Set Sail with Laughter: Join Oggie and Chilli in Episode 11!
Set Sail with Laughter: Join Oggie and Chilli in Episode 11!
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Shipshape and Bristol Fashion

This episode of "Shipshape and Bristol Fashion" features an exciting interview with Oggy and Chilli, highlighting their journey into the vibrant world of sea shanties and their experiences as new members of the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew. The crew shares their upcoming events, including a special Christmas concert and the launch of their unique 2025 charity calendar, designed to support the Teenage Cancer Trust. As they reminisce about their performances, listeners can feel the camaraderie and humor that define their community, showcasing the joy and fun of singing together. The conversation also delves into personal anecdotes, including humorous moments from rehearsals and memorable gigs that have brought them closer together. Tune in for a delightful mix of music, laughter, and heartfelt stories, all while supporting a great cause this festive season.

This month is an interview with Oggie and Chilli and we hear about a fantastic fundraising activity that we need your help with! And we finish with a very special Christmas Shanty just for you! 🎄

Want to buy a 2025 calendar? Click here

Join our Facebook crew https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.pobshantycrew.co.uk/

Donate to Teenage Cancer Trust https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/POBShantyCrew

Theme song provided by Kale A. Dean

Cover composite illustration - Clifton Suspension Bridge; Shanty Crewmates ©

Matt Jeanes Professional Artist

Christmas Shanty (Chorus) Copyright © 2022-2024 Robert Palomo and

Copyright © 2024 Port of Bristol Shanty Crew - All Rights Reserved

The episode immerses listeners in the vibrant world of the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew, where the spirit of sea shanties thrives. Oggy, the enthusiastic host, leads the way through an array of topics, from the crew's recent performances to the anticipation of holiday gatherings. The discussion highlights the importance of community and collaboration within the shanty culture, as members share their thoughts on the joy of singing together and engaging with audiences. The crew's adventures are brought to life through amusing anecdotes, revealing how they navigate the challenges and triumphs of performing. A key highlight of the episode is the introduction of a new segment called "Ahoy there Matey", which invites listeners to contribute their voices and stories, further building a sense of community. With the holiday season approaching, the crew's Christmas shanty adds a festive touch, making this episode a delightful blend of music, laughter, and heartfelt connections.

Chapters

00:00 - None

00:07 - None

00:43 - Welcome to E11

03:07 - The Signaler

08:28 - All Hands!

09:07 - The great reveal

15:47 - Oggie and Chilli

58:20 - Ahoy there matey!

01:00:17 - Ending!

01:01:36 - Reefing Sails in Howling Gales

Transcript
Speaker A

Sheer shape wondrous old fashioned boys along the hardest side from evil gorge to wonderful heaven all the line Secure the barrels down below Bind them, tie and lash em this vessel she certified Shipshape from Bristol Fashion.


Oggy

Hello there shipmates, and welcome to Shipshape and Bristol Fashion.


Oggy

Hi, I'm Oggy and I'm a member of the Port of Bristol Shanty crew.


Oggy

And this podcast is all about covering what we get up to and how to find us in the future.


Oggy

Hello and welcome to episode 11 of Shipshape and Bristol Fashion.


Oggy

Thank you so much for joining us.


Oggy

And if you are brand new to this world of podcasting, then it's great to have you on board.


Oggy

If you do enjoy this episode, then of course there are plenty more for you to navigate either on our website or any other good podcast applications that you'll find on your phone or even on your smart speaker at home.


Oggy

If you're a regular listener, then welcome back and thank you so much for engaging with it so far.


Oggy

If you do have a moment, please do pop over to our website and leave us a review and also share it with your friends.


Oggy

It's great to have a larger audience and ultimately to share the great work of the Port of Bristol Shanty Cruise.


Oggy

And thank you listeners who engaged with my little plea last month where you pop over to the website and left us a review.


Oggy

You certainly have done that and I'm really thankful for that.


Oggy

And a big shout out to our international listeners who have done that for me, including a listener from Australia.


Oggy

So on this month's episode, we have the interview you've all been waiting for.


Oggy

And that is an interview with Chilli and myself.


Oggy

The wonderful doc led the interview.


Oggy

Great opportunity to hear about me and Chilli and our backstory and how, how we got involved in the crew.


Oggy

We've also got a lovely Christmas song for you to listen to as we play out the show and a massive thank you to Robert Palomo has allowed us to use a little segment of a song which we've built on to create a Christmas shanty for you and a new segment called Ahoy there Matey, where you as a listener can call in and leave us a message.


Oggy

And if you're part of the shanty community, you could leave a message promoting what you're up to so we can come along and support you.


Speaker A

Oh Santiana on the day he awaits Santiana and General Taylor ran away all.


Chili

Along the plains of Mexico and it's heaver up and away we'll go either way Santiana Heber up and away we'll go along the plains of Mexico.


Oggy

But first up we're going to pop over to the signaler.


Oggy

Ash has come back from his holidays and he's going to tell us all about the news of what we've been up to and where to find us.


Oggy

And more importantly, a really exciting fundraiser that we're running during December that we need your help.


Oggy

And if you do help, you're guaranteed to receive the best Christmas present you could ever want or ever give someone else.


Signaler

Yo ho ho, me hearties.


Signaler

Or actually, probably this time of year I should be o ho ho.


Signaler

It's the signaller here with all of the news and events coming from the world famous port of Bristol Shanty Crew.


Signaler

So let's weigh the anchor, hoist the mizzen and kick off and listen to everything that's going on shanty wise with the crew.


Signaler

We did three gigs in November.


Signaler

The first was a 70th birthday.


Signaler

The crew were the surprise entertainment at that birthday and I don't think they had quite the same effect that Marilyn Monroe probably had when she was asked to sing for JFK all those years ago.


Signaler

But nevertheless, they were well appreciated.


Signaler

I know that the Crew went down very well and the crew really enjoyed it as well.


Signaler

Gig number two was at Rodway WI in Mangotsfield.


Signaler

The crew love doing gigs for the wi.


Signaler

They're a great audience, they're always very appreciative, they're very generous and probably as importantly, we get really good cake and tea afterwards, which the crew enjoy as much as the singing.


Signaler

I think the third gig was down in Rington and it was an honour to be asked to sing in In Rington by our really good friends John Morgan and Sam Glenn.


Signaler

Sam and John are involved in running a fantastic community hub down in Rington and they asked us to come along and sing and we're always very happy to support gigs like this and more importantly to help out Sam and John.


Signaler

And it was a lovely gig that everybody enjoyed.


Signaler

So let's move into December and what's coming up on the 5th.


Signaler

We're going along to sing for the Westbury Guide Troupe.


Signaler

The people who run this troupe are great supporters of the crew.


Signaler

Jane and Sally Hewlin, who happen to be relatives of mine as well.


Signaler

Sally's the head of the troupe.


Signaler

I'm not sure what that's called, a Tara Masalata or something like that.


Signaler

And we are delighted to go down and sing for them.


Signaler

We're going to have to edit our normal set to remove A lot of the profanity or any of the subjects that might be not fit for younger ears, which means we'll probably have about two songs left in our set list, which we're going to work hard on, but I know it will be a good afternoon.


Signaler

We're going to get the girls involved in that and it'll be a lovely way to start the Christmas period with them.


Signaler

On Friday the 13th, we're going to be singing down at the Bank Tavern.


Signaler

The bank, if you haven't been there, is one of the Growing Empire pubs owned by Sam Gregory, A proper, lovely, slightly hidden Bristol pub that, if you've never been to, you should go.


Signaler

Unfortunately, this gig is a closed one.


Signaler

It's for a private party, for a business.


Signaler

We're making a great donation to the crew, but probably if you stand outside and press your ear to the window, you just might hear something.


Signaler

If you do want to come and sing with us in Bristol, you've only got to wait till Saturday the 14th, the next day, when we're singing at the birthday party of a gentleman who's known to the Crew by the name of Aidan Horan.


Signaler

And it's at the Clockwork Rose, which is a bar in St Stephen street in Bristol.


Signaler

We've sung there twice now, I think, and we've always had a small but perfectly formed audience to sing for us, who have been massively generous.


Signaler

It is open to all.


Signaler

We'd love to see you there, as I'm sure Aidan would and I'm sure buy everybody a drink.


Signaler

You probably won't thank me for that.


Signaler

The highlight of the month is going to be, however, nothing to do with singing, but the focus of our attention will be the sale and distribution of the new 2025 crew natural calendar.


