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Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The only people I ever saw "drawn" into the CPT > for the Singalongabeard was the Councils Noise > Nuisance investigaton team :)) I think this "joke" is now wearing a bit thin. Strange we had to turn people away for our gig at the Mag on Friday night, which was rammed by people coming to see an unaccompanied traditional harmony folk group, and sold out within minutes of the door opening. Haven't seen that many people turn up at the Mag for any of the other kind of music gigs I've been to there. Weird, that, given all the Anti Folkies suddenly crawling out of the woodwork. Can we get the thread back on topic now.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It's not often you can collectively close your > street down and party. Actually, KK, your street has been collectively closed down for the last two years for a street party on the occasion of the Big Lunch. You would have got two separate flyers telling you about it last year, possibly even delivered by me :)) The only reason it isn't (unless you do it!) being closed down this year at that time is because of the reasons CivilServant gave above :) Personally, I'm going into hiding on Jubilee Day, unless I can find an anti-Jubilee party somewhere (or even hold one myself :)) )

The lounge beckons (td) Now, about the food at the CPT (or as we must now learn to call it, the GE). What times will it be served?

It was a joke, people. We don't actually ban songs. FFS :))

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > That'll be the Pied Piper belting out Stairway To > Heaven... xxxxxx Please not Stairway To Heaven, that's going on the banned list along with bloody Scarborough Fair and anything from The Sound of Music :)) Sorry admin, back on topic now, when will food be available, all day, does anybody know?

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a beautiful thing Sue. The only one I can > do is "Take it Easy" by the Eagles - any chance > for next time? xxxxxx Yes, go for it, we look forward to it and I'm sure you'll get lots of people joining in. Unless - you're having a laugh :))

Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KK - It was not a folk club, it was a sing-around > or something which meant non professional > 'singers' off the street giving it large with some > ye olde English ditty. There was no quality > control. Same difference of drunken footy fans > singing in the pub! > > I like folk anyway, and have been to a few things > Goose is Out have done/arranged. I feel that a > Singaround in a pub does not work, however it may > do in the Mag as I believe it is in a seperate > area and not the main pub where Joe Public > drinks. xxxxxxxx Our whole reason for having a Singaround is precisely that there is no quality control. That is deliberate. It's a community event where anybody, of whatever standard, can come and sing whatever they like. People don't just sing folk songs. People come and sing Beatles songs, songs from musicals, humorous songs, thirties songs, songs they have written, all sorts of things. The point is that it is people who like singing, coming together to sing. Something which has become sadly missing in a society where people go around with earphones stuck in their ears all the time listening to somebody else singing. The lovely thing about having it at the CPT was (or was originally) that some people who were in the pub already joined in the singing when it started, once they had got over their horror. Some CPT punters actually got up and did a song (and no - shock horror - not folk songs) and were then quite startled when the people who were actually there for the Singaround joined in (blimey - they know the words to songs that I know which aren't folk songs) and also on other occasions, some people were passing, heard the singing and the singing drew them into the pub. Personally I think that's a lovely thing to happen and a lovely thing to have in a local community. So let's agree to disagree on that one. Having it Upstairs At The Mag is fine, and has some advantages, but because people then don't stumble across it, it becomes something different. And there is obviously no question of the Singaround returning to the new format of the CPT/TGE, so - again - it's rather hard to know why the issue was brought up on this thread in the first place by the Anti Folk Mafia.

Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am hoping that the new place will be good etc > but I fear it is the end of a backstreet pub that > the area really needs, rather than trendy kid > welcoming bars. xxxxxx If the area "really needed" the backstreet pub that it was, I guess it would have already been doing well, and wouldn't have needed to welcome with open arms a Singaround which attracted a room full of people on otherwise (usually) quiet Sunday nights once a month.

