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Whitby World Music Festival I am compere for the
Resolution all weekend. This is a last minute warning on this festival, 21st
to 23rd October 2005. so if you are reading this after that don’t bother. If
you are in time however, as well as the Spa venue, this is an all day
Saturday and Sunday event. I am not sure if it is officially part of the
festival, perhaps it is more kinda like fringe. Below is a run down on the
acts that I will be introducing in my unique way. Pay particular attention to
2 on Sunday cos that is when Adrian Spendlow and The Answers are on. Will
anybody introduce them with a specially written poem like what I will be writing
for all the other acts! Saturday 2 to 10 9I think) Cal Williams TBC The Red Hot Whitby Kippers Ed Parish Rail Road Bill Dot Wales Three Foot Ninja Dan Webster The Good High Plains drifter Sunday (2 till 8 I think) (I am doing Viking Sagas for
kids at 12 in the Spa) The Adrian Spendlow Band Bob Fisher The Lunar Lets The Dangleberries Manfat Voodoo Lucid This is from
the bands page earlier: STOP PRESS Exciting new project The Adrian Spendlow Band - or whatever we are going to call ourselves.
Adrian Spendlow and
the Girls was suggested but Jeff of Classic
thought it was me and my daughters?!!? We are brand new and gigging already.
Double bills with international acts, supports for friends (who in turn are
supporting us!) and headlining at festivals. (More of that on the
chat page) We are Samantha Thompson on electric
lead Jane Stockdale Vocalisation Wendy Woodford Drums Adrian Spendlow words We improvise! Ideal for chill-outs,
Literature festivals, Restaurant performances etc. Mellow, laid back but we
rock. Poems chosen at random are introduced and generally chatted about as
the band listen in and then they work out a way to go from there. It is so
cool audiences don’t believe us that it is all fresh and first time that way.
We headlined at Otley Black Sheep Festival after only one jam session and
filled the night on our own. (See
gigs for
more detail) Jane is a member of Percussion Café and world
music choir Chechelele plus she used to headline festivals with the amazing
Frankly My Dear. Wendy was on Spendlow The DVD. Classically trained
she is qualified to teach piano and percussion. An Evelyn Glenny pupil she
has also worked with Nicko McBrain and with Simon Rattle at the Royal Albert
Hall among other places. She has worked with the Birmingham Symphonic and
Hilary Daven-Whetton AND she knows how to tune a triangle! Adrian has, well this 200 plus page website is full
of his accomplishments, they do include jamming with Martin Fletcher’s Usual
Suspects, Celtarabia and Tim Hain and the Works. He has performed at
Cheltenham Literature Festival, Henley on Thames Festival of Music and the
Arts and generally all over the place. (400 poems to commission this year) |