Havering Folk Club July 21st 2010

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.

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

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

Sitting on the Bank and The Last Nail

Wednesday 5th August Havering Folk Club

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"

Back at Havering Folk Club

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

Last Night at Havering Folk Club

It was my last night at Havering Folk Club of 2008 since I'll be missing the xmas party next week.

I started the first half with Not John from Loudon Wainwright since it was Remember John Lennon day on Monday, then Steeleye Span's version of Captain Coulston - well my version really.

In the second half I got the chance to do Sitting on the Bank, one of my own songs from very long ago.