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Winter in Andalucia
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May 24 2012, 9:42am | Comments »
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Shifting Sands - Andy Roberts
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January 16 2012, 4:35am | Comments »
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I only came for my Suitcase - Andy Roberts at Romford Folk Club
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November 16 2011, 1:22pm | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
San Francisco by Maxime le Forestier. Andy Roberts at Romford folk club
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October 5 2011, 1:52pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Podcast #48 – Opening Night at Haverfolk
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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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It’s Podcast 44 – Romford Folk Club part 2
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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
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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
Podcast 42
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i’ve made this podcast episode 42 out of the remaining recordings from the Sunday afternoon session with more rehearsals of old songs as a trial for April 12th. Here’s the download and play link etc: Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 42.6. Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 31 seconds :- 42 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 42.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #42 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 42
Gernika – Andy Roberts Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts Clean Living Blues – Andy Robert /Linda Hartley Never Was to Be – Andy Roberts / Daryl P Hall Winter in Andalucia – Andy Roberts
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May 7 2011, 4:18pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Andy Roberts Podcast 41
http://andyroberts.me/podcast/andy-roberts-podcast-41
Podcast 41 is from part 1 of a Sunday afternoon session with more rehearsals of old songs as a trial for April 12th. Here’s the download and play link etc: Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 32.6. Mb in size, playtime 22 minutes 35 seconds :- 41 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 41.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #41 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 41
Cormorants Doing it all alone Migration The Last Subway Home Joan of Arc
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April 28 2011, 2:23pm | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Primark’s message from the high street: tight belts are in
Where is the biggest Primark in Europe if it isn’t in Romford then? This article titled “Primark’s message from the high street: tight belts are in” was written by Larry Elliott, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 28th February 2011 20.20 UTC First it was upmarket John Lewis. Then it was mid-market Asda. Yesterday it was the turn of pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap Primark to tell us that spending in the high street is slowing fast. For the City, the news from Associated British Foods, Primark’s parent company, was a nasty surprise. Weaker sales at John Lewis are one thing – they can be explained away by the squeezed middle classes trading down. But if teenagers and young mums are having second thoughts about a £2 vest at Primark, that suggests consumer spending is tanking. Primark is doing better than its competitors at the value end, but only because it is absorbing the impact of higher VAT, dearer cotton and more expensive fuel in lower profit margins. It is winning market share from rival fashion chains, where prices have been rising and recent sales figures are a lot weaker. The government always knew the first few months of 2011 were going to be tough, but it took comfort from the strengthening of some of the “forward looking” indicators in February. These include the three purchasing managers’ surveys for manufacturing, construction and services, all due this week. But recent history suggests ministers would be wise to pay some attention to what is happening to consumer spending, which makes up two-thirds or more of the economy’s output. Back in early 2008, when the economy was contracting but there was, as yet, no official data to confirm as much, retail sales were one of the first storm warnings. Are recent downbeat messages from John Lewis, Asda and Primark telling us something again? The answer is almost certainly yes. First, it is not just the high street where belt tightening is going on. Sales of homes and new cars are both going down. Second, the increase in VAT to 20% has been compounded by the sharp increase in oil prices caused by the spreading unrest in north Africa and the Middle East. Real incomes are being squeezed hard. Finally, there is growing speculation, fuelled by evidence that three of the Bank of England’s nine-strong monetary policy committee voted last month for higher interest rates, that the days of ultra-cheap borrowing may soon be over. Whether that proves correct is, at this point, immaterial because even the threat is affecting consumer confidence. This does not smell good.
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March 4 2011, 9:43am | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Consider the crab
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2011/02/10/crab
One of my favourite ways to eat crab is as part of a seafood paella or crab couscous. But then again, if you have enough quantity of nice big pieces of white crab meat then you can’t really beat a crab doorstep sandwich. When I go to the fishmongers stall at Romford market, there is usually a choice between some huge Cornish edible crabs at about £13.50 each, cooked but undressed, or the little Cromer crabs dressed and packaged for £2.50 or £3.00. Some of the dressed crab has been frozen though, and the compulsory ingredients listing reveals that potato starch has been added to the brown crab meat. You don’t get much white. The undressed crab, on the other hand takes about half an hour or so of work to extract all of the crab meat from the various body parts including legs claws and those peculiar cavities they have withing the main body shell.
