Last Wednesday, January 25th was the day of the Andy Roberts featured evening at Haverfolk, formerly known as Havering Folk Club. Why did they change the name? I don’t really get it, you’d have to ask Simon or Peter. Anyway, after a recent period of not playing guitar so much really, I managed to get in just about the right amount of rehearsal time in the days before and decided to go ahead with the plan of doing three new songs and basing the rest of the entire setlist on my own material, much as I had done so for the guest night at Romford Folk Club, nearly a year earlier. The full set list for the night as actually played is viewable with links to each of the songs on my own wiki, here at : January 2012 setlist and any upcoming gigs are on the Main page, such as the one at Loughton on Thursday April 19th, 2012. Setting off for the venue was a bit traumatic, as an electrical fault had caused a series of cancellations on the main from Liverpool Street Station to Romford, so we went to see what the buses were looking like, just missed one, and saw that the traffic on the main road was choc a block. So we went back to the station and waited for the next train due, which should have been a half hour wait under the abnormal circumstances but then that one was cancelled too. There was nothing for it but to lug the two guitar cases and ourselves onto a busy number 86 bus and just sit it out as we chugged our way up along the occupied bus lanes and through the congested area around Ilford. We would arrive late for the start of the evening perhaps, but not late for my own appearance due around 9 O’clock which in the event we turned up well in time for. So that’s the transport news, then. A bit of a preoccupation with people who live in the London area I’m afraid. The gig itself went well, I thought, I was reasonably happy with the performances and the guitars stayed mostly in tune. The turn out was good, and people said they enjoyed the music, so that’s a big result, and one of the best things is that Linda’s front row video recording managed to capture the full setlist with no problems, so we have a decent audio and visual of all 21 original tunes. There’s a possibility of bringing that out as a DVD which will become the latest release from me to replace the few copies of the “Sampler” EP I’ve been carrying around for almost three years now! I think I ‘ll be turning the soundtrack into three episodes for the podcast series, and uploading a few songs to youTube as well, but the first one I’ve got processed is the finale song where I managed to get two violinists up on stage with me, namely John Foxen and Richie Barratt with Pep on Banjo and I think you can just hear Bernie on concertina and Mickie Brown on harmonica as well. Here’s Cajun Music Cajun Food live at Haverfolk
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Haverfolk January 25th
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February 1 2012, 11:42am | Comments »
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Podcast 40
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Podcast 40 is from part 2 of last Sunday’s afternoon session with more rehearsals of old songs as a trial for April 12th and a cover of Bob Dylan’s Hurricane – just because there’s time enough. Here’s the download and play link etc: Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 32.1 Mb in size, playtime 22 minutes 15 seconds :- 40 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 40.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #40 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 40
Hurricane – Bob Dylan Living Here – Andy Roberts Joan of Arc – Andy Roberts Mazet – Andy Roberts Cajun Cooking – Andy Roberts
Orbit Tower
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April 10 2011, 8:24am | Comments »
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Podcast 38 Clean Living Blues
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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #38 comes out a day late, sorry about that. Here’s the download and play link etc:
Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 40.00 Mb in size, playtime 30 minutes 0 seconds :- 38 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 38.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #38 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 38The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts Winter in Andalusia – Andy Roberts (abridged version) Now that I’m Living Here – Andy Roberts Cajun Cooking Song – Andy Roberts Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan Song
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March 24 2011, 3:59am | Comments »
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Cajun Cooking Song - Andy Roberts Original Song
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February 8 2011, 5:16am | Comments »
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Podcast Episode 27 – New Year 2011
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Podcast Episode 27 Episode 27 is the first Andy Roberts music podcast for the year 2011. Happy New Year! Right at the end of the podcast, I mentioned the January Songwriters Circle Challenge so here’s the link for that: http://songwriterscircle.co.uk Back to Episode 27 and the shownotes: Links, play, download
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The Dream is Over – Andy Roberts The Nutmeg Tree – Andy Roberts Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell Cajun Cooking – Andy Roberts Back in The Field – Andy Roberts
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January 5 2011, 5:37am | Comments »
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Live at Havering Folk Club
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Mostly I’ve been documenting which songs I’ve played at Havering Folk Club on which dates over on the Andy Roberts Music blog on blogspot but I decided a short while ago that I’d start putting those posts here instead, I just haven’t stuck to it very well! The idea was that by tagging posts with song titles, I’d be able to look up very easily and keep track of which songs I’m playing mor often than others, and help me seek out those elusive numbers that I’ve forgotten about for long enough that they suddenly seem fresh and new all over again. But the tagging system never works out quite as tidily as you might imagine, and the dates become a bit blurry as the habit of reporting promptly wears off. So one date that was remarkable was the date when the Australian duo Cloudstreet came to the Golden Lion to do a long awaited guest spot for Havering Folk Club. Wednesday 15th September. They didn’t disappoint, it was one of the most enjoyable evenings we’ve had there over the years, and I even managed to track down their own blog afterwards so I can keep up with where they are touring, ready for next time they are in the local area. As one of only a small number of floor spot artists I had the chance to play two songs, and these were: Joan of Arc Sometimes this happens, and my voice hadn’t warmed up in time for the first song, so I’ve trashed the video and instead here the song as performed for podcast episode 10. I think I’ll leave this one for a while now.