Signaler

I understand you're going to hear more about that in a minute from the doc, but I can assure you that this is a calendar like no other.


Signaler

There is probably more flesh on show than is sensible for chaps of a certain age, but it would make a marvellous gift for family and friends and actually probably would be even better for those who you don't like very much.


Signaler

John's going to tell you more about this in the rest of the podcast with details of how to buy it, but.


Signaler

But please buy one.


Signaler

Please give generously.


Signaler

All of the money that we raise from it, apart from the printing costs, will be donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust, so that's enough from me.


Signaler

This is the Signaler signing off.


Signaler

Wishing you fair winds, calm seas and a wonderful Christmas, and a Prosperous New Year.


Signaler

Merry Christmas.


Oggy

Thank you, Ash.


Oggy

And Listener, we need your help.


Oggy

We want to, of course, sell these wonderful calendars to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.


Oggy

Every single month, you'll get a beautiful picture of a member of the crew.


Oggy

And recently, the crew, after rehearsals, were sitting in a pub, and it was the first time that we all got to see each other in our splendid birthday suits.


Oggy

Okay, Jabs, we have.


Oggy

It's a rehearsal night and we've come down to our local waterhole.


Oggy

But tonight's a special night, isn't it?


Oggy

Because what's happened, Fish?


Oggy

What's happened tonight?


Ash

Well, we've been surprised by lots of packages.


Oggy

Wow.


Ash

Lots of packages that the doc pulled out from his kiosk.


Oggy

What does that really mean?


Oggy

Oh, Bill.


Bill

The fulfillment of our total embarrassment.


Oggy

Total embarrassment, Skipper, do you think it's totally embarrassing?


Ash

I think we should open the elephant in the room.


Ash

We've got semi.


Ash

Semi clues.


Ash

Calendars coming out.


Ash

Calendars?


Ash

Yes.


Ash

So we're promoting those.


Ash

We promoted our.


Ash

Our voluptuous bodies.


Oggy

You know, in this.


Ash

It's cold weather, so we're all.


Ash

12 pictures, guys.


Doc

You're not really selling this particularly passionately, are you?


Rev

We've.


Doc

We have commissioned a charity calendar to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.


Doc

And Skippers, semi aside, we have got 12 photographs of some handsome men who have.


Doc

Who have partially stripped.


Nobby

Well, not.


Nobby

Not partially straight.


Doc

Have stripped down and.


Doc

And.


Doc

And displayed themselves in their.


Doc

In their birthday suits purely to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.


Doc

And we're looking for as many people as possible to dig deep into their pockets and buy one of these luxury calendars.


Doc

We've sold 50% of them already.


Doc

They haven't even hit the shelves, and we've sold 50% of them already.


Doc

So they are going like hotcakes.


Doc

And the quality is fantastic.


Rev

I think you dig deep into your pockets, but dig deep into your psyche because you know you want these.


Rev

These are just pure beauty.


Doc

Which one's your favorite picture, Bill?


Bill

Oh, it's gotta be Skipper.


Bill

What he's doing with that horse is beyond belief.


Rev

It.


Doc

It looks potentially quite a life restricting and very vulnerable position to be in.


Doc

You're a braver man than I, Skipper.


Ash

You try holding it between your legs.


Ash

I tell you what, I don't have any shoes on.


Ash

You know, he had shoes on.


Ash

That's why I was putting his shoes on.


Doc

He catches you with a hoof, you know, that would be a nasty bruise, wouldn't it?


Rev

Well, I think it would smart.


Rev

You've got to get over the actual beauty and the.


Rev

The artisticry of this is just amazing.


Rev

It's immense.


Ash

And I was bent over as well.


Rev

Yes, we need to talk to you about that.


Rev

I think there's an item on the news about you for it.


Doc

Skipper was one of the only people to submit more than one photograph, though.


Doc

I mean, 1200 56, there's a lot of.


Doc

Lot of photographs in different positions.


Doc

A shoe in a horse, or indeed riding it bareback over many months.


Ash

And I was only.


Ash

I was only horsing about.


Ash

I wasn't.


Rev

That's the main story.


Rev

Was it?


Ash

That was it.


Doc

Officially, one's your favorite picture.


Ash

My favorite has to be my school of Chum from 1963.


Ash

I've not seen him in that state since about 1966.


Ash

So it's really good to see how he's.


Ash

How he's developed over the years.


Doc

And he's wearing red as well.


Doc

I've never, ever seen that happen.


Ash

Well, this is it.


Ash

He's obviously gone from being a.


Ash

One of these gas heads folk to something called a Bristol City club.


Ash

Supporting the Robins.


Oggy

What?


Ash

Wholeheartedly.


Ash

And I applaud you, Stephen, for doing that.


Rev

Amazing.


Bill

I think the biggest challenge was trying to keep the helmet in place without hands on a very cold day.


Doc

Obviously, until you purchase a photograph and look at the photographs and the pictures month by month, that will be a sort of tangential, slight, slightly surreal reference.


Doc

But, yes, Old Bill's picture has to be seen to be believed.


Rev

Yes, definitely.


Doc

There's no truncheon in it, but his helmet is held in a particularly interesting position.


Rev

Yes.


Rev

Look, no hands.


Bill

I think they said no hands.


Rev

Cold day.


Bill

And let alone the crime scene that was next to me.


Doc

And then we have Augie, who's the face of Christmas as well, with a fantastic December picture.


Rev

Yeah.


Oggy

I've already been told.


Oggy

I've got.


Rev

Let's talk about what came up.


Oggy

Well, I've been told I got a good muffler.


Oggy

Yeah.


Ash

Interesting.


Oggy

Yeah, I know.


Oggy

I know, but.


Rev

Yeah.


Oggy

No, the face of December.


Rev

They won't believe it until they sit.


Rev

They will not believe it.


Oggy

Yeah.


Oggy

I'm really pleased that it's December because that, you know, they have to wait such a long time and then they'll just forget about it.


Oggy

No, now that you're talking about it.


Ash

They'Re going to go to that page first.


Oggy

No, no.


Rev

The back page.


Rev

To find the story.


Oggy

I'm the punchline.


Oggy

What?


Oggy

Thing is.


Bill

The thing is we actually ran a raffle and the winner was the one who's actually got February, because there's only 28 days in.


Oggy

Well, they are all stunning photos in our bidet suits.


Oggy

Quality?


Nobby

Very.


Ash

The quality is phenomenal.


Oggy

Stunning, stunning, stunning.


Oggy

I thought long and hard about that one.


Oggy

But yeah, like Doc said, if you would like to purchase one of these truly amazing, unique, unique pieces of artwork, I think we're going to put it there.


Oggy

Yeah, I think it is.


Oggy

Then you need to make contact with us in the usual way through Facebook, go on our website, go on TikTok and just tell us you want to buy them.


Rev

The police, anyone?


Oggy

The police, yeah, yeah, we'll make contact.


Rev

With us on your behalf.


Bill

Can I just say, it's a minimum of donation of £20.


Bill

All the profits go to Teenage Cancer Trust.


Bill

But if you're not brave enough to buy one, then you can still donate to the Teenage Cancer Trust to help boost our funds.


Oggy

Why would they not want one?


Oggy

Why would they not want.


Doc

I've already sold one for 50 quid.


Doc

That's how in demand they are.


Oggy

Someone lost a bet there, I think.


Rev

Most definitely.


Oggy

Well, chaps, we should continue drinking our well deserved beers.


Oggy

Continue looking at these wonderful photos.


Oggy

We're gonna have to ask him.


Oggy

We're gonna have to ask the landlord.


Oggy

Does he want.


Oggy

I think it'll look great behind the bar.


Oggy

Anyway, chaps, cheers.


Ash

Cheers.


Nobby

So, listeners, here we are for the interview you've all been waiting for.


Nobby

We're sitting in a dark vault underneath one of the oldest drinking houses in Bristol and I have with me the two newbie shanty crew mates that joined us in the summer.


Nobby

And what a mistake that was to invite you.


Rev

That'll learn you.


Doc

But nevertheless, it's great to introduce to.


Nobby

You the mighty Oggy and his backup, his sidecar support, Chili Bill.


Rev

Get in.


Rev

Yes.


Rev

Round of applause.


Rev

Look at that, look at them, they're crying.


Doc

So, gents, whatever made you want to.


Rev

Join the shanty group, the press gang, they called it, I think it was.


Oggy

I think everyone said it was on that.


Oggy

Well, I had a bit of phone though, because I thought, these lads are doing really well.


Oggy

They sound great.


Oggy

I might come part of that.


