Sue

Bloody hell Woodie, this sounds bad. There must be somebody "official" who would take some notice?

I get SE22 magazine every month. Must live in the posh bit, dahling :) And hey, I think it's a useful mag, and not just because it advertises our gigs :)) and it's had an excellent makeover lately.

I'm going to add my twopennorth. Yes it was bad luck. But bad luck aggravated by ............ (I won't say it). It takes about ten seconds to take the key out of the ignition and lock the doors. We live in South London. If I'm taking stuff in from my car parked outside my house, I lock the doors in between each twenty second trip to the kitchen, never mind leave the engine running. Sorry everybody who's defended the person who had their car stolen.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I remember the good old days when you could park > your car in the middle of the street with all the > doors open and the engine running, go and have > lunch with a friend and come back two hours later > to find the engine still running, the windscreen > washed and a fifty pound note tucked under the > wiper. > > I blame a breakdown in family values. xxxxxx :)-D

Never mnind Christmas opening, are any Lordship Lane restaurants going to be open on New Year's Day? Last year we ventured out, not hungover at all, oh no, and the only place open was Sema Thai, which was absolutely rammed, and after what seemed like a ten year wait, we got a completely disgusting meal (I think they must have got some of the waiting stuff to help out in the kitchen) and haven't been back since though we used to go there quite a lot. Franklins with your wonderful black pudding on toast/Welsh rarebit/Scotch woodcock for a fiver, are you listening??

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Hi > > > > Can you help re a street tree issue? > > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hello? Anyone there?? xxxxxx Well I had a phone message from a tree person at Southwark Council, to the effect that somebody had passed on a message to him that the wrong tree had been planted outside my house. Eh? I'd be quite glad if after eighteen months ANY replacement tree had been planted outside my house! He left his first name only and a number. I have left two messages on the number and nobody has called me back :-S Sometimes life is just too short .....

*Anna* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I understand that there may be a lot of post to > get through...thats kind of fair enough after a > strike...but more my concern is who is delivering > the post and is that where the problem lies for > post delivered at the moment? My "postman" > yesterday had jeans and a tshirt on, earphones in > and smoking a cigarette, he was throwing the > rubberbands from his piles all over the place and > leaves his post trolley at the corner of the road, > unlocked, while he does each little area (10-20 > houses)...I would never have known he was a RM > postman rather than a junk mail delivery man > unless I saw my phone bill in his hand! Very > concerning! xxxxxxx Royal Mail always uses casuals in the run up to Christmas. If you are concerned about this one, why not complain to the manager at Silvester Road, with your reasons? Clearly whoever recruited him was not exactly on the ball.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > New Years Eve in Stab and Wine. There's a thought. xxxxxxx A thought best quickly obliterated. We're off to the South Bank for NYE with Bellowhead :))

7. Madder

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think its fantastic that we have live music in > ED Sue. I dont know if you are connected to kingy? > But have seen a couple of his gigs in ed and saw > miller anderson (who i had not previously heard > of) on friday night at the Mag. Sorry not to have > been to one of yours yet but will do soon. mick. xxxxxxxxx No we're not connected to Kingy although we go to each other's gigs - yeh, Miller Anderson is great. We started the Goose in March 2008, when there was very little live music in the area apart from Andy Hankdog's nights in Nunhead. However we have now given up our gigs at Hooper's Bar, as Kingy is now putting on the same kind of music (and in some cases the same artists!) as we were there, so we are concentrating on our more folk orientated stuff rather than just repeating what someone else is now doing. Next up is Tim van Eyken at DHFC in January - you can Buy Tickets Here!

Be My Baby - The Ronettes

Thanks Sean, it's been bloody hard and often stressful work on top of a day job, and if it wasn't for Nygel I think I'd have given up by now :) But worth it when people appreciate it! :)-D Edited to say: I mean, the fact that Nygel does at least half of the work involved, the Goose is a joint venture :)

stereforth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tasty-snacks wants a decent music venue. The best > venue is The Ivy House. I know it's on the wrong > side of the Common, and is badly served by public > transport, but as a venue it's superb. xxxxxxx Agree it's a superb room per se, but there's no sound barrier between the front bar and the room with the music. Fine if the band is loud, useless if the music is quite quiet. The transport difficulties combined with the noise, plus it's a long trek if you live the other side of ED, ruled it out for The Goose at least. If only it could be miraculously transported to Lordship Lane :)

