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I posted to youtube.com
The Streets of Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xWrx9X3xIo&feature=youtube_gdata
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April 23 2012, 9:54am | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
The Streets of Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xWrx9X3xIo&feature=youtube_gdata
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April 23 2012, 7:24am | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Loughton Folk Club http andyroberts me wiki Loughton…
http://distributedresearch.net/status/loughton-folk-club-http-andyroberts-me-wiki-loughton/
Loughton Folk Club http://andyroberts.me/wiki/Loughton_Folk_Club
April 13 2012, 2:47pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Haverfolk January 25th
http://andyroberts.me/andy-roberts-youtube/haverfolk-january-25th
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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February 1 2012, 11:42am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Podcast #48 – Opening Night at Haverfolk
http://andyroberts.me/havering-folk-club/podcast-48-opening-night-at-haverfolk
Andy Roberts Podcast episode #48 features six songs performed live at the opening night of the new renamed “Haverfolk” club at the new venue, the White Horse on London Road, Chadwell Heath. Full address is The White Horse, 118 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Greater London RM6 6NU I quite like The Stables Function Suite as a room, the acoustics are bright and loud unlike the previous venue The Moby Dick, which deadened everything. It could be a bit on the friendly and intimate (small) side if everybody turned up at once, but that’s better than shrinking the audience through having an unsympathetic atmosphere, which the White Horse doen’t by any means. So Wednesday August 24st signified the first night for the old Havering Folk Club – Now Haverfolk at the White Horse, at which I can arrive promptly by taking the train to Chadwell Heath station and then walking around the corner for about ten minutes. No need to take an additional bus, which makes it less hassle to get from as well of course. Being August, several of the regulars were away including a contingent visiting the Whitby Folk Week, so there was enough time to do two sets, and I was invited to perform an extended 2nd set to end the evening, which is how I come to have enough material to make into a podcast episode, a collection of six songs in total, four of which are self compositions and two are traditional. Here is the download podcast link, file details show notes and set list for podcast number 48: Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 33.8 Mb in size, playtime 23 minutes 29 seconds :- 48 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 48.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #48 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 48
Cormorants - Andy Roberts original Sitting On The Bank - Andy Roberts original The Wreckers’ Prayer - Andy Roberts original Captain Coulston – Traditional folk song Truro Agricultural Show - Traditional folk song Yellow Boat - Andy Roberts original
Andy Roberts Video Podcast Live from Haverfolk Cormorants
Sitting On The Bank
The Wreckers’ Prayer
Captain Coulston
Truro Agricultural Show
Yellow Boat
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August 25 2011, 2:50pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
It’s Podcast 44 – Romford Folk Club part 2
http://andyroberts.me/podcast/its-podcast-44-romford-folk-club-part-2
Andy Roberts Podcast 44 Episode 44 of the Andy Roberts Podcast continues the soundtrack from the Romford Folk Club guest night of April 12th with six more self written songs performed live. Here’s the download and play link etc: Download podcast 44 Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 38 Mb in size, playtime 26 minutes 20 seconds :- 44 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 44.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #44 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 44
Yellow Boat Gernika Doing it all alone Migration Joan of Arc The Dream is Over
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June 12 2011, 11:27am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Podcast 43 – Romford Folk Club 12/04/11
http://andyroberts.me/podcast/podcast-43-romford-folk-club-120411
Podcast 43 is made from the first part of the soundtrack of the April 12th gig at Romford Folk Club Here’s the download and play link etc: Download podcast 43 Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 37.6. Mb in size, playtime 26 minutes 4 seconds :- 43 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 43.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #43 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 43
Hold On Below Time For The Music Waiting Work Is Done Cormorants Narrowboats
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May 23 2011, 10:03am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Four Seasons Folk Club – Andy Roberts Podcast #32
http://andyroberts.me/andy-roberts/four-seasons-folk-club-andy-roberts-podcast-32
For Andy Roberts Podcast #32 we have the full set of songs performed live in front of an audience at the Four Seasons Folk Club, in West London on Saturday February 5th, 2011. This was the billing: Four Seasons Folk Club, Polska YMCA, 20 Gunnersbury Ave., London, W5 3QL. Nearest underground Ealing Common, District & Piccadilly lines. Saturday, 5th February. Concert begins at 7pm sharp and finishes at 10pm. Featured artists will be Ian Martin, Andy Roberts, Smolowik, Smolen (with P. Smolen and A Kotowicz). 4 Seasons Folk Club So the soundtrack on the podcast features six songs, all written by Andy Roberts and played on the siz string Ibanez acoustic guitar, this time tuned to concert pitch which made for some different interpretatios of the songs. Some are played with a capo on the fifth fret, others open. Here’s the web player, download link, tracklist and show notes for Podcast Episode 31:
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 from this link 32 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 32.mp3 Podcast Episode 32 Show Notes Show notes and information for Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcast Episode 32: Episode 32 Recorded live at 4 Seasons Folk Club on February 5st, published on February 8th 2011. 1) Cormorants Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2) Yellow Boat Words and Music by Andy Roberts 3) The Rowan Tree Words and Music by Andy Roberts 4) The Last Nail Words and Music by Andy Roberts 5) The Last Subway Home Words and Music by Andy Roberts 6) The Wreckers Prayer Words and Music by Andy Roberts
