Rhyl Folk Club

An unexpectedly high turnout for a wet January night – we must be getting something right. MC of the night Alan was unable to do a Burns set last week but made up for it tonight.

Aaaahh! The soft tones of Michael Hawkins; couldn’t you just listen to him all night?

“The Lock Keeper” is a song written by Canadian Stan Rogers, which I managed to stumble through without too many mishaps. Couldn’t be said of my accompaniment to Lesley’s Dougie Maclean fiddle tune.

The Melania movie, or news of it’s abject failure, has been in the news this week; apparently it’s so bad, if you showed it on a plane, people would still walk out.

“Over the Moon!” is a phrase we’re all tired of from everyone and anyone, footballers to lottery winners. Terence highlighted this in a very entertaining poem.

BMJ were back with thei high energy singalong set. Deservedly Alan gave them a set of three.

“River Run” was Alun’s song from another Canadian, James Keelaghan, about growing old, something we can all relate to.

“Gaffer” was back! No flashy dance moves tonight as he was wearing his drainpipe trousers. Instead we were enlightened as to the causes of WW1.

Today I learned that the average Brit swears 14 times a day. Good to know I’m above average at something.

To Take us up to the break, JW had a set about the lake and swamp formerly known as Cornwall.

The second half started with multicolloured Carole reading 2 of her poems. In contrast to John, these were quiet and gentle.

The calm remained with us as Geoff D sang “The Waters of Tyne”. Before the bridges were built, the only way across the river was in a small boat propelled by a bloke with a pair of whores ( that’s what he said, I’m sure).

Dave, no longer a Rhyl virgin, had cocaine running round his brain. Probably safer than Fentanyl. Rick completed the line up with more fast food containing lots of UPF and calories.

No club next week as it’s first Friday. Singers’ nights throughout the rest of February and Kimber’s Men on March 13th, definitely not to be missed.

A name that comes up quite regularly is John Wright. Sadly no longer with us, many at the club never saw him – here’s a clip.

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