Rev

Well, I, I sort of was walking past, minding my own business and somebody reached out and grabbed me and pulled me in and that was it.


Rev

That's the best on you, your honor.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

Australia, is it a decision that you.


Doc

That you regret or, or.


Rev

No, not in.


Rev

Liked it.


Rev

It's.


Rev

It's given us a new lease of life, I think.


Oggy

Yeah, it's really good.


Rev

Really good.


Oggy

Good lads, good laugh.


Oggy

Having a sing song and the interactions.


Rev

We do with the actual, you know, the public.


Rev

Public who come to see the sort of.


Rev

We did recently did the Bristol Sea Shanty Festival.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

What wonderful people we got to meet there.


Rev

Some really enthusiastic, really nice, easy to bluff.


Rev

Because even saying we've sounded good, it was amazing.


Oggy

I know.


Oggy

I think the real ale in the cider helped.


Rev

That might have helped.


Oggy

Yeah.


Oggy

Yeah, I think it might have helped.


Rev

Yeah, absolutely.


Oggy

But, no, it's been good.


Oggy

I've really enjoyed it, you know.


Oggy

You guys know that I started producing a podcast because I wanted to get you guys to improve your reach, because there are a lot of people out there that like Shanti and you guys sound great.


Oggy

And you were brave enough to come to me and say, have you thought about joining us?


Oggy

And I thought, well, I've never, ever thought I could ever do that.


Oggy

And as you said, I was clearly qualified because I thought I couldn't sing and clearly I can hold a tune occasionally.


Oggy

And.


Oggy

Yeah, great.


Oggy

Really good decision.


Nobby

And you're the master behind the microphone as well.


Oggy

Well, I do try.


Oggy

I do try.


Oggy

I do try.


Oggy

But, yeah, no, it's been great fun and just actually gathering together at rehearsals and just going to gigs, it.


Oggy

It feels good to be amongst friends.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

And that's.


Rev

That's one of the main parts is.


Rev

I think it's.


Rev

Fish said, what links us all together so well.


Rev

And we said, because every one of us will be friends outside of this.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

And that's what makes the.


Rev

Not just the.


Rev

You see people's faces when we're singing and they're not cringing.


Rev

That.


Rev

That's one of the bonuses.


Rev

But people are actually listening to what we're seeing, the way we do it and the interactions between members of the crew, and it's just so much fun.


Rev

And people say this occasionally.


Rev

They say, oh, it's so much fun with different groups on the TV or different groups everywhere.


Rev

When you're actually in a group and you do all click, it is fun.


Nobby

So have you found it, Julie?


Nobby

Because obviously, you know, you're not.


Nobby

You're not naturally a performer.


Nobby

It's quite a shrinking violet.


Nobby

How have we.


Nobby

Or have the group sort of persuaded you out of your shell?


Rev

As you know, I am very shy.


Rev

People wouldn't even spot me in a crowd.


Rev

Not with my clothes on anyway.


Rev

But I've.


Rev

It's given me a wonderful platform to let loose my inner lunacy, which I think everybody acknowledges has always festered and bubbled under the surface and just being given an option to say, let's get that crowd involved.


Rev

And I absolutely love it.


Rev

It's just been so much fun.


Nobby

You've bought a new energy and nonsense into the group, that's for sure.


Nobby

But when we were.


Nobby

When we were recruiting you, you told us that you were quite an accomplished singer and that you'd sung in Bristol Cathedral, which is obviously a lie.


Rev

No, no, no, no.


Rev

Actually, I've done.


Rev

Where else have I done.


Rev

I've done the Colston Hall, I've done the Hippodrome.


Rev

I've.


Rev

It's not called the Colston hall anymore.


Rev

It's now the Bristol Beacon.


Rev

Beacon Beacon.


Rev

The Beacon.


Rev

Still the Colsonal.


Rev

But we, you know, we've.


Rev

We've gone through.


Rev

I went through the Avon schools, actually, in 1975.


Rev

I know I'm giving away my age.


Rev

They did the Avon Schools performance and I was plucked.


Rev

Plucked, I said, as the soloist for a production called Kydeman.


Rev

And even I didn't know I could sing as I did on there.


Rev

From there on in Bristol Operatic Society, I did.


Rev

Did loads of little bits and the Gang Show.


Rev

Most people get involved in singing things through the Gang show for the.


Rev

For the scouts and the cubs and obviously for the leaders.


Rev

I was on there for that when Ralph Reader himself came down from London and actually presented us with the Gang show.


Rev

Actual is a Red Badge which normally had to go off to London to be discussed and see if they were.


Rev

They thought it was a good enough production, but they came down and said, we're not waiting for that.


Rev

It's been such a good performance.


Rev

When they came down to assess it, you're gonna get it.


Rev

So, you know, we've been part and parcel of that as well, so.


Rev

Great fun, really good.


Nobby

What's your been your background in singing and Auggie?


Oggy

Well, I think mostly just in church really, and.


Oggy

And in the shower, of course, which clearly I sound amazing in there, but.


Oggy

Yeah, no, I.


Oggy

It's only really ever been in.


Oggy

In church and I did it, you know, singing in a choir in my school time.


Oggy

But yeah, no, I.


Oggy

I knew that I somehow acquired this voice that I sound nothing like my mum and dad at all.


Oggy

And if I work at it, I sound quite all right, actually, I'm told.


Rev

Fantastic.


Oggy

I know, I know.


Rev

When are you going to do that?


Oggy

I don't know.


Oggy

It'll start later on, I think.


Oggy

Yes, later on, I think.


Oggy

And yeah, never thought I could sing.


Oggy

I know I could maybe talk and put some words together on a mic.


Oggy

But yeah, I think this is a new thing for me to come along and Put my singing abilities to good use.


Oggy

Thankfully, you guys sound just as good, so I can just blend into it all.


Nobby

I mean, church isn't necessarily a strong grounding in singing, is it?


Nobby

Because we've got Reverend you'd think after years of singing in church he would be adept at four part harmony, but he's completely befuddled by anything other than the tune.


Oggy

I guess he employed a choir for that, didn't he?


Oggy

He could just.


Rev

Yeah, you've got your backup choir, you know, you've made it.


Oggy

I'll let them.


Rev

Got your own choir.


Rev

Get on.


Rev

Sing you lot, come on.


Nobby

He makes up for it in volume.


Oggy

Oh, he definitely, yeah.


Oggy

Good voice.


Oggy

Yeah.


Oggy

And he has so much, doesn't he?


Oggy

He can steer us through the.


Oggy

The stormy weathers of singing sometimes.


Rev

And I think that's a skill he's picked up in life.


Rev

He obviously looked at us and said, well, they're the fallen ones.


Rev

Let's bring them into the flock and get them back on the right of patch.


Oggy

He's just taking a sympathy, is he?


Rev

I think it's just simply.


Rev

He does.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

That's what it is.


Rev

As.


Rev

As most of the rest of the crew do with us.


Oggy

Yeah, I think so.


Oggy

As the newbies.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

I think we get money from the government for us as well.


Rev

It's just one of those wonderful moments.


Nobby

Pay us not to sing.


Oggy

That's like.


Oggy

We've raised so much money, I'm told.


Rev

I think it is, yeah.


Oggy

Get out.


Nobby

I've had quite a lot of offers on the.


Nobby

On the proposed 2025 Shanty Crew Calendar.


Oggy

This is a spoiler.


Nobby

Lots of people will pay not to see it, I'm led to believe.


Rev

Well, they say that they try and make out it's a bad thing.


Rev

You.


Rev

I know the content.


Rev

I'm certainly in my one.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

And I'm still after my 18 year old son who ran off with my clothes.


Rev

But I'm gonna leave the rest of that there for you because, you know, if you do find him, we've got words to happen in him.


Oggy

And if listeners.


Oggy

If you buy this calendar that's coming out, you'll see how compromised I think he was at the time.


Rev

It was an interesting moment.


Signaler

Yeah.


Nobby

It was a very public place.


Rev

Very public place.


Rev

And you don't expect people to come paddling behind you on paddle boards or I think what could only be described is a.


Rev

A ferry had disembarked on the other side of the other side of the bank.


Rev

Just at that moment, your son runs off with your clothes and you stood there.


Rev

I won't give away anything else because if you want to see it, you've got to buy it.


Rev

Yes, but you'll see the predicament.


Rev

It doesn't matter how hard you try, you can't really talk your way out of that one.


Oggy

No.


Oggy

So these are holiday makers with photos too.


Rev

Yeah, well, there was some people with cameras.


