Hi there!

Finally gave in and registered...  I discovered GBS this summer while on vacation in Nfld.  And a marvellous week it was too in St Johns!  I wanna emigrate!! :)

I spent an instructive couple of hours in Fred's one morning and bought loads of CDs, two of which were GBS (Up and Fortune's Favour), and they're probably my absolute favourites of the lot.  Although The Navigators are pretty good too, I wish I'd done the CD buying at the beginning of the week instead of the end, I'm sure they were playing George Street a lot while I was there but I was none the wiser.  You live and learn!

I live in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and was intrigued to see you have a town called St Albans too.  We didn't manage to visit though.  We decided to see how far along Highway 1 we could get (and get back to St Johns) in a day, managed to visit Trinity, a mere fingernail's width across the map!  I was absolutely ASTOUNDED by the sheer scale of the island.  Suddenly GB is a tiny, tiny place...  So a road trip to St Albans was abandoned, when we come back we'll organise a night's accommodation there, that's the only way to do it I think, if we want to be based in St Johns again.

Looking around the site I saw the link to Radio Newfoundland - thanks to whoever posted that.  Takes me right back.  Why does somewhere half way around the world feel like home?  It makes me sad that here in the UK we stuggle so much with appreciating and supporting our traditional music.  It's just not "cool" here.

So, when are GBS hitting this side of the pond again?  I'll travel, ooh, at least 30 miles...  Nah, I'd travel to the most northerly of the Scottish Islands if there was only one gig...

Catch you later!

Welcome Aboard, Anna!

I left England in 1967, live now in Colorado and have yet to go to Newfoundland, and yet, somehow it feels like "home" to me in many ways! I do hope to get there someday Certainly the music strikes a cultural chord deep with in me!  I have travelled to both coasts and into Canada to see them...I'd love to make a trip back to England to see them play there someday!

 I have family from the Isle of Wight through London, Derby and the Lakes and up into Dundee!  I am from Middlesex, myself. 

In the summer of 07 GBS played  3 shows in the UK (London, Scotland and oh, where-else-was-it? ) they also have played Tonder in Denmark a few times.  Hopefully you'll get a chance sometime soon.  If not, you'll just have to come on over here!

Cheers!

Bump...

Hello again all - just re-found my login details for here!

I've just been to a rather brilliant music festival over here in Blighty that I reckon GBS would enjoy, but I don't have any influence with the organisers (shame... )  Check out "Fairport's Cropredy Convention", either here or by google.  I think GBS would absolutely storm the place - it's a bit of a folky festival but by no means is it a "folk festival"...  But seeing as I have no influence it's all conjecture anyway - I'll pipe up on their fansite, but...

 Anyone know if the lads are making their way across the Pond anytime in the foreseeable future?

 Right, time to find some threads to join in with...

Hey Anna!

I reckon GBS will play at the Tonder Festival in Denmark (www.tf.dk) next year again. They tend to play there every 3 years or so (2001, 2002, 2004, 2007) so next year they should be there again.

Cheers

PS: If you were at Copredy, you must've seen Seth Lakeman there. My absolute favourite. *hehe*