Sea Shanties and Celebrations: Join the Port of Bristol Crew on St. Piran's Day and a chat with Doc and Paddles!

Avast beyond there. This is Steve the Rev Hawkins welcoming you to another wonderful podcast of Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion.

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Hello and a warm welcome to Shipshape and Bristol Fashion. I'm Justin and this is episode three of a podcast dedicated to all the amazing work of the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew.

I hope this podcast finds you well. If you are new to the podcast, then welcome. It's great that you found us.

And like I said, this is a podcast to celebrate all the great work of the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew. And if you're returning, welcome back. Thank you for picking us as one of your many podcasts to listen to. I hope you guys are well.

We have gone through March and we've enjoyed Easter and of course maybe even lighter evenings. We just hope and we wait for the weather to get better.

It certainly has been very damp outside on this month's episode we are going to be talking to Paddles and Doc down into the crew room and we're going to hear from them about their experience today just being part of the crew. We've also got a melody of music from the Trelawney Shout, which was an event to celebrate Saint Pyrrans Day.

The crew came ashore to Chippen Sobbery and took part in an event to celebrate St. Perran's Day. But first and foremost we're going to pop down to the Signaller and hear more about what the crew have been up to.

Well, it has been a busy month for birthdays and if you are one of our Facebook shipmates and about a birthday this month, then a special happy birthday to you all. And of course, if you've joined us recently, then welcome aboard.

Facebook is a great way to catch up with what the crew have been up to and see some of the kind of live action of what they've been up to, from catching buses to venues to celebrating some of the events that they're going to be taking part in in in the future. There are two events coming up very soon that the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew are taking part in.

The first one, of course, is going to be a very posh affair where the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew are going to be at the Bishop's palace on Saturday 6th April. Now this episode goes out on the 5th, so if you're quick and pop over to our website you'll navigate to the link that will allow you to buy a ticket.

Tickets are available and the evening is starting from 7 till 10 o'cl and you can buy those tickets by following the link. They are 30 pounds for an evening of sea shanty, where there's a fish supper and some fantastic performances by the crew.

So just as a reminder, that is on the 6th of April, from 7 till 10 o'clock. The next event that the Port of Bristol shanty crew are taking part in, of course, is the Real Ale and Sea Shanty Festival.

That's going to be on the 11th and 12th of May at Freemasons hall in Park street in Bristol. And again pop over to our website. You can now book tickets.

On Saturday it's from 12 till 11, so it's 12pm till 11 at night and on Sunday it's from 12 till 6pm Both those events are available on our website at pobshantycrew.co.uk and that link is also in the show notes.

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We'Re going to lower the anchor and take part in listening to some of the audio recorded from the Trelawney Shout.

So, like I said, we've here in Chippen.

Sorry, we've run ashore to an event and we found the crew and I've managed to grab. Doc. Doc, how you doing?

I'm good, yeah. Back in my old stomping ground.

Excellent. Well, it looks like it's going to be a fantastic evening this evening.

There's lots of people looking forward to listening to you and lots of other bands that are here this evening.

Yeah, it's going to be a really good lineup because we've got the seven Whalers here, we've got them Bristow Girls and we're all just together to celebrate Saint Perrin's Day.

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. As a Cornishman, it's great to be here to celebrate that with you and everyone else. There's Cornish flags here, there's a Cornish band here.

It's going to be a great evening.

There's a Cornishman in everyone. I know. It's really good.

So you've got a couple of sets this evening, any kind of highlights, anything to look forward To.

Well, it's interesting when you get lots of crews all singing on the same evening. Obviously the audience can get a bit shanted out if you all sing the same songs.

We've tried to go off piste a little bit tonight and sing some of our less well known songs. And we're going to have a run out on our first public performance of Essebo river tonight as well.

Oh, wow. It's going to be good. And there's quite a crew here this evening, isn't it? There's quite a few of you.

We got seven out of 10. So it's pretty good going. That's pretty good.

That's pretty good going.

Excellent stuff.

