Sound Clips

This page contains sound clips from recent club nights. Arthur Wakefield sounds can now be found in the Arthur Wakefield page

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19/05/2024

After missing a bank holiday Sunday two weeks ago, here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 21/04/2024. We start with Andrew who popped in on his travels which in the past had led him to Australia followed by a Bob Dylan song. Mike brought us back to Lancashire while Rik played a tune from over in the US of A on his eeelectric geeetar (apologies for poor attempt at an American accent). Victoria was not talking about her own bones, Tony was into drinking, Jeff was away in Arthur Wakefields green hills, Spence presented us with a flower and Dave told a tale about Bill. The plebs sang of an Irish river followed by a plea to the world, Egriega channelled his inner Tom Waits but with a guitar not a piano and finally Andy and Dave had a couple of songs from Bollington songwriters, the first from Carl Butterworth but we end with an Arthur Wakefield Lullaby.

21/04/2024

Here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 21/04/2024. Mike started with an old cowboy song before the plebs told of a dangerous tree and about trying to wake up a prophet. Victoria sang very birdlike and first timer Spence knows his colours. Tony had an early Welsh goodnight and Ben was also leaving early but stayed to hear Steve's telling of a Ralph McTell story and Pieter brightening the place with sunshine. Finally you wait ages for a Flanders and Swann song to come along and then you get two on the same night so here they are, rounding off another great night at the club.

07/04/2024

Here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 07/04/2024. Mike started by getting the audience choir warmed up with a Pual Simon song, so Uncle Pleb followed with another plus a jazz standard. Ken had something on his mind, Victoria blamed someone else, Ralph found a stranger and Phil told of a pirate. Egriega bared his soul before Andy and Dave finished the night with a classic folk club closing song.

17/03/2024

We had a quiet Singers Night on 17/03/2024 so no recordings but there were excellent spots by Pieter Egriega, Uncle Pleb, Ken and Andy and Dave but like we always say, you never know what you are going to get, and so we happened to be joined by a passing didgeridoo player! And very good he was too! Wish I started recording the evening now!

10/03/2024

Here are the audio clips from the Guest Night with Ian Bruce on 10/03/2024. What a pleasure to see a packed room again and why not with such a popular guest. But first we had an explosive start from the Southsiders with a song about packing dynamite in rocks. Andy and Dave followed musing about the fickle nature of time. That left the stage ready for the welcome return of Ian Bruce with his mate, Kev. We start with the Graham Miles song which he has to do because by just about everybody's opinion, noone does it better. This is followed by a song off his award winning 2023 CD 'Together Forever' which he sings with Mike Silver (I wont ennumerate the list of other collaborations on this CD as the list is quite long). Then we have the title track from his 'Above Wild Water' 2012 CD and we finish with a song from the 'The Land That We Love' 2022 CD which are all Will H Ogilvie poems put to music by Ian. (Go to Ians web site for more info about his music) Below are a few blurry photos of the night but you get the picture!

03/03/2024

Here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 03/03/2024. MIke started by waking us up with a knocker up man albeit with a sore throat, from there we go to Uncle Pleb telling the sad story of the death of Tom Bowling and then their own song about a curious dancer. Ken told of an internal river and Tony of a quiet noise. Richard had a woman following her love and Pieter said not to be afraid. Steve gave us Nick Drakes end of day song and then Andy said goodbye in a light operatic fashion and on that note everyone left.

18/02/2024

Here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 18/02/2024. Mike got us going again but was missed as the recorder had not been switched on. We therefore start with Les and Rik having fun on the Bayou, Ben for a change had a delicate instrumental, Dave had his golfing poem, Ralph brought back his clarinet from last time but also brought his son Edmund with an old Humblebums number. Phil had a couple of short poems marking dates in February, one for the Munich air crash and the other the discovery of penicilin. Richard blew us away, John sang his song about segregation and then Pieter told a tale of a tail of a fish. Andy and Dave finished the night ensuring everyone was dancing out the doors after another great night.

04/02/2024

Here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 04/02/2024. Mike gets us going with a tale of two horses and Victoria had a haunting version of an Alex Glasgow song. Carl was all at sea while Helen was remembering Warren Zevon. Tony sang of Kathy and surprise clarinettist Ralph was fighting a battle. Andy was unusually lost for words leaving Les to invite us to a waltz and John recalling a wind in the trees.

21/01/2024

No recordings done this week. With the bad weather we didnt expect many to turn up. As it happened 12 brave souls did turn up and a jolly time was had by all.

07/01/2024

Firstly a couple of pieces of sad news to impart. Over the weekend we heard from Pete Wood that Michelle Holding had lost her battle with cancer. She was a fine banjo player and singer and played frequently at the club as guest and on singers nights with Bonz. Here is a recording from their visit in 2019.

Also we heard last week that Phil Hare had had a heart attack over Christmas and passed away. He guested at the club a number of times and was a highly respected guitar player. Here is one of my favourite youtube clips of him exploring the delights of DADGAD.

Here are the audio clips from the Singers Night on 07/01/2024. Off we go with the first club of the new year and Rik starts off almost bursting into tears followed by Les in his fancy car. Mike gets everyone awake, Phil has some seasonal words that include the recent storms, Tony is over in Ireland and Ken has a bunch of flowers. Dave is looking at Woody's pastures and Steve is watching the snow. Rik and Les end the selection with a Pete Seeger song that could be a good new years resolution for everyone in the world.

17/12/2023

Here are the audio clips from the Xmas themed Singers Night on 17/12/2023. Thanks to everyone who turned up to provide an evening of festive fun and jollity although we start with Rik singing about people with worries but once Les and Tim and Ann joined in playing and everyone else joined in singing, any worries anyone had must surely have been forgotten. Carl and Helen told of some inspirational banners followed by an ELPing of a famous Christmas song (see what I did there?) . Mike was pursuaded to give us a George Formby song, Victoria had some snow observations, Les had some time observations and Dave told a Robert Louis Stevenson poem. Steven had some tricky Scandinavian tunes on the concertina, Phil told of Winter and a father and son conversation. Uncle Pleb reminded us of their Bollington ode before morphing into Laurel and Hardy (musically that is - not physically). Tim and Ann told of Steve Earle calling for Woody Guthrie to return but then went back to the Christmas theme with holly berries. That left Andy and Dave to end with two Christmas songs and as the second one says - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. And lets add Have A Happy New Year to all.