Fo'c'sle Programme September 1999

3 Opening Night - Anything Goes

At our "Anything Goes" evenings, come to listen, perform, make friends or just to fetch the beer - with the emphasis on any new skills or music (or tastes in beer or gossip) picked up during the Summer. Hammer your dulcimer! Strip your cloggie! (who said that?) Make the Welliekin ring!

10 Debby McClatchy

Well-known banjo frailer and singer from the USA. A quick club visit before she goes back home after a summer of UK Festivals, so think how lucky you are and give her the send-off she deserves. An entertainer of wit and imagination, she excels in flat-top guitar and concertina, as well as many 'lost' folk instruments (ukelin, tremaloa and marxaphone) - but primarily she is recognised as one of the finest banjo frailers in the accompanying style. Her traditional background and combination of good-time, old-time banjo, glorious singing and freestyle Appalachian stepping has made her a club and festival favourite.

17 Anything Goes to Netley

Downtown Southampton needs all the watering it can get during the Boat Show, not to say being crowded and impossible to park in, so we are moving the club session to our house at 3 Manchester Road, Netley Abbey, for tonight. Look out for some special attractions:- who is in the Musicians Gallery? (yes, we really have a gallery).

Travel Instructions

Get off the bus at The Red Lion (don't be deceived - this USED to be a pub but is now flats) or drive along the Shopping Street (Victoria Road) and turn down Manchester Road (unmetalled - it is named after the battleship not the City) nearly opposite The Oven Door Bakery, with its permanent high canopy out over the pavement, and the chemist. No 3 is one before the end on the left, down a driveway. We suggest you bring your own booze but DON'T bring more than you intend to drink - this is not Jane's benefit night!

If you come by car, please park on Victoria Rd if you find our yard full.

24 Old Friends

John Clachan (on the left, vocals, bouzouki, recorder) & Dave Illingworth (on the right, vocals, guitar) with traditional and contemporary songs, a tune or two and some blues; "two nice ordinary blokes who really enjoy singing" - and happen to be rather good at it. Many rave reviews - they deserve to be better known. Dave is the talented survivor of a multitude of fun folk and near-folk groups like 'Brahms, Liszt & Legless', Aunt Fortescue's Blues Rockers', 'Pigfoot' and 'DPN'. John Clachan is well-known and highly regarded round the area, particularly at the Devizes Folk Day singarounds.

"Thank-you very much for the tape. I think your version of 'Smile Sam' is better than the original". Heather Slipper, organiser of the Fox & Hounds sessions at Lyndhurst, Nr Southampton.

"Another stand-out artiste at the singaround was John Clachan who plays guitar and mandola and sings all sorts of songs about all sorts of subjects. Keep an eye out for him in the area because he should be playing to large audiences". Folk on Tap, October 1996.

Submitted by Trevor Gilson 7 April 1999, revised 19 July.

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