Scary Driftwood....

And they did not need makeup!

Driftwood played Halloween at the Rare Breeds Centre in Kent on Thursday and Saturday - A couple great evenings as we were playing in the departure lounge for the tractors taking people to get the bejeebers scared out of them in the woods ....

Some 800-1000 people had Driftwood with a very creepy Adrian O acting as the MC (think of a mix of funeral parlour meets Widow Twankie and you get the idea) inflicted on them [In my humble opinion the 'woods' were a relief to most of them Ed.!].


The set included all the greats like 'Bad Moon', a 'Drop of  Uggy's Blood' and 'What should we do with the Drunken Vampire'.... enough said.

Well done Adrian for doing all four nights.

The Rare Breeds Centre is fantastic and inspiring place. It gives people with a variety of needs a home and a real anchor in the community and its got some pretty amazing animals too! http://www.rarebreeds.org.uk/

Driftwood Video @ the Astor

Driftwood played the Astor Cellar sessions during the recent Deal Maritime Folk Festival - This Video is by Martin GoodSmith



Just in case you cannot see the Video here is the link http://youtu.be/wuRguEZywT8

Deal Maritime Folk Fest 2010 - We are Driftwooded out!

What a great weekend ! So many acts and great music throughout Deal this last weekend. We reckon there was about 100 performers (there were a lot of dancers on saturday) all doing their stuff for free.

Sue is busy building her own 3 string Nuru Bass after a pretty amazing concert at the Astor with Nuru Kane & the BFG.

A massive thank you for all of you who supported us at our eight sessions - especial thanks to Pat & Lin from London, the lovely Lynda, Jan & Peter for the photos, raffle & support... We totally enjoyed all the sessions we caught - what a lot of talent there is in Deal & Kent!

Video of us in the Ship is >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehd_55O6UgU

Hope to get our flickr pics later in the week

Blean Woods Benefit 11th Sept

The new Driftwood lineup

Driftwood had a great day playing at the Blean Woods Fest for the Kent Wildlife Trust down at Strode Park in Herne - Bottles, Adrian O and the Whitstable Hoodeners were on the billl. ( as too were some very large vikings, wooden horse and a dancing badger - did I mention the rather strong ale they had there ?) ...

A really enjoyable day we did a hour set and then spent a couple of hours busking to small groups of the public ... we even did 'Manchester Rambler' for the Rambers Stall!


Our Photos will be here 

Driftwood Lite at Ash Mini Fest 2010

Driftwood Lite (Sue abducted by aliens again - aka the 'family') played at the mini folk fest organiser by by Adrian Sullivan at the Chequers Inn in Ash (between Canterbury & Sandwich). We really enjoyed ourselves - great company and great music....

Big thanks to Adrian for organising & inviting us....

You can find all our photos at our flickr site here

Ash Folk & Curry evening 31st July

Big Driftwood thanks to Adrian O for organising the Folk & Curry evening at the Chequers in Ash..

Driftwood playing as trio as Sue had a note from the family.

Enjoy yourself ....Driftwood Summer Ball

A big thanks for the all performers who wasted (or got wasted ? Ed.) a lazy driftwood afternoon in Kent.

Special mention in despatches to Dave & Maggie for being nimble hosts and feeding the assembled hordes....

Never has so much cake be eaten by so few....

Pictures can be found here

Driftwood go back to school....

Driftwood 'Lite' (without Rose who had to stay in for detention at work) played for their most enthusiastic audience at River Primary School in Dover on Friday 16th July.

Some 120 year 1 & 2  joined in to the Smugglers Song, Pirate's song, yellow submarine, whale story and a edited version of the 'drunken sailor' (the Grumpy pirate).

Driftwood Videos from Hythe

Driftwood videos from the Hythe Festival session are now online in shiny HD....

The Video can be found at our YouTube Site here

Driftwood at the Hythe Festival

The Driftwood collective were busking in Hythe High street yesterday as part of the Hythe Festival on a very hot day - big thanks to the organisers for inviting us, Mike & Lynda for their support, all our friends & family who came, Emma for the drum jam and the staff at the Kings Head who kept us refreshed....

Photos of the day can be found here

A couple of videos (in HD says the Roadie Ed.) will follow

Pics from Wickhambreaux fest...

Pics from Sunday 30th May Loose Change & friends session at the Rose Inn in Wickhambreaux - includes Loose Change, Ramblin Boys, Bottles, Heather & Jim from Rochester, Quidnunc, Jim, Don and Driftwood collective.... apologies if we missed anybody! Photos are here

Rumble in the Jumble II:

Driftwood and Mac Mckean did a monster three hour set at the St Leonards' Spring Celebration in Deal

All the pics can be view here

Busy weekend coming up - Friday off to support Mike Broomfield  in the Ship in Folkestone, Sunday we are with Loose Change in Wickhambreaux Beer Fest and Monday evening  at the Chequers in Ash supporting Mac & Clive at a Curry evening

Driftwood playing AIG in Deal....

