How’s it going?
Can anyone tell me if the London Uilleann Piper’s Club is still running?
I tried emailing them but can’t get through (their inbox is full) and the most recent news on the website is from 2007…
Doesn’t look too promising…
Cheers,
Caoimhín
As far as I know its still going.I spoke to Kevan at the All Britain Fleadh and he is one of the organisers of it and we caught up on old times.It is/was at the Irish Centre Blacks road Hammersmith on a Thursday night at 7.30 during school term times.Maybe someone on the board can confirm…But I am pretty certain it is still going on…
Uilliam
Hi there
Yes, the club is still very much alive and well. I think there have been some issues with website and mailboxes, but these are being resolved. Term starts again on 3rd September at the Irish Centre, Blacks Road, Hammersmith W6.
Caoimhin - if you pm me, I can give you some contact details.
All the best
Jim
The London pipers club is a great club that I hope goes on for many years .I remember when it was in the The Irish center in Camden town, it had alot of member then.
Billy Brown,Ken Lynam,John Murphy,Paul Carton and Steve Scales were great pipers and teachers.Tom Sheridan was a regular ,who was one of Leo Rowsome’s pupils and Denis Picker was there if you were a beginner who needed a bag and bellows made up .
Emmet Gill was the hot shot kid at the time and I remember Brendan Ring turning up one night and blowing the socks off everyone with his playing as nobody had even heard of him before.
RORY
So we share common past ..I too remember Denis and the boys at the Club in Camden.Many a great piper passed through those doors and I was a bit saddened when it went to Hammersmith,probably coz I lived in Camden and felt it belonged there.Mind ye I lived in Hammersmith as well when it was an Irish Ghetto just after the War.So Rory I guess we are kinda blood brothers in piping.
Uilliam
Yes, I reackon so .
RORY
Feck - peace has finally broken out - does this signify the end of the universe.
Klingons’, HELP. Save us from the demon consensus.
Pwt
Don’t worry, it’s only temporary. A misunderstanding will come along soon enough and all hell will break loose.
RORY
But Rory ,ma brother ,… isnae that the way o siblings?Playing happily one moment then beating the feck oot o each other the next .then playing happily… 
Uilliam
Sounds to me like a typically normal night out, pubbing in Glasgow. 
Yea! but the worrying thing is that Uilliam doesn’t even drink.
RORY
Ye don’t need drink to enjoy yersel 
These are some famous Teetotallers and they would have had a reet guid time in Glesga
Uilliam
You can listen to some recordings of Tom Sheridan at the BBC Archives website. Reg Hall at the piano. 
Other pipers in the vaults there: Willie Clancy, Dan O’Dowd, Tom McCarthy, Tommy Kearney, Brian Vallelly. Also fiddle, flute, song, interviews. McCarthy talks about getting the pipes in the 50s, Leo Rowsome wasn’t in but Leon was and played them a bit - sounded great. So Tom goes off and plays them on the back of a lorry - “worst thing you ever heard in your life!” 
These are for listening only - no downloads. You can capture the audio easy enough though.