Chequers Photos

A big Driftwood thank you to Mac & Bill for putting the St Georges gig at the Chequers in Ash - Driftwood photos of the evening can be found here .

A great evening!

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

Birthday Pics....

We have now uploaded the photos from Avril's birthday party on the Driftwood Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/driftwood_deal/sets/72157623653611772/

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

feel the benefit...

Big Driftwood thank you to Di and Louie at BlueSkyPie for organising the benefit at the Lanterns for Folkestone Rescue lifeboat last Weds 24th. Well done on raising so much money for great cause!


Driftwood photos are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/driftwood_deal/sets/72157623620188930/

The long and winding (and very muddy) road.....

The Roadie completed his ultra run of 50miles - the Not for Nothing Fifty - on Saturday with his mate Simon from Deal Tri. Lovely run, really nice countryside and we were (comparatively) lucky with the weather. Much respect for the Walkers in the LDWA - some we past at mile 10 came steaming past us at 45miles. Well organised by Norfolk & Suffolk LDWA - probably spent far to long at the inviting checkpoints. Got a lot harder once it got dark, especially on a long section thru the woods - we got lost big time and ended up doing nearly an extra 6miles.  I was not in my happy place on the last 3-4miles thru somme like fields at the end. Big thanks to Si - would not have liked to have done by myself.

a bit of the French brogue...

Last night we had the Trotwood family at packed Deal Friday Folk Club. This intergenerational melee of talent was, well amazing! If you closed your eyes you could have been in a small back street pub somewhere in Kerry....

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!