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February 9 2011, 6:50am | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Podcast
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2010/06/07/podcast
Podcast Podcast Idea OK, I woke up on Wednesday morning with an idea in my head that just seemed to be a natural way forward for the music side of things. A podcast. It’s not a big stretch really, but for some reason hadn’t occurred to me before. I’ve been doing a weekly live music broadcast on Ustream.tv since July 2009, nearly a year ago, and sometimes a few people login and say hello, others just lurk, and it’s very much a live, ephemeral event. Some of the songs I perform I also record using the ustream system, and they can end up on youTube, and some of them I don’t. It depends how I feel at the time. By keeping the time and day of week the same – always on a Tuesday at 7.00pm UK time – I thought it might encourage a small group of regulars to build up, and there are indeed some people who do drop in on a semi regular kind of basis. But if I don’t bother to send out a tweet and a facebook status update, or set up an event, then it can seem kind of like pushing a boulder up the side of the mountain. It can fall back again so there’s nobody there except myself and Linda and a couple of anonymous attenders who may or may not be paying attention. But then again, people have also mentioned to me face to face that they were there listening on an occasion, but not logged on, so it’s not really anonymous, that’s just how it can seem subjectively, which is not really something to be at all worried about. And That’s all OK as far as it goes, because the Tuesday night shows allow me to rehearse a few songs that I might end up performing in front of a live audience at the Havering Folk Club the next day, and help to build up the collection of videos to the Andy Roberts Music youTube account, which can get thousands of views sometimes. Andy Roberts Music on USTREAM But it seems I may have been missing a trick. It struck me that for all sorts of reasons there can be a few people who might have wanted to turn up on any particular Tuesday evening but can’t make it that week, or forget, or go out, fall asleep, desperately need to watch the stupid box or cook dinner etc. I toyed with the idea of moving to a different time of day. Maybe a Sunday afternoon or something like that. But Tuesday evenings are convenient for me as it happens. So maybe a couple more people could tune in if they could do so at their own convenience, asynchronously, using the simple podcast technology that’s been around on the internet for several years now. There could be a choice between downloading audio only, as in conventional iPod mp3 player, or a video podcast. I’ll learn to pipe more than just live webcam video into that at some point. So nothing much is going to change with the Tuesday evening live broadcast music shows, except for this: Instead of setting Ustream to record individual songs as and when, every week the whole show will be recorded, 20 minutes half an hour or whatever, and made available as a podcast which can be subscribed to in iTunes, downloaded, accessed from this blog or via RSS etc. The thing that podcasts do best. So you can listen or watch when you like. Andy Roberts Podcast So I’ve decided to start off with a plan, and this is the plan: The new Andy Roberts Podcast will go live in July 2010, with a prototype starting next Tuesday and ongoing during June, so I can learn what needs to be done and how it all works out. The best way to find out how to subscribe for now, is going to be to subscribe to the RSS for this blog. There’ll be another post just before July telling you how to subscribe in iTunes or get the podcast automatically delivered to the podcast player of your choice. Once we’re underway in July, the whole podcast idea in the context of the Andy Roberts music project will then be subject to some good old plan /do / review reflective practice with no doubt, a series of iterative cycles which really start with the prototyping in June.
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June 7 2010, 10:34am | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Adrian Nation Plays Romford 24th July
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2010/04/12/adrian-nation-plays-romford-24th-july
The good news today is that Adrian Nation has been confirmed to play Romford, The Golden Lion on 24th July 2010 with myself, Andy Roberts as support. So I’m really excited by this, having seen Adrian play a few blinding songs a short while back when he visited Havering Folk Club briefly. It will be great to have the chance to watch him play a complete set to see the full range of what he can do with that amazing acoustic guitar technique. And I have the great privilege of getting to play an opening set of my own on the night, so I can start worrying about my setlist already! Adrian Nation, Romford Gig Details Who: Adrian Nation Date: Saturday 24th July Time: 8.00pm Venue: The Golden Lion, 2 High Street, Romford, Essex RM1 1HR Admission: £6 Support: Andy Roberts Adrian Nation – Five Finger Rapids Video
At the recent Regional Final of Live and Unsigned Adrian went through to the next stage, the Area Final, and is now just one step away from performing at the O2 Arena in London. Adrian Nation at Havering Folk Club on Sat Jul 24, 2010
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April 12 2010, 4:52am | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Rowan Tree Folk Song
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2009/10/01/rowan-tree-folk-song
The little wild rowan tree (sorbus aucuparia) in my front garden is looking great at this time of year, although half the berries are gone already thanks to hungry blackbirds. I planted it there about ten years ago, and it’s taken its time to grow upwards in the shadow of a great big sycamore, but in the last two years it has managed to get itself firmly established and is turning into a mature specimen tree. I was told that its not uncommon for people in Scotland to plant rowan trees in front of houses, partly from sentimental attachment to the wild Scottish countryside, and also to help keep the witches away. I didn’t know anything about that at the time, but it does seem to have worked.
