It is always a pleasure to return to Barnet Folk Club’s Folk in the Foyer and catch up with what organiser JJ has been up to. There is always a good p.a. system provided and the luxury of a sound technician to help set the ‘front of house’ sounds and the monitors.
JJ started the evening and, to link up with our set, sang Christy Moore’s wonderful Viva La Quinta Brigada. This was then followed by some more floor spots with self composed songs about local politics and some very fine and sweet concertina playing.
Prior to the house finale of singing Whiskey in the Jar with JJ, we then topped off the evening with a 45 minute set. Because the club is literally in the foyer of the Arts Depot in Barnet, the audience spreads across a fairly wide area. This can give an impression that the audience is pretty thin but when you count up the numbers of people one finds that there are many more than in a usual folk club. This is a nice venue where people can come and get some decent beers and snacks and appreciate live music for free. All the best to JJ and his partner as they continue to make things happen in this corner of London!
One member of the audience known to us was from the BBC. This is because we are working with him on a potential project for 2012. Once we have more details we will describe them here -but we are very excited about what might unfold.
We tried again to take video recordings of our material for the web-site and JJ’s partner did some great work and the backcloth of the staging looked good. Sadly, the little video recorder being used is just not quite up to the job of catching the sound and when loading up into You Tube or whatever, it gives the impression that we have been imprisoned down a well! I might need to be checking the Christmas sales to see if I can upgrade.