Seth Lakeman Official

hattieboosdad · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 100 Location: kENT

It is confirmed that Devon's holy one is playing this festival - and I can report that Big Boy Steve has just booked the first tickets sold for this event - front row - centre 4 seats.
the tickets are not yet available online and the gig is not being promoted yet on their website - but they can be bought over the phone at the box office - tel -01293 553636.
So that's the 27th June - a Friday - get ringing!!!!!!!
All good things

Ruby · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Nooooooooooo! Another sit down Seth Lakeman gig! I'd end up bouncing up and down like Cormac on blue smarties Shocked

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Clarros · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 2146 Location: Milton Keynes

Believe me Ruby, if you get yourself into the front row with HBD there will be NO sitting Shocked

he is a VERY bad influence Wink

and led a stage invasion at Canterbury (and that was from the middle of the SECOND row) Rolling Eyes

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Big Steve · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Kent

As HBD's carer I can confirm that

he is a VERY bad influence

is indeed true.
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Ruby · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject:

Well, all I can say is you’re ALL a very bad influence and I hope to see you there; it’d be just great to meet up. Finally cracked on the ‘Never seeing Seth at a sit down gig ever again’ rule as you can never meet enough lovely but bonkers Mirelings plus I had to miss Ben’s Brighton gigs – I’d tell you all about it but my language is a fecking disgrace at the best of times Rolling Eyes

Second row back so I’m dangerously close to the Dancing Dads Shocked

(though not as dangerously close as Seth and the boys Shocked

) and thankfully for Ben over by Seth and Sean this time around so I’m guessing and hoping right behind Katee and G and Ma and Pa?

Haven’t a clue how I’m going to stay in seat though so I’d have your tranquilliser dart gun at the ready Wink

See you there or (keeping absolutely everything rather painfully crossed Shocked

) at the Q gig…

PS Guess who?

https://tickets.hawth.co.uk/public/show.asp?shCode=3946&shName=Folk+Camping+2008&param3=&param4=&param5=&param6=&param7=&param8=&param9=&param10=
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maymay · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 6223 Location: Cheltenham

Clarros · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 2146 Location: Milton Keynes

Elphaba · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject:

You jest, Clarros, but I do actually have a horrid feeling it may be true.
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Elphaba · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:

Which with thought is a rather ridiculous notion, since we are clearly the more dedicated sector of the fanbase. Why would any management seek to actively discourage the support of an avid fanbase? Fine, we may be quirky and a bit unsettling at times but we mean well and we value the music and we pay their damn salaries in the long run and surely what it comes down to is that without the buyers there would be no industry? So why the heck do things turn out this way? It can't be much to Seth's liking either to have his fans turned away at the door in favour of a random sample of less enthusiastic followers.

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Clarros · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 2146 Location: Milton Keynes

A bit like the elusive competition - fine if none of us won, but strange that there had been no announcement of who did actually win.

FIX - like the Blue Peter cat naming debarle.......
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Ruby · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

It'd be great to meet up with you all one day at a Seth gig, I've always met so many great people there and had such a laugh and so have they - usually at my 'dancing' but that's a whole other story Rolling Eyes

Still keeping absolutely everything rather painfully crossed for those Q gig tickets Shocked

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sophie · Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 2227 Location: Cheltenham, UK

Big Steve · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Kent

Well said Sophie.

It's a bit of a contrast to the Londogs forum for Show of Hands.

Have a look at this.

http://www.longdogs.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1009
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sophie · Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 2227 Location: Cheltenham, UK

maymay · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 6223 Location: Cheltenham

SOH do get it wonderfully well but Sophie I would personally like to lead a standing ovation for those words of wisdom.........* stands & claps*
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Nia · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:

Bought my tickets finally, in the stalls but right at the back I think oh well I guess I can't be front row everytime eh Ruth!

See you there x
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Ruby · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject:

Aaw, like I said you've made my day, Nia! So looking forward to catching up again - planning to see if I can get support details / timings etc from the box office very soon and then we can all sort out meeting up! Wink

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Ruby · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

Still ludicrously busy here so 'So sorry Katee and Nia I've yet to find out support / timings etc.' Rolling Eyes

Will give the Box Office a call as early as poss tomorrow morning and hope to be on the Mire mid morning but perhaps we can text/call and sort out what time to meet up at the Hawth - just can't wait to see you both again Laughing

Rubs happy little hands with glee and QUIVERS with anticipation at the thought of How Much followed by The Storm and Haunt You and Hurlers and... Laughing

Right back into my box! See you tomorrow ladies! Till then, love and HUGE hugs xxx Laughing

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Katee · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 1114 Location: Brighton

1 more sleep!!! I can't believe it!!! SOOO looking forward to seeing Ruth and Nia again!!! Oh yeah and Seth... my tickets say 8pm and then I think Seths on at about 9.30 according to the Hawths website?? Don't know if anyone has heard any different...

