Last Wednesday, January 25th was the day of the Andy Roberts featured evening at Haverfolk, formerly known as Havering Folk Club. Why did they change the name? I don’t really get it, you’d have to ask Simon or Peter. Anyway, after a recent period of not playing guitar so much really, I managed to get in just about the right amount of rehearsal time in the days before and decided to go ahead with the plan of  doing three new songs and basing the rest of the entire setlist on my own material, much as I had done so for the guest night at Romford Folk Club, nearly a year earlier. The full set list for the night as actually played is viewable with links to each of the songs on my own wiki, here at :  January 2012 setlist   and any upcoming gigs are on the Main page, such as the one at Loughton on Thursday April 19th, 2012. Setting off for the venue was a bit traumatic, as an electrical fault had caused a series of cancellations on the main from Liverpool Street Station to Romford, so we went to see what the buses were looking like, just missed one, and saw that the traffic on the main road was choc a block. So we went back to the station and waited for the next train due, which should have been a half hour wait under the abnormal circumstances but then that one was cancelled too. There was nothing for it but to lug the two guitar cases and ourselves onto a busy number 86 bus and just sit it out as we chugged our way up along the occupied bus lanes and through the congested area around Ilford. We would arrive late for the start of the evening perhaps, but not late for my own appearance due around 9 O’clock which in the event we turned up well in time for. So that’s the transport news, then. A bit of a preoccupation with people who live in the London area I’m afraid. The gig itself went well, I thought, I was reasonably happy with the performances and the guitars stayed mostly in tune. The turn out was good, and people said they enjoyed the music, so that’s a big result, and one of the best things is that Linda’s front row video recording managed to capture the full setlist with no problems, so we have a decent audio and visual of all 21 original tunes. There’s a possibility of bringing that out as a DVD which will become the latest release from me to replace the few copies of the “Sampler” EP I’ve been carrying around for almost three years now! I think I ‘ll be turning the soundtrack into three episodes for the podcast series, and uploading a few songs to youTube as well, but the first one I’ve got processed is the finale song where I managed to get two violinists up on stage with me, namely John Foxen and Richie Barratt with Pep on Banjo and I think you can just hear Bernie on concertina and Mickie Brown on harmonica as well. Here’s Cajun Music Cajun Food live at Haverfolk

Dead Skunk – Andy Roberts Finale at Haverfolk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEvtOzycdE

Andy Roberts Podcast episode #48 features six songs performed live at the opening night of the new renamed “Haverfolk” club at the new venue, the White Horse on London Road, Chadwell Heath.  Full address is The White Horse, 118 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Greater London  RM6 6NU I quite like The Stables Function Suite as a room, the acoustics are bright and loud unlike the previous venue The Moby Dick, which deadened everything. It could be a bit on the friendly and intimate (small) side if everybody turned up at once, but that’s better than shrinking the audience through having an unsympathetic atmosphere, which the White Horse doen’t by any means. So Wednesday August 24st signified the first night for the old Havering Folk Club – Now Haverfolk at the White Horse, at which I can arrive promptly by taking the train to Chadwell Heath station and then walking around the corner for about ten minutes. No need to take an additional bus, which makes it less hassle to get from as well of course. Being August, several of the regulars were away including a contingent visiting the Whitby Folk Week, so there was enough time to do two sets, and I was invited to perform an extended 2nd set to end the evening, which is how I come to have enough material to make into a podcast episode, a collection of six songs in total, four of which are self compositions and two are traditional. Here is the download podcast link, file details show notes and set list for podcast number 48: Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 33.8 Mb in size, playtime 23 minutes 29 seconds :- 48 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 48.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #48 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 48

Cormorants - Andy Roberts original Sitting On The Bank  - Andy Roberts original The Wreckers’ Prayer  - Andy Roberts original Captain Coulston – Traditional folk song Truro Agricultural Show - Traditional folk song Yellow Boat  - Andy Roberts original

  Andy Roberts Video Podcast Live from Haverfolk Cormorants

Sitting On The Bank

The Wreckers’ Prayer

Captain Coulston

Truro Agricultural Show

Yellow Boat

Another week at Havering Folk Club, my last before the refurbishment at The Golden Lion. Will it be the same when we come back in February? I played Yellow Boat (My own song) and Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi After the break there was time for one more and I sang Loudon Wainwright's "I Am The Way"

Back at Havering Folk Club after a break in Spain for the holidays I played two of my own songs:The Dream is Over and Back In The Field

John Lennon Day at Havering Folk ClubLoudon Wainwright’s “Not John” followed by “Working Class Hero” written by John Lennon performed at Havering Folk Club on December 8th 2010 by Andy Roberts.Later there was time for one more and I played "Bird On A Wire" by Leonard Cohen.

For this week’s podcast because there couldn’t be a live show, so  I’ve done something a bit different. Instead of recording the show and then maybe ending up with some songs for youTube, I’m making the podcast out of videos that I have already on there. It’s the best of my youTube channel from 2010, my pick of five from the most popular songs on there, strung together with a little bit of introduction. Links, play, download

Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 28.0 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 06 seconds :- 28 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 28.mp3 Episode 28 Shownotes

One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views) Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song

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Last time I made it to Havering Folk Club I played two Beatles songs, "A Day In The Life" and "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"A Day In The Life - BeatlesBungalow Bill - BeatlesThen there was time for one more after the break so I sang one of my own songs, The Wreckers Prayer.The Wreckers Prayer