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 on: Yesterday at 11:13:04 PM 
Started by abby (tank girl) - Last post by Chris from Fieldtown

Two in the next couple of weeks. Fairport at The Acapela, Pentyrch, on Tuesday. And Huw Williams at The Barry Folk Club in a couple of weeks time.


I'd love to see Huw Williams again. Brilliant songwriter and so many years since I booked him and Tony for our folk club. Enjoy.

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 on: Yesterday at 09:55:10 PM 
Started by abby (tank girl) - Last post by mickf
Two in the next couple of weeks. Fairport at The Acapela, Pentyrch, on Tuesday. And Huw Williams at The Barry Folk Club in a couple of weeks time.

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 on: Yesterday at 09:43:34 PM 
Started by Dubai Danny - Last post by mickf
I'd love to see Oysterband, or the 3-piece, at Cropredy.

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 on: Yesterday at 08:59:47 PM 
Started by Harbottle (Martin) - Last post by Nick
Saw Lunatraktors and Masal last night in Oxford. Absolutely fine stuff.

Masal are a harp/modulo synth duo, while Lunatraktors are a percussion/a-capella/accordion and occasional hazard-bear costume be-decked duo. Both properly weird and wonderfully complementary, though probably not for the faint hearted!

More of this kind of thing please!

Cheers

Nick

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 on: Yesterday at 08:52:10 PM 
Started by abby (tank girl) - Last post by Nick

Upcoming gigs... Marillion, in about half a hour.

I'm in Aylesbury, enjoying the Waterside Theatre once again. It's quite the hotbed of prog. Will be back up to see Steve Hackett in a month or so.

Cheers

Nick


Time flies... Steve Hackett tonight. Technically this should also be in Recent Gigs - they've just played a set of his solo material. Genesis stuff coming up in 15 mins or so...

Cheers!

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 on: Yesterday at 11:55:57 AM 
Started by davidmjs - Last post by Shane (Skirky)

Tonight's R4   Archive Hour is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Some  folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile.


A friend on another forum points out that at an hour’s duration the programme is actually shorter than some of their songs…😁

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 on: October 10, 2026, 03:51:26 PM 
Started by Paul - Last post by davidmjs


Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Well, there we are then .  🙂


No. Just no.

Jules


The argument is simply that the Dead were the house band of the 70s/80s computer bods (Apple, MS etc etc).  Which they sort of were - loads of connections with the foundation of the web etc etc etc.  It's not really a musical argument.

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 on: October 10, 2026, 02:31:03 PM 
Started by Paul - Last post by Alan2


Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Well, there we are then .  🙂


No. Just no.

Jules


It's just struck me that the statement echoes Mr Lennon's remark that the  Beatles were 'More popular than Jesus/'  - I hope it doesn't prove as disastrous.  

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 on: October 10, 2026, 02:28:44 PM 
Started by Paul - Last post by Jules Gray

Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Well, there we are then .  🙂


No. Just no.

Jules

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 on: October 10, 2026, 01:33:38 PM 
Started by davidmjs - Last post by Nick Reg



Tonight's R4   Archive Hour is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Some  folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile.


Stupid attention gathering headline but it's actually quite an interesting programme I think (or looks like it will be given a news article I was reading about it yesterday).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qmb

Here's the article (unpaywalled) https://archive.is/CB3sZ

Hopefully, one day, somebody will answer as to why so many (particularly American) Deadheads are right wing.  I suspect it's that RW/Utilitarian crossover point, but what do I know...

I literally don't know what to do with the "I have no time for the Beatles" bit.  It's utterly meaningless to me.  I bet a large percentage of the people whose music you have time for had an awful lot of time for the Beatles themselves?  


Thanks for the article- will definitely read later.

I don't understand America,  and its politics  are equally baffling to me. I have noted  reactionary tendencies  in elderly hippies in our own country and I can't work it out either.  Something to do with  extreme individualism  in outlook. There are libertarian s of the left  and I  think I might be one,  and there are libertarians of the right. I'll leave it there.

The Beatles thing has become my joke on here,  and I think I should stop.
I know what you mean about the influence- Ian Hunter- now there's a rocker I admire - said people who don't  understand Dylan don't understand rock.n roll.  He is entitled to say what he likes of course, I shall continue to enjoy  my Mott the Hoople records. Dylan i shall not understand/continue to ignore   till I feel.like  hearing him  if ever.
Hunter is the King of rock n roll.

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