RE: [scots-l] Re: Johnny Cunningham

2003-12-24 Thread Jonathan Hill
46? That I did NOT want to hear! Jonathan Hill >Johnny Cunningham was 46 (my age - gulp). -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland Friday-Monday: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday-Thursday: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To su

[scots-l] Munlochy Session

2003-08-03 Thread Jonathan Hill
Judith at the Munlochy Hotel is hosting a session 3rd Sunday night every month. Next one is Sunday 17th, if you’re in the Inverness area it’s over the Kessock Bridge and second (or 3rd if you miss it) on the right. 8.30 on, love to see you(se).   Jonathan Hill Cromarty  

RE: [scots-l] He hirpl'd

2003-07-20 Thread Jonathan Hill
…..would that be ‘till’ in the Caithness sense, i.e. ‘towards’?   Jonathan Hill Wellington House Church St., Cromarty Ross-Shire IV11 8XA United Kingdom   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 July

RE: [scots-l] Obscure Folk Groups

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Hill
Can't help on those, but add the Norlanders from Thurso area who recorded an EP on Grampian in '66. Jonathan Hill Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] Jesse Rae

2003-01-31 Thread Jonathan Hill
Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage gear? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/

[scots-l] Jesse Rae

2003-01-31 Thread Jonathan Hill
Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage gear? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/

RE: [scots-l] Moothie Players (was: primarily Scottish?)

2002-10-06 Thread Jonathan Hill
There was a moothie based band on the Black Isle who rejoiced in the name of the Avoch Moothies, but age and the reaper have taken their toll...no recordings, but they were pretty good! Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toby Rid

[scots-l] The Auld Alliance

2002-05-02 Thread Jonathan Hill
I hope and trust we will all be playing 'Le Pen's March to the Midden' come Sunday! No Pasaran, ya Bass! Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

RE: [scots-l] Record Finds

2002-04-17 Thread Jonathan Hill
Call that work? :0) What songs are on the Dundee album, I know it not! My best recent find was 'Folksong Jubilee' by Rory & Alex McEwen & Isla Cameron from 1958. No unusual songs, but pretty good nonetheless. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [scots-l] Corries Help

2001-12-22 Thread Jonathan Hill
D'oh! Thanks! Jonathan -Original Message- From: Jonathan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December 2001 19:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scots-l] Corries Help Does anyone have or know the location of a discography for the Corries? Jonathan Posted to

[scots-l] Stuart Adamson

2001-12-22 Thread Jonathan Hill
Small country loses Big man. Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] Corries Help

2001-12-18 Thread Jonathan Hill
Does anyone have or know the location of a discography for the Corries? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

RE: [scots-l] Help with Gaelic

2001-09-03 Thread Jonathan Hill
I always thought this line was 'pulling bracken'. Jonathan -Original Message- From: Nigel Gatherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 September 2001 19:46 To: Scots-L Posting Subject: Re: [scots-l] Help with Gaelic Nigel Gatherer wrote: > Can one of our Gaelic speakers tell me how to

RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi' the Rechabite Lasses

2001-08-20 Thread Jonathan Hill
tevie Eaglesham's new place in Evanton (Thu., good by all acoounts). Jonathan -Original Message- From: David Kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 August 2001 22:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scots-l] Re: A session wi' the Rechabite Lasses Jonathan Hill wrote: > > J

RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi' the Rechabite Lasses

2001-08-19 Thread Jonathan Hill
Jacks story reminds me of the dude who went into the Phoenix in Inverness about 5 years ago, checked out the menu, went off & held up the Britannia BS, came back & ordered his grub, & guess what? He got collared too! Drifting reluctantly back on-topic...why do coffee houses close at half-five or s

RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses

2001-08-18 Thread Jonathan Hill
> folk club space is taken up by people with guitars doing tedious Nashville-type singer-songwriter stuff, which I find so brainfreezingly dull my fingers don't work right any more after listening to a few numbers of it. Shheeesht, you want to try O'Byrnes in Edmonton on Folk Night. I reckon the

RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses

2001-08-18 Thread Jonathan Hill
ather than irrigated?) God, I love finishing statements with a question mark, eh? -Original Message- From: Toby Rider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 August 2001 16:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses Jonathan Hill wrote: >

RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses

2001-08-18 Thread Jonathan Hill
(I've chibbed the preceding correspondence; I don't know if this is rude, I'm sure someone will tell me & I apologise, but it seems like we're in a new thread here.) While I'm sure we've been here ( Pubs ) before, these problems (like the poor and the pissed) are always with us. Dagger Gordon on

RE: [scots-l] First days of August?

2001-07-05 Thread Jonathan Hill
Actually I pointed Dominique in the direction of the Ryanair website and would do the same for anyone on the list fancying a tune at any of the pubs on the Paris session list; it would be cheaper to fly from Prestwick than coach'n'ferry it. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [scots-l] Fjynnasvalsen

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Hill
Finnish Waltz? Jonathan -Original Message- From: Ian Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 June 2001 03:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Fjynnasvalsen << I am trying to find out what the tune title "Fjynnasvalsen" means in American English. >> It means, "Hide the wh

RE: [scots-l] Great posts..

