Around my way it's not a rare event that the musicians are packing it up as the last of the drunks are being ushered out. I personally don't like sessions that end early, I hate it when things just start to get rolling & then everyone turns into a pumpkin. It's such a tease
Aye, I'm just in from my local session & it's 3 am! We start at 10pm so that's a straight five hours - yes! just checking to see if I can still count! Can't have had quite as much Bushmills as I thought!
Tonight, we expected to see only five of us round the table, but isn't it great the way these sessions work out sometimes. Instead of just Fiddle, Flute, Guitar, Bodhran & a singer, we had a few guests.
Just as we were about to get started in walked three brilliant musicians frae Co. Down, so that was an extra Fiddle, Banjo & Mandola. Then two more appeared from Randalstown with another Fiddle & Guitar. Then another guitarist appeared & a Bodhran player who is touring with Mary Bergin just now, who's name I didn't catch.
So we ended up with a right squad & five hours of great music!
Our beginner session starts at 7 PM and ends around 8:45, when the leader calls "Bucks of Oranmore", which is our final number. Then the regular session starts around 9 and goes until whenever.
We start arount 11pm and finish when it's over (any time after 2am). We have a beginners session on Sunday evening starting around 7pm and finishing about 9.30pm then sometimes we follow up with a session which can go on till about 3.00am but not always.
Sessions in Bristol (UK) start 8.30-ish and go on to somewhere between 11 and 12, dpending on the lqndlord. But one or two can have a lockin until 1 or 2. I prefer to lea ve no later than midnight, in case I morph into a frog.
Next month, pubs and clubs in Bristol (and elsewher in England) will have the option to stay open to any time (as long as the money keeps rolling in), despite the obvious expected increase in street drunkenness and violence. Curiously enough, the Bristol Public Library service is also significantly reducing its opening hours, including that of its superb Reference Department which is used a lot by the university students and many professiionals. Bristol is also closing some of its public swimming pools and some public You may wish to draw your own conclusions from these facts.
The penultimate sentence of my last post should have read: "Bristol is also closing some of its public swimming pools and other public facilities such as some of the public toilets."
Sorry again - unfamiliar Belgian keyboard.
I have never lasted till the end of our mid-week session, but I did stay on late one night coz the session was so brilliant, and I lost track of time, not helped by the guys sitting next to me giving me the wrong time when I asked, I was surprised to see it was three am when I eventually left and the session was still in full swing!
Session bedtimes.
Session bedtimes.
Hey there musicians. i have a question to ask you, what time does
your session stop. mine stops at 10:00, and i wish it went longer.
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by paratroopers
Re: Session bedtimes.
I wish all sessions stopped at 10pm, if they started at lunchtime.
I can't take these late nights.
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by Bren
Re: Session bedtimes.
Our session starts at 9p.m.I leave at midnight or so but it often rolls on for an hour or two.
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by McMandolin
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Starts at eight, ends sometime between 10 and 11. The prospect of getting up for work has a sobering effect on people.
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by mcswiss
Re: Session bedtimes.
In O'Reilly's pub in St. John's the session starts at around eight and ends at ten-thirty because the bands start playing then.
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by aaron collis
Re: Session bedtimes.
Our Session starts 9pm and finishes when the last musician leaves the pub!Usually around 1am
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by meri-lawes
Re: Session bedtimes.
Around my way it's not a rare event that the musicians are packing it up as the last of the drunks are being ushered out. I personally don't like sessions that end early, I hate it when things just start to get rolling & then everyone turns into a pumpkin. It's such a tease
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by B Rad
Re: Session bedtimes.
Patricks Pub in Providence goes from 8 to about 3 in the mornin
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by paratroopers
Re: Session bedtimes.
Well, just got back from a local session - it's a bit later than I thought.
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Cath
Re: Session bedtimes.
Aye, I'm just in from my local session & it's 3 am! We start at 10pm so that's a straight five hours - yes! just checking to see if I can still count