It's an obvious statement. But why is it so important for the Port of Bristol to be taken part in these kind of events?

Well, I think, I mean, it's all really good publicity at the end of the day and getting together with other groups, we all try to support each other. So if a crew are all organizing an event and they.

And they put an invitation out to other local groups to ask for support, you know, it's good manners to turn up and show willing. And it means that we're raising money for the RNLI tonight because it's the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the RNLI.

Since they were founded, they've saved over 146,000 lives.

Wow, that is fantastic. Well, a worthy cause to be part of this evening. Well, I'll catch up with you later.

Thank you very much, Doc.

Cheers. Justin, the lady.

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Of pearls.

In many, many ways I think the best description that sums us up very well is the triumph of enthusiasm over talents. So we're going to start off with my dear friend Arthur singing with Jamboree. I thought I heard the Reverend say.

To day it's a holiday.

Greatest songwriters and singers the west country has ever produced.

And this little ditty wrote about the ferry that goes used to go across the river Raven from Pill over Shireside and the lads would have a few pints in the lamp lighters and they go back on the ferry, have a few more points in the Duke or the Star. So Here we go. This is Patch Cutter's little thing. It's the only song actually that the Vatican tried to ban. It's called Pill, Pill.

So it's subtle, I know. Subtle. In my. Oh. In the nights Peter can.

Stormy and the bitter north wind blows across the fields from Shirehampton where the muddy Avon flows There the Pill that's gaily ride over on the ferry to the other side. The boat starts swinging. You'll hear them singing a rolling on the tide.

We're rolling. Pill, pill, I love sea still Even though I'm leaving. Pill, pill, I love sea still. When the ferry boat starts steaming.

Join now in true parents day fashion to sing Trelawney, we will vacate the state.

Thank you very much.

Here we gonish. Laughs can do. And when man shall trelawney die his 20,000 Cornish men will know the reason why.

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Bearing a man.

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Lost in the Irish Sea. At 1am in Ramsey Bay, Captain Teal was heard to say, our contract is to deliver the mail. In this rough weather we must not fail.

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Sake.

Of river is the king.

The river.

We got somebody. Oh, Ebo.

River is the king of rivers.

The Cornish tin miners, a lot of them went across to the United States because they were known as being the best hard rock miners in the world.

And a lot of them came back.

Again and they brought songs with them. And this one is called Little Eyes, and it was brought back by the miners from America.

And it started to be sung all over Cornwall and it still is to this day. So Ash is now going to sing.

They were so.

Be I in the garden.

And she said, little eyes, I love you Honey Little eyes, I love you I love you in the springtime and the fall Little eyes, I love you I love you I love you the best of all you.

So that brings us to the end of this Evening's celebration of St. Perrin's Day. The Port of Bristol shanty crew have had a wonderful evening and it's been great to hang out with other sea shanty crews.

The crew have now left. They're setting sail, getting ready for the next event.

And I hope you've really enjoyed that fantastic melody of different songs that were sung this evening.

So let's pop down to the crew room and talk to Paddles and Doc. Lovely.

Okay. Well, hello, chaps. Welcome. It's great to have you here on the podcast. Shipshape and Bristol fashion.

We are honored and pleasured to have the Doc and Paddles. How are you both, gentlemen? Gentlemen?

Very well, thank you, Justin.

Pretty marvelous. Can't complain.

Well, it's great to have you here. How's your day's been? Have they been all right?

Yeah, I've had an interesting morning at the. At the coal face. I have the privilege of working for our patient population as a GP in the. In the local area.

And that has its challenges and its blessings in equal measure. And today has been a blessing.

Guessing nice. Which I guess is why you call you. They call you Doc. Great stuff. And Paddles, how you doing? You good?

I'm all very well. You see, I'm. I'm the youngest retiree out of the group. Yeah. So I'm. I'm. I had a leisurely day taking the car for an mot.

Wow. Did you pace yourself with that?

I did. Life at the heart, you know, the sharp, pointy end. It's how I say.

Not that I'm bitter and twisted, Justin, but I am the only. The only crew member who is in regular gainful employment and paying in to the pension scheme that's supporting all of these freeloaders.

