Thursday, 18 December 2008
Wobblies show guests Steven Clark and Dave Featherstone
The line up for the Wobbly Songs concert on 18th Januaruy is taking shape.
Last night we confirmed that the extremely talented Steven Clark will be joining us. This is a bit of a coup given how busy Steven is these days
Liverpool based, but moving to Glasgow soon, songwriter and singer of angry songs Dave Featherstone walked into the Morrisons session last night and we conscripted him for the show too.
Dave's a fine guitar player and singer with a rather quirky delivery which draws you in while it's taking you by surprise. - och don't ask, just come along and listen!
More soon.
Ken
Last night we confirmed that the extremely talented Steven Clark will be joining us. This is a bit of a coup given how busy Steven is these days
Liverpool based, but moving to Glasgow soon, songwriter and singer of angry songs Dave Featherstone walked into the Morrisons session last night and we conscripted him for the show too.
Dave's a fine guitar player and singer with a rather quirky delivery which draws you in while it's taking you by surprise. - och don't ask, just come along and listen!
More soon.
Ken
Friday, 12 December 2008
UPDATE: The Wobblies concert 18th January.
Things are coming together for the Songwright Festival
Wobbly Show on Sunday 18th January.
Tickets will be £7.00 and £5.00 (concs)
We don't know who'll be sitting in with us yet, but we've been working on some good arrangements of the songs.
The audience better come prepared to sing. That's all I'm saying.
Ken.
Sunday, 30 November 2008
The Johnny Cash Fulsom Prison show
The Johnny Cash at Fulsom Prison Show was last night at the Glasgow Media Access Centre.
Andy Brammer from Wakefield came up and delivered a narration and sang a selection of Johnny Cash songs. We were the backing band, and we did a few of the songs ourselves. That's Andy on the far right of the pictures.
The audience were very appreciative and we had a rerr wee night.
We'd only met Andy on Thursday and there was hardly any rehearsal time so it was real seat of the pants stuff. Great fun though.
Big thanks to GMAC and the SWP for hosting the event.
Monday, 24 November 2008
Wobbly Songs - Fanning the flames of discontent.
The Glasgow Songwright festival is running in January 2009, again in parallel with Celtic Connections.
As a part of this we'll be putting on our Wobbly Songs show on the Sunday 18th of January in Dow's in Dundas Street.
This was pretty successful last year especially in the light of John taking ill and Steven Clark going on holiday, so we had to do the thing with just me and a bunch of press-ganged pals at no notice, and no rehearsal time. It was a big busk.
It's a testament to the talents of Jim King, Jim McKenna, and Dave Featherstone that we carried that gig off and people generally agreed it was a good show.
Well Songwright have asked us to do it again, which is nice, so we'll try to make sure John's there and we have a complement of guests joining us.
Detils of timing and tickets will appear on the Songwright website in due course.
Ken.
As a part of this we'll be putting on our Wobbly Songs show on the Sunday 18th of January in Dow's in Dundas Street.
This was pretty successful last year especially in the light of John taking ill and Steven Clark going on holiday, so we had to do the thing with just me and a bunch of press-ganged pals at no notice, and no rehearsal time. It was a big busk.
It's a testament to the talents of Jim King, Jim McKenna, and Dave Featherstone that we carried that gig off and people generally agreed it was a good show.
Well Songwright have asked us to do it again, which is nice, so we'll try to make sure John's there and we have a complement of guests joining us.
Detils of timing and tickets will appear on the Songwright website in due course.
Ken.
1968 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison event
We're playing a fundraiser for Cultures of Resistance on Saturday 29th November at the GMAC cinema in Glasgow.
This is down to Ally Hulett reccommending us to Andy Brammer who's organising it.
It's a night of songs and narrative celebrating .................
Johnny Cash.
Erm.
I was never that fond of Johnny Cash and as a result his music largely passed me by in my journeys with the muse, but I'm a trouper (translate as musical whore) and I'll have a go.
John has no trouble with this. His house is wall to wall records and cds and there's some Johnny Cash stuff in there - and he knows the songs. (If you know John you'll understand why I'm not surprised he knows these songs.)
However, getting involved with this has made me have a closer look at Cash and his work. A lot of the songs are good political statements.
It didn't occur to me that he was a bit of a lefty. Well you live and learn.
Timing, ticket prices etc TBC
More later
Ken
This is down to Ally Hulett reccommending us to Andy Brammer who's organising it.
It's a night of songs and narrative celebrating .................
Johnny Cash.
Erm.
I was never that fond of Johnny Cash and as a result his music largely passed me by in my journeys with the muse, but I'm a trouper (translate as musical whore) and I'll have a go.
John has no trouble with this. His house is wall to wall records and cds and there's some Johnny Cash stuff in there - and he knows the songs. (If you know John you'll understand why I'm not surprised he knows these songs.)
However, getting involved with this has made me have a closer look at Cash and his work. A lot of the songs are good political statements.
It didn't occur to me that he was a bit of a lefty. Well you live and learn.
Timing, ticket prices etc TBC
More later
Ken
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