Driftwood playing 'Show of Hands's Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed - one for bankers & politicians everywhere.....



Busking in Deal on 8th May 2010....

Just in case you cannot see the embedded video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EjSlXhiyqs

Driftwood playing at Canterbury Climate Fair 2pm on 15th May

Canterbury Climate fair is next weekend - 15th & 16th May in Central Canterbury (The Parade and St George’s St ) between 10am  - 4pm. Organised by Canterbury Greenpeace.

There will be eco-traders, NGOs, ethical exhibitors and green entertainers. Stalls include CPRE, Greenpeace, Dover Bees, Fairtrade, Oxfam, Eternal Energy, Slow bread, Greener alternative, FOE, Canterbury Plants, People & Planet, Sustrans/Spokes, Wildwood, Friendly Soaps, Driftwood, Conker Conservation, WEDG, UKC, Moven Smooth and New Internationalist Deal With It will be having a stall there on Sunday 16th - so call in and say hello....

Driftwood are playing at 2pm on Saturday (its Rose's birthday) - there is a excellent line up for the two days:


Saturday: SpyPlane, Adrian O, Deal Hoodeners, Stuart Pendrill, Loose Change, Les Cruttenden, Driftwood, John Barden & Brian Rogers, Mac & Clive and RedEye + more to be confirmed


Sunday:  Fred Holden, John Gisbey, Mike Wood, Dave Ferra, Spygenius, Stuart Pendrill, Loose Change, Bill and Chris, Jim Bryden, Bottles, Standard 5, The Bluegrass Boys and Gavin Randall (but not necessarily in that order!)
http://www.canterburyclimatefair.org

Driftwood Busking in Deal 8th May

Driftwood busking in Deal High St on Saturday 8th May - Joined by friends from Deal Folk Club -Lynda, Eddie, Cath and Adrian.

We got moved on by the management of the one armed bandit place fronted by a 'coffee shop'. Thank you for bigging-up our street cred!

Big thank you to all those who donated to St Leonards repair funds.

Driftwood are playing on the 22nd May at 2pm at the 'Spring Celebration's at St Leonards Hall in Upper Deal

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/driftwood_deal/sets/72157624017021016/show/with/4588539241/

Driftwood playing at Ash 23rd April

Driftwood are playing at the Chequers Inn in Ash on Friday evening 23rd April - Bill Howarth is organising the evening ...

Canterbury Climate Fair - 15th + 16th May

Canterbury Greenpeace are organising a two day Climate Fair on the 15th & 16th May - Driftwood  will be playing there (probably on the 15th) and many of our friends from Deal Friday Folk Club are doing sessions. More details to follow...

The Climate Fair will run from 9am to 5pm on the Saturday and from 10am to 4pm on the Sunday.
There will be campaign stalls, entertainers, Fairtrade and organic produce stalls, and displays stretching along The Parade and St George’s Street between the ancient clock tower and historic Rose Lane.

Canterbury Climate Fair website: http://www.canterburyclimatefair.org/
Canterbury Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/canterbury

Gigs Glore...

The Driftwood Gigs webpage has been updated with 10 spots over the next few months http://www.driftwood.uk.net/gigs.html ... more coming so watch this space

The Secret Sea Celebration... Weds 24th Feb Folkestone

There is a benefit evening for the Folkestone Rescue an independent lifeboat service at The Lanterns 24 Rendezvous Street Folkestone CT20 1EY
The evening will have a 'sea theme' and there will be a real electic mix of indie bands, comedy, singers, poetry, folk and perhaps even the odd piece of Driftwood ...Cost £5 in advance or £7 on the door ....
Folkestone Rescue : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117470281791

The St Valentine's weekend.....

Busy weekend coming for all us Driftwooders. On Friday we are doing a mega practise at Sue's (we are in process of learning a some new (old) songs for our Folkestone Gig on the 24th) - So looks like we will miss the Deal Friday Folk Club again (hear there was standing room only at last friday's). [on the following 19th Feb Trotwood from France are playing]

On Saturday is the official re-opening of the Astor Community Theatre (Stanhope Street Deal CT14 6AB). Dave & Maggie are singing in Choir at about 2pm and at 4pm there is EP launch of Deal's fab Cocos Lovers. 
BTW : The Astor & Smugglers Records are hosting a weekly open session in the balcony on Thursdays from 7:30 if you fancy it


Saturday is also the AGM of Deal's green group DealWithIt at 2:30pm at Dealability in Victoria Road - we are sending the Roadie as an official delegate.


Sunday [just after the canoodling & chocolate Ed] sees the running of Deal Tri's Dover Half Marathon  at the Duke of Yorks School Dover starts 10:30am - Some of us are helping and we are sending the Roadie on the race as our official delegate..... Then a sound check in the Folkestone venue


Yes going to be a busy one ... a real massacre!