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Post by beefheart on Feb 11, 2016 12:54:05 GMT
Is the Blues weekend an annual thing? Is it usually in the Autumn? I think I'd like to come this year. It would be nice to learn stuff and meet the guys and gals on this excellent forum.
Cheers,
Peter
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Post by pete1951 on Feb 11, 2016 13:26:35 GMT
The Pocklington weekend is fun (I went to the first 4 or 5) but it's a long trip for someone from the South. Getting things in place (venue,accommodation etc.) takes time and money, but a spring gathering might be good, who wants to be the banker?
PT
Thinking about it, the best place would be West of London,but close to the motorway system,M1,M4,M3,M25. Hopefully someone on the forum lives around there and can come up with something?
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 11, 2016 13:48:53 GMT
Hi Peter,
The Blues Weekend is annual and will be at Pocklington Arts Centre in North Yorkshire on the 18, 19, 20th November.
Thanks for your interest.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2016 14:36:42 GMT
a spring gathering might be good...West of London Yes, another reso-bash would be good. I'll turn up but can't arrange anything round there. TT |
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Post by beefheart on Feb 11, 2016 14:48:38 GMT
Is there a hotel in Pocklington particularly favoured by the Blues Weekend attendees?
Peter
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 11, 2016 16:48:00 GMT
Hi Peter,
Yes, we book the Feathers Hotel. I have block booked it for the weekend, but the sooner you book a room.... because it is 100 metres from the venue it fills up very early.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by snakehips on Feb 16, 2016 12:19:06 GMT
Hi there !
I'd love to come to one of these things eventually.
Now I'm in the family way though, with a wife that works too, and at weekends on-call sometimes, it's difficult getting the time away.
Got to do lots of "ulterior motive" type discussions to work out a way to manage it !!
(or "time off for good behaviour" as I like to call it !!!).
The weekends are the time I get to spend the most time with my kids while they are young.
Soon as they are teenagers, they probably won't want to spend time with me !!
Hopefully these guitar weekends will still be running by then ??? !!!
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Feb 16, 2016 12:54:07 GMT
Dinnae fash yersel SH, my brood has flown the nest and I'm working on Mrs.PD for a trip to Pocklington with little success at the moment.
In my old gigging days, Colne and Burnley festivals could have ended up as a pain in the airse if she wanted to come up for the weekend too.
It was OK when we started and played the little venues but when we got promoted to the heights, life got difficult.
She couldn't get it into her head that she would be bored as I was playing a gig with sound checks, meeting and seeing other bands and all that stuff.
She wasn't allowed in the green room or backstage so she stayed at the B&B out in the sticks reading her book as she didn't drive.
This occurred for one time only.
The next times I organized my daughter to take her out for a ladies spa day - it blew my gig money but it solved the problem.
She was happy, I was happy - just sayin'......
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Post by obrienp on Feb 17, 2016 18:29:22 GMT
I am divorced so I don't have those constraints but I am not sure I would recommend it as a solution. At the risk of going way off topic for the forum: Snakehips, I think you have got it pretty well sussed as far as the kids are concerned. You will never get the chance to spend time with them back and in my experience, when they are teenagers they will find you playing guitar (or doing just about anything) toe-curlingly embarrassing. However, if you can get to Pocklington, I am sure you will find it really worthwhile and enjoyable.
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Post by lonelyjelly on Feb 27, 2016 13:16:37 GMT
The Pocklington weekend is fun (I went to the first 4 or 5) but it's a long trip for someone from the South. Getting things in place (venue,accommodation etc.) takes time and money, but a spring gathering might be good, who wants to be the banker? PT Thinking about it, the best place would be West of London,but close to the motorway system,M1,M4,M3,M25. Hopefully someone on the forum lives around there and can come up with something? If I can make it, then I'll be coming from the south too, so could car share or something. It'll be my first blues weekend too! Cheers Lew |
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Post by ken1953clark on Feb 27, 2016 18:14:43 GMT
There is a Buddist retreat just down the road from Pocklington, meditation and veggie food, might appeal to some :-)
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