Rev

I'm not sure what they've done with it, but I'm sure it appears somewhere.


Oggy

We'll find you on the website.


Rev

It'd be on the web somewhere.


Rev

But I'm sorry for all those who were tortured by those views.


Rev

They do come in different sizes and different shapes from.


Nobby

One of the great things about having you guys in the crew is obviously we've expanded our numbers so it means that we can take on more gigs and sing in more places because it's been quite tricky.


Nobby

If there's only been three or four of us available now, that's five or six.


Nobby

That's great.


Nobby

What songs have you been playing with?


Nobby

When in coming to the group, what are your.


Nobby

What are your big hitters that you're experimenting with at the minute?


Oggy

Well, there's clearly.


Oggy

And I love the fact that that is the case that I can.


Oggy

That I can explore some of the Cornish songs that we can maybe bring to the set list.


Oggy

So Cornwall, my home, is something that I'm playing around with and we're playing around with maybe doing a duet with Ash.


Oggy

So that's kind of something we're going to work with.


Oggy

And Hallaway Joe is something that I've kind of polished in my head now.


Oggy

We did a practice only a couple of weeks ago then, and that seemed to go alright.


Oggy

So those are the two main ones.


Oggy

And then just really.


Oggy

Just enjoying where my voice fits with the different songs that we do sing.


Oggy

Because again, it's finding.


Oggy

Where can I support the high notes, the low notes or just kind of keep in the middle base.


Nobby

Tell me about the Cornish thing, Oggy, because to be honest, you sound a bit too posh to be Cornish.


Oggy

Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?


Oggy

And that's.


Oggy

I.


Oggy

I have no idea where this accent came from because I am a Cornish without.


Rev

They call it.


Oggy

Yeah, I'm a bit of a mixed breed, really, because my mum and her family are all Cornish and my dad was a Devonor, so a bit of a mixed.


Oggy

I know, I know.


Rev

Objections for that.


Oggy

I know, I know it's a bit.


Oggy

I don't know, but.


Oggy

So.


Oggy

But I lived most of my life in Saltash in Cornwall.


Oggy

So a born and bred in my head, Cornish person and I quite like relating to that.


Oggy

And it's a beautiful space, but no idea where this accent has come from.


Oggy

And clearly.


Oggy

Maybe a few more ciders.


Oggy

The Cornish accent might creep out, but yeah, just very proud to be part of that world.


Oggy

But I emigrated, like most people do at a younger age to come to Bristol, which is just far enough away, close enough to the rest of the world, but knowing that you can get home whenever you needed to in a space of a couple of hours.


Nobby

So with that heritage, I have to ask the question.


Nobby

Yeah, Jam or cream first?


Oggy

It is always, always jam first.


Rev

God bless you.


Nobby

Is that because you got to do what your mum says?


Oggy

No, the Cornish tell me.


Oggy

Because if I said this now wrong, I'd be.


Oggy

I think we'd be lynched.


Rev

I've got a tear in my eye knowing you do that.


Rev

Because my father was also Cornish.


Rev

We were taught and brought up properly.


Rev

You know, it's always jam first.


Oggy

Put the best thing on top, don't hide it away like the devil is.


Rev

Oh, good God.


Rev

Class, you know, it's class, I'm telling you.


Oggy

You put more cream on as well, then.


Rev

Yeah, absolutely.


Rev

You get loads.


Rev

You can get.


Rev

You can get a whole dollop.


Oggy

Yes.


Oggy

Rod is all the way.


Nobby

And Julius is a bit difficult to tell with your accent, but where are you from?


Rev

People really do find it mystify.


Rev

Is it.


Rev

Is it London?


Rev

Is it it Scotland?


Rev

Is it?


Rev

No, it's not.


Rev

It's Bristol, God bless it.


Rev

Beautiful city.


Rev

Dad from Cornwall, mother from Scotland, which is amazing combination.


Rev

Absolutely.


Nobby

Did they meet on a lands?


Nobby

Enter John O Groats bike ride or something?


Rev

I don't know what it was actually.


Rev

It was sort of a.


Rev

A collision of sort of cultures.


Rev

I think it was.


Rev

I think it might have been over a discussion of was it jam or cream first?


Rev

And obviously Scotch.


Rev

You can.


Rev

You can tend to blag it with them anyway.


Rev

But, yeah, that's where it came from.


Rev

So, you know, a Bristolian born in bread, strong in arm and I think the word is thick in head at the end of it, they say, but yes, my songs I do Pay Me, which those of you may have been tortured by it so far do know that I do like to get a bit of crowd participation in it.


Rev

So don't be.


Rev

Don't be.


Rev

If you come to see us, don't be surprised if you get invited up to.


Rev

Or not, but certainly to.


Rev

To sing in segments.


Rev

But this is part of it and we.


Rev

Yeah, we're Working on a few things.


Rev

The Mermaid.


Rev

I'm looking at the Mermaid at the moment as well.


Rev

Just a little side one which I think does appeal to me.


Rev

Certainly that one Bristol.


Rev

Or a couple of Bristol songs as well.


Rev

Ship Shape in Bristol Fashion.


Rev

That's one we're working on at the moment.


Rev

What a song that is.


Oggy

Yeah.


Oggy

So good.


Nobby

It is a cracker.


Rev

It is.


Nobby

It's got to be something with the Brazil accent.


Oggy

Yeah, that's it.


Oggy

We've got to have some good.


Rev

Struggling with that one because we don't know many Bristolians, do.


Oggy

We actually work in the broad Bristolians in the crew, really.


Nobby

Rev's practice in his.


Nobby

But, you know, it's.


Oggy

It's a bit tricky, and we're so lucky to have access to that song.


Oggy

And we know that other crews don't use it.


Oggy

All of a sudden.


Oggy

It's, you know.


Oggy

So, yeah, we're very thankful.


Oggy

It is a gift.


Oggy

It is a gift.


Oggy

It is a gift.


Rev

And hopefully, when we do perform it, people also look at it and say, that was a gift.


Oggy

Yeah, yeah.


Rev

And they love it as much as we do.


Nobby

So how did you guys end up with your crewmate names?


Oggy

Well, we leaned on Augie because of Cornish pasties, et cetera, et cetera.


Rev

Delicacy.


Oggy

A delicacy.


Oggy

A finer delicacy.


Oggy

Not the top.


Oggy

Sorry.


Oggy

Of course, he's on one now.


Oggy

It's when it's food.


Oggy

I think we had a few options, didn't we, Doc?


Oggy

And we.


Oggy

We toyed around with them.


Oggy

But actually, I think what was really great is that we put it out to Poll.


Oggy

We like a good old WhatsApp poll, and we stuck it out there.


Oggy

And just before you joined the crew, Gillian, everybody went with Augie.


Oggy

I think that went really well.


Oggy

And it.


Oggy

It stuck.


Nobby

And the best thing is it's got its own emoji as well.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

Yeah.


Oggy

Yes.


Oggy

Thank you.


Oggy

Apple and other mobile phones are available, but.


Oggy

Yeah, no, I think it's great.


Oggy

There's got an emoji for it, too, so it is really good.


Oggy

Yeah, no, it's great.


Oggy

I mean, I'm absolutely partial to a good pasty.


Rev

Bless it.


Rev

God's food.


Oggy

Absolutely.


Oggy

Very good.


Oggy

Very convenient, too.


Rev

Oops, sorry.


Oggy

No, no, it's probably not very healthy.


Oggy

The doc's probably going to look at us.


Nobby

And then chilli.


Nobby

You could have been called Old Bill, too, obviously.


Nobby

And being called Bill, that would have.


Rev

It would have caused mass.


Nobby

So how did you end up with chilli?


Rev

So chilli.


Rev

Now I am partial to a very, very nice hot super hot, extremely hot.


Rev

Burn yourself down curry or any other full chilies, anything like this.


Rev

So I have had many an incursion with the world's hottest chilies from people always trying to test me to see can he go hotter, can he go hotter?


Rev

And the Naga, the reapers, you bring it in.


Rev

I've actually tried it and because I ran out of all the hotels, things to try, then went to the sour.


Rev

So it could have been.


Rev

I could have been known as sour, but I don't think that would have been as effective as chili.


Oggy

My mind is where the calendar would have gone with that.


Oggy

But I think.


Rev

I think you're right, though, because that's almost tortured.


Rev

You've been dragged down that line.


Rev

But yeah, chili comes literally because of the fact that I do love the hot foods and trying to try to actually kill myself with the.