Followed by The Cajun Cooking Cajun Music song.
There’s a nice bright image on that video, thanks to Linda innovating with the video settings on her relatively new stills camera.
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October 3 2010, 7:21am | Comments »
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Cajun Music Cajun Food - Andy Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfpnThKO2XI&feature=youtube_gdata
September 22 2010, 11:54am | Comments »
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Cajun Music Cajun Food - Andy Roberts Original
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September 16 2010, 10:21am | Comments »
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10 : Andy Roberts Music Podcast
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Four Original Songs + 1 Bob Dylan in the Andy Roberts music podcast Episode 10 There’s a bit of an improvised introduction tune followed by four more original Andy Roberts music songs and a final Bob Dylan song in this weeks podcast, all played on the 12 string guitar. Two of the songs are revivals from the Andy Roberts Tapes which was recorded in 1980, the other two are a bit newer, well Shifting Sands dates back to spring 2003 as far as I can remember and the Cajun cooking song was written on that Spain trip which immediately followed, so yes, two from the tapes and two from The Gernika album. Here are the links and shownotes for Podcast Episode 10:
Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 24.4Mb in size and 25 minutes long from this link 10 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 10.mp3 There’s also a stored video file from the live broadcast over at Ustream.tv where the podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Video Podcast Episode No 10 Podcast Episode 10 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 10 broadcast on September 7th, published on September 7th 2010. Improvised Intro Ephemeral work with lyrics and music by And Roberts Joan of Ark Named after a specific Hotel in the Marais, Paris, Andy Roberts’ song Joan of Ark tends to get wheeled out every autumn due to the seasonal references. From The Andy Roberts Tapes Suitcase Another one from the tapes, and a kind of sequel to the above really. I’m not really completely comfortable with being the person who wrote this song, all that time ago, but the tune is catchy and the guitar runs were developed for the 12 string guitar, yes the same guitar. Shifting Sands I may have played this recently, not sure now, but anyway here it is again. Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts. Cajun Music Cajun Food One of the Spanish songs, and still crying out for a fiddle and accordion but I do my best with the solo guitar. From the album Gernika I Shall Be Released Music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, arrangement Andy Roberts
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September 7 2010, 5:00pm | Comments »
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Episode 5 Andy Roberts Folk Music Podcast
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Episode 5 of the weekly podcast series features 6 acoustic songs with more of a traditional folk music feel to them. Four are my own compositions written in a way that harks back to the traditional English folk song, or maybe British in some cases. It used to be a bit of joke to to an introduction long the lines of “This is a traditional song that I wrote” as if that is such a fake thing to do but these days it’s become more normal thanks to the efforts of folk singers such as Kate Rusby, Tom Bliss and many others brought up in the traditional scene for whom its natural to write songs in that style. The rest of my songs would need be described as “Contemporary Folk” which probably means they sound like they were written in the 1970s, and some of them were… Anyway, here is the podcast player and download link followed by this week’s show notes
Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 23.8Mb in size and 25 minutes 40 seconds in duration from this link 05 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 5.mp3 There’s also a stored video file from the live broadcast over at Ustream.tv where the podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Video Podcast Episode No 5 Podcast Episode 5 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 5 published on August 4th 2010. All songs performed with the six string Ibanez acoustic guitar
Sitting on top of the World – by Andy Roberts The Wreckers’ Prayer – by Andy Roberts The Rowan Tree – by Andy Roberts Captain Coulston – Traditional / Steeleye Span Cajun Cooking Music – by Andy Roberts Old Paint - Traditional
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August 4 2010, 9:13am | Comments »
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Minute by Minute - Preparation of couscous recipe with fish
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