That is phenomenal. Not only do you offer your time freely for the crew, but you're also paying for their lifestyles, too.

And he never lets us forget it.

Well, I mean, the last episode was fantastic. But what I would say is the founder members of the crew, and you guys are clearly the. The young versions of it.

I mean, tell us all about how you came about being part of this wonderful crew.

Well, I owe my membership entirely to Paddles, actually, because there's always been two things on my. On my bucket list. One was to join a shanty crew, and the other one was to join a Morris dancing troupe.

Okay.

And Mike knew that I wanted to join a shanty crew. And indeed, I'd made sort of inroads into joining one a few years ago. Go.

But they, they got a bit sniffy with me and said, oh, we don't take anybody, you know, we. We need, you know, we. We actually are a professional outfit and rehearse regularly and we need people who can sing. So I was, I was overlooked then.

But. But Mike was in the car when we had that conversation.

And, and when Rev and Nobby decided that they were going to set up the marvelous institution that has become the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew, Mike's said, I think I know somebody might be interested. And I. And I got the call.

Nice and you've never looked back. I mean, I guess this is a spoiler for our listeners. Are we expecting Morris dancing to now feature as part of the act or is that just going to be.

Absolutely, absolutely not. Because Rev is allergic to bells and tambourines.

Yes, yes, I, I've had those conversations with Rev. I certainly know his, his version of Christianity and it certainly doesn't include a tambourine paddle.

Talk to me about how you got yourself connected with the crew.

The irony was I was helping move some scenery for, for something that I, I do. And one of it was our Art was there and he was humming a tune of which I knew the words because I do enjoy sea shanties.

I have for, well, for ages taken the kids to go and see Fisherman's Friends live and things like that. The proper ones. Not our habit of, of singing like we do. And as Art was humming, I started singing. Then Art started singing and I think it was no be.

It was either Revel Nobby was there at the time.

We then fast forward a bang three or four weeks and out in the blue it was, it was Rev because Nobby appeared three or four weeks out of the blue and when he started helping us move some other scenery for another event and he started singing and of course I started joining in and that's when he looked at me and oh, do you like this sort of thing then? Do you? And then I was cajoled in and mugged into, into joining.

What a great story. And I think you'd suitably qualified because you do have a lovely Bristolian accent which I think really resonates throughout all of the crew.

And I think it really makes it when you hear you guys sing that, that has that kind of great twang that's there. Doc, you clearly are the more tech savvy of the group. I think you are the custodian of the website and try and promote as much as possible.

I mean, great website you've got.

And of course that's probably been part of the way that, that the, that the fans, the people that follow you have been able to donate so much money towards you.

Well, I am, I am the web master. And for those people who understand and share the same love as Doctor who as I do, I am the webmaster and you will obey me. No, it.

It's, I guess, you know, because I'm. Because I'm the youthful member of the group, Justin, you know, that's what it is.

The rest of them are all, you know, knock the Evan's door on the door of late 70s part of puffing Paddles and Jeffrey obviously.

But I, I, I have a dabble with our social media page and I'm, I'm responsible for irritating everybody with regular posts on Facebook and Twitter, Stroke X and all that kind of stuff. But I can't profess to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination. It's a very, very, very steep learning curve.

Have.

Well, you're doing very well.

Yeah, Justin, we regularly get little WhatsApp messages and things along the lines of, you've got to post this on your timeline, you may remember to hashtag or you know, things like this constantly.

Yeah, well, that's the only way you get to reach out and I think you're doing really well at it, doc, so well done.

And, and some of the imagery that's currently coming out with the, the events that you're all connected with over the next couple of months, it is looking fantastic.

Share a funny story with you though, Justin, because yeah, I mean, as I say, the whole social media gaff is completely new experience for me and I was so excited when we posted a video of our rehearsal on, on YouTube and I'll just see if I can fire it up on my phone because we got a phenomenal number of, of likes on our, on our page and I couldn't really understand it at all. All. And I said to my daughter, God, you won't believe it. We've posted this on, on, on, on whatever is YouTube.