2001-06-25 Thread Jonathan Hill
Yeah; loved the one about Scotland winning the world cup. I've got We're on the March Wi' Ally's Army somewhere if that's any use to anyone (B side the inimitable 'I Want tae be a Punk Rocker)...O tempora, O mores. Jonathan -Original Message- From: Toby Rider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Se

RE: [scots-l] Is there anybody there?

2001-06-18 Thread Jonathan Hill
Well there's one for those of us who can't be a*s*d to go twenty miles for a tune! > What march in NYC? I live in Toronto and would be interested in anything in the region. Jonathan ( o}==:: -Original Message- From: Carol Thompkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 June 2001 16:0

RE: [scots-l] lurker and solo performance horror stories

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan Hill
Ah, the Horror, the Horror! Playing with the Cromarty Ceilidh Band one night at the Dalmore Hotel in Alness (both institutions now alas defunct, although at least they haven't built a Safeway on top of the CCB) I had been rushing up the A9 from Edinburgh, arrived just as the chaps were taking the

RE: [scots-l] celtic font

2001-03-11 Thread Jonathan Hill
Sorry, that should have been Word, not Windows ME. Jonathan -Original Message- From: Rob MacKillop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 March 2001 20:07 To: scots-l Subject: [scots-l] celtic font Does anyone know where I can get a so-called 'celtic' font (sorry - hate to use the 'C' word

RE: [scots-l] celtic font

2001-03-11 Thread Jonathan Hill
Rob, I seem to have it as standard on windows ME. Are such things transferable? Jonathan -Original Message- From: Rob MacKillop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 March 2001 20:07 To: scots-l Subject: [scots-l] celtic font Does anyone know where I can get a so-called 'celtic' font (sor

RE: [scots-l] Jack or other net experts: help!

2001-03-11 Thread Jonathan Hill
I got a 'Jonathan' one; same old same old, just addressed to a jonathan instead of a Davidcould they be designed to elicit a reply thereby confirming the currency of our email addresses to sell as a 'purified' list?? Jonathan ( o}==:: -Original Message- From: Toby Rider [mailto:[EMAI

Re: [scots-l] Nigel's depressed and so am I

2001-02-04 Thread Jonathan Hill
And can anyone please explain to me why it has become compulsory to have Davie Spillane's irish pipes as soundtrack to every programme about Scotland on TV Never mind; Quebecois is going to be the new wave and see off all the overcooked Irish stuff. Quebecois pubs, full of blokes with big blac

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Study Tour

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Hill
A Scots tour without the Highlands? Do these old eyes deceive me??? Jonathan - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [scots-l] Scottish Study Tour > > > I'm de-lurking here to announce a

Re: [scots-l] Jimmy Shand - a Nation Mourns

2001-01-06 Thread Jonathan Hill
Was that the Torry Quine? She was never that age surely? Jonathan - Original Message - From: Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [scots-l] Jimmy Shand - a Nation Mourns > > Big dilemma here when I thought I'd watch

Re: [scots-l] Jimmy Shand - a Nation Mourns

2000-12-30 Thread Jonathan Hill
Gave a lift to a couple of guys from work, Invernesians born & bred, aged about 23; I was shocked, nay, horrified, to find they had never heard of JS. There is something deeply, deeply wrong here. Jonathan ( 0}==::: NahooIII on the HiFi...beware of track 2! U hiv bin warned. Did Ewan MacColl

Re: [scots-l] Inverness a City- OFFICIAL

2000-12-19 Thread Jonathan Hill
I just wonder how much this is going to stick on the Highland Council Tax. Merry Christmas & orrat fae the BURGH of Cromarty. PS Caley Jags are balloting members about name change... J. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19,

Re: [scots-l] Balnain House

2000-12-02 Thread Jonathan Hill
Yes; there was a press conference last week and the lesson programme finished this week ( it was due to end for the holidays anyway )...the tutors and staff are hoping to be paid, and it looks like the House will not see 2001 in. I haven't spoken to anyone at Balnain since Tuesday night, so I'

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Folk Groups of the 1970s

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Hill
5 Hand Reel; saw them a couple of times at the Marquee (!) and at a pub in Fulham..great gigs all. What happened to Barry Lyon, the bassist? At the Marquee when Dick broke a string during (I think...) Jig o' Slurs, Barry carried the tune until Dick was back in action. No mean feat. I remem

Re: [scots-l] Blind fiddlers et al.

2000-10-12 Thread Jonathan Hill
Jeez, poor al! Does his wife know? J. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] Scottish Fiddlers and their Music

2000-08-28 Thread Jonathan Hill
I came across the above book recently (pub. Gollcanz [sp?], author I know not)...anyone seeking it? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html