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THE LIVING TRADITION Magazine was born in 1950 and brought £7, the cheapest model available who introduced himself to me at songs as a floor spot before they up in Chorlton cum Hardy, (preceded by several attempts half time by saying: “You should came on. At half time, Bob Diehl I Manchester, where I lived until at playing the tennis racquet in be an opera singer.” Of course, the fiddler came up and asked me the age of 28. My mother sang a cap, dark glasses and harmonica I though he was bonkers at the if I wanted to join them as their very limited repertoire of songs holder in front of the mirror in an time, and it was just about the singer was leaving. And so my from various musicals of the attempt to look like Bob Dylan!). least cool form of music I could career took a new turn. Bob Diehl, period, in what I later realised was think of, but 40 years later I found from London, was a top class a rather fine untrained contralto After what seemed like an eternity myself in love with opera and fiddle player, writer and arranger of voice, but at the time it never I finally managed to teach myself realised it might have been what I tunes. Gerry Murphy from Durham registered with me. I never heard to play three chords in the key should have been doing 40 years was the other international class my father sing or play a note, but of C and there was no stopping earlier. I still sing it for pleasure, musician in the band. He played what he did have was a Jones me; I joined the school “folk preferably when no-one’s tunes on Northumbrian pipes and English baritone concertina which society” which consisted of myself listening. English concertina and had gone lived in the shed throughout my and two others and made my childhood, and which I was told first ever appearance with this belonged to my grandfather, who group of three at a folk club at had died a long time before I a school in Hulme around 1967 was born. Every five years or so - in those days a pretty dismal “...in early 1991 I gave up, and didn’t I would open the case and have suburb of inner Manchester. I a look at the concertina, until one seem to remember we sang three sing or play a note for four years while I year I decided to take it out of the songs, the first of which was The box, pulled a bit too hard, and one Leaving Of Liverpool. Shortly half came out and the other half afterwards I read an advert in the was building up my new violin business. stayed in the case! Manchester Evening News for a talent contest at a working men’s But as the business got going and the My musical abilities extended club in Cheadle Hulme. This was to standing in front of my my second ever appearance. One violin shop began to settle down, I primary school year during rainy of the songs I sang was Dylan’s lunchtimes around the age of Girl From The North Country. I was realised that the music gets in your seven and singing the only two told by the judges that this was songs that I had in my repertoire, absolutely not what they wanted, blood and the urge gradually returned...” There Is A Green Hill Far Away and and that they were looking for the We Plough The Fields And Scatter, next Frank Sinatra! encouraged by an enthusiastic dinner lady who wanted the So it was a question of finding Epiphany number two came in to school with the likes of Alistair children to help pass the time somewhere to meet people who 1969 when I was 19 and still fairly Anderson and Dave Richardson by doing their party pieces. At did like folk music, and I was directionless, though enjoying of Boys Of The Lough. Gerry secondary school I was put pointed in the direction of the Noel singing a few traditional songs. had met Bob at Manchester reluctantly into the school choir, Timpson Centre in Cheetham One Saturday night I went to do University and they decided to whose repertoire I found to be Hill, where I gazed in awe at a floor spot at a club called the form a Geordie band, which not to my taste, and having failed the residents, people like Rosie Three Legs of Man in Salford, originally consisted of Bob, Gerry, to learn the required songs got Hardman, Tony Downes and Tony and I was the first to arrive. I went Anthony Robb (also a piper) thrown out after a few weeks. and Arthur, which in turn led me upstairs to the club room, and and John Williamson (the singer to the M.S.G. (Manchester Sports found the landlord there asking who I replaced). Guitarist and Musically, as a child I continued Guild) - a well known club at the me where the resident band was, singer Bob Morton from South to be a disappointment, having time in the centre of Manchester as they’d failed to turn up. Not Shields was recruited to add been sent for piano lessons by which ran three nights a week knowing the answer, he said: some genuine Geordie flavour to my mother and finding them and booked national guests on “Well the club’s got to go on, we the band when Anthony left as I boring, didn’t practise, and was Saturdays and Sundays, and need an organiser – you’ll do!” would have had to (and did) sing again dismissed. The same result where I saw the likes of Mike Hence my unexpected move into all the Geordie repertoire in a occurred with violin lessons Seeger, Jasper Carrott, Alex the role of folk club organiser. As Manchester accent. (Nobody ever offered by the school, for which Campbell, Jeremy Taylor, Ewan usual, I hadn’t got a clue what said anything – maybe they didn’t I also seemed to have no talent. MacColl and a host of other to do having no experience, but notice!) I was with Canny Fettle The unexpected epiphany influences. I bumbled along. Fortunately, for seven years, during which time occurred when at the age of about there was already a list of guests we recorded a compilation album, 15 I finally got a record player and Monday night was singers’ night, booked and a week or two later Room For Company in 1971, on moved away from musical silence and you got two songs. One night I turned up on the night when which I sang half a song, not after buying a Beatles record. The I decided to go along and make Dave Burland was booked. I was being considered good enough ability to actually play records led an impression, so I started with waiting to meet him when Mike to sing a whole song! I listened to me one day to bump into a fellow a short Tom Paxton song, then Harding walked into the room and the album recently and, by God, pupil who lent me an LP by the hit them hard with 11 minutes said: “Dave’s in hospital and can’t they were right! Next was a group American folk singer, Caroline of Dylan’s Desolation Row, after do the gig, but I’ve got a young album, Varry Canny, in 1975 on the Hester. This seemed to have which Drony, the compere, who lad downstairs who’s doing his late Brian Horsfall’s Tradition label. an effect on my dull pubescent had never deigned to speak to me first tour of the northern folk club Bob and Gerry then unearthed consciousness, and I enquired before, came up and whispered in circuit, and will stand in for Dave. the Joshua Jackson collection of what else might be available along my ear: “If you ever f***ing do that He’s downstairs in the bar – come Yorkshire fiddle tunes, highlights the same lines. The answer was again, you’re banned!” and meet him.” It turned out to be of which we recorded on A Trip To Bob Dylan, whose first album I Nic Jones. Incidentally, Nic’s fee Harrogate in 1977. Soon we made borrowed from this progressively So I continued to wander round that night was £10, which he gave our first trips away from the North musically aware new friend, and the folk clubs of Manchester in to Dave. West, doing a tour of London and Steve Turner that was it. I was now hooked on my torpid teenage daze, and the South East organised by Pete Dylan, Leadbelly, Buffy St Marie, finally got my first booking via an One night in 1970 I went to watch Woods when he was teaching Pioneer of the English concertina and stalwart of the folk scene, Steve Turner T Bone Walker etc., and thus agent called Dave at a folk club a Geordie band called Canny in London and where we played had to have a guitar, which came in Styal in Cheshire. Here I met a Fettle play at Broughton Park Ewan MacColl’s Singers’ Club at recalls some of the highlights from his first (and second) career in folk music. from Barratts in Manchester for “character” called Paul Connor, Rugby Club. I did a couple of least twice in two or three years. I The Living Tradition - Page 28 The Living Tradition - Page 29 was later told that this was a pretty Things started to come together and travelled from the top to the to get enough air to keep them After this, and other similar events, there to greet me, only they were prestige gig, and many great when Frank Harte and Tony bottom of the country on the bus, functioning, and feeling very I began to wonder if I was cut out 13 years older! names failed to get the gig once.
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