Rev

From the Wiltshire Chili Farm, the world's hottest shot, which if anyone out there has actually tried that.


Rev

Bless you.


Rev

I hope you're still here because it's in the seance, because it is singly the world's hottest shot.


Rev

You will know all about pain.


Rev

23 hours, I think it was before I actually recovered from that.


Rev

I won't tell you about the scenes around the house or in the back garden, but the neighbors did know that I'd eaten some of which board had something which perhaps was the hottest thing ever.


Oggy

Wow.


Rev

We'll leave that.


Nobby

There was that action upstairs or downstairs, you name it.


Nobby

Okay.


Rev

You name it.


Rev

It was.


Rev

It was a terrifying moment.


Rev

And it's that thing which you do in your life when 10 seconds after doing it, you know you've made the biggest error of your life and you sit there and think, there is no escape.


Rev

I have actually done myself this time.


Rev

And I think three or four pints of milk, two lots of yogurt, I think I had 18 rennies.


Rev

Nothing actually assisted in any way, shape or form.


Rev

So that's another warning, people.


Nobby

Yeah.


Nobby

Is that the worst thing you've ever eaten or drank them?


Rev

Oh, God.


Rev

God.


Rev

Noming is that Swedish fish dish which people know about, and they.


Rev

You were to happen onto YouTube or something like that and put it in there.


Rev

There's one scene, or there's one of the actual things of two gentlemen in a caravan that would tell you all you need to know about stastroming.


Rev

As soon as you pop that tin because it's a pressurized, basically rotting fish, you will never have smelt anything like that.


Rev

And not only after you've got to put up with that smell, you then have to venture into tasting it.


Rev

And it's a social dish, they tell me.


Rev

And it's social only in the fact that people get together over in Sweden, get horrendously drunk and then open the tin.


Rev

Where some people do go into the world of, let's try it, let's taste it.


Rev

And you know, it tastes just as bad as it smells.


Rev

And I can only believe it stemmed from the Vikings or around that sort of era of when they filled up the buckets full of fish and things to obviously row off to wherever they wanted to go to as the.


Rev

As the fish depleted, you only had the bits left at the bottom which have been treated with a bit of salt just to stop it rotting.


Rev

And I think it originates from that sort of aspect because I can't think of anyone who'd sit there and go, I'm gonna put some rotting fish with a bit of salt in a tin and people will love it as a delicacy.


Nobby

So why did you eat it?


Rev

It was there.


Oggy

And.


Rev

And if you dare someone, unfortunately, you feel obliged.


Rev

You have to.


Nobby

Did you do that for money?


Rev

We did do that for a charity, so, yeah, we got some money for that one.


Signaler

Good.


Oggy

Well, there you are.


Oggy

There's a good reason for it.


Rev

My friend who was with me decided to smell inside the tin when we'd opened it up and the main smell had gone off inadvertently dabbed the end of his nose in the.


Rev

What we can only call his juice.


Rev

And that juice stayed.


Rev

That scent stayed on his nose for about three and a half days.


Rev

And let's say those brave souls who've actually.


Rev

Or brave, stupid.


Rev

I was not sure whether to.


Rev

Who've actually ventured into that world will know how bad that must have smelt.


Rev

It was a hideous thing.


Oggy

What we do for charity, eh?


Rev

What we do.


Rev

Well, one of them is running along the riverbank trying to find your clothes.


Rev

I think that will.


Rev

That will remain one of those moments in life.


Rev

And I apologize to all those people on the other side of river who may have been traumatized by that.


Nobby

It kind of puts Brussels sprouts into context though, doesn't it?


Nobby

Stir stromming put some things into.


Nobby

I think we should have a stir strumming eating competition for the Teenage Cancer Trust next year.


Rev

That is a.


Rev

That would be one.


Rev

And I'm obviously now I'm.


Rev

I'm tried and tested.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

Having watched Rev eat oysters, I don't think he'd probably be quite up for it, to be honest.


Oggy

Did he not like it?


Nobby

He wasn't a Big fan.


Rev

No, it's like nothing you would ever have tasted.


Nobby

There is a photograph of the web on the website.


Nobby

I think of Rev of Nobby and Rev eating oysters.


Nobby

Knob is looking like he's, you know, relaxed and enjoying himself and holding court and been here before.


Nobby

Rev's definitely not.


Rev

I have tried them myself and never.


Rev

It's a.


Rev

It's definitely a specialist taste.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

But then I eat ridiculous foods and things from all over.


Oggy

You are the man for that, I think.


Rev

And even in the Clockwork Rose, where they obviously provided that shot over there.


Rev

Remember the.


Nobby

Yeah.


Rev

They obviously won.


Rev

They brew on site there.


Oggy

Which is your first gig, wasn't it?


Rev

That was my first ever chili tequila or something.


Signaler

Or something.


Rev

It was a chili rum, but very nice.


Rev

If everyone ever sort of venturing into town, give that a shout because it's a really great little pub on the sort of.


Rev

You know, quite hidden to some extent, but very, very nice service in there.


Rev

But that rum.


Rev

If you like rums, that's where you go.


Rev

Definitely.


Oggy

Yes.


Nobby

They do do great cocktails in there, which sounds posh, but it's.


Nobby

It's not.


Nobby

It's.


Nobby

It's quite a good venue, isn't it?


Oggy

Nice.


Nobby

Sort of steampunky, kind of.


Rev

Steampunk.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

And just one of those pubs where you.


Rev

I've walked past it a couple of times and that was the first time I've gone into it.


Rev

I was really impressed.


Rev

But such a friendly crew.


Nobby

I think we're singing in there in December for Aidan, one of our supporters.


Nobby

His birthday.


Nobby

I think it's a birthday ending in a zero when he's asked us if we'll go along and sing there.


Nobby

I think that's December 13th, maybe.


Rev

Didn't I?


Rev

But no, that'd be great.


Rev

Going to sort of there again.


Rev

Because I say it's one of those little kept secrets.


Rev

Great gig, great place to sing.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

But really friendly crowd.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

I'm glad you brought the age thing in because Augie is obviously our youngest crewmate.


Rev

He tested positive for carpole.


Rev

I understand.


Nobby

I just wonder, Augie, I don't want to put you on the spot.


Nobby

What age do you think you have to get to before you're officially considered to be old?


Oggy

Oh, now I'm 44.


Oggy

45 next year.


Rev

Good Lord, you've had easy paper around it.


Rev

I have Cornish hair.


Oggy

Yeah, it's what it is.


Oggy

I mean, the hair's gone, you know, it's concrete, but it's still thick.


Rev

I don't know.


Oggy

I'm gonna go for 60, I think.


Nobby

60, yeah.


Oggy

Because I think that's when you start being seen as old, I think.


Oggy

I mean, I know that.


Rev

Did you say 60?


Oggy

60, yeah.


Oggy

I've lost a lot of friends all of a sudden.


Oggy

This has been great to hear from you.


Rev

I'm off.


Rev

Okay.


Rev

I'm not 60.


Oggy

No.


Rev

I thought I was still a young sprog, but as.


Oggy

As I've always learned, the older I get, the further I just keep pushing it because, you know, clearly I don't feel old.


Oggy

My back does occasionally, but, you know.


Rev

It'S only a number.


Oggy

It's only a number.


Rev

That's what I would suggest.


Oggy

It's only a very, very good point.


Rev

Until three days after you die, the.


Nobby

Number, the closer you are to retirement.


Rev

Very much.


Oggy

If I ever get to retire.


Nobby

Yeah.


Nobby

Well, on an NHS pension, so the way things are going, it'll be.


Oggy

Hey, hey.


Oggy

I'm pretty confident that everybody in the crew still feels very young.


Rev

I think you feel younger doing this singing.


Rev

Because it does.


Rev

It's because of it sort of that.


Rev

That feeling of belonging and the fun you have with it.


Rev

I keep saying fun.


Rev

It's.


Rev

It's one of those overused words sometimes, but it generally is.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

Great fun.


Rev

You just come alive.


Rev

Fuzzy feeling.


Rev

No pasty involved.


Rev

No sort of, you know, no scone.


Oggy

No.


Oggy

It's just the warm.


Oggy

And, you know, I come away from rehearsal.


Oggy

I know we always go for a nice beer after, but that just.


Oggy

You feel great after singing.


Rev

Absolutely.


Oggy

And we clearly under your.


Rev

Under your direction, your directions, Doc, we clearly.


Oggy

We get there and sing all right, don't we?


Rev

Yeah, absolutely.


Oggy

Because we are kind of right.


Rev

I know, but no, you.


