Charlie Dore - Twickfolk

Charlie Dore

Charlie Dore with Julian Littman

Floor spots
Sue Graves and Mary Wilson (Suntrap duo)
Paul Vile
Michael de Podesta

Julian Littman

TwickFolk - The Cabbage Patch Pub, 67 London Road, Twickenham, TW1 3SZ
www.twickfolk.co.uk

19th February 2023

Charlie Dore is best known as a respected songwriter, but has been performing in her own right since the 1970s. She made her first album in Nashville and London and released a single, Pilot of the Airwaves, which became a hit in the US.

Sue Graves

She became one of a handful of UK songwriters to have success across diverse genres with songs covered by George Harrison, Tina Turner, Lisa Stansfied, Ricky Ross, Sheena Easton (US No 4), Celine Dion, Black, UB40, Status Quo, Paul Carrack and a UK No 1, ‘Ain’t No Doubt’ for Jimmy Nail. Charlie’s songs have won two Ascap awards, an Ivor Novello nomination, both the Overall Grand and the Folk Prize from the International Acoustic Music Awards and in 2012 Best Album Lyrics from the Indy Acoustic Project for her album Cheapskate Lullabyes. Charlie’s recent awards include Female Vocalist Of The Year (FATEA, 2020) and Best Lyrics (US Indie Acoustic, 2021).

Paul Vile

For her 10th and most recent album Like Animals, she turns away from the expansive science and space metaphors of 2017’s Dark Matter to focus on the internal landscape of the human brain and just what makes us tick. Sewn-through with Dore’s trademark dark wit, lyricism, and distinctive melodic voice, Like Animals explores some of our most basic instincts and how we’re often hi-jacked by our emotional responses. Fear, anxiety and aggression figure but on the plus side, intense joy and love are in the mix as well. In 2021 Charlie also released her EP, The Man Who Built Christmas, on the basis that a good song isn’t just for Christmas.

Mary Wilson

Michael de Podesta

The Final Vinyl Thread - episode 100

This is our Final Vinyl Thread. It's been such a pleasure to spend time with you all over the past two years. This week for the first and last time, all four of us cram into one episode. Join us, Alban, Natalie, DJ EEEE and Sussex Jack, for 20 minutes of vinyl and shellac, we spin flea market finds and auction lots into a themed selection for you to enjoy. 

Listen to episode 100 of The Vinyl Thread here - https://www.mixcloud.com/AlbanLow/the-final-vinyl-countdown-ep100-the-final-vinyl-thread/

Originally broadcast on Radio Nope on the 5th February 2023. Listen to other shows on Radio Nope at www.radionope.com. Until the next time we meet. Goodbye.

Tracklist
Sparks – Beat The Clock (7”)
Virgin – VS270 (1979)
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - We Almost Lost Detroit (12”)
Arista – AB 4147 (2007)
The Cure – Close To Me (12”)
Fiction Records – FIXH 11 (1985)
The Free Design – You Be You And I'll Be Me (7”)
Project 3 Total Sound – Pr 45-1331 (1968)
The Cranberries - Ode To My Family (12”)
Island Records – 5391295 (2020)

Twickfolk - 40th Anniversary Bash

Pip Collings

Pip Collings
John Davies
Sue Graves
John Prosser
Paul Vile
Bernie Dembowski
Jennie Higgins

TwickFolk - The Cabbage Patch Pub, 67 London Road, Twickenham, TW1 3SZ
www.twickfolk.co.uk

5th February 2023

Sue Graves

As TwickFolk entered a second week of 40th birthday celebrations, they brought together many of the characters who have helped nourish and sustain live music in Twickenham on Sunday nights over four decades.

John Davies

John Davies, singer-songwriter, guitarist, sax player, flautist and one-time TwickFolk MC and sound man, returned from Devon, and harmonised with former band-mate, Sue Graves. Sue, current TwickFolk stalwart and treasurer, is universally known across south-of-England folk clubs as the Surrey Songbird, and records and tours widely as a solo act and as part of the polyphonic Suntrap.

Paul Vile

John Prosser, singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo and mandolin player and former TwickFolk treasurer, performed with TwickFolk's current sound man and longest-serving  committee member, Paul Vile.

John Prosser 

John Davies, John Prosser and Bernie Dembowski performed as the String Fellows.

Jennie Higgins

Jennie Higgins, who performed at TwickFolk last week to a packed audience, took a break from her educational role at the English Folk Dance and Song Society to entertain Twickenham folk lovers once more. This week she launched her new album Where Are All The Women?, you can buy a copy here https://jenniehiggins.bandcamp.com/album/where-are-all-the-women.

Bernie Dembowski