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Hi

Are you and MC going to Shrewsbury? We'll be there on Saturday afternoon / evening and maybe on Sunday morning / afternoon. I think you've got my phone number. I've certainly got yours, Mwa ha ha ha! I may even be able to surf the net and pick up emails properly with my shiny-new phone.

Let me know.

Ben

Shrewsbury? What's happening there? I have a number for you, I think it's the right one!

I see from elsewhere it's the Shrewsbury Folk Festival. And that it's sold out according to their site. We weren't planning on going and it seems that we wouldn't be able to anyway!

Enjoy your time there, there look to be some good people to see.

If you guys feel like seeing one of the concerts from the folk festival, Show of Hands are playing in Shrewsbury again on Saturday 14th of November. You are more than welcome to stay over, of course.

Thanks, Phil - it's nice that it wasn't me who gave the (almost obligatory) Tubthumper =/= Chumbawamba post.

If either of you on this thread are going to a Chumba gig in the future, I would probably try to come along too.

The only concert I've ever seen them play was at Bunkfest (a folk music/steam train/real ale concert in Oxfordshire), who had no idea who they'd booked. The audience was a mixture of Chumba fans who'd managed to hear it through the grapevine, and folkies who had come to watch the Northumbrian bagpipers who were playing immediately before. The band looked seriously uneasy on stage and it would be nice to see them in their element rather than wondering how the heck they were going to deal with the heckler two foot in front of them.

It was rather interesting to watch the reaction of the elderly lady sat next to me, who looked indignant at places and nodded enthusiastically at others. She may not have been enjoying it, but she was listening attentively!

I'm not sure that Eats was expecting that!
It would be nice to see them again but it's looking like it will be at a festival over the summer rather than a discrete gig. They're up for a few festivals by the look of it on the website, just no mention of the one we've booked tickets for.

When we saw them once at Buxton. The genteel surroundings filled with ageing anarchists and anti-fascists, singing along with Chumbawamba doing acapella protest songs and close harmony punk classics. Great

You've got to be careful about the elderly ladies, they may be more radical than they look...

Aaah... I hadn't realised they'd released another album. There's another 15 squids sent their way... That'll teach me for checking their website.

It looks like they're doing another Germany tour, so that knocks out a lot of dates too.

I know that they didn't advertise the Bunkfest gig - they sometimes keep them low profile so that the festival goers get a chance to see them rather than having the tickets snapped up by fans (that's my guess, anyway). You might get lucky.

Aah well, we'll keep an eye on them.

When we saw them it was after they'd released A Singsong and A Scrap (2006). They've now released 3 more since then and done a musical theatre collaboration with Red Ladder.

The festival we're off to, Beautiful Days, down near Exeter in August has only just announced their first lot of bands who are playing, more to be announced yet so here's hoping

We do always think we should go to more gigs. There is a local live scene in Glossop which gets some very good folk/world type acts and then there is the Buxton Opera house not far away which has some good shows as well. Of course we can come into Manchester but we tend to find that it becomes more expensive if we're doing that (as well as having to be sure we're on the last train home if not driving). Ah well, we do get out and about to see live music so that is always good.

I think it was about 2004 I saw them - gosh, doesn't time fly! - with daSilva (and other RL friends).

I should really go and see more, but we keep on getting distracted with hobbies that eat spare time. Birmingham is only an hour away, and Shrewsbury has an awful lot going on. I tend to forget that, and Mr Vip, despite his good points, doesn't have a musical bone in his body so it's not really his thing.