Is this a cult?

[Caradoc]

That would be the Idea.

Add a couple of krummhorns, if you're just looking for volume.

[Zyzzyx]

Man! Accordians, tubas, and bagpipes. They're certainly going to hear us coming.

Hmmm... maybe I'll just go with the kazoo.

[Pleater]

In another incarnation - a concurrent one, I play drum for border morris dancing. The drum is perched in a corner, on the back of the settee in the front room when not out morrissing or just on a general roisterdoister.

The first outing of the year will be this coming Saturday when we will travel to the nearby town of Wimborne Minster, which will be en fete all weekend with morris men of all kinds - there are kinds, it is a very local sort of a thing.

We set up a rendezvous using the internet these days, and appear in costume, perform the ritual and then disperse again.

There are several people who I have known for years only as a person in a mask and tatter coat and who I would not recognise in civvies. There are many people who know me as 'the drummer with Herbaceous Border' - whilst it is easy to take off and pack away a costume a bright red side drum takes some effort to conceil/camoflage.

Kilts are becoming more common amongst the folk festival crowds as well as those performing, if I don't have to find some cool place due to the heat of the day I shall wander around and count the kilts. There will be dozens of drums, accordions, guitars and other assorted instruments around the town, though few bagpipes of any ilk or kazoos, however a crumhorn is a possibility, or even a serpent. There will also be cases of heat exhaustion and being naughtily drunk, if previous years are anything to go by. Should be fun.

[Retro Red]

Don't forget pass out the Whiskey and Scotch.

So you're talkin' 'bout a double-shot are you?

Whiskey, is the spelling for the Irish version of the water of life; Scotch is the abbreviated term for Scotch whisky (no 'e').

A few double-shots like that & you would "pass out"!!!

Perhaps a right-of-"pass"-age for our kult? :rolleyes:

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[starbkjrus]

So you're talkin' 'bout a double-shot are you?

Whiskey, is the spelling for the Irish version of the water of life; Scotch is the abbreviated term for Scotch whisky (no 'e').

A few double-shots like that & you would "pass out"!!!

Perhaps a right-of-"pass"-age for our kult? :rolleyes:

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hehehehehehe. Got the T-Shirt and the kilt is on order.

[Mithral]

No we are part of a rabble

Damn right.

I'm proud to have any group I'm involved with referred to as a "rabble", it means we're still getting the required level of scruffiness.

[davedove]

it means we're still getting the required level of scruffiness.

I'll have you know I am never "scruffy"; however, I am at times "stylishly unkempt."