11/may/12
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Our tour of the north of England starts on Sunday with a date at Acousticity in Colchester on the way up...
Sat 12th May Acousticity, Colchester
Sun 13th May Bothy, Southport
Mon 14th May - Folk at the Prospect, Runcorn
Tues 15th May - Chorley FM Folk Show 8pm
Wed 16th May - Bromborough Folk Club, Port Sunlight
Thurs 17th May - The Topic, Bradford
Fri 18th May - Bromley Cross Folk Club, Bolton
Sat 19th May - Belmont Bull, Bolton
Sun 20th May - Raven Folk Club, Chester
More details are on our shows page. Hope to see you up there!
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2/may/12
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We really enjoyed doing some recording last week (see below) and here are some mp3s of what we did. We now have maybe 5 tracks in the can for a new CD...
Monitor mixes of:
'Fun Before We Die'
'On My Side'
Here's another slightly more dated recording. Thanks to Dave Toye for sending this live cassette version of 'Something Wrong' recorded at Horsham folk club sometime in the 70's. This is how the song used to sound before Gordon Giltrap played it with Dave on his 1973 album.
'Something Wrong' (live)
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20/apr/12
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Working on 2 new tracks this week for the next album: 'On My Side' and 'Fun Before We Die'. Both of them were written within the last few weeks and we're very pleased with how they're coming along. At the moment we're doing some overdubs and we'll put some mp3's up here shortly when we're a bit further along the line. It's nice to have caught them fresh!
There's always a juggling act with recording new songs... do you wait until you really know them and risk a mundane performance, or do you do them while they're still new and maybe underdeveloped?
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12/apr/12
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 More pics from the Hitchin gig last Sunday from Pat Jones
Here we are joined by Liz Simcock who sang some beautiful harmonies with us on 'Living on Light'.
This was followed by a final number with Liz and her band (Warwick Jones and Ian Newman) to finish off the evening.
(more pics)
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9/apr/12
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 Doing our thing at Hitchin Folk Club last night at what has become an annual event for us - every Easter Sunday for the last four years we have done a double gig with Liz Simcock and her band at this award winning club.
We have had a good turnout there every year on what can be a bit of a dodgy night for the club in the past because of the bank holiday. However it was nice to see lots of old friends there... with club organizer Maureen back to full health and positively bouncing with vitality!
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3/apr/12
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The birth of a new song today. Very fast... written yesterday, arranged for live today, intended first performance on Sunday at Hitchin. Here's a demo of the operative bits. We played it all day cos we liked it so much!
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31/mar/12
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We've been working on some recording this week and having a lot of fun doing it. The track is 'Any Month of Any Year' which is a newish song which Roger (in our guestbook) was asking about, which he heard at a gig last week.
It's a tenor guitar song and has become our live finishing song of choice at the moment and always seems to go down well. It's pretty much finished now, but it may be some time before you can hear it in full as it's the first track we've put down in ernest for a new album. Here's a sample...
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10/mar/12
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Had a great time at Lechlade River Folk Club near Swindon last night. Thanks to Jay and Ray and everyone there. A very musical well run club in a gorgeous location. Hope to see you all again sometime.
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4/mar/12
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We were experiencing slightly different temperatures this weekend on the Isle of Wight compared to the ones last week in India (see below). Here we are out and about by Tennyson's cross in between a couple of gigs.
The Quay Arts Centre on the island is a lovely venue. Here Boo does her sound check (new pic on pictures page) and thanks to Jack Jones for inviting us to his 60th. Happy birthday Jack!
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26/feb/12
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Just back from our hols in Indian country where five went wild in Goa.
left top - Dave and Boo recreate their idiotic red shades 'Stuff' pose at the top of an old fort.
above - Agnetha Howard and Frida Simcock recreate Dancing Queen on a steamy wild night of dancing.
left bottom - All friends together (l-r) Boo Howard, Boo's husband Paul, our old friend Phil Yorke, Liz Simcock and Dave Ellis.
Back just 24 hours and we've already done a gig at a friend's 60th birthday party. Just about managed to stay awake whilst coping with sea softened fingers. It's been tough I can tell you!
Next stop for D&B is a couple of dates in the Isle of Wight next weekend. See you there if you're down that way. Details on the 'shows' page.
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28/jan/12
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 The joint was positively heaving last night at Fourth Friday in the Poetry Cafe. Never seen it so full in all the 44 times we've been there previously. I know it only holds about 50 or so, but it was great to play to a front row that was almost sitting on our laps!
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24/jan/12
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S ome nice photos from Peter Hrebien at the Milkmaid in Bury St Edmunds last Wednesday.
Have a closer look on Peter's website.
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23/jan/12
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We're not used to doing so many dates so close together, but we've really enjoyed this last week ending with Horsham Folk Club last night which was the culmination of a week of playing and feeling more and more at home with each gig. Thanks Horsham!
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19/jan/12
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Thanks Faversham Folk Club! We really enjoyed ourselves last night. We hope we'll see you again next year. We were made to feel really welcome with a good turnout for the start of your new program.
Our next gig is tomorrow (Friday) at the Milkmaid Folk Club in Bury St Edmunds. Details are here.
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16/jan/12
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 A fab time was definitely had last night on our 13th visit to Twickenham Folk Club... one of the first clubs we ever played at (on 28th Feb '98). Thanks Gerry, Paul and Sue and all the Cabbage Patch operatives!
More gigs coming up this month... see below.
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4/jan/12
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Happy New Year!! to everyone. We've got some gigs coming up in January, so we hope we'll get the chance to warm you up one of these cold winter evenings...
Sun, Jan 15th - Twickenham Folk Club
Wed, Jan 18th - Faversham Folk Club
Fri, Jan 20th - Milkmaid Folk Club, Bury St Edmunds
Sun, Jan 22nd - Horsham Folk Club
Fri, Jan 27th - Fourth Friday, Covent Garden
See you soon we hope! Details are on the shows page.
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