How charming :)

Chippy Minton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - not sure why you can't see it, but if you > click on her username the userprofile states > "Posts: 37." The other 35 will have been on > threads since deleted by admin to free up space. > > This isn't unusual - you'll see you have posted > 9,150 times, but only 5,723 of these can still be > viewed live on the forum. xxxxxxxxx Yes, I did see that, but not the actual posts. The explanation is probably as you say. Anyway, enough of that, it's off topic, but I still find it odd that she should find it necessary to use this thread to have a go at people providing enjoyment for others. I hate bland pop music, but I don't try to stop a pub playing it :)) If anybody else enjoys singing, and listening to other people singing, our very well attended free monthly Singaround is now Upstairs At The Mag - second Sunday of the month. More info here! ETA: SORRY admin, you posted as I was writing the above, please delete it if you want.

Chippy Minton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > TracyLlew Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > please no more so called folk singing on > > sundays > > > please please, :)) > > > > xxxxxx > > > > Your first post on the forum, to say that? > > > > Or you didn't want to post it under your usual > > forum name? > > > > How sad. > > -------------------------------------------------- > - > > Not her first post - she registered in 2009 and > had posted 37 times. > xxxxxxx If you look a little further, you will see that only her two posts on this thread are shown against her name. If she has actually posted 37 times, she must have deleted the other 35 - or admin has.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Folk Singing would not be practical now it is one > open space. > > With Two bars people could sing and be enjoyed > without being interupted by others > who don't want to listen to folk music. > > With one open space do folk singers really > expect the whole bar to remain silent while people > sing. ?? > > Fox xxxxxxxx There has never at any stage been any suggestion that there would be "folk singing" in the new bar. The old CPT was a very suitable place to hold our Singaround (which does not just consist of folk songs, by the way, and even if it did it seems that some people have a rather strange idea of folk music) as both the then owner and then manager agreed when we suggested holding one there. The new bar is obviously completely unsuitable.

There is a quite realistic plastic duckling on the pond at Peckham Rye :))

TracyLlew Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > please no more so called folk singing on sundays > please please, :)) xxxxxx Your first post on the forum, to say that? Or you didn't want to post it under your usual forum name? How sad.

Soon everybody in East Dulwich will be following everybody else, and then our brains will all implode from information overload :))

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > effectively a new local for me, so looking forward > to checking it xxxxxx Same here - had another peer through the windows and I think it's all looking promising :)

katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ibilly99 - take your anti-Apple, foxconn > propaganda elsewhere please, or tell me about the > rabbits, George. > > Meanwhile, the CPT now has a new name.... xxxxxx Eh? Don't leave us in suspense, if this is true :))

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Baristas. Oh dear. xxxxxxxx Goodbye CPT we knew and (sometimes) loved .....

You might get more response to this if you put it in the family section of the forum?

Didn't notice those :)) I'm pleased they've painted those hideous concrete planters outside though, they look very much better than before. Not convinced about the choice of plants though (sorry, Adam ....) and I guess they probably won't be replacing those. They do screen the tables off from the road quite well, however - but I like to look out and see who is passing by! Which you can do at the Actress, because their plants are lower growing (and generally more attractive ....)

Edited because the CPR street party plans changed after I posted.

Have hauled spawn to top of tub where it is now resting on weeds just below the surface - let's hope the weather does not get even colder and it freezes :-S

Oh dear, OK I'll go and have a fish around in the tub!

I poured frogspawn (thanks lousmith) into my tub from a jar and it sank. I was expecting it to float back to the surface, but it hasn't and I can't see it in the tub (the tub is black so a bit hard to see things in it). Is it OK for it not to be at or near the surface? Do I need to put my hand in, locate it and pull it up? :-$

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Flappers: "might tattoo it to my forehead. " > > You could do, but when you're shopping or in > conversation with strangers it could cause > confusion ! > Let's stick to the sandwich board plan. xxxxxx :)) Yeh Flappers, don't do it, thin end of the wedge. Next thing it'll be DIY trepanning :)) I once read an article on somebody who did that. With a dentist's drill I think. They said it was very important to get the measurements correct so as not to drill into the brain. :)) ETA: It was some New Agey trend, I think there was a theory that it was a fast way to enlightenment (fast way to death probably, so maybe they were right :)) )