Photo Gallery – 2000
Guernsey
Visit to Guernsey Sat 27 May – Mon 29 May as guests of Belles and Broomsticks as part of their 16th birthday celebrations, along with Hammersmith, Hobos, and The Outside Capering Crew.
Laughing Cavalier in St. Peter’s Port
Sucking the Monkey (an old Wokingham custom….)
Rob and Paul finishing Old Molly Oxford
Some delicate flowers
Bob and Jane Bedlam in full flow
A game bird
Don’t ask
Hammersmith’s summer kit, ably demonstrated by Liquid Len
Lucy from Belles and Darryl from Hammersmith
The last point we wanted to make
The Annual Dorset Tour
Highland Mary in Sherborne Town Centre
Mrs Casey at The Wise Man, West Stafford
Dance of the Little Fairies – Seafront, Weymouth
Tall, upstanding, proud………. and then Berkshire Bedlam came along
Rob just after he’d thrown up
Wheel of Fortune, with the urn in the middle replacing Jameson, a.w.o.l. at Wimborne (meanwhile Gareth had gone home due to Cockburns)
(Back) – Lee, Mal, Jerry, Paul, Rob, Malcolm
(kneeling) Jane, Bob
At Lulworth Castle
Warwick Folk Festival
I can’t really see the point of this – l to r Simon, Gareth, Jameson, Paul, Lee, Mike on high, Jane, Mal’s chin, Bob, John’s hat, Jerry, Rob, Malcolm
Paul and Jameson swapping sticks in ‘Shooting’
Simon, Lee and Mal facing up in ‘Laughing Cavalier’
Our rhythm section – Jane and Gareth
Berkshire Bedlam at Sidmouth
Well, the waiting was over, practice time had run out, we’d removed the stains from Rob’s breeches for the umpteenth time
it was time to show the unsuspecting and largely uncaring world what we could do ….
Our opening spot – Saturday morning at the flagraising ceremony, performing ‘Coconuts’
The first test – can we get round each other without falling off the stage?
The final test – can most of us remember to face outwards at the end?
Saturday lunchtime, outside the Anchor – getting into it now …..
even the musicians
Saturday afternoon – our first Arena Show
Saturday afternoon – our first Arena Show
Saturday afternoon – our first Arena Show
Saturday afternoon – a bow after our first Arena Show
Do you think they were all there just there to watch us ??
Sunday morning procession …
Sunday morning procession …
followed by the sea-front …
followed by the sea-front …
…. where part of the BB fan club was waiting for us (sigh … these morris groupies ….)
Sunday’s Morris Party at the Anchor – lining up for Berkshire Bumfolosi’s Gumboot Dance, in which Mike would upstage us all with his now legendary and scene stealing shirt ripping …
… followed by BB’s very own ‘Duck Pond’
Our backs have never been quite the same…
At Monday’s Whistlestop show at the Arena
Meanwhile Lee and Linda took a day off to produce little baby ‘Sid’, later renamed ‘George’.
Wednesday’s night’s Arena show – Ready for ‘Princess Royal’
The end of ‘The Mazurka’, starring Rob Trundle and featuring the rest of Berkshire Bedlam
Friday lunchtime, in the Market Square
Friday lunchtime, in the Market Square
followed by Jameson’s splendid final jig …..
Friday night finale – ‘Dance of the Little Fairies’ (picture taken shortly after the ‘where are the sticks’ scare)
followed by bhangra-ing off to the Bollywood Brass Band …..
and finally, the torchlight procession
with drummer
and torch dousing on the beach. Even Gareth was smiling, must be the sea air ……..
Berkshire Bedlam – Sidmouth 2000 Gareth, Mike, Jerry, MalM, Jane, John, Rob, Paul, Jameson, Bob, MalG (not pictured – Simon, Lee)