Havering Folk Club Open Night

Another Open Night session last night at Havering Folk Club and I played quite late on in the proceedings but refrained from singing in French as I am want to do after a few pints.

Instead I previewed a rediscovered old song of mine for which the chords had been lost but now they are found. The song is called "Now that I'm Living Here" and here is the 1980 version on Last.fm:

Now That I'm Living Here - Andy Roberts or maybe it's just called Living Here

Then there was a repeat of Bob Dylan's 'Mozambique" from the Desire album. Here the video from the previous time I played that one.

Postcards From Scarborough - Havering Folk Club

This is a song by Michael Chapman which was very popular with floor sport performers at folk clubs so I thought I'd revive it at Havering Folk Club

Andy Roberts - When The Waters Rise - Havering Folk Club

Last week's songs were recorded by Linda on a little Canon ixus stills camera, from the audience which captures a different kind of atmosphere. This song is "When The Waters Rise", a second attempt. Not available on last.fm yet

Havering Folk Club

Havering Folk Club

I played for the first time at Havering Folk Club last night which was fine. There's no amplification, just a nice upstairs room with good acoustics and a small friendly crowd of regulars. We can get there on the train really easily so this is better than anything that exists in East London, which is not a lot.

I sang in the first half:

* Cormorants
* The Nutmeg Tree

later:

* The Wreckers Prayer

which got the audience going in the chorus. I'll be going back to Havering Folk Club