Suffolk soul (probably not an all-nighter, actually)
This is what's on next week in Ipswich, according to bestoftheuk.com
Shotley - Quiz night, Morris men and cream teas - 19/04/2008
Life coaching surgeries - 19/04/2008
Bike Show & Meet, Kesgrave, Ipswich - 19/04/2008
Concert, RHS, near Ipswich - 19/04/2008
Farmer's Market, Needham Market - 19/04/2008
Nearly New Sale Toys and Baby Equipment, Ipswich - 19/04/2008
Big Band Evening with Marakesh, Needham Market - 19/04/2008
Suffolk Villages Market, Henley, near Ipswich - 20/04/2008
Charity jigsaw challenge, Kesgrave, Ipswich - 20/04/2008
Mayor of Ipswich's Charity Curry Night - 20/04/2008
Positive Lifestyle Health Fair, Suffolk New College, Ipswich - 24/04/2008
Cuckoo Teapot, Ipswich - 25/04/2008
School reunion, Thurleston, Ipswich - 25/04/2008
Suffolk Soul Night, Trinity Park, Ipswich - 25/04/2008
Expect a busy night for the local police on the 20th, as hundreds of couples argue passionately about whether to go to the charity jigsaw showdown or the mayor's charity balti bash.
Britain's uncoolest town? Can your place of abode come anywhere close to this for institutionalised tedium?
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My uncle Robin hails from Suffolk (so do lots of my family. But most of them are dead) and in the early 60s was in a group called The Wild Oats. They basically were like the early Stones: leather waistcoats, and Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry covers (when they sang "I look like a farmer, but I'm a lover" you believed them). They used to be a bit of a local sensation in the Leiston/Saxmundham area, I'm told. They reformed for a few gigs about 14 years ago, recruiting my brother Sam on lead guitar. You should have seen the kinds of folk that pitched up to their gigs. Apparently their EP's worth over £500 now.
Anyway. I've got a bit of a soft spot for Suffolk. Spent a lot of time there as a child. And the one moment in all television fiction that really hits home is in Michael Palin's East Of Ipswich when the local 50s jazz band launch into a song they say they think perfectly catches the atmosphere of the Suffolk coastal towns. It's called I've Got the Sod All To Do Blues.
PS - I'm shocked to find a clip of it on YouTube. Not the bit I was referring to, but great to see it all the same.
Suffolk soul night
on the 25th sounds the pick of the selection.
Oh I don't know....
the 'charity jigsaw challenge' could be a right larf.
Cadiz/Ipswich
Apart from wondering if Cadiz* is the Ipswich of Spain, how the interest, Archie? Random analysis of English cities?
(*Certainly Rota, where I spent a happy week in 2003, may well be the Spanish Southwold)
It's a long story of meandering Googledom
I was looking for terrible variety bills for that thread and it just popped up.
As for Cadiz's now-'n-happeningness, it's a lot smaller than Ipswich, but over the next week we've got a circus in town, a gig by a major flamenco guitarist, a drag show (hey, it's a port) that begins after midnight, an exhibition of Soviet art, a manga convention, and a parade of singer-songwriters and stand-ups every night at a famous old cabaret that's recently been refurbished and is open till 5 a.m.
Oh, and up the road in Jerez (20 mins drive) in a couple of weeks there's some singer-songwriter called Bob something. Dillman, Dyson...something like that. Lucas'll know.
Thass a rum owd dew buoy
I'm from Ipswich and quite frankly, flattered and surprised to be included on a website that's called 'Best of the UK'. Anyway, you'd better be careful what you say about the 'swich otherwise Nik Kershaw, Cradle of Filth and, er, Titus Bramble and Kieron Dyer might come after you
North Lincolnshire
In another thread the region is well represented, the axis of evil being Scunthorpe and Grimsby, Far from being uncool, Nth Lincs and it's environs Rock!!!
Should any of you shandy drinking southern ladyboys venture our way, we'll hunt you down, eat your flesh and keep your skin for fancy days out.
Where exactly did you find this info?
www.bestoftheuk.com took me to a webpage about stopping smoking.
Think I'm making it up, eh?
http://www.thebestof.co.uk/ipswich/events/117392
Oh. My. God.
I've just opened the url. What have they chosen to illustrate the charity jigsaw evening???
A photo of a pair of false teeth!!
Sometimes the world looks a really sleek and professional place. Then you come across something like this.
Utterly fantastic
Actually
Looks like its a randomly generated image, but nevertheless is rather wonderful
Thank the lord
I dont live there but I am sure the locals will be upset by your smug piss taking.
I know because I am a Brummie and a recent news report said that we are all stupid or sound stupid. Could be worse I could live in London - you know that place where no-one speaks English and you ask directions and nobody has a clue. Either that or they are just bloody rude. Great city shame about the people.
Here's next week's packed calendar for Acton Turville:
Unfair!
The joint is jumping! Only five months to go until:
Saturday 6th September - The Hog Roast with live music from the Standing Stones!
All proceeds to St Mary's Church more details to follow or call Rosemary Griffin on 218 775
(From the Village Diary page at http://actonturville.net)
The Standing Stones will of course be performing all their hits, including "Honky-Tonk Fieldmice", "Have You Seen The Vicar Baby (Standing In The Shadows)" and "It's Only Rock And Roll (But I Don't Much Care For It To Be Honest)".
Sadly, Archie
that site hasn't been updated since 2004.
That little site was knocked up to try to drum up some enthusiasm for webby things back when we were campaigning for Broadband!
For the record, the Hog Roast ran out of control, and most of the village is now a blackened heath. There is no longer a need for a Church fund.
The Standing Stones were good, but their covers of the Wayne County back-catalogue didn't go down well with the W.I.
Ippo - home of the Orwell Delta blues revival
It's all go up in Suffolk, you know. More jam nights than you can shake a moneymaker at, round our way. When it comes to twenty minute versions of Sweet Home Chicago, we're your (tractor) boys. Oh yes. Mind you, does your town host 20,000 people every year for a free festival with live music spread over six stages around the park? Mine does. July 6th this year. I recommend the Co-op sponsored stage, in front of the mansion, about ten past six.