Buddy can spare a dimme ... or some Loose Change?

A good day on Saturday 30th Jan at the folkie-friendly Good Intent in Rochester for the day long 'Loose Change and Friends' sessions.

Some really good sets from Border Crossing, Loose Change and Folkestone's Mike Broomfield. There was nearly twenty acts during the day from all around Kent, including Driftwood

Thank you 

Loose Change

for organising a great day!

Photos are at Driftwood's Flickr site

The Folkestone Tapes......

Driftwood had their first experience of being professionally recorded on Saturday or shall I say the poor sound engineers (Mike & his mate Steve) had their first experience of herding cats.

It was a long day which produced three of the band's current fav's and there was more kit there that you could shake a stick at (IMHO there also seems an awful lot a food there as well!. Ed)

The photos of this epic session can be found at our Flickr site here

I will let you know when the MP3 are out-and-about

Big Driftwood thank you for our patient sound engineers Mike & Steve

I understand now why they give you dog-tags on these runs....

I never understood why instead of medals you usually get on Marathons this particular tough series of coastal trail marathons hands out dog-tags as a finishers mento.

It was the Portland Bill one Saturday - Portland is basically a very hilly stone quarry connected (at this time of year) by mud & pools of water.  About two minutes after this photo was taken I clipped my big foot on a rock and went flying. Cuts and bruises, a broken garmin and some very sore ribs. Once I picked myself up I noticed the nice 400ft drop to the left... Hmmm .... Guess I have answered my question

Finished in 4:53 after the three miles of running along Chisel Bank.... Thats another roadie story

Errr is this mic on ?

Driftwood after several months of moaning & sulking by the Roadie are finally going to record some of their songs, so he can have some MP3s for the website and MySpace page.
Who is going perform this miracle of audio science (& medical - there is bound to tears! Ed) none other than folkestone's favourite singer/songwriter Mike Broomfield.  I have already started the petition for beatification for his efforts this coming Saturday... good luck Mike, you are going to need it!

Unfortunately, The Roadie will not be there witness this momentus event as he is running around Portland Bill in Dorset on another of his off-road trail marathons.
Shame....

Full report next week, so dont go changing channels.

And the band ate on .....

There was a thaw in Deal so band practise was back on for this Sunday for Driftwood. Things were going fine for an hour or so at Driftwood HQ then it got strangely quiet ... the roadie investigated and found the cause for the lack of tuneful delight - Cake.

One band member who will remain nameless ( but he knows who he is...) had smuggled it in. I despair!

A Roadie's life can be like herding cats sometime....

It may be freezing outside; Inside we are Spinning

The winter besieged Deal Folk Club on Friday had a guest spot from Mick Groves member of the Spinners. A small but select audience were privileged to hear Mick render several favourites of his friend Ewan McColl and many songs echoing his native Salford.

www.mickgroves.com

Trevor & Hannah-lou video of Deal Folk Festival FolkSong Competition 2009

The Deal Maritime Folk Festival held an competition for new folksong in Sept 2009. This was won by Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou  for their excellent Alottment Song.

I have just found the brilliant video they made of the event - Can you spot the Deal landmarks and persons of note? Hint there are at least two members of Driftwood in the audience of this deserved win...


If you cannot see the embedded video follow this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdN497zaEE

All IMHO
Roadie

PS If you look carefully you can tag the Cocos Lovers busking in high street....
PPS Isn't funny how Deal & Folkies look better in Black&White....

Gig of the decade (so far...)

The Winter Ash Mini Folk Festival at the Chequer Inn on Saturday 2nd January 2010 kick started the new year in fine style. If it had been a turkey it would have exploded because it was over-stuffed with an truck-load of talent for twelve hours (there were nearly 70 performers and 30 acts in all).

A day full of folkie heros, four deserve a special mention in despatches : Two of Driftwood's great friends Avril Cameron and Sue Watson got it together on the day to do the two most beautiful songs. We had the soulful Loose Change and the what can only be described as phenomemal Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou (and if you dont believe us check out their Allotment Song on their MySpace Site). Finally Steve O Kane and Fiona McBain did their wonderful Make Mine a Miracle by Driftwood request.

Driftwood thoroughly enjoyed themselves and a big thank you for Lin, David and Pat for coming down from the Smoke and Charlie & Vicky from Deal coming to listen to us. Driftwood photos are on our Flickr Site Click here

A Mighty Driftwood thank you to Whispering Adrian O for organising a great event...Put the 28th August in you Diary for the summer Mini-Fest.

Happy new year from Driftwood

Driftwood had a wonderful time playing with our friends at the Plough & Harrow in Tilmanstone on New Years Eve

There were lots of brilliant acts from Deal and all round Kent (I counted at least 15) ... the pub audience even entertained the players!

You can see many of them at the Ash Mini-Folk Fest on the 2nd January

To see the photos from the evening check our Flickr Site here

Thanks to Adrian O for organising another great event....