This article titled “Consider the crab” was written by Oliver Thring, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 8th February 2011 09.30 UTC If ever humankind so destroys this smogged and wheezing world that we have to colonise a new planet, and find one, and settle there, we might be surprised to find crabs waiting to meet us. Something about the decapod form seems especially well suited to survival, and crabs have evolved independently and repeatedly for millions of years. The 4,500-odd species of crab are superbly adapted for a multitude of habitats. They live in tropical and sub-tropical lands and in every sea in the world except the Antarctic, though even that could soon change. They range from the oyster crab, smaller than a pea, to the Japanese spider crab whose leg span can reach almost four metres. Some of the most lumpen ones are coconut crabs, named for their ability to crack coconuts with their pincers and which live on coastal lands from Kenya to the south Pacific, climbing trees and stealing pans from kitchens. Crabs feature in the cooking of every territory they occupy, scuttling their way into woks and casseroles from here to Micronesia. The crab we know best in this country is Cancer pagarus, with the pedestrian pseudonym of “edible crab”. They’re useful because, like the delicious Dungeness crab of the Pacific northwest, you can eat the meat from both their claws and bodies. The word crab in fact descends from those claws, coming ultimately from the Indo-European root “gerbh”, meaning to scratch or carve. (A useful tip if ever a crab pinches your finger is to tickle its belly. This supposedly makes it release its grip but you’ll forgive me for not having tested it myself.) If a crab loses its claws it will die slowly of starvation, but if it loses one then, remarkably, it’ll grow another. That’s because all crabs – indeed all crustaceans – moult their exoskeletons as they grow, forming new and stretchier “cuticles” under the old ones and squeezing their way out. There’s a video of a giant spider crab moulting here, a deeply unsettling spectacle. A newly moulted crab fills itself with water and then slowly replaces that water with muscle. This has an important result in the kitchen: up to 50% of the weight of a recently moulted crab will be water, while an actively growing animal has much denser, sweeter flesh. Recently-moulted crabs are the stock-in-trade of the soft-shell industry: the best are the blue crabs from the eastern seaboard of the US and Canada, and you also get delicious ones from the Venetian lagoon. Preparing a soft-shell crab for the table is a rather brutal process, and in any case you’re unlikely to get them fresh in this country. Cleaned soft-shells freeze well, and that’s the only practical if pricey way of getting hold of them in this country. They’re delicious deep-fried in a simple batter but I like the look of Atul Kochhar’s recipe using mustard oil and serving them with a sweet chilli chutney. Female crabs tend to have more meat than males and the pregnant ones or “berried hens” supposedly have the best flavour of all, but the Marine Conservation Society says that pregnant females should never be caught. There is currently a dearth of information on European crab stocks and we can’t say whether they’re being overfished: “it will be several years before enough data is gathered to gain a good understanding of the trends in landings”, in the MCS’s words. But one advantage is that, unlike fish, crabs are always caught live, so immature ones can be thrown back into the sea until they’re big enough for the pot. One of my favourite recipes is crab with linguine, quick and easy as anything, and the European version of the chilli crab dishes ubiquitous in Singapore. According to Niki Segnit’s magisterial Flavour Thesaurus, apple, avocado and citrus are some of crab’s favourite companions, but I’m sure you have your own preferences. What’s your favourite way to eat a crab?
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February 10 2011, 6:30am | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
Shifting Sands - Andy Roberts Music Havering Folk Club
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February 4 2011, 7:50am | Comments »
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Mozambique - Havering Folk Club at The Sun, Romford
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February 4 2011, 7:38am | Comments »
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I posted to flickr.com
Romford Market
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Romford Market
January 1 2011, 11:18am | Comments »
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The Last Nail – Romford Folk Club
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Last Tuesday I rushed out from finishing my podcast Episode 15 and caught the train to Romford, just like so many times on Wednesdays, except this was to visit Romford Folk Club. It’s always on Tuesdays, so not the best fit with the weekly podcasts, but I’ve proven that it can be done in time without even missing the opening number. The guest artists were supposed to be from Yorkshire but because of some hiccup, a couple of musicians who normally host the folk club at Lee On Sea, Mick and Pete stood in at short notice and entertained all with a hearty selection of mostly Irish and Australian folk songs. I’ll be playing a guest spot myself at the Romford Folk Club in April next year, the 5th I think, but on Tuesday I played one Andy Roberts original song, The Last Nail.
The Romford Folk Club meets on Tuesdays at 8.00pm downstairs at the Sun, London Road, Romford RM7 9QA The Last Nail Lyrics Above the stone walled harbour, or down the winding hill That’s where they built the boatyard, and the structure stands there still. Not much boat building happens now, just repairs and fitting out but when the wind rattles the boatmasts, you can hear the old boatbuilders shout: Will you pass the last nail over and I’ll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she’ll be ready for the race. Our grandfathers put up the boatyard, to build the fishing fleet, more than fifty boats in the harbour, and shops all down the main street then the steam age brought in the drifters, boat builders became engineers Now the wind blows straight through the boatyard, there’ll be no more boat building here Will you pass the last nail over and I’ll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she’ll be ready for the race. With a keen eye for staying in business, they switched over to build leisure craft And the weekend yachtsmen snapped them up, no expense spared fore or aft Then wooden hulls went out of fashion, the order book emptied last year So the bankers foreclosed on the boatyard, and there’ll be no more boatbuilding here Will you pass the last nail over and I’ll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she’ll be ready for the race. Now the Vikings invented the clinker for both strength and shallow seas and the herring boats followed the coastline, until the canning ships found the key There’s a regatta here every August, and the whole village turns out again But the Sea Queen’s no real competition, and it’s guaranteed to rain Will you pass the last nail over and I’ll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she’ll be ready for the race. Above the stone walled harbour, or down the winding hill that’s where they built the boatyard, and the skeleton stands there still. No more boat building happens now, not even fitting out but when the wind rattles the boatmasts, you can still hear the old boys shout: Will you pass the last nail over, we’ll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she’ll be ready for the race.
October 18 2010, 12:25pm | Comments »
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Havering Folk Club
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Havering Folk Club continues to meet weekly during the summer months at the Golden Lion pub in Romford even if there are less people able to attend due to being away on holidays or at festivals. With fewer performers turning up on a Wednesday, in that case, it means a bit more time for each and so I ended up singing four songs last week. The first was to align with the previous night’s podcast episode 6 which was loosely themed around the fingerpicking blues style and I’ve been having the tune of Hesitation Blues going through my head ever since so that’s what I played. Secondly, I’d been corresponding about The Wreckers Prayer so that got another airing. Linda wasn’t there to shoot any video so I’ll include some alternatives takes from the Andy Roberts Music youtube account in due course. After the break or rather just before the break, I got called up again and decided on the spur of the moment to do two Beatles songs. I Feel Fine and Norwegian Wood
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August 15 2010, 6:21am | Comments »
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Adrian Nation Plays Romford 24th July
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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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