Rev

You do bring us up and it does make a difference, so.


Rev

It does.


Rev

That's the important bit.


Nobby

I say singing is good for your brain, so, you know, it certainly improves the longevity of your gray matter, but the trouble is the beer afterwards deteriorates it, doesn't it?


Oggy

So you balances, surely.


Oggy

Doctor said it balances.


Oggy

Sing more.


Oggy

Yes.


Oggy

Sing more.


Oggy

Yes.


Oggy

Don't think all the crew would like that, but, yeah, we'll sing more.


Oggy

We'll sing more.


Nobby

I think the great thing about the shanties is that everybody can join in as well.


Nobby

Yes, yes.


Nobby

You know, the tunes are simple, the words are straightforward, mostly now acceptable to wider audiences with a bit of.


Nobby

Yeah, well, I think engineering.


Rev

I think that was reflected at the Balmoral, which was the last venue which we sang at for the Bristol Sea Shanty Festival.


Rev

And those of you who were fortunate enough to join us there and One of them being my 18 year old son who is still.


Rev

I've got the hitman out looking for him for my clothing removal Haven.


Rev

He said that was actually brilliant.


Nobby

You were completely holding court though, weren't you?


Nobby

By the end you had the audience in the palm of your hand.


Rev

I, I believe I may have sung a little bit and sort of.


Rev

And got a few people involved.


Nobby

I hadn't quite realized it was the last gig of.


Nobby

The last gig of the whole festival.


Nobby

But we had a well oiled audience, didn't we?


Nobby

And the ship was rocking by the end.


Rev

Well it went to show that a lot of the songs people do know and they obviously they're enthusiastic anyway because they come to see shanty festival.


Rev

But what a great way to end a night of a few beers and you've actually sung yourself out.


Rev

And certainly some of the crowd had absolutely thoroughly enjoyed themselves during the day and they.


Rev

The comments when they came back up afterwards was just really great.


Rev

Gave you a buzz as well.


Rev

Just sort of saying we really enjoyed that.


Rev

You've knocked out the ball game.


Oggy

Well as the signaler said, Ash love him.


Oggy

He said that some of us had to leave because we all turn into werewolves.


Oggy

When I came off the stage up help he'll be.


Oggy

I took my little one to go to the toilet and there's just a group of kids there in their teenagers, late teenagers and they were all just talking about how good our gig was and then they realized I was standing there and I was some kind of.


Oggy

Some kind of God.


Oggy

Oh wow, you were great.


Rev

Well done.


Rev

I was like.


Oggy

It was completely surreal because you generally stereotypically feel that this kind of genre is really for the elderly or the people that know.


Oggy

But it is universal and people love it.


Oggy

And one of the great things in starting with the crew is that subliminally as I've been practicing and playing some songs on, on Alexa etc.


Oggy

That randomly out of nowhere my three children would just randomly start singing just some parts of Ashanti that, that maybe didn't really feature on our household prior to me joining the crew.


Oggy

And it just shows that it.


Oggy

It's like an earworm, isn't it?


Rev

It is.


Rev

I think one of the things I've.


Rev

I found myself guilty of is a Sunday evening and it's not even my birthday.


Rev

A Sunday evening bath and you've got the.


Rev

Your phone sing along to some of the songs on there.


Rev

And it's only when you get out of the bath you realize how long you've been and how loud you've been singing because everyone's going, oh, my good.


Oggy

God, have you got a rubber ducky?


Rev

I'm sorry, I review that allegation.


Nobby

Where do you put the comma in that sentence?


Nobby

I think the other thing that's great about the, about the kind of shanty culture is the relationship that we have with other groups as well, because.


Rev

Absolutely.


Nobby

You know, when you're kind of singing in festivals, you.


Nobby

You think that the groups might be a bit sort of sniffy with each other and there might be a bit of one upmanship and kind of competition and there just.


Nobby

So isn't, isn't it just really, you know, everybody is there to kind of support each other and when a group finishes singing, they stay and listen to your gig and, you know, there's loads of WhatsApp and text messages pinging backwards and forwards between people.


Nobby

It is just a great, A great community.


Nobby

And we all sing the same flipping songs, don't they?


Nobby

The number of times you hear South Australia at Ashanti Festival.


Oggy

Nice that you are listening to Shipshape in Bristol fashion.


Oggy

Find out more by visiting pobshantycrew.co.uk podcast.


Oggy

Now let's get back to the show.


Rev

Isn't it nice?


Rev

Even though you sing some of the songs that are sort of repeated, you all sing them differently.


Rev

You've got your own style which, which, as you say, some of the other crews you, you bump into or, you know, follow on and things do hang around to have a little listen and it's, it is such a supportive.


Rev

But it's the fact that you're, you're giving that enjoyment out.


Rev

You're looking at a receptive crowd.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

Who, you know, perhaps the first time they've ever been to a sea shanty festival or.


Rev

And, and we've not turned them off.


Rev

We've not killed them.


Rev

Not.


Rev

No.


Rev

But they really enjoyed it.


Rev

But when they start that sing back, when you get them into singing the choruses, that's when you know, you've, you know, you, you're with great people, really.


Rev

Those who've come out to really enjoy a day.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

And that's what you.


Rev

That's what we try and do, make people have a good day.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

We're not musically the most adept group, are we?


Nobby

But we have a good laugh.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

And I think people see you, don't they?


Oggy

They see that it doesn't matter how good or bad you are, as long as you've got the camaraderie that we have as a crew.


Oggy

And you can see that by you know, our relationship with each other and you can see that.


Oggy

And that comes out on stage.


Rev

Absolutely.


Oggy

And we just deliver what we can and everybody seems to enjoy it and we're so lucky that we can do all of that, have great fun, enjoy and also make some great money for a good charity, so.


Rev

Oh, that's the most important bit.


Malcolm

Yeah.


Rev

You know, if you can raise the money whilst you're doing this, you know, we're having fun.


Rev

Yeah, having fun.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

Everyone's enjoying it.


Rev

And to top it off, to.


Rev

To raise some money for such a good charity, that's.


Rev

That's the icing on the cake every time.


Nobby

Yeah, yeah.


Nobby

We've.


Nobby

We've taken off.


Nobby

Off the gas a little bit in recent months, haven't we?


Nobby

Because I think we over committed ourselves earlier in the year.


Oggy

But.


Rev

Yeah, but.


Nobby

But interestingly, I think people are missing it a bit as well, aren't they?


Rev

What we up to 33, £500 at the moment?


Rev

I think somebody like that.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

Which is an astronomical amount of money for.


Rev

For singing and just shows the generosity people have got because they.


Rev

They obviously they enjoy what we do.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

When the calendars come out next year, that'll rocket up to 40,000.


Rev

Definitely 50.


Oggy

I can see this on BBC News.


Rev

I can see us on Crime Watch.


Oggy

And we know, we know that the money is.


Oggy

We raise at our gigs, of course, is for the Teenage Dancers Trust, but I think back to that community, we come alongside other crews that are raising money for other organizations like the Lifeboat association, and we help them out as well.


Oggy

And that also generates another lot of money, which is, you know, it's great.


Oggy

Really good.


Oggy

Really good.


Rev

Absolutely.


Rev

But that's the main fart is everyone enjoys themselves.


Rev

Yeah, everyone enjoys.


Rev

And yes, we.


Rev

We're very fortunate in our crew.


Rev

Now we've got 12 of us.


Rev

Well, 13, because obviously we got Herbie as well.


Nobby

Who's not in the calendar, by the way.


Rev

No, no, no, no.


Rev

Telephone now.


Rev

Leave that there.


Rev

But it's nice that we've got such a range of sort of voices and styles and things and.


Rev

And yeah, you.


Rev

You carouse beautiful doc in sort of making us sound nice and everything.


Rev

But you know what we're doing most of the time?


Oggy

We're nearly ready for a cd, I think.


Rev

Good God.


Rev

Cd, you say?


Nobby

I know, yeah, that's.


Nobby

That's the sort of Holy Grail that we haven't.


Oggy

No.


Nobby

Managed to get close to yet.


Oggy

But we'll get there.


Rev

We're getting there.


Rev

I reckon we can do that.


Rev

That'd be Quite good.


Oggy

We have the wonderful Nobby that can steer us through all the lyrics and then you can make us sound good.


Oggy

So there you are.


Rev

And look at Nobby.


Rev

Look at Nobby's, you know, his involvement, his, his years of right.


Rev

Shanty songs in.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

Allowing us to tear them apart and make our own tune of it.


