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21 Jun 2007:

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & FRIENDS AT SIDMOUTH

On Wednesday, August 8th, I shall be seeing my whole life pass before me at a special evening concert in The Ham Marquee as part of Sidmouth Folk Week. I had innocently agreed to this idea quite a while before I realised it would coincide with my sixtieth birthday. Please keep that to yourself, as I am not very keen on public birthday celebrations of this kind, and the last thing I would want to look forward to would be a tentfull of messengers bearing gifts!

Specially for the occasion, we shall be re-uniting The John Kirkpatrick Band - the concert band I toured with in the mid-1990s - featuring Dave Berry, Paul Burgess, Michael Gregory, and Graeme Taylor. We shall be doing the whole of the second half of the concert, with a selection of folk rock classics and a bewildering variety of other stuff. Sadly, the two albums we made for Fledg'ling Records are both now unavailable, but it is hoped that eventually they will be re-released as a two-for-one package.

With any luck, there will some gorgeous ladies joining us on backing vocals on a few songs.

The first half will consist of solo numbers, supported by appearances from Martin Carthy, in non-Brass Monkey mode, my fellow Sultan of Squeeze, Chris Parkinson, and a re-union of some of Umps & Dumps from the 1970s, with John Tams and Derek Pearce. Messrs Tams & Pearce will also be jumping up for a song in Part Two, along with Barry Coope.