Club Of The Month
Club Of The Month is a regular feature that gives a club a little extra space to sell themselves. Please contact us if you would like your club to be considered:
Kit & Cutter
"Musical Traditions Explored: Our bones are made from avant-folk and English murder ballads, there are Sea Shanties in our hair and our feet are shuffling to a Cajun Two-Step."
When: 3rd Saturday Of The Month (excluding July & August)
Doors: 8pm for 8.30pm - 11.30pm plus DJ afterhours.
Where: The Deptford Arms, 52 Deptford High Street, Deptford, London SE8 3PT
(Nearest train: Deptford BR / Nearest tube: Deptford Bridge DLR)
Web: www.myspace.com/kitandcutter
E-mail: kitandcutter@live.co.uk
Price: £5, conc £3
Falling in love with folk clubs such as Musical Traditions and The Magpies' Nest moved Katie and Helen to try and recreate something capturing the unique spirit of the English folk club a bit nearer to home in South East London, and appealing to their peers, i.e. what most folkies would consider 'youngsters'.
The result is Kit & Cutter, probably unlike most folk clubs you've been to, but, a brilliant night out nonetheless. Kit and Cutter happens in the back of a Deptford pub, whose usual soundtrack is provided by a knackered jukebox . She is characterised by impromptu harmonica solos, song requests and punk-tinged open spots by the pub's regulars, and the famous raffle whose prizes are lovingly selected each month from the local junk market. The event attracts a wide variety of enthusiasts including students from Goldsmiths College and the Laban dance centre, dye-ed in the wool 'folkies' and keen locals. If there was a prize for Most Rowdy (in a good way) Folk Night in London Kit & Cutter would be a strong contender.
Highlights to date include sea shanties from Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham; Cajun music from the Boat Band; the poems of Edna St Vincent Millay to early music settings from Caroline Weeks; and traditional unaccompanied balladeering from Lauren McCormick and Sam Lee with his shruti box.
Kit & Cutter is planning a summer break this year, so will not happen during the months of July and August but do join them in June for banjo maestro John Dowling and Two A Penny, who formed out of their 90s predecessor, The Deptford Folk Club. With some exciting acts ('Did somebody say Martin Carthy?') already booked for the following months, it looks like a sterling first year for the girls.