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.

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Andy Roberts Podcast #48 Shownotes

Show Notes for Podcast 48

1. Cormorants - Andy Roberts original
2. Sitting On The Bank  - Andy Roberts original
3. The Wreckers’ Prayer  - Andy Roberts original
4. Captain Coulston – Traditional folk song
5. Truro Agricultural Show - Traditional folk song
6. 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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25 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 25.mp3

Shownotes for podcast #25

1. Sitting On The Bank – Andy Roberts
2. Winter in Andalucia – Andy Roberts
3. Century – Andy Roberts
4. Colours – Donovan – arranged by AR
5. The Last Nail – Andy Roberts

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17 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 17.mp3

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 17 Show Notes

1. intro
2. Down Drinking at the Bar – Loudon Wainwright
3. Narrowboats – Andy Roberts
4. Sitting on the Bank – Andy Roberts
5. Wrecked Again – Michael Chapman
6. Postcards – Michael Chapman
7. Here Comes The Sun – George Harrison
8. The Dream is Over – Andy Roberts

I went along to Havering Folk Club last Wednesday after a week away on holiday and tried to do a version of one of the new songs I haven’t finished yet. I know It didn’t work out very well, partly because I don’t have the lyrics memorised yet and I tried reading from a crib sheet on the music stand, which has never worked out for me in past and probably never will. I can sing and play at the same time, sometimes I can sing, play and read at the same time, but not it seems in front of an audience, standing up and without reading glasses. So I’ve uploaded the podcast versions of the unfinished songs to youTube instead. The one called “Untitled 1″ in the episode 3 shownotes is provisionally called “Trevellas” now, and unfinished 2 is called “Summerhouse” but I also have a plan for combining the two songs into one single work that would be longer and more complex. We’ll have to see.

Sitting On The Bank

To recompose my composure, finding myself with a capo on fret 4 I decided on the spur of the moment to sing “Sitting on the Bank” which is a simple song I wrote when I was about 15 or 16 and thinking about leaving home soon. While uploading I noticed that the melody is developing slightly even now, I’m not sure it’s correct to call it a revival though, as it’s never really been out of the repertoire.

The Mighty Quinn

After the break and with the list of floor singers completed there was a little time left and Pep kindly asked me to do another, so after 3 pints I decided to do a singalong that everybody knows though it turned out not everybody at Havering Folk Club knows that the Mighty Quinn was a Bob Dylan song. The Manfred Mann cover version was better known in the UK in 1960s and afterwards.