Shifting Sands, Wrecked Again, Dead Skunk

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

Time For The Music - Shifting Sands

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.

Nancy Kerr and James Fagan at Havering Folk Club

May 6th was the awaited guest night for Nancy Kerr and James Fagan at Havering Folk Club. Recently returned from Australia, the pair were on great form. Nancy Kerr plays violin, viola and I think it was an autoharp, while James Fagan plays an instrument with the body of a guitar but four pairs of strings. And both sing at the same time in perfect harmony.

Nancy Kerr and James Fagan's mySpace

I had the honour of starting off the evening again this week and played my own song Shifting Sands and then played a Tim Hardin song called "Reason To Believe" which a lot of people seemed to recognise, probably it was once the A side to Rod Stewart and the Faces' Maggie May.

Two More Andy Roberts Songs

This week I continued to play my own songs, one sad and one happy. The sad or rather miserable song required a chair to put my foot up on so I could play the last chord, bringing laughter. I suppose that's better than inducing group depressive psychosis.

Shifting Sands




The second song was "Back in the Field" with some audience participation in the chorus.