How Mountain Girls Can Love

Introduction

While I knew of the events at The Old Coal Yard, I had never been, although friends raved about it. I do like their toilets for all, which means at busy times everyone has to queue!

Today, my plan was to go to a rockabilly gig at Billy Bootleggers.

My friend Lynn told me she was going to see the Cornshed Sisters, who were excellent. As I wanted to see Lynn because I owed her ten pounds from the last gig we were at, I decided to give this a try. This is a link to the Facebook event.

The event was extremely inclusive for everyone, very Pride supportive, and was great to see families, all ages, and, I think, a beautiful full gender spectrum.

The introductory video included Hedley's intro and the first song by the Mountain Girls House Band. I must apologise as I know none of the song titles apart from one.

This was the running order but I didn't stay for the line-dancing

So, I will go through the bands and singers with my opinion, plus links to the artists as well, if you want to check them out further.

Mountain Girls House Band

While I only knew Rosie Palmer/Sandy Lee and Hedley from the band, but loved the nom-de-plumes of all the other members, and I can't trust my memory to get them right. I only intended one song per band, but their version of "You Are My Sunshine" had to be captured, although I missed the first verse. That's Hedley with the fan.

The Fossilheads

They describe themselves as

CLIMATE CRISIS CABARET! Putting the “oooh” back in “existential doom”

And they sounded like a meshing of Brechtian and 1930s Cabaret in mood, with a slice of music hall. By the end of their set, I was very impressed with their spot-on timing and clever, funny and pertinent lyrics. A definite thumbs up from me.

I chatted with them after their set, and they were great to talk to.

Eddie Doyle

Eddie's voice is very powerful and a lot of her songs had minimal guitar, and one was completely unaccompanied, and that takes a lot of guts to trust yourself to do.

Her between songs chat was very engaging, and the audience definitely appreciated that.

She is an artist that I will be keeping an eye out for in the future, and she is a Novocastrian. This is her Facebook page:

The Cornshed Sisters

This was who I had come to see, and as soon as I got into the Old Coal Yard, someone told me who they were, and I sat and had a chat with them. I noticed they had a couple of albums on sale and I went for the vinyl, and very nicely they gave me two for the price of one.

I love the cover of the "Tell Tales" with that rogue hand in the pie, I am still unsure what that implies about the band. They obviously have a wicked sense of humour.

I shared their opening song, and their harmonies are absolutely beautiful. They are also masters of their instruments, and the crowd loved them.

You can listen to and download their albums through the Bandcamp links, and these will be on my player when I am working tomorrow. Once I have listened to the albums, I will post a review of them, but I know they will be excellent.

These are their Bandcamp and Facebook pages.

Conclusion

I had a thoroughly enjoyable time at the "How Mountain Girls Can Love" gig today, all the artists were engaging and approachable, and I will hopefully see all of them again.

Thank you so much for reading, and listening and I hope yu have found something in here for you to enjoy.