YouTube and, and we've had like 20, 000 views. This is Nobby singing Santiana. And she said, oh yeah, that's, that's pretty good. I said, what do you mean that's pretty good?

There's 20, 000 people have seen our video. That's amazing. And she said, yeah, yeah, that's, that's good, dad. Well done.

And I said, well, what's the most views that you've had on, on, on YouTube then? And she said360,000.

It's just, it's just frankly bewildering, isn't it, that you can get that level of, of reach into the, I mean, looking at it now, 25, 000 people have watched Nobby sing Santiana. You know, know, who would have thought it was a thing?

Exactly. Exactly. Oh, bless.

Well, you know what, maybe she should be sharing some of your, your videos to get more of a reach and much more of a fan base because we heard on the last podcast that a lot of young people are resonating with sea shanty and you clearly are resonating with them, too.

Yeah, that's right. This. I mean, it's all down to Paddles, because we're, you know, we're down. We're down with the kids.

Kids. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't think so.

I think they just think we're. We're sort of, you know, mildly quaint and parochial and entertaining and perhaps slightly amusing. You know, I think.

I think a lot of it is down to the. To the banter between Rev and Nobby particularly. But, you know, that it's. I mean, Rev talked about the Doozy gig, the.

On the last podcast, and that that was just a bewildering experience, you know, I mean, Nobby was treated like some sort of rock God. And it's just the weirdest thing because these group of fat, bald, old blokes went and stood out on the stage and. And.

And, you know, did the shanty thing and. And the room went mad. And ever since then, we've called Nobby, Nobby Williams for obvious reasons.

But as you said, paddles. I think, you know, it's important to recognize that some of this music they listen to as little people, haven't they. If they were.

If they were well cultured with their parents or even grandparents, they. They would have heard this kind of music being played. So you can see why they can resonate with it.

And, you know, most definitely. I mean, it's. It's one of those things. It's like. Like people sort of saying about folk music. It's.

It has a history to it that's extends way, way, way back and, you know, I'm a true believer that many stories were. Were told through song. And it's just that lovely as it has that ability to engage people and get them to join in at times.

Yeah.

If it all goes well, when.

When Chuff does one of his piece de resistance of the closing song, it gets everybody involved and everybody has a good time, which is what it's all about, really.

Absolutely. And there's a great. Which I.

I hope I'll get Nobby on at some point to actually tell us about it, but there's a really good piece on the website which talks about the origin of sea shanty. And that's a great read because it gives you a bit of history of what's going on. But. So there is a.

An important, obviously serious part of this, and that is OB Raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

And Nobby mentioned on the last podcast that Mike, you know of the story, you know, of the chap that, that is connected to the inspired component of this. But obviously it's such a great charity, isn't it?

It, it is indeed.

And the young man, my wife used to work with his mum and I knew his mum through the same sort of occupation type thing, so that's how I know the family.

And it, you know, it's, it's a terrible disease and it strikes those people at a time in their life when you would normally think they've got everything going for them. Yeah. So it's really nice to be able to give them some experiences and such as would normally be put into a lifetime.

You, you've got a limited time, so you've, you've got to try and squeeze everything you can. But that doesn't come without a cost.

No, of course, of course. And, and, and to date, at this point of recording, you, you're just over £27,000. That is phenomenal amount of money.

Yeah, I mean, it's, it's astounding actually, because we just never, never expected it. I mean, we have been incredibly well supported by, by all of the people that sort of follow and, and, and encourage us.

Whether they pay us to be quiet and go home or not is, is hotly debated. But I mean, the other thing for me, Justin, with, particularly with the Teenage Cancer Trust, is they are such a supportive charity for us as well.

I mean, I've done a bit of fundraising for other cancer charities in the past and, and support is almost assumed and taken for guarantee sometimes, but actually our relationship with the Teenage Cancer Trust is they couldn't do more really, to support us and encourage us and promote us. And every time we raise more money for them, we always get acknowledgement from them.

