another of my favourite Bob Dylan Songs - One More Cup of Coffee from the Desire album, here performed at Havering Folk Club by Andy Roberts on the same night as When the waters rise, posted earlier

When The Waters Rise - Blog Action Day

2009-10-14T06:10:00.001-07:00

October 15th is Blog Action Day so I performed my song "When The Waters Rise - blog action day" last night at Havering Folk Club

When the waters rise

When the waters rise, when the waters rise,

It's started to rain, could go on forever
The puddles grow then join together | As the waters rise

With energy a change of current
The trickle soon becomes a torrent And the waters rise

We'll have to move abandon camp,
where once was desert now is damp And the waters rise

The balance kept by plants and sea
has pushed beyond the boundary
Now the gas surrounds us like a cloak
a million years gone up in smoke

The climate's changed, the world's in motion,
Then the ice caps melt and join the ocean And the waters rise

In the short term we can head for the hills,
In the longer run we'll all grow gills and the waters rise

The weather warnings made no mark,
Now there's no time left to build the Ark As the waters rise..

Here's another version of the same song recorded at the previous Tuesday Evening 7.00pm Live Webcast

Andy Roberts Music on Sound Awesome!

2009-10-14T05:04:00.000-07:00

Another place for Andy Roberts Music on t'internet : Andy Roberts Music Sound Awesome!

I don't know if it's worth it but it doesn't take long to join one of these sites, create a profile and upload a track - in this case The Wreckers Prayer.

Drinking Song by Loudon Wainwright

2009-10-11T06:05:00.000-07:00

Drunk men stagger, drunk men fall,
Drunk men swear and that's not all,
Quite often they will urinate outdoors.
Like widowed women, drunk men weep,
Like children curled up, drunk men sleep,
Like a dog, a drunk will crawl around on all fours.

Be he broke bum or rich rake, his dinner be it bread or cake
His beverage be the worse of whiskey, finest wine.
Puke it stinks and so it seems that drunkards go to great extremes
But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line

Drunks talk strong when drunks are weak,
It's easy for a drunk to speak -- straight from the heart
Yeah, drunks will fight they're not afraid
To kiss the mistress, make the maid
It's a manly art.

Oh but the drink a toll will take, blood vessels in the nose will break
Bags beneath the eyes another sign

Drunks get ugly, so it seems that drunkards go to great extremes
But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line.

Drunks are friendly when they're drunk and
Drunks are hostile when they're drunk
Which drunk it is, it all depends upon.
When drunks aren't drunk, they thirst for drink,
Elephants are grey not pink
When the drink evaporates the man is gone, gone , gone, gone

Back to the yachts and the subway cars
The hip-flasks and fruit jars
Flat on the face and flat on the behind

Oh, drunks get drunk and so it seems that drunkards go to great extremes
There has yet to be a perfectly straight line.

One More Cup Of Coffee

2009-10-10T15:56:00.000-07:00

One More Cup Of Coffee by Bob Dylan

Your breath is sweet
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie.
But I don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above.

One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.

Your daddy he's an outlaw
And a wanderer by trade
He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade.
He oversees his kingdom
So no stranger does intrude
His voice it trembles as he calls out
For another plate of food.

One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.

Your sister sees the future
Like your mama and yourself.
You've never learned to read or write
There's no books upon your shelf.
And your pleasure knows no limits
Your voice is like a meadowlark
But your heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark.

One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.

The Rowan Tree Folk Song

2009-10-07T00:30:00.001-07:00

The Rowan Tree

Last Week at Havering Folk Club I tried out a new song called "The Rowan Tree" which is a song about four witchee witches I wrote when I was in Scotland recently. There really is a rowan tree in my front garden which I planted myself some years ago and it is a matter of folklore that the Rowan tree is supposed to help keep witches away. It's a suitable topic for the Halloween night session coming up later in October but I thought I'd give it an airing first, and the feedback was very encouraging. You can never tell with a new song if the initial enthusiasm is going to die away to nothing or if it's going to become a lasting part of the repertoire. There wasn't a video from the Havering Folk Club performance but we do have a recording from the previous Tuesday night session which was a lively one too. Here's The Rowan Tree video:

The lyrics to the Rowan Tree have been posted both on the Andy Roberts blog and on the youTube video so there's no need to reproduce them here.

Deep River Blues

Earlier at the session I played my version of "Deep River Blues" and then afterwards, John from Foxen showed me the proper chords :-)

I play it in C for some reason:

Next week it's the turn of Smolowik to have his members featured evening at Havering Folk club so I'm looking forward to that.

