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Pete Atkin / Newsletter / Re: Newsletter, 7th August 2025 |
12.08.25 at 16:24 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by Stradageek |
Hi Steve and Pete
I'm ridiculously excited to have booked two tickets for my wife and myself for the Exeter gig.
I'm trying to remember but I think the first time I saw Pete was a the Jesus College Ball in Oxford in 1975-ish and the last time was the last time he played The Stables in MK.
Glad we've now moved to Exeter.
So will Pete accept requests?
In order of preference the requests would be:
Faded Mansion on the Hill
The Commercial Traveller
The Beautiful Changes
Just thought I'd ask - excitement building 
Toodlepip
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Pete Atkin / Music / Re: Suit of Lights |
07.08.25 at 09:16 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by Seán Kelly |
Terrific - a real pleasure to hear this. I keep thinking subconsciously that it's the lead track from a new album (I wish!). I'd be very interested to hear what anyone makes of lyrics that seem a bit impenetrable to me - but I love the line about the first flakes talking the others down - another example of Clive importing a military image into everyday life. Anyway thankyou Pete and Steve and all for this : class CJ/PA surely.  |
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Pete Atkin / Gigs / New gigs! |
10.07.25 at 07:55 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Regret we still have no booking for The Pheasantry this year. Seems their new gigs-management person doesn't know a good pizza when it's handed to him or her on a plate.
However, there's a new gig coming up, thanks to MV member Steve Brown, and this one's in Exeter. We don't yet have a confirmed date, but it should be before the end of the year. Pete's e-mail newsletter, out today (Wednesday) reports:
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Long-time - and I do mean a long time - loyalist Steve Brown has responded
to my plea in Newsletter MV2503 for more possible gigs by suggesting one in
Exeter, with luck before the end of the year. I have of course said Yes,
please.
His chosen location is downstairs at the Mermaid in Gandy Street in Exeter
city centre, a cosy club-style venue with a stage and its own bar, and which
is just a short walk from Exeter Central station, if you're coming by train.
There is no definite date as yet but if you think you may be able to come
please do e-mail Steve at <vanished.venues@gmail.com>. He's organising the gig
himself, so it would be enormously helpful if he could have some idea of the
probable response.
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Stay tuned to MV or the Smash Flops Gig Guide for info as it comes.
And, moving into 2026, perennially faithful host Nick Westcott has re-booked Pete for the Lamb Folk Club in Eastbourne on Wednesday 20th May. Once again I quote Pete's newsletter:
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The award-winning - well, if he isn't, he should be - Nick Westcott has
booked me for the latest in my record-breaking - well, if it isn't, it
should be - series of appearances at the Eastbourne Folk Club for WEDNESDAY
20th MAY 2026. I know, I know, I haven't yet got my latest Moleskine either,
but I am properly committed and further details will appear here and else-
where a bit further down the line. At this point the only virtual certainty
for my set list is "Wristwatch For A Drummer", since for Nick not to request
it would be simply weird.
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Pete Atkin / Music / New Atkin/James covers |
02.07.25 at 09:06 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Now, here's something different -- "Catching the Light", an album of Pete & Clive's songs sung by a singer new to me, Tim Benton.
Tim has recorded his selection of 18 songs at south London's Underhill studios, with accompaniment, arrangement and production by Simon Wallace. Tim's website includes a number of these, some with video, while 'Biro' for one is available via Spotify, with others to follow.
What do you think?
Steve
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Pete Atkin / Gigs / Re: Woking, June 21st |
28.06.25 at 20:05 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by Avner Greenberg |
So glad to hear about your latest gig Pete. May they keep coming along. What a delicious playlist, along with the recently excavated Suit of Lights, which I'd love to hear one day.
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Pete Atkin / Members / Re: New members |
11.06.25 at 11:36 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by ChriRHarris |
Hi all,
|'ve just re-joined MV's after being on Pete's mailing list for the past few years.
I first encountered Pete and Clive's songs through, I think, a girlfriend at university in the early 70's, I've just looked at my copy of Beware OTBS and I had written my name on the sleeve, so obviously I was lending it out at times and protecting it much as possible.
Over the years I've seen Pete several times, including with Clive in (again "I think" ) Basingstoke.
More to the point Pete and Clive's music has always been part of my musical life as I occasionally perform in public, mainly at the folk club that I now organise. The Anchor folk club was started 30 years ago this September in the Blue Anchor pub in Byfleet, Surrey and ran weekly until the pandemic. During Covid days we remained active on-line (Zoom and Youtube). Post Covid we moved to a new venue in Woking when I took over organising it and we now usually meet twice a month. But... see BELOW.
I've always performed (I hesitate to say "sung"), a selection of their songs, mostly the more humorous ones (Ballad OAUW, Original OHTTB, Stranger IT) plus, of course, BewareOTBS and GirlOTT.
Ballad OAUW was the first song I sang at the Anchor Folk club and has always been the first song I'll sing when, very occasionally, I perform elsewhere.
Beware of The Beautiful Stranger (Oh that's what he means !) is top of my list for Desert Island Discs ( I'm still waiting for the call). I love the mid song twist when she is revealed as really a stranger, a similar effect to even greater effect happens in Canoe, another favourite of mine.
In Aug 1997 I was fortunate enough to be on holiday in Derbyshire with my family when I saw a poster for a festival in Monyash, a few miles from our campsite, featuring our very own Pete Atkin. So I dumped the family for a day and sat in a tent, in a field, listening to Pete and other's music. Brilliant !
Subsequently i was a member, 'though not a very active one, during the early days of the MV bulletin board (or whatever it was.)
BELOW
HOWEVER... my main impetus for re-connecting with MV is to last minutely (?) remind everyone that Pete is performing at our club venue in Woking on June 21st, the weekend after next. If you'd like to come alone and haven't yet let me know then please email me a PAWoking2025@gmail.com to reserve a place.
Details are on the PA website and the Anchor Folk website https://www.anchorfolkclub.com/.
Briefly, it's £10 cash on the door and post code for ANDY'S CAFE is GU21 3LG.
That's me done for now , Chris
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