Rev

And him bringing us back online.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

What a pleasure that is, singing alongside him.


Nobby

He's a bit of a legend, doesn't he?


Nobby

Bless him.


Rev

And a lovely man of the.


Rev

The.


Rev

Where they originated from in the history of sea shanties.


Rev

He.


Rev

Mind you, he was probably on Noah's boat actually.


Oggy

Yeah, I believe he was there.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

Yeah, yeah, he was third stroke on the left, I think.


Rev

But you know, he's.


Rev

He's been around for ages, but yeah, he's known it, seen it, done it and just such a special person.


Oggy

Yeah.


Nobby

I thought we might dry up in conversation and.


Nobby

And I wouldn't know what.


Nobby

What to ask you guys.


Nobby

So I did invest in this brilliant book.


Nobby

I say brilliant book.


Nobby

It's called Emergency Questions by a bloke called Richard Herring.


Nobby

And it's questions to ask somebody if you get stuck for conversation.


Oggy

Oh, okay.


Nobby

But actually there's some really weird questions in here which would be quite difficult and inappropriate for the podcast.


Nobby

But I'm just going to check this one out to you, Chili.


Nobby

We'll try this and see, see how we go.


Nobby

Justin will wave his hand at me when we run out of time.


Rev

Is it anything like the one when I asked the.


Rev

Went into library and asked for a book on sort of self help and.


Rev

Sure.


Rev

Well, it defeats the object, isn't it?


Nobby

So, so this question, what's the strangest thing you've ever found in your belly button?


Rev

That is an interesting one, isn't it?


Nobby

Good questions, aren't they?


Rev

See, someone mentioned the other day they said my 3 year old was playing with a phone and they put this thing on and got to this.


Rev

Three years of old.


Rev

Three years of old.


Rev

Three years of age.


Rev

I said I was eating mud still.


Rev

I was still tasting what corn things taste like.


Rev

So I think back then it would have to be sort of probably a bit Lego or something.


Rev

You just.


Oggy

Oh.


Oggy

I mean, they thought.


Rev

I went to hospital once but because they thought I was losing my hearing in one of my ears.


Oggy

Right.


Rev

And they took me in.


Rev

It was the right ear as well.


Rev

Yeah, they took me in and they had a look inside it.


Rev

This is a genuine story.


Rev

And the, the gentleman who's looking in my ear had a good peer in and put a torch and it shone through the other side, as you can imagine.


Rev

But they looked and he said, oh, my God, you've got a growth or something in there.


Rev

Which obviously panicked Mum.


Rev

So I think I must have been about 9 or 10 at the time.


Rev

And he got this scalpel and he said, I'm gonna do a little bit of cutting in there.


Rev

And you think he's cutting inside my ear.


Rev

And he cut and he pulled out a wax crayon which I must have inserted in my ear when I was about 4.


Rev

I pushed it all the way in and it obviously was quite cozy in there and decided a skin grew over it.


Rev

It was lovely.


Rev

Excellent.


Oggy

What color was it?


Rev

Yellow.


Oggy

Yellow.


Rev

That was what was quite amazing.


Rev

It was yellow.


Rev

Yellow, definitely.


Rev

So I was quite waxy.


Rev

Lyrical about that.


Nobby

It is interesting what you find up kids noses at work.


Nobby

Kids stick all sorts of things up their noses and then they come to the surgery and you go through this complicated exercise to try and grab hold of it and pull it out.


Nobby

And obviously a small child, when you're trying to stick forceps up their nose and grab hold of something, they're not really going to play.


Rev

No.


Nobby

Nicely there.


Nobby

And the easiest way to get it out is to actually just put your finger over the opposite nostril and then put your mouth over their lips and blow really hard.


Nobby

And the thing usually just pops out of its own free will in the cord.


Rev

Nice and easy.


Rev

And it depends how hard you blow in, I suppose.


Rev

And what pound per square inch do you go for?


Oggy

Is that the sort of a good blow?


Oggy

Oh, sorry.


Nobby

So oggy.


Rev

Your.


Nobby

Your question.


Nobby

What's the most pretentious book you've ever bought but never read?


Oggy

Oh, my days most precise.


Rev

Who's that by?


Rev

Sorry, I must stop this.


Oggy

I'd like to say I don't buy many books, but I do, but I don't read many of them purely because when you go to these church things and stuff, you.


Oggy

Oh, that'd be a good book on exploring stuff.


Oggy

But yeah, I wouldn't call them pretentious, but there's a good few on my shelf that I've not yet read that I should do.


Oggy

I should do.


Oggy

In fact, there's a Seashanti book that he's given me that I've got to completely read you.


Oggy

I've not read all that yet.


Oggy

There were a few, but.


Oggy

Not pretentious.


Nobby

Not pretentious.


Rev

Good.


Signaler

Okay.


Doc

That's right.


Nobby

And chili, what's.


Nobby

What's the best thing you've ever won?


Rev

Best movement Ever won.


Rev

Oh, that's a good one, isn't it?


Rev

Hand of the wife.


Rev

That came with the rest of her as well, I think.


Rev

Any other parts?


Rev

I think it was an eye watch.


Oggy

Oh.


Rev

And done by the Bristol Evening Post.


Rev

And I just entered on the.


Rev

A flutter of my sort of thought of.


Rev

I'll give out a go.


Rev

Dropped a card in at their desk when they used to be up on the.


Rev

Up in Bristol there.


Oggy

Oh, yeah.


Rev

And goodness knows, two weeks later I get a call and he said, congratulations, you come on down, you pick your watch up.


Rev

Wow.


Oggy

You lucky man.


Rev

That's why I was stunned.


Rev

Winning something.


Rev

It was great, wasn't it?


Oggy

That is pretty good, isn't it?


Oggy

That is good.


Rev

Have a little sit down on that one.


Rev

Euphoria was oozing from me.


Oggy

Did he go for a lottery ticket after that?


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

And I still not want.


Oggy

No, no, no, we're still here.


Rev

Still a program that's sort of on the.


Rev

On the list of things to do.


Rev

List One win lottery.


Oggy

Yes, that would be good.


Oggy

Of course, you'd give it to the shanty.


Rev

Of course.


Rev

Yeah, absolutely.


Nobby

So if you have the choice.


Rev

Yep.


Nobby

Would you rather be able to turn your head through 360 degrees like an owl, or have a telescopic neck that would lift your head to the height of a giraffe, but it could go back down again.


Oggy

Oh, good.


Oggy

It's not going to be stuck up there.


Rev

I mean, can you imagine the shirt for that?


Oggy

I know.


Oggy

Gee.


Oggy

I think I'm gonna go for the neck so I can look over things, over the buildings.


Rev

Wonderful.


Oggy

I couldn't find a use for turning my neck all the way around, but, you know, extending.


Oggy

I think I'd go for the neck.


Nobby

Yeah, good.


Signaler

Cool.


Nobby

And then chili, if your house was on fire, obviously, I hope it never is, but if your house was on fire, what three things would you definitely leave behind?


Nobby

Or if your wife wasn't looking, what would you surreptitiously throw in the fire before leaving the house?


Rev

Oh, good Lord.


Oggy

Not the watch.


Oggy

Not the watch.


Nobby

Not the apple watch.


Rev

No, no, the apple watch.


Rev

That's coming with me.


Rev

Three things to leave behind.


Rev

Well, the vacuum.


Rev

Yeah, cool.


Rev

That's a good one.


Oggy

Yeah.


Oggy

That's a good one.


Rev

That is.


Rev

I'm quite adept at the sugar matter.


Rev

This, the washing machine.


Rev

I'm quite good at that one.


Oggy

Okay, so leave that in there to burn.


Rev

Yeah, leave it to burn.


Oggy

Yeah, yeah.


Rev

That's what I do with most of the clothes in those sort of things.


Rev

Anyway.


Rev

Other things to leave in There, that's an interesting one.


Rev

Because there's a lot of things you.


Rev

You sort of just go through your mind.


Rev

All the bills.


Rev

How about that?


Rev

Leave it in there, Leave it in there.


Oggy

Leave the bills.


Nobby

Okay.


Chili

Yeah.


Rev

There you go.


Rev

See?


Oggy

Like it.


Rev

That was easy, wasn't it?


Nobby

Very.


Nobby

Yeah.


Nobby

Good political answer.


Nobby

Managed nicely.


Oggy

You know, she's gonna be heard later by the wife, I think.


Rev

Yeah, yeah.


Nobby

And then I'm gonna use the last question from here and then we'll come back to sanity.