*dances*
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Nia · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject:

See you there lovely ladies, I am still bouncing off the walls from the gig last night (i'll show you the photos at the gig!) I will be with my friend Julie and her daughter Maya so drop me a txt and I will pop over and say, cant wait to see you (heres hoping Seth doesnt see me, he might get worried that I am indeed stalking him but I asure you I am not.......much)
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Ruby · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

OK, ladies! Still not sure what time I'll be there as have been flying around like the proverbial blue a*sed wotsit this morning and still not had a chance to call the Box Office Rolling Eyes

Will text you later, so looking forward to catching up again Laughing

oh, and seeing Seth and the lads Laughing

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ceakayone · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject:

Have a brilliant time tonight people! Stomp well!

Katee · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 1114 Location: Brighton

REALLY quick post before I go to bed as I'm knackered, but it was a FANTASTIC gig as per, took lots of pix which Ill upload tomorrow, had a nice long chat with Seth afterwards. What a night!! VERY happy bunny xxx

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Ruby · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject:

Aaw, lucky you, Katee and thanks for your texts lovey. Just a 'quick and dirty' review from me as I was hijacked at Brighton Station and made to drink scrumpy till silly o'clock - yowser! Shocked

Have to admit this old punk approached this sit down (eeek!) gig with some trepidation as I've always found Crawley to be one of the most buttoned down, scarily sensible places I've ever been to which is a bit of a shock for this Brighton bird. However last night was complete carnage for which Ladies and Gentleman of Crawley, I salute you! You were truly, indisputably, wonderfully, terrifyingly, totally and utterly UP FOR IT!!! Sethmania is an understatement; it was complete mayhem in there - marvellous!

But first the support acts. Now you know you're in for a good night when a handsome young man (YOUNG MAN!) whips off his shirt, hurls it across the room and belts out some frantic flamenco at you. Now that's what I call a Friday night Shocked

Sorry ladies, not the Mr Lakemans but the thoroughly bonkers Blabbermouth who set the tone very nicely for the night. Imagine a slimmed down Justin Collins but twice as barking. He was very, very funny and you have to love a man who sings 'I was in my element, I danced down the hall like an elephant' . Along with the rest of the audience, I roared laughing. Seth was doing his usual lurking by the sound desk chuckling away too. Well until half the audience spotted him, jumped up like meerkats and he went and hid behind the speaker like a big girl's blouse. You can find Blabbermouth at www.myspace.com/therealblabbermouth - he likes to chat about fish - apparently.

Very much mixed opinion on the next act, Flossie M a French chanteuse by way of Darlington who I found charming and also very funny and who did covers including Janis Ian, Edith Piaf and the Eagles with some great banter about the differences between French and English (Bless his cotton socks? What's wrong with all the other socks?) Mind you, I should have guessed what we were in for when she introduced a song with 'Are there any 'Wild Ladies' here tonight?' and the audience yelled 'Yes!' Shocked

And this was absolutely without doubt the very best and the very craziest Seth gig I have ever been too! It was just hilarious like some mad competition to see who could take it higher - Seth and the boys or the audience. Talk about 'I'll see you and I'll raise you!' and 'Straight back at you Seth'. In HBD's words, it was like Beatlemania in there. The stage area was mobbed with crazy ladies, the audience were up on their feet screaming and clapping and stomping away, the aisles were packed out and the stairways were wedged - it was fanbl**dytastic!

And that young Mr Lakeman had more than a bit of the devil in him last night - he was SOOO bad! He kept whipping the audience up into an absolute frenzy, getting them to bounce higher and higher and higher (Oh, the power!) and then scampering off laughing with a carefree 'Are they loud, Ben?', 'Alright, Sean?' over his shoulder then stepping back to survey the wreckage and laughing himself silly. And Sean was hilarious; when the ladies first kicked off I swear his hair stood completely on end

He made Seth laugh so much at one point by giving it LARGE and rocking out Bryan Adams style that I thought Seth was going to fall on the floor laughing. By the end of the gig, Sean was just dancing down at the front like a demon and cracking up laughing with a 'WTF is going on here' expression on his face and he wasn't the only one, I can tell you!

In the words of Seth 'Crawley? Who'd have thought it! This is better than Glastonbury, much, much better' which got many more nods and much more laughter from the lads. What a night! What a night! And so lovely as always to catch up with Katee and family and Nia and the Dancing Dads and all the other lovely, friendly, funny people I keep bumping into at Seth gigs! Such a perfect, perfect evening, thank you all! Laughing

More about the music later but is off to the beach for a beer now! Wink

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Katee · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 1114 Location: Brighton

I'm slightly more awake now and having read Ruth's fantastic review theres not really much more that I can add, so as soon as I've uploaded my pix I'll let the photos do the talking!!

Just wanted to add that as ever it was fab to meet up with the lovely Ruth and Nia again - just a shame it always seems to be a quick chat before showtime!!

Great night x
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