 I've been toddling along to Havering Folk Club in Romford, Essex since July this year when I discovered the place upstairs in a 14th century pub right in the centre of Romford.
So now I have a date for my own 'featured members night' which will be on Wednesday 1st April 2009and that means I get to do a full set of songs in two halves, the first time I've done that for a few years so it will give me a good incentive to get more material up to scratch in time for that. For an idea of the kind of stuff I've been performing as a floor spot artist I've been keeping some records on a blogspot blog over here: Andy Roberts Music There's also a video track of Mozambique, which is a song I did for Splinters not the last one but the previous one, blogged at Havering Folk Club Havering Folk Club - DirectionsHavering Folk Club takes place upstairs in the Golden Lion Pub, which has an official address at number two High Street, but is better known as being on the corner by the Market Square. There's parking in the square or at the back of the pub which you'd hav eto get to off the ring road somehow. I don;t know because I always arrive by train from Romford railway station which is on the main line from London Liverpool Street. On exiting the railway station turn left and walk on down through the town centre past all the shops and banks. The Golden Lion is facing you at the bottom of the road, looking just like the picture below. Inside the pub it will be fairly quiet on a Wednesday night and you can buy a pint at the bar before making your way up the stairs past the ancient 14th century balcony to the function rooms which is where Havering Folk Club is meant to start at 8.00 or 8.15 really. Admission will be only £1 and you can get more beer from downstairs again, usually London Pride,Timothy Taylor Landlord, and any of the usual greene king offerings.
 
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Hmm ... might just have to visit the aged aunt in Harold Hill!
Glad to see that the music is going well. Keep up the good work!
Bob
It would be great to see
It would be great to see you there Bob, and any other Stormcockers on a Wednesday evening, especially April 1st.
I was intrigued by an announcement I heard about a festival last summer to celebrate Harold Hill being 60 years old. I thought to myself "that's pretty young for a hill" ?!?
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Crunched
The Golden Lion pub has only gone and declared itself bankrupt.
Closed. Gone. Finished.
So the Havering Folk Club gig will go ahead as scheduled, on or very near to April 1st but at a different venue in Romford to be announced soon.
How can a 14th century pub go bust now? I'm devastated.
Update 1/12009 :
The Havering Folk Club people are a reourceful lot however, and have found a suitable new venue very quickly. This sort of thing seems to happen regularly. There's also news that the Golden Lion has been taken over by new owners and may reopen in late January so there may be a choice of venues for the regular Wednesday night club.
In any case, the April 1st Andy Roberts gig will go ahead at one or the other pubs and has even been added to the schedule on the infrequently updated Havering Folk Club website
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April fool's day
I'm thinking of planning the logistics for this venue/ adventure.
Wherever it may be.
Is it just you or an open mic night for anyone?
chrs
andi
Havering Folk Club
Cool. It's a weekly folk club Andy, which means anyone can come along a perform a couple of songs on a normal night. Once a month there's a special guest or featured member's set, which means there's less time for floor spots but anybody visiting or new is always welcomed.
Havering Folk Club
Depending on how many singers turn up there may only be time for one song from each, that seems to be what usually happens, though not always.
Also depending on which venue we end up in, could be quite small and in either case there is no PA, just plain acoustic but the audience is quietly appreciative. Ends promptly just before 11.00pm with plenty of time to catch the last trains back towards London Liverpool Street Station (or out to Shenfield).
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Havering FC 1/4/9
Hi Andy
You are on their website so is it on?
chrs
andi
Yes, it's on . Golden Lion,
Yes, it's on . Golden Lion, Romford, back to business as usual, Apil 1st.
Tried to reply yesterday, got binned by drupal.
Waiting for hand moderator to approve my reply to my own post.
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Andrew,Yes, it's on.
Andrew,Yes, it's on. April 1st
Havering Folk Club 1/4/2009 back at the Golden Lion, Romford as usual again.
I'm contemplating my setlist, trying to whittle it down.
As you say, they've added me onto the folk club website:
okay great man!
AR/
Sorry to be a bit slow in replying but a lot being going on down here... say no more..
Trying to make it and it's looking good. Slot me in for about 10 minutes if you can.
Cheers mate
Andi Watterson
Dirty old town/shitty city/bank of the dead - our capital city!
Every city's got an arsehole [no wisecracks please I haven't got there yet!] - forlorn graveyards full of forgotten heros and heroines; sewage pipes and works; rusting gas chamber hulks; graffitti physical sprawled over ancient edifices, filthy dirty buildings, tunnels, rubbish everywhere etc. - and our proud capital city LONDON is no exception. I wonder what foreign tourists think when they enter on the rusty old raillines. Is Hong Kong / Washington / Shanghai / Dubai the same?
Suicide barrier doors on the Underground platforms before you can even get on the train. Must be near the City with a lot of desperate fiscal fickle people. Even the Shell building has got a phalanx of steely police and security around it.
The Waterloo busker on the Jubilee Line said in an American accent 'I'm busting for a piss mate,are you a busker? [spotting the guitar], don't bother it's not worth it and you need to pay for a Licence'. Perhaps he saw me as a threat of competition, but I think he genuinely meant it. Imagine being stuck down an underground tunnel all day in rat-runs of rat-infested rushing rats running around?! No thanks!
Thank God I live in the clean country air [more or less] I was a'thinking.
In the Indy today it said : Peruvian Guano Wharf [so named because it was used as a dropping off point for importers of fertiliser from Peru] is the only port of entry for journos to the G20 conference at the Excel Centre tomorrow. Yes, today, journalists are assembling on a site made from imported bird shit. Well I think that just about sums up this week's goings-on in London this week!
Am I in a foreign country? Have not seen one person remotely appearing as English for the past five mins! Haven't reached Romford yet!
Metro's April Fool picture joke site at : www.metro.co.uk/aprilfool if you believe in condoms for dogs, tartan sheep, hotelicopters, disappearing cars and bullfrog prosthetics.
Also in Metro, a £40 special torch being used by Police for detecting coke or amphs on nostril hairs. Isn't any orifice safe these days? Not an April fool BTW!
My first question to Andy Roberts will be why didn't he move to Southern Ireland years ago. Have left my guitar upstairs at The Golden Lion so hope it's safe. Roy's song 'stuck in the red in the bank of the dead' was a bit prophetic wasn't it?
cjrs
andi [in the Romford library not Wetherspoons]
Youtube
Hi Andy!
Give your vid mate a nudge and see if he can get that clip of me on Youtube pehaps ?
Don't worry if it's a non-starter. My next project hopefully will be to invest in a decent cam.
Cheers
Andi
Nick in Aldershot tonite - can't wait - we've got a carful going from Basingstoke. Can you make the Putney gigs?