Havering Folk Club 17th September

2009-09-29T15:13:00.000-07:00

Was last Wednesday the 17th? I think it was, anyway we went along to Havering Folk Club as usual and I took along my 12 string guitar that I've been playing quite a bit recently. It was an ordinary singers night so I played two songs in the first half - Puddles and Back in The Field. Then in the second half there was time for one more so I fulfilled a lifetime ambition by playing a Captain Beefheart song in a folk club - Grow Fins.

Ok, so the Wednesday must have been the 23rd of September but I'm not going to change the title now after Ive already published it .... doh.

Saturday was the 26th which meant that Havering Folk Club had the first "Club In The Pub" night with guests "Triangle" and support from "Kiss The Mistress", a great night out.

Deep River Blues

2009-09-29T04:10:00.000-07:00

I use to play Deep River Blues once in a while but never got around to learning all the proper words so here they are. This is the Doc Watson version rather than the Wizz Jones version which is where I first heard the song.

Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.
Let the rain drive right on,
Let the waves sweep along,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.

My old gal's a good old pal,
And she looks like a water fowl,
When I get them deep river blues.
Ain't no one to cry for me,
And the fish all go out on a spree
When I get them deep river blues.

Give me back my old boat,
I'm gonna sail if she'll float,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
I'm goin' back to Muscle Shoals,
Times are better there I'm told,
Cause I got them deep river blues.

Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
Let the rain drive right on,
Let the waves sweep along,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.

If my boat sinks with me.
I'll go down, don't you see,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
Now I'm gonna say goodbye,
And if I sink, just let me die,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.

Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
Let the rain drive right on,
Let the waves sweep along,
'Cause I got them deep river blues

Talk Like A Pirate Day

2009-09-19T06:20:00.001-07:00

As its Talk Like A Pirate Day today, September the 19th I thought I'd post my version of Captain Coulston an old pirate song, that I played last week at Havering Folk Club as well as the previous week at Crail Folk Club.

Crail Folk Club

2009-09-15T14:42:00.000-07:00

Singaround at Crail Folk Club

I've been away for two weeks in Scotland, more precisely the East Neuk of Fife, so that meant I missed two sessions at Havering but managed to make a visit to Crail Folk Club on the second Thursday.
Crail Folk Club meets at the Golf Hotel in Crail, Fife on the second and fourth Thursday in the month unless it's the mid summer season when they move to Crail town hall. I think there's also a session at the pub in Largo Ward on the other Thursdays but that may not be published. Ayway, Crail turned out to be another very friendly club with a large pool of talented regular singers out of whom different combinations are likely to turn up on any one given week. The specific venue is in one end of the restaurant section of the Golf Hotel, just opposite the small bar area. With the doors closed and about two dozen people present it soon became rather warm but we'd got kind of used to that. The format was that of a singaround, which is new to me but not uncommon. Seated around the room facing inwards, an imaginary baton is skillfully passed around clockwise by the MC, so everybody gets the chance to either sing or pass, as many times as it takes. In this case, four times by closing time. Many people sang acapella and there were also about seven guitars, and later one violin. Not a ukulele in sight.

There was a mixture of Scottish folk songs, old music hall songs, Irish and American songs and one or two I wouldn't presume to describe acurately.

Not having a guitar with me, I was dependent on somebody volunteering to lend me one which they did and I'm very grateful to John for letting me play his fine instrument. To start with, I really ydidn't know what to expect so I sang one song unaccompanied - "Going Up Camborne Hill Coming Down"

Then one of my own - "The Wreckers Prayer"

Followed by "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out"

and "Captain Coulston"

We enjoyed our evening at Crail folk club with new friends and felt like a home from home so if we end up in Fife again next year, which would be lovely, I'm sure we'll return to see what's going on in Crail or Largo.

San Francisco - Andy Roberts song by Maxime le Forestier

2009-08-25T23:26:00.001-07:00

San Francisco by Maxime le Forestier has been a favourite for me to play for a long time now, I learned this song when I was staying with a friend in Poitiers, France in 1974. I used to play it in the Paris metro whenever somebody complained about me singing in English. Uploaded to Andyrobertsmusic account on youTube from the live session on Tuesday evenings at 7.00pm on uStream.tv

http://www.youtube.com/user/andyrobertsmusic

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/andy-roberts-music

Singalong Night at Havering Folk Club

2009-08-20T04:00:00.000-07:00

We had a good singalong session last night at Havering Folk Club with a good attendance, in fact Linda and I had to shuffle round a bit to find two seats together.