We always get a, you know, recognition and a thanks and, and in fact, Rev and his wife Caroline today have gone up to the Royal Albert hall because Roger Daltrey is his swan song this year, actually, but he's been a patron of Teenage Cancer Trust for a number of years and has organized annual music events for a week at the Albert hall for, for kids who, and families who've been affected by. Yeah, and we were offered the opportunity to send two of the group up to go and see one of their shows.

So, so they're up there sat in the auditorium at the Albert hall as we speak and they, they are, they are regularly whatsapping us with all sorts of photographs of their, of their shenanigans.

So, so, you know, it's just great that we get the, the acknowledgment and, and, and you know, that sort of continued support to which, which motivates you to do more and, and raise more.

And you know, we don't actually really have to work very hard because we just sing and we, we turn up, we, we have a bit of a giggle and a sing along and we enjoy each other's company. So it's no great labor. But if we can, if we can generate some cash for, for a worthy cause at the same time, then fantastic.

Well listeners, if you are listening to this, thinking, I've got a few loose coppers in the back hand in my back of my pocket or I want to donate some more than that, then please do pop over to our website which is pobashantycrew dot a very big donate here button that you can press.

I'm gonna say, Justin, the, the nice thing about them all is a lot of these events frequent round ale houses.

No, no, never let it be said.

Which always helps the lubrication of the vocal cords.

Of course. Of course.

And on the subject of ale, you clearly have an event coming up very soon, which I very much look forward to being a roving reporter and maybe even both days. Do you want to tell us all about what's coming up on the 11th and 12th of May?

Well, on the 11th and 12th Of May, we, we have been invited to share any opportunity to, to participate in a real ale and shanti festival which is being held in the Masonic hall on park street in Bristol.

And this spread over two days, the Saturday and Sunday and we've got a load of shanty crews from South Wales and the southwest of England all coming together to, to sing. Well, they call it singing but you know, to, to.

Have a good time.

Speak some words to a, to a tune vaguely. Um, and there are also going to be um, 20 real ales and, and some additional sort of ciders on, on tap for people to, to sup and enjoy.

So we hope not to make too many people's ears bleed, but it should be a successful event.

And the shanty crews are all coming together to raise money for local charities which will primarily be the RNLI because that tends to be the organisation that most shanty crews support. But we'll also be raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust and the Underfall Yard in Bristol and a few other local charities viruses as well.

The RNLI is close to everyone's hearts within the Shishanti world, isn't it? And they're celebrating something monumental this year, aren't they? 200 years, I think.

Isn't it 200 big years.

Yeah, they, they actually have their own shanty group, the 85ers, who are, who are good friends of ours, sadly can't join us on, on the weekend because they're, they're very busy. They, they, they've sung for the King, don't you know, at his coronation.

And so yes, they're, they're in a different league to us probably, but they, they, they won't be able to join us on the day. But, but certainly we'll, we'll support their charity.

Nice. Well, that looks fantastic.

And if you're interested in taking part in that real Ale festival with some beautiful singing along the way, again, go to our website and you'll be able to follow the link and there'll be more information there to book tickets.

But before then, of course, you, you've got another event coming up which, I mean, you guys are so busy, you've got so much going on and if you ever want to see what they're up to, then do click on their website because it does talk about where you can see them.

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Shantian Styles.

Well, that one's at the, at the Bishop's palace, don't you know.

Wow.

In Wells.

I always find it difficult to talk about the Bishop of Bath and Wells without thinking about Blackadder, but we are nevertheless going to be singing at the, the Bishop's palace in Wells on the. I think. Is it the 6th of April? Somebody will have to remind me.

But there's a, an evening evening of fish pie and, and, and, and ales while we do two musical sets of traditional shanties and a couple of local Bristol songs chucked in for good measure.

Nice. Nice. That is on the 6th of April. That is going to be excited. That's 7 till 10, of course. @ the palace or the Bishop. The Bishop's Palace.

That sounds great too.

Tickets on the Bishop's palace website. Sight.

Oh, look at that. It's good.

