horsemouth back from the leigh folk festival 2018

it was a bright sunny sunday horsemouth and his posse (myk and john clarkson) arrived slightly after mid-day to the meet up point with jo and nick (a later meet with dave and lara and their friends was planned also).

almost immediately they saw the hoy shanty crew - who ended out with horsemouth’s favourite rolling down the river - a song on the pleasures and possibilities of working the container boats between southend and tillbury. then a walk to the end and some chips and then back up to the fisherman’s chapel (horsemouth is advised this is the correct punctuation) for the meet up with dave and lara. the band (masal) were a therminist/ harpist and a dude playing effect and doing the mixing - the box by orbital looms large over this sort of thing but horsemouth was pleased to hear the harp (he’s recently taken up dorothy ashby).

then back do the estuary side to get a beer and then some abortive queuing to get into stick in the wheel - some people got in but horsemouth, john and myk were away to alisdair roberts, a violinist/ guitarist neil McDermott and three french singers tartine de clous (geoffroy dudouit, thomas georget and guillaume maupin from the charente region) in a crammed fisherman’s chapel.

Tartine de clous - Les enfants sans soucy from Moving Animal Pictures on Vimeo.


this was horsemouth’s favourite gig of the day - early music style french singing with alasdair’s distinctly scottish voice on top - a great cover of anne briggs’ you go your way my love (with one of the french dudes playing the guitar and singing the ground and everybody else harmonising, awesome dudes awesome).

then away back down the hill for a restitutive coffee before attempting to get in to see diamond family archive (once again failure) - leading to an excellent surprise in the men diamler set... and thence to the beach to round it off (while listening to bob collum and the welfare mothers).

horsemouth regrets... er... not seeing more music (and not coming up on the saturday) sorry people - next time.

thank you very much all the people who helped put it on -horsemouth bought the t-shirt (he’s not sure if it is an effective means of donation but at least he’ll look good while doing it).