I took along my 12 string guitar of unknown origin in the big black bag but didn't get a chance to make sure it was in tune and warm it up until the interval. Being a bit later than usual to arrive, I was orginally put on the performers list at number 12 and ended up being the last act at the end of the second half. I played Norwegian Wood with the guitar and then put it down and sang unaccompanied to get the audience joining in with an a capella version of the old Cornish song, Going up Camborne Hill Coming Down

not much like this version below, but I like the steam engines

Live Broadcasts Every Tuesday Night 7.00pm

2009-08-18T22:21:00.000-07:00

Andy Roberts Live Broadcasts

I don't seem to have mentioned this here before but I've started doing live broadcasts every Tuesday evening at 7.00pm UK time. That's GMT + 1 at the moment, because of British Summer time, daylight saving.

The broadcasts usually last about half an hour or less but could be longer if I'm in the mood. That's about 5 songs. I've written more about it on my other blog here:

ustream.tv tuesday nights andy roberts music 7-00pm

and the actual link to watch the broadcasts and take part is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/andy-roberts-music

So it's been three weeks now and I'm enjoying it already. I've let a few friends know about it and put out a little bit of publicity, but I'm really expecting the audience to grow very slowly week by week, and that's why I've set the time and day to be as regular as clockwork - every week on Tuesday at 7.00pm. Starting from nothing we've had a maximum number of live viewers at five, eight, and now twelve last night so it's a very small elite group attending this nascent online folk club. One even logged in and joined the chat last night which is a first apart from Linda who does her best to keep anybody company who might wander in. It's nice when somebody logs in and has a name and leaves comments instead of just being a number of invisible 'Guests'.

The nice thing about ustream as well, is that apart from the live viewers, you can also make recordings which are then kept on the site for posterity and can also be uploaded to youTube. So I'm building up a collection of very rough and ready videos with no editing, so sound production just raw footage from the webcam shows. What this lacks in quality is made up for by building a comprehensive collection of my repertoire, if I keep it up adding up to five new videos every week. Some will be duplicates of the same song of course, and I'll have to decide what to do about that.

I think I should probably simply list the songs played here each week, and link to the YouTube or Ustream video, and if I want to embed one or two because I have something to say about them, then I'll do that in a separate post named after the particular song.

So this week, last night August 18th, I played:

San Francisco - Maxime le Forestier
The Wreckers Prayer - Andy Roberts
Mazet - Andy Roberts
Don't You Grieve - Roy Harper
Captain Coulston - Traditional, Steeleye Span

The week before, August 11th it was

Motel Blues - Loudon Wainwright
Narrowboats - Andy Roberts
Blue - Andy Roberts
Highway Blues - Roy Harper ( Havering Folk Club version )
Winter in Andalucia - Andy Roberts

And the first week August 4th I sang

The Wreckers' Prayer - Andy Roberts
Hold On Below - Andy Roberts
Angi Variation - Bert Jansch
Grow Fins - Captain Beefheart

Havering Folk Club 12th August

2009-08-15T03:53:00.000-07:00

This Wednesday at Havering Folk Club we had to leave early because Linda was feeling quite unwell but the first half was very good. We're getting more visitors or new members from Romford Folk club on Tuesday nights now. These are people well known to some of the the Havering regulars but not to myself because I've never been to Romford Folk Club.

Anyway, the interesting thing about the songs I played this week was the reaction from a handful of my friends in the audience. My stuff usually goes down well but when four seperate people make a point of telling me they particularly enjoyed it this week then it makes me think about what differences there might have been in my performance this time to tip the balance. Maybe I played more like I do when I'm at home, a bit more relaxed improvisation or else they just like a bit of guitar playing instead of just songs. It was a quietly attentive audience, more so than some weeks so that may have had something to do with it, or just wondering why I got up to go home during the interval!

Luckily Linda managed to record the two songs on video before taking ill so I'll post them in under here.

Long Andy Roberts version of Colours by Donovan

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Wednesday 5th August Havering Folk Club

2009-08-13T05:18:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 5th August was the turn of Bert Dady and Keith Petty to have a members featured evening and very entertaining it was too, with some favourite old folk songs well performed.

I played "Sitting on the Bank"

Bert Jansch on Radio 4

2009-07-31T09:39:00.000-07:00

I missed Bert Jansch this afternoon on the excellent series about guitar players presented by Joan Armatrading on Radio 4 but thanks to iPlayer "Listen Again" I can can catch up online so here is the url for you too:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lrms9/Joan_Armatradings_Favourite_Guitarists_Bert_Jansch/

Should be available for about a week I think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lrms9

Three Videos from Havering Folk Club

2009-07-30T03:44:00.000-07:00

Linda kindly caught each of my three contributions to Havering Folk Club last night on the little canon camera and I decided to upload them to the Andy Roberts Music youTube account from which I can embed them here.