Rowan Tree Song So I wrote my song about the rowan tree, whilst I was in Scotland as it happens, and then worked on the music and finishing off back home. Motivated by the approach of Halloween, which tends to get celebrated at Havering Folk Club, I’ve tried it out twice now, once at the regular Tuesday Evening 7.00pm webcast and once at the folk club last night, where it was encouragingly well received. There’s no video from the session last night, but the early prototype from the webcast is embedded below, followed by some form of the lyrics. Sometimes called the mountain ash, this is a native rowan tree, not a cultivar, and the berries glow a light red colour in the autumn sunlight, making for welcome food for blackbirds and thrushes, although they always leave the more difficult bunches at the end of delicate branches until last, due to the danger of falling off.
Lyrics of The Rowan Tree
Lyrics to “The Rowan Tree”, a folk song by Andy Roberts Come hear my story, it’s a tale of four witches but I could have added three more And heed my advice if you’re troubled by witches Just plant a Rowan tree outside your front door And the branches sway in the faintest of breezes the berries are red bright and fair. And I’ve not had much trouble with those witchee witches Not since I planted my Rowan tree there Well the Witch of the West was cunning and sly She had me always on the run And I never knew which way her nose was pointing Not until after she’d been there and gone. And the branch tips dance…. planted my Rowan tree there The Witch of the East was just counting the years and somehow that three became five. Then her time was up and she vanished away Now nobody knows if she’s dead or alive. And the branches sway…. planted my Rowan tree there The Witch of the South was trouble from the start Her fancy was playing with fire The anger rose up as the coals glowed white and the smoke billowed higher and higher And the branches sway…. planted my Rowan tree there The Witch of the North is not like the rest She uses her powers for good As the Rowan tree watches and nods in approval and keeps us both safe from the dark witchee wood And the branches sway…. planted my Rowan tree there So that was my story the tale of four witches I could have mentioned three more Now heed my advice if you’re troubled by witches Just plant a rowan tree outside your front door And the branch tips dance in the faintest of breezes The berries are red, bright and fair. I’ve not had much trouble with those witchee witches Not since I planted my rowan tree there.
Rowan Tree Berries
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October 1 2009, 3:02pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.wordpress.com
Andy Roberts - guest night
http://andyroberts.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/andy-roberts-guest-night-2/
Andy Roberts - guest night
Originally uploaded by LindaH
Andy Roberts - guest night Andy Roberts Singer Songwriter Havering Folk Club Golden Lion 2 High St Romford Essex April 1st 2009 8pm Tickets £1
March 4 2009, 10:56am | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
Andy Roberts sings "Mazet" at Havering Folk Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPBh0-zLeOA
February 20 2009, 2:46am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.wordpress.com
Snow in London - Highway Blues
http://andyroberts.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/snow-in-london-highway-blues/
Snow in London on PhotoPeach with music by Andy Roberts singing Highway Blues at Havering Folk Club. Snow in London on PhotoPeach
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February 7 2009, 6:01pm | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Mozambique at Havering Folk Club
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2009/01/27/haveringfolkclub-andyroberts-mozambique
Well, here’s a funny thing. Peter Walters from Havering Folk Club has started putting up some live performance videos on youTube and here’s one of me me singing “Mozambique”, often a popular song from Dylan’s Desire album of 1976. Click here to view the embedded video. This would have been recorded on September 3rd 2008 according to this entry on my music blog
I think the visuals survive the youtube compression OK and the sound quality is simply what you’d expect from the built in mic of a video camera. Thanks Peter for taking the trouble to do the editing and format conversion etc. By the way, if anybody is in the East London/Essex area for April 1st 2009 that’s when I’ll be doing a whole set of my own songs and others as a featured member of Havering Folk Club for the evening and any support would be appreciated. It would be great to see you there in our quaint little pub, The Golden Lion, Romford where the club meets Wednesdays at Eight.
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January 27 2009, 10:41am | Comments »
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