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Here is an opportunity to compile a list of your favourite Folk Quotes & Heckles. Here are few gems :-
Send an e-mail to Pat Costello and I'll include your choice! Request from a bloke before the start of the "Fairfield" Lions gig at Malvern
Closing comment by Bob Bignell
after the "Fairfield" Concert at
Bromsgrove Folk Club
Derek Brimstone after Bob forgot to turn out the house lights
Dave Sealey
at Bromsgrove
Voice from the audience
Vin Garbutt on stage, heard by Neil Payne
at Bridgenorth
John Connor introducing Graham Collins at one of Bromsgrove Folk Club's Singin & Suppin Nights
Question asked of your resident band at the recent
St Godwald's  Concert
Rory McLeod at
Bromsgrove Folk Club
"It's easier to ask for
forgiveness than it is to ask
for permission"
"A folk singer earns the same as a barrister...it just takes 5 times as long."
Ex barrister John Thompson of Cloudstreet
"A folk singer earns the same as a barrister...it just takes 5 times as long."
Ex barrister John Thompson of Cloudstreet
Steve Knightly on stage at Shining Friends, referring to the weather at Bromsgrove Folk Festival last year, (2007)
"Phil (Beer) tells me that bits of his equipment are still damp!"
Mac and Bob were playing a Burns Night gig over at Balsall Common. After we had finished a lady came over and asked  us this. She subsequently booked us for a lunchtime gig.
"Do you gentlemen come out in the daylight?"
Abi Swarbrick's excuse after fluffing her flute solo at Bromsgrove Folk Club’s Christmas Party 2008 "I've been busy and this hat didn't just make itself" Folk Club organiser referring to the guy who booked Fairfield at his club 
"He's really good at digging up artists that we thought were dead!" Gerry Colvin responding to Bob's thanks for being patient after sound check difficulties  "Don't be silly - we're family" ColvinQuarmby "Do you fancy joining in?
 Don't even think about it 
this is our gig" Colum Sands "There were two eating places to choose from in the town - which ever one you chose you wished you'd chosen the other one" Anthony John Clarke "Who can forget the set that Fairfield did last night - well I can for one!"