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  1. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to go. Ill health issues. However I gather it’s been shifted to two-weekly to alternate with another two-weekly session at Skehan’s. Probably worthwhile giving the Herne a bell to check the current schedule…
  2. The regular fortnightly traditional Irish music session will take place this Tuesday, 25th April at The Herne Tavern - corner of St Aidan's Road and Forest Hill Road. For those unfamiliar with Irish music sessions, they're informal and unrehearsed affairs. You'll hear jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, the occasional waltz and maybe a slow air. Perhaps a song or two. Musicians with a reasonable Irish music repertoire will be made very welcome. Come along and share a few tunes with us. The Herne is a very relaxed, friendly, welcoming pub with a huge beer garden and great acoustics. The new management have worked their backsides off to make it as attractive a pub as possible and - my humble opinion, for what it's worth - they've done an outstanding job. ******** While I've got your attention, a few words about two other Irish sessions which happen locally. Another fortnightly Tuesday session takes place in Skehan's, Kitto Road, Telegraph Hill. It alternates with the Herne Tavern session, so the next session at Skehan's will be on Tuesday 18th April. The Skehan's session kicks off early - at around 7:00pm. Skehan's was recently voted the best bar in London by Time Out. It's certainly one of the busiest, if last Tuesday's session there is anything to go by!! Every Thursday, there are tunes at The Blythe Hill Tavern - on Stanstead Road, corner of Blythe Hill Lane. A very well-known Irish pub which has been hosting sessions since forever (well, about 25 years anyway). The session kicks off at around 8:30pm and is always worth a visit. For the tunes and for possibly the best pint of Guinness in London! ********* And also before you shoot off, a big shout out to the folks who run The Goose Is Out. A monthly folk and acoustic gig at The Ivy House with monthly singarounds at the same venue. Check out their website at TheGooseIsOut.com and have a look at the attached flier for details of upcoming gigs. Some amazing talent in prospect...
  3. The regular fortnightly traditional Irish music session will take place this Tuesday, 25th April at The Herne Tavern - corner of St Aidan's Road and Forest Hill Road. For those unfamiliar with Irish music sessions, they're informal and unrehearsed affairs. You'll hear jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, the occasional waltz and maybe a slow air. Perhaps a song or two. Musicians with a reasonable Irish music repertoire will be made very welcome. Come along and share a few tunes with us. The Herne is a very relaxed, friendly, welcoming pub with a huge beer garden and great acoustics. The new management have worked their backsides off to make it as attractive a pub as possible and - my humble opinion, for what it's worth - they've done an outstanding job.
  4. The regular fortnightly traditional Irish music session will take place this Tuesday, 11th April at The Herne Tavern - corner of St Aidan's Road and Forest Hill Road. For those unfamiliar with Irish music sessions, they're informal and unrehearsed affairs. You'll hear jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, the occasional waltz and maybe a slow air. Perhaps a song or two. Musicians with a reasonable Irish music repertoire will be made very welcome. Come along and share a few tunes with us. The Herne is a very relaxed, friendly, welcoming pub with a huge beer garden and great acoustics. The new management have worked their backsides off to make it as attractive a pub as possible and - my humble opinion, for what it's worth - they've done an outstanding job. ******** While I've got your attention, a few words about two other Irish sessions which happen locally. Another fortnightly Tuesday session takes place in Skehan's, Kitto Road, Telegraph Hill. It alternates with the Herne Tavern session, so the next session at Skehan's will be on Tuesday 18th April. The Skehan's session kicks off early - at around 7:00pm. Skehan's was recently voted the best bar in London by Time Out. It's certainly one of the busiest, if last Tuesday's session there is anything to go by!! Every Thursday, there are tunes at The Blythe Hill Tavern - on Stanstead Road, corner of Blythe Hill Lane. A very well-known Irish pub which has been hosting sessions since forever (well, about 25 years anyway). The session kicks off at around 8:30pm and is always worth a visit. For the tunes and for possibly the best pint of Guinness in London! ********* And also before you shoot off, a big shout out to the folks who run The Goose Is Out. A monthly folk and acoustic gig at The Ivy House with monthly singarounds at the same venue. Check out their website at TheGooseIsOut.com and have a look at the attached flier for details of upcoming gigs. Some amazing talent in prospect...
  5. Last night's sets from Nick Hart were simply blinding. I don't profess to know much about English folk music - Irish Trad is my thing and it's pretty much all-consuming as far as listening/playing is concerned - but when you're in the presence of someone who is simply as good as it gets, you know!
  6. For the past few weeks, The Herne Tavern has played host to a regular Irish Traditional Music session with a regular crew and the occasional visiting guest musicians. For those who don't know it, The Herne is a welcoming pub with great acoustics for our unamplified tunes. If you're a fan of reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas and so on, please come along and enjoy a few beers. If you're a musician with a reasonable repertoire of trad Irish tunes and you'd like to sit in with the players, please get in touch with me via a direct message here and I'll be happy to make the introductions for you. Next session is on Tuesday 27th September, from 8:00 until last orders. See you there!
  7. Hummingbird Hawkmoth in my garden in Dunstans Road this evening. Only the second time I’ve ever seen one (previous time was in Cornwall…). Beautiful and fascinating creature…
  8. Following a successful trial run on Tuesday this week, The Herne Tavern will be playing host to another Irish Traditional Music session in its main bar this coming Tuesday, 23rd August 2022. It's in the nature of these sorts of. gatherings that you never know who will turn up. Expect some combination of fiddles, whistles, flutes, accordions, banjos, mandolins. Reels, jigs, slip jigs, polkas, slides, hornpipes, barndances, marches, the odd slow air... Maybe a song or two. From around 8:00 till last orders...
  9. The Herne Tavern has invited players from the long-established Blythe Hill Tavern session (still going strong after 20+ years!) to play a few* tunes at The Herne tonight. As is always the case with these sorts of events, you’re never quite sure who will turn up. But expect some combination of whistles, fiddles, flutes, bodhráns, banjos, mandolins and accordions playing jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes… The perfect soundtrack for a few summer evening drinks… 8:30 kick off. Too early to say whether this will be a regular event or just a one-off. Time will tell… *i.e. shedloads!!
  10. Anyone having any problems in SE22 today? Glacial broadband speed at mine since early morning…
  11. Hi... Any locally-based carpenters who would like to quote for a job to repair a number of stairs leading from our first floor flat to our rear garden, please DM me for more information. I estimate that possibly 5 to 6 may need replacing but we would take your advice once you have checked out the situation. Many thanks.
  12. Thanks. Not so much that I want to avoid watching the rugby (although it?s lost on me; Mornington Crescent with a funny shaped ball to those like me who don?t get the rules :-) ), more just don?t want to cram into somewhere so rammed we can?t hear ourselves talk. The Dog might well be a good option?
  13. Friends visiting this afternoon and we?d like to go out for a pint but none of us are interested in rugby and just fancy a few quiet ones somewhere that isn?t likely to be absolutely rammed? Any suggestions?
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