Yeah, we're, we'll have to be on our best behavior for that occasion.

Best dress, clearly. Nobby told us last time on the podcast that he's got great aspirations to be singing somewhere within Glastonbury at some point.

But chaps, I mean, where do you see the Port of Bristol shanty crew in a year's time?

I'm going to defer that one to my learned colleague, if I may.

How are you? Well, bless you, Mike. Thank you, Justin. We just do this for a giggle, to be honest.

We're not at all highfalutin and have no ambition or expectation to do anything other than what we enjoy. We're 10 blokes who just enjoy each other's company. Yeah, we, we have a good sing song together. Shanties are nice, straightforward, melodious songs.

They have a simple tick tock rhythm that everybody can join in with. There's no complexity to it. It, it's just something that people can spontaneously join in without knowing the words or the tune.

And, and there's no, there's no you know, sort of judgment of vocal ability. We just, we just stand up and, and, and express ourselves and it's good. You know, as a gp, singing is good for your brain.

It's, it's good for your, for your mental well being and, and probably reasonably good for your physiology as long as you don't drink too much beer at the same time. But I think that, I mean revs, bless him, you know, he's always had an ambition to sing at Glastonbury in, in any way shape or form.

So if you ever ask him what our target is then, then that would be the ambition that localized. But, but for us we're just as happy singing in the welly in, in, in Horfield or.

Yeah.

Down at the, the Locks Brooking in Bath or.

Yeah you know, where wherever whoever wants us, whoever's prepared to listen, we're happy to just come and hopefully give you a bit of entertainment and enjoyment. And if everybody feels that they've left with the, a bit of a spring in their step, then we're happy.

Happy.

Now I think the other thing Justin, is we have to be honest, we, we have been more successful than I think most of us ever had the inkling that it could be and as a result the number of times that we have things on is, you know, we've got an awful lot of events and things that we're doing and that's why there's some, some people who say, Frank, there's 10 of you. Isn't that an awful lot? Well, we seldom, and I think to date we've only managed it about three or four times.

Docker know better than me that we've actually managed to get all 10 of us together at the same time.

Yeah, yeah, I hear that. I, I, I think, you know, I resonate with you with, with your doc that it is really all about just having fun and I guess battles.

It's worth just reflecting on the fact that as a newly retired chap it's quite nice to have a social scene with other ch out and talk and just be together, having fun together.

It's, it is actually good for your mental. In all sincerity, it is actually good for your mental health because it gives a conversation focus to the house.

Yeah.

You know, because you can fall over each other when you're at home all day with each other. So. Yeah, it's nice to have that space and also to have, have a, a topic of conversation which isn't what we got for tea, love.

Yeah, no, of course, of course. And, and you get to, you know, have a chat with the other chaps when you're out there singing and, and drinking your ales and ciders.

Very lovely.

I'm walking the dogs.

You know, the, the other, the other thing is that it has, you know, it's not, it's not just a group, it's not just the chaps. Our wives and partners have all kind of come together in a very similar way. Our kids get together as well.

Yeah.

So we have actually been. Become a bit of a family unit and it's.

I, I think probably out of everything that's, that's our, our personal USP that, you know, other people won't see. But, but, but we're, we're a good group of, of, you know, we're family focused friends.

I'm not sure if it was for a, a late Christmas meal or a, an early Easter one, but we all ended up in a active partners and that ended up in a little bit of a sing song as well. That.

Yeah, we emptied the pub, didn't we? It was brilliant.

Excellent. Excellent. I love it. Well, chaps, thank you so much for spending the time talking to me and I'm looking forward to talking to you again in the future.

And our past will definitely cross on an event where we'll record all dulce tones for the podcast.

Thanks very much, Justin. Nice to see you.

Thank you, Justin.

Thank you.

So that's it for this month's episode of Shipshape and Bristol Fashion.

It's great to hear what the Port.

Of Bristol shanty crew have been up to. And if you have enjoyed this podcast, then please do share it with your friends.

So fair winds and following seas and we look forward to meeting you again next month.

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