1) You can count on Me

You Can Count On Me sung by Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

This is a song I know from Wizz Jones, written by Mose Allison

2) When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease sung by Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club Song written by Roy Harper

3) Sitting On Top Of The World

Sitting on Top of the World by Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

Meet On The Ledge

2009-07-30T02:25:00.000-07:00

Meet On The Ledge

We used to say that come the day
We'd all be making songs
Or finding better words
These ideas never lasted long

The way is up along the road
The air is growing thin
Too many friends who tried
Blown off this mountain with the wind

Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
If you really mean it, it all comes round again

Yet now I see I'm all alone
But that's the only way to be
You'll have your chance again
Then you can do the work for me

[Richard Thompson]

Busy again at Havering Folk Club

2009-07-23T00:53:00.000-07:00

After a quieter period recently, Havering Folk Club was back to its usual lively self again last night with the return of some regulars who hadn't been seen for a while for one reason or another. Steve O'Kane and Fiona paid a visit for example, and will be doing a members guest spot in February next year.

I played Mondura Dam, not for the first time but it's a song I've found myself returning to in recent days. Jojo aked me where Mondura Dam is - it's actually Monduran Dam in Queensland Australia.

Then I did Whatever Happened to Us by Loudon Wainwright. I've been meaning to sing that one for some time but this is the first time I got around to it.

Andy Roberts 'Fan' Page on Facebook

2009-07-22T04:37:00.000-07:00

This is a little widgety type thing which links to my 'Fan' page on Facebook. People who like using facebook can subscribe by becoming a fan of the page, and then I can put news and videos in there and people can leave messages for me or each other on my Wall.

Andy Roberts on Facebook

All Along The Watchtower

2009-07-22T03:35:00.000-07:00

All Along The Watchtower

At Ustream.tv

This is one of the experimental prototypes for the Andy Roberts Music Tuesday Night Shows which are intended to become a regular feature. For some reason it wouldn't upload directly from ustream.tv to youTube

A little bit of distortion can be OK but clearly the line-in audio needs to be turned down a bit.

You can count on me to do my part

2009-07-20T14:59:00.000-07:00

Song by Mose Allison covered by Wizz Jones

Let's talk it over, let's get it straight
Don't let the situation escalate
You know there's always problems when a man is wrapped up in his art
But don't you worry baby you can count on me to do my part
You keep on working, I'm looking round
Don't let you girlfriends put me down
You know it's tough these days for a proud man to make a start
But don't you worry baby you can count on me to do my part
You wash the dishes, I've gotta run
You know that night life ain't such fun
Now don't wait up for me cause I know you need your rest, sweetheart
But don't you worry baby you can count on me to do my part

Century

2009-07-16T16:31:00.000-07:00

I had decided to play for the very first time in public, my old song "Century" at Havering Folk Club this week and I'm glad I did. The video didn't come out, so I'll have to do it again sometime, but that's OK. Afterwards, since it was the day after Bastille Day I had to do a French song, one of Maxime le Forestier but not San Francisco this time, the other one I know - Ca sert a quoi.

There was time for one more in the second half so continuing a theme about boats I played Yellow Boat

Time For The Music - Shifting Sands

2009-07-12T03:47:00.000-07:00

These are the two songs with which I started off the April 1st session at Havering Folk Club.

"Time for The Music: is one of the songs written on that trip to Spain in 2003 but never vefore performed and "Shifting Sands" has been done a few times now.

Swine Flu Intervenes

2009-07-10T06:56:00.000-07:00

I'd been looking forward to hearing Vicky Swan & Jonny Dyer at Havering Folk Club on Wednesday but I couldn't go because I was in the middle of a nasty bout of Swine Flu. I don't intend to go on about the illness here, because this is a music blog, so if you are interested you can go over to my main blog and read

Now I've got Swine Flu - really

As I write on Friday, I'm starting to feel better and hope to make a full recovery in time for next week's Havering session.

Beatles Songs at Havering Folk Club

2009-07-03T08:22:00.000-07:00

I don't know why but I felt it was time to do a couple of Beatles songs this week. Linda likes "Here Comes The Sun" and Len had asked me to do my version some time so I was prepared to do that George Harrison song, with the capo on the 7th fret and everything. Wondering which I'd do next Terry asked for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" so I had a go at that. I didn't quite remember all the words or all the chords, but enjoyed busking it. That's what singing live is all about sometimes.

Before I forget, Helen did a song about the millenium and that reminded me that I wrote a song once about the upcoming change of century so I decided to dig that one out for next week, probably. It's called Century.

