I have found changing my trousers and other sartorial items during a session is a way of improving my playing. I would like to point out that I would never ever change them during a set (especially if it is a set of impenetrable slip jigs).
I like a nice purple pork pie hat to play reels in but if the next set is hornpipes outcomes my yellow Lurex Jonny Ray suit (Oregon’s most famous gay deaf son). Of course the mere hint of a strathspey and I’m off to don my Punjabi kilt with the knobs and bells on it. I wear my aubergine nylon turban (which I purchased in Warsaw) at all times for D mixolydian tunes and brown corduroy trousers with gravy stains on if the mode changes to A dorian. I thoroughly enjoy slipping my wife’s knickers on as soon as any old tyme waltzes appear and always, always eat chicken tikka masala during any tunes played too fast. I like Levis, cherry red Doc Marten’s and a black & white checked Ben Sherman shirt when playing my bugle. I keep the £5 Burton’s suit for all reels played on the trombone.
Do any of you have clothes that go with certain tunes or instruments?
Certain tunes, yhaalhouse? How would that work? "Oh, damn... They're playing the Earl's Chair. Need to run into the loo and quickly change into my fish nets and halter top!"
For the Old torn Petticoat I wear an old torn petticoat. For the Peeler's Jacket I wear a peeler's jacket. For the Ladies Pantalettes, I wear...ermm...guess. For Tie the Bonnet, the same, and also for the Freize Breeches.
My word is my bond SS
Mind you to clarify ,its you in the costume not Joe ,Thug or I. Joe in fishnets is a very scarey thought.
You are always welcome on a friday and I am only there for three more weeks my friend .
"You'll never enjoy the world aright
Till the sea itself floweth
In your veins, till you are clothed
With the heavens, and crowned with the stars..."
(From the writings of c17 English cleric Thomas Traherne, as amiably carolled by The Incredible String Band.)
I dare say my intravenous enjoyment of the world would be greater if I substituted the elixirs of the Cumberland for the sea itself, with all due respect to the latter. Nor would I wish to be clothed with the Newcastle heavens, which have a tendency to be decidedly cold, grey and damp. And a crown of stars would just be horribly prickly.
However, I leave this well-meant suggestion of Traherne's to the company.
Yhaalhouse, although I admire your commitment to session fashion, to change outfits like a Cher Concert on speed in Las Vegas is simply too expensive and time-consuming for most of us. Perhaps you could develop some sort of tear-away outfit one could peal off in layers? You'd make a packet I'm sure. Of course you'd have to coordinate your layers with your chosen sets in advance - and that dips a toe into the dangerous waters of "performance in a session."
Never the less, If you create such a tear away session suit - I'm a buyer baby. I'm a buyer.
I'm really surprised no one's mentioned baggy sweatshirts - they're great for concealing bodhrans and ukes. Careful with the resonator ukes though - those pierce straight through
I can save a lot of shuffling about and hiding behind curtains if everyone just closes their eyes and visualises everyone in the room wearing peeler's jackets, Connemara stockings, linen caps, frieze breeches etc.
Going and changing your trousers...
Going and changing your trousers...
I have found changing my trousers and other sartorial items during a session is a way of improving my playing. I would like to point out that I would never ever change them during a set (especially if it is a set of impenetrable slip jigs).
I like a nice purple pork pie hat to play reels in but if the next set is hornpipes outcomes my yellow Lurex Jonny Ray suit (Oregon’s most famous gay deaf son). Of course the mere hint of a strathspey and I’m off to don my Punjabi kilt with the knobs and bells on it. I wear my aubergine nylon turban (which I purchased in Warsaw) at all times for D mixolydian tunes and brown corduroy trousers with gravy stains on if the mode changes to A dorian. I thoroughly enjoy slipping my wife’s knickers on as soon as any old tyme waltzes appear and always, always eat chicken tikka masala during any tunes played too fast. I like Levis, cherry red Doc Marten’s and a black & white checked Ben Sherman shirt when playing my bugle. I keep the £5 Burton’s suit for all reels played on the trombone.
Do any of you have clothes that go with certain tunes or instruments?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by yhaalhouse
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Never heard that one before..
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by WobblingFiddle
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start off with that pretty jacket, the one with the long sleeves that tie behind your back.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by gam
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I only wear one outfit ever, an old barrel with suspender straps. I don't see anyone else wearing those anymore. Am I the only one?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Jimmy B
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Certain tunes, yhaalhouse? How would that work? "Oh, damn... They're playing the Earl's Chair. Need to run into the loo and quickly change into my fish nets and halter top!"
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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For the Old torn Petticoat I wear an old torn petticoat. For the Peeler's Jacket I wear a peeler's jacket. For the Ladies Pantalettes, I wear...ermm...guess. For Tie the Bonnet, the same, and also for the Freize Breeches.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by 'S dat you, O'Flibberty?
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Earls chair coming up next time we see you in the Cumberland , SS
this Friday ?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by bazouki dave
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I thought this was going to be another of those threads about the well-known affliction "session sweaty-arse."
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Steve Shaw
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I've heard about that, but I'm still at the fledgling stage, playing only about 20% of sets, so I don't have that problem.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Jimmy B
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Is that an offer, Dave?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Whew, quite the thread! Trousers, fishnets, Spears and the dreaded ailment known as 'session ass'. Exit stage left...
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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My word is my bond SS
Mind you to clarify ,its you in the costume not Joe ,Thug or I. Joe in fishnets is a very scarey thought.
You are always welcome on a friday and I am only there for three more weeks my friend .
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by bazouki dave
Re: Going and changing your trousers...
"You'll never enjoy the world aright
Till the sea itself floweth
In your veins, till you are clothed
With the heavens, and crowned with the stars..."
(From the writings of c17 English cleric Thomas Traherne, as amiably carolled by The Incredible String Band.)
I dare say my intravenous enjoyment of the world would be greater if I substituted the elixirs of the Cumberland for the sea itself, with all due respect to the latter. Nor would I wish to be clothed with the Newcastle heavens, which have a tendency to be decidedly cold, grey and damp. And a crown of stars would just be horribly prickly.
However, I leave this well-meant suggestion of Traherne's to the company.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by nicholas
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Yhaalhouse, although I admire your commitment to session fashion, to change outfits like a Cher Concert on speed in Las Vegas is simply too expensive and time-consuming for most of us. Perhaps you could develop some sort of tear-away outfit one could peal off in layers? You'd make a packet I'm sure. Of course you'd have to coordinate your layers with your chosen sets in advance - and that dips a toe into the dangerous waters of "performance in a session."
Never the less, If you create such a tear away session suit - I'm a buyer baby. I'm a buyer.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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I'm really surprised no one's mentioned baggy sweatshirts - they're great for concealing bodhrans and ukes. Careful with the resonator ukes though - those pierce straight through
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by airport
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Radically alternative attire does of course exist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDGflQfNUE8
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by nicholas
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Oh, b*gg*r...
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by nicholas
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I always enjoy slipping my wife's knickers off.
But I hate sh*tting my cacks too.
Um... Discuss.
(caveat - at least I don't live in SF)
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by mutatis mutandis
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I can save a lot of shuffling about and hiding behind curtains if everyone just closes their eyes and visualises everyone in the room wearing peeler's jackets, Connemara stockings, linen caps, frieze breeches etc.
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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I have been known to change hats depending on the color of the tune being played.
# Posted on December 3rd 2009 by fauxcelt
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My favorite outfit is thong underwear and a skirt when I play "Old Grey Cat."
# Posted on December 7th 2009 by Leendah