I'm sure someone will be rushing to claim that then :))

He'll be on at the Goose next year - watch this space - not allowed to publicise it yet :))

Well I don't really know how rated she is. There are some of her tracks I like a lot, including a couple on her latest album. But overall, yeah, I dunno. Only time I've seen her live was a bit unrepresentative as she was doing Christmas stuff from an album which apparently has just been released in the States. Anyway academic now, I've just booked Jim Causley (solo) for February - somewhat different kettle of fish :)) Edited to say: We definitely won't be booking Martha Wainwright, I can't bear her :)) though of course that could change ... Edited to say: Thanks admin for allowing this thread in this section, you can lounge it now as it's reached a natural conclusion :)

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > CD wow are the same - you have to wait 21 days!! > That said one of my CD's turned up today, just shy > of 21 days from dispatch! xxxxxx CD Wow have had a lot of bad publicity in the past, I'm amazed they're still going.

DrDom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, > > I too have had things delivered via amazon not > from royalmail, but this was direct from dealers > have turned up. However the things I have bought > direct from Amazon come via Royalmail. I have put > in 2 complaints and they have re-sent twice, both > annoyingly through Royalmail. I have been refunded > the postage though and their customer services > have been very good. I have to wait 3 more days > and then they will not send me another one out, > but refund me. > > Surely somethings got to be done here. Someone at > royalmail is half inching this stuff!!! xxxxxxx Are you sure because the stuff I got yesterday came direct from Amazon, not other dealers advertising on the Amazon site, and was definitely not via Royal Mail. If you google it there are loads of links to articles about Amazon going elsewhere, here's one: Royal Mail loses Amazon contract However I have received a parcel this morning via Royal Mail from a toy company, and again, it was only ordered on Saturday. I'm not trying to defend Royal Mail, all I'm saying is I have had absolutely no problems with receiving anything I've ordered online, and I order loads. Edited to add link Edited again to say the article says the Amazon contract Royal Mail lost was for parcels over 500g, so maybe they're still using Royal Mail for very light packets

Sorry Thea Gilmore fans, but we won't be booking her in 2010. Maybe some other time. Edited to say: Trying for James Yorkston though, waiting to confirm a date

DrDom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm still waiting on 2 things direct from amazon. > They are still using royalmail. They were supposed > to have arrived 3 weeks ago, first class, which I > paid for. xxxxxx I've literally (yes - at nearly 9pm) just had a parcel from Amazon of stuff which I only ordered at the weekend. I said to the guy crikey that was quick and he said that they were trying to get things out quickly before Christmas. I didn't pay for delivery at all. It didn't come via Royal Mail. It says HDNL on it, but that could be a reference code. It wasn't Royal Mail

Good ideas but will only reach hardcore Thea fans who are actively looking at her website etc.. We need promotional outlets equivalent to for example fRoots, Folk London, Folk and Roots, Mudcat - and we have absolutely no idea what those might be. For various reasons the balance is tipping against at the moment.

Yes, all you write is true (apart from Dave :)) ) An additional dilemma is that our normal promotional outlets are the folk circuit ones, we don't know how to tap into Thea Gilmore fans elsewhere and we have already ascertained that several of our regular punters have not even heard of Thea Gilmore :)):)):)) Although a few more people may get to hear of her soon as she's on a BBC4 Christmas thing with Bellowhead (watch out for the Goose in Victorian-ish costume). Her agent won't be promoting it other than putting it on Thea's website, and as you say she's just done a big tour and consequently people are highly unlikely to trek to East Dulwich to see her again.

You want to finance it then Fairport? :)) I was in constant contact with her agent until I asked what sort of audiences she had been getting on her tour, since when I have heard zilch. If you know that she has been selling out venues, then please could you tell me which ones and what size they are, thanks!

Yeh same here, memo to self, follow up all those Virgin cards that keep dropping through my letter box - Oh No! It's half past one!!! :-S

Stella, Adnams Broadside, cold Muscadet, Prosecco, gin, tonic, ice, lemon, that red stuff whose name I can't remember but which turns gin pink, dry cider, BAILEYS if it's Christmas or something else sweet and sickly, yeh malt whisky :)) Dark rum if hot chocolate is also available :)) Oh and maybe calvados ....