The Mighty Quinn - Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

2009-07-02T10:31:00.001-07:00

I should play like this more often

Old Paint at Havering Folk Club and Cajun Music Cajun Food

2009-06-25T12:52:00.000-07:00

Well I missed a week last week due to illness and I had a busy day on Wednesday in central London for the afternoon but it was good to be back at Havering Folk Club for the evening entertainment. Quite a fun night as it turned out with Bert compering in a hilarious style.

I suddenly decided to play an old country cowboy song, Old Paint which I learned originally from the second Loudon Wainright LP. It's a traditional song

I ride an old paint, I lead an old Dan
I'm going to Montana for to throw the hoolian
They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw
Their tails are all matted, and their backs are all raw
Ride around little dogies, ride around slow
For the Firey and Snuffy are a rarin' to go

Old Bill Jones had a daughter and a son
One went to college and the other went wrong
His wife she died in a pool-room fight
And still he keeps singing from morning 'til night
Ride around little dogies, ride around slow
For the Firey and Snuffy are a rarin' to go

When I die take my saddle from the wall
Lead me down to my pony, take him out of his stall
Put my bones on his back, point our faces to the west
And we'll ride the prairie, that we love the best
Ride around little dogies, ride around slow
For the Firey and Snuffy are a rarin' to go

Then one of my own songs, a request as I had the 12string guitar with me:

Cajun music, Cajun food

This is a man who knows his onions

Allons Danser

( I added a verse in cajun french that day )

This is the video from the April 1st gig.

SearchWiki Andy Roberts Music

2009-06-15T09:02:00.000-07:00

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Requests at Havering Folk Club

2009-06-11T15:40:00.001-07:00

It's always nice to get requests because (A) it suggests that somebody likes my songs and (B) it saves me having to decide what to play. The only problem is I've got two request from one person and the songs really deserve to be played on two different guitars, which is more than I can be bothered to carry for a normal singers night at Havering Folk Club. So I'm in the position of having one saved up for later, which is fine.
Last night then, we had a large number of floor singers - 19 I think, including some new people like Fanny Feeney

I played my own song "Blue" as a request and then a Bob Dylan classic, Just like a Woman. I'm sure I got the lines to verses one and two mixed up but only John would notice that :-)

Andy Smythe Trio at Havering Folk Club

2009-06-04T00:53:00.000-07:00

Last night was the guest spot of The Andy Smythe Trio at Havering Folk Club.

Andy Smythe sang mostly his own songs and some from The Waterboys, Woodie Guthrie and Leonard Cohen while strumming accoustic guitar or playing electric piano. The rest of the trio consisted of an electric bass player and another who played electric fiddle, slide guitar, electric guitar and something I'd not seen before which looks and plays like an electric viola but somehow sounds much deeper, more in the range of a cello. The songs seemed to be mostly about America.

I played a couple of songs with my cello guitar, the first being a new style for me at Havering Folk Club - a song from musical theatre.

From Evita, On this Night of a Thousand Stars.

And Roy Harper's Don't you grieve.

Linda Hartley MC at Havering Folk Club

2009-05-28T00:28:00.000-07:00

Last night it was Linda Hartley's turn to be MC at Havering Folk Club and I can tell you she was just a little bit nervous about it for a few hours beforehand but did a cracking job on the night itself. It was good to see some new faces this week, which made up for one or two regulars not being present - I don't know if they succombed to the dreaded lurgy that goes around (not really swine flu) or are Manchester United supporters lol.

I took my 12 string guitar along and played two songs in the first half:

Michael Chapman's Postcards from Scarborough - of which the video from the last time I played that song is available on the Havering Folk Club Andy Roberts website

And secondly, a repeat of my new song Yellow Boat which was videod last week by Linda herself.

In the second half there was time for another song so I played an old favourite - The Wreckers Prayer

There were floor spots from Pep & Terry, plus a solo from Terry, Foxen, JoJo, Andy Roberts, Margaret Brown, Rockin' Bob, Carol Baxter, Helen Islip, Norman Faulkner, Nikki & Lyn, Guv'nor Simon, Nick Lester (an Havering Folk Club virgin), and the first ever duet from Simon and Peter.

Another great night out at Havering Folk.

Back at Havering Folk Club

2009-05-22T00:42:00.000-07:00

Back at Havering Folk Club this Wednesday after one week's absence away in Cornwall with no guitar. It was Smolowik's turn to do the MCing and I got to play two songs:

Sitting on the bank - An old song about procrastination

and the new one, Yellow Boat.

Both are now available on the Andy Roberts Music youtube site