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folk nights at the Rose and Crown in Walthamstow
Ah, are there sessions, too? Despite going to Walthamstow Folk Club for years, I don't think I've heard of these.
The next guests at WFC will be @owl 's band The Embers, coming up this Sunday.
https://www.yeolderoseandcrowntheatrepub.co.uk/whats-on/walthamstow-folk-club-the-embers/about
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I don't think there are sessions but I'd be surprised if Elvers couldn't get a legit show - they've always occupied a very simlilar place in my brain as Embers and not just because of the similar names and the fact that they're both On Here.
Speaking of I didn't realise @owl was in Embers! I know Sam through non-bike muso channels. Unofficial LFGSS meetup on Sun?
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Oh nice! Love those guys. Sundays tricky for me out in the Kentish boonies with the kids these days. Will keep an eye out for more gigs tho. Cheers Oliver.
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On this week at the Rose & crown is Bob Collum! Fuckinell. Haven't heard that name in years. I used to gig with him before I was even in the Tacticians, so this must have been pre-2005. My old band Daddy Long Legs had a residency at club in Bethnal Green called the Pleasure Unit. We put on gigs there every other Sunday and had Bob play a few times. He was a real sweetheart. Lovely songwriter too.
DLL was pretty much my life from 2003 until 2007 but we didn't really much of a legacy. Hardly any photos, no video that i'm aware of and no music online - oh except this "lost recording" I stuck up a while back. https://dllarchive.bandcamp.com/track/nasty-goreng-the-lost-recording
Man the Pleasure Unit was fun. We did a live music pub quiz, had a genuine Turkish whirling dervish act, a travelling jewish bluegrass banjo dude and we once put on a full brass band.
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Dooks-Fatberg
I've really enjoyed these posts and I'm really enjoying the new Elvers too. I've also really admired your approach to production - you're much more about capturing the cool stuff as much as possible, whereas my tradition comes from the old rock way of double tracking everything, approaching it more as a construction. I've tried to take more of your approach for my acoustic stuff, because I think that's where it works best - we have traditions in music and we should either deliberately respect them or deliberately fuck with them, but we should imo always do either one deliberately.
I'd love to see you guys at one of the folk nights at the Rose and Crown in Walthamstow if you ever fancied it - people go there specifically for the tunes, so it avoids a lot of the awkwardness, which I also hate.
The last gig I did was at a crusty bar in South London and I could hear the table in front of me's conversation more than I could hear my songs. So do you chuck a rock star fit and tell them to shut the fuck up? Can't do that. But do you soldier on when no-one can hear shit? Bit undignified at nearly 50. I'm just past that I think - I might do another Barrack Room Ballads record (I had the whole thing ready to go last year but my dad died and I found myself completely bereft of anything to say that wasn't grief) but I'm not sure I ever want to play those songs live.
But I've started picking a guitar up again recently and I realised I'm like you. I like making music - outside my wife and my family and my dog, it's the only thing that gives my life proper weight and texture. And I like the camaraderie of being in a band. I like the ritual of meeting up on a Saturday and going out for a beer afterward. I like making stuff. I even like the gigging, as long as the table at the front isn't louder than I am.