Nobby

So what would be your favorite choice of animal to evolve and take over the world and make humans their slaves.


Nobby

Like Planet of the Apes.


Nobby

But obviously not apes.


Oggy

Obviously not apes.


Oggy

Animal that can evolve, that will eventually be the most superior and use us as slaves.


Rev

That'd be a good one, wouldn't it?


Oggy

Animal so much.


Oggy

Well, I'm just.


Oggy

I'm thinking it negatively.


Oggy

Like it's going to be pretty hard with any animal being in that.


Oggy

I mean, I love dogs.


Oggy

I'm a big dog fan.


Oggy

I love them.


Oggy

Planet of the Dogs, there's a film in that, I think, who would walk?


Rev

Who?


Rev

Well, would they take us for a walk?


Oggy

Getting on all fours of a collar.


Oggy

I think that's into some people.


Rev

Rev, rev, stop it.


Rev

Come on.


Oggy

Oh, deary me.


Oggy

I'm gonna go with dogs because evidently I love them and they'll love me.


Oggy

And even if they are the more superior animal, then I'm hoping they'll still treat us as we, for most of us, treat our dogs really well.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

On the whole next doorgander?


Rev

Absolutely.


Oggy

Yeah.


Oggy

Yeah, exactly.


Nobby

And I'd love to see them pick up your poo in a bag and.


Oggy

I'll put it in a bunch of leaves because we love this time of year.


Oggy

Look at you pick it up there.


Rev

I can't even see it.


Rev

And these are amazing.


Rev

The only place that when you take your dog for a walk and they can find a bit of badger excrement anywhere from 100 miles.


Oggy

Yeah.


Rev

And feel obliged to rolling it.


Rev

Is it good for the skin complexion?


Oggy

Apparently, yeah.


Rev

That's very much like me having a bath the other week and we'd run out the normal stuff, which I put in.


Rev

I thought, I do have my glasses on.


Rev

Oh, that smells nice.


Rev

I'll put that in.


Rev

And obviously had a lovely bath.


Rev

Very foamy.


Rev

Really nice.


Rev

I could feel my hair and change.


Rev

Really soft aircon.


Rev

It was the dog shampoo.


Oggy

Oh, that's a bit rough.


Rev

Well, I said that.


Rev

I was howling at that one.


Rev

Howling.


Rev

I tell you, you're barking mad.


Oggy

You Are the balls.


Oggy

Oh, it's like this every time, innit?


Rev

It is.


Rev

It's just like this, as you say.


Rev

All the time.


Oggy

All the time.


Rev

Yeah.


Rev

That was a lead.


Rev

Lead question, though.


Oggy

That was good.


Nobby

Well, guys, it's been brilliant chat since you're both, dare I say it, barking mad.


Rev

That was rough.


Nobby

And.


Nobby

And is.


Nobby

You know, you've been a great addition to the crew and May.


Nobby

May that long continue.


Nobby

Thank you very much and good luck with your songs.


Oggy

Thank you.


Nobby

It'd be nice to give them an airing very soon.


Rev

Come out and find us.


Rev

Come and listen.


Rev

Listened.


Rev

Yeah, we see.


Nobby

Tell us what you think and don't forget, you know, we'll.


Nobby

We'll aspire to a.


Nobby

A CD soon.


Nobby

Which would be good.


Rev

Absolutely.


Rev

Wouldn't it?


Rev

Ever.


Nobby

But until then, I will simply say thank you very much to Mr.


Nobby

October and Chilly chili for October.


Nobby

Thank you very much to Mr.


Nobby

December.


Rev

Very festive.


Oggy

I'm supposed to be a gift at the end.


Rev

Are you wearing the hat this time?


Rev

I'm not going to say anything because there's.


Rev

There's things I could say which would be totally.


Rev

For that one.


Oggy

There are young at heart listening.


Nobby

You guys go steady.


Rev

Cheers.


Nobby

See you soon.


Signaler

Ahoy there, mate.


Malcolm

Hi all you fellow Santa Cruz and followers boys, Malcolm from Boise, Bryn here in Newport in Wales.


Malcolm

Letting you all know that we're looking forward to our Christmas with some super concerts coming up.


Malcolm

Don't miss us at the Parkway Hotel in cumbran on Wednesday 20 November and on 18 December, and it's all free.


Malcolm

And we're at the Cardiff theater cafe on the 13th of December too.


Malcolm

But we're really, really excited to let you all know that we are holding our very own shanty festival at Newport City Centre and it's going to be on the 31st May, Saturday and Sunday the 1st June next year.


Malcolm

We have at least 14 excellent venues including the renowned Riverfront Theater, the Corn Exchange, Fire and Ice, the Mercure Hotel and the Indoor Market and the Potters, to mention but a few.


Malcolm

If you're interested in taking part, please contact Malcolm as soon as possible on 079-7153, 9766 or email us@boisebrin1mail.com there's many hotels, bars, restaurants and they're all accessible as soon as you get off a bus, a train or park your car up in one of the many car parks.


Malcolm

Looking forward to seeing you all.


Malcolm

Bye.


Signaler

Ahoy there.


Oggy

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Oggy

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Oggy

Well what what a fantastic episode that has been.


Oggy

Wow.


Oggy

What an interview.


Oggy

Thank you Doc for steering us through those incredibly difficult questions.


Oggy

Well as you have heard throughout the entire of this episode, we really would like you the listeners to dig deep and buy one of our calendars.


Oggy

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Oggy

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Oggy

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Oggy

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Oggy

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Oggy

But all in all it just raises great money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.


Oggy

They are selling fast and so we have got a limited stock left so please do grab them.


Oggy

So this is the end of the episode.


Oggy

Thank you so much for listening and to play us out we've got the crew singing a special Christmas shanty for you.


Oggy

But until next time, Fair winds and Follow Inces reef Reefing sails and howling.


Chili

Gales Working night and morn oh what fun it never Sailing round Cape Horn ho.


Chili

Sails up sweet men overboard and grub that's not but swill.


Chili

You swear you'll not do this again, but you know I'm sure we will.


Chili

Riding on the waves with the wind to fill our sails, the salty spray we brave through storms and hearty gales the gunpowder's points are hoarse, the crew, they say, sing with cheer.


Chili

We'll reach the shore by break of dawn and toast another year.


Chili

Oh reefing sails and howling gales Working night and morn.


Chili

Oh what fun and ever is sailing round Cape Horn.


Chili

Oh see such sweet men overboard and grub that's not a swill.


Chili

You swear you'll not do this again, but you know damn sure you will.


Chili

The tinkle support the first m Shouts of Ho.


Ash

Ahoy.


Chili

Is rough and wild and fair with sailor's joy we host the anchors high and bid the shore goodbye.


Chili

We'll find our fortune in the blue beneath the moonlight sky.


Chili

Oh reefing sails, hounding gales to working night and morn.


Chili

Oh what fun in Nazareth Sailing round Cape Horn ho.


Chili

Seize that sweet men overboard and grub that's not but swill you Swear you'll not do this again, but you know damn sure you will.


Chili

A chest of gold below and treasures in our hold with songs and rum.


Chili

The night is young, the tales will soon retold.


Chili

The ocean calls us back, a sailor's heart would say.


Chili

We'll set our sights upon the dawn and sail the night away.


Chili

O reefing sails, howling gales, working night and morn.


Chili

Oh, what fun it never is sailing round Cape Horn.


Chili

Oh, seize that sweet man overboard.


Chili

And grub that's not but swill.


Chili

You swear you'll not do this again, but you know damn sure you will.


Chili

You swear you'll not be do this again, but you know how sure you will.


Chili

Merry Christmas.


Speaker A

Ship shape from Bristol fashion boys along the harbor side.


Speaker A

From even gorge to underfall we'll even hold the line.


Speaker A

Obscure the barrels down below, wind them, tie them.


Speaker A

This vessel, she is certified.


Speaker A

Ship shape and Bristol fashion.


Speaker A

So haul away me laddie boys, haul away, you're free.


Speaker A

Haul away me laddie boys and save a drink for me.


Speaker A

Haul away me laddie boys, haul away your free.


Speaker A

Haul away me laddie boys and save a Dr.


Oggy

Oh, you're still there.


Oggy

Well, thanks for hanging on.


Oggy

You clearly are a die hard fan.


Oggy

One last request from me.


Oggy

If you would be so kind to leave us a review or subscribe or share this with your friends.


Oggy

It would mean a lot to me.


Oggy

Oh, yeah, and don't forget, buy your calendars before they're sold out.


Oggy

You won't regret it.