Monday 6 August 2012

More Singing at the Count House





And here's their LP, recorded circa 1965 live at the venue. Here's an (edited) review of the club from The Guardian, 14th October 1964, as reprinted in the sleeve notes...
"The Count House folk music club...north coast of Cornwall...derelict engine houses...strangest landscape in the country...end of a lonely track...cliff edge...constant roar of the sea...tin mine building...converted...whitewashed walls and fishing nets...somewhere for people to sing their kind of music...could think of more unlikely places to find a folk music club, but it is not easy to call them to mind..."

The download is a zip file, around 70MB.

http://www.divshare.com/download/17515746-be7

And here's a preview, from Mel & Miles, about whom I know nothing, apart from the fact that they "make frequent visits to the club and have spent the last two summers there as additional Residents" (again from the sleeve notes). Anyone...?


Count House Match Book

Again, this is a bit tangential to the purpose of this blog, but here's a matchbook from the Count House Folk Club in Botallack, '60s home to Brenda Wootton, John the Fish et al. The "Bought our LP record yet?" refers to the "More Singing at the Count House" LP, a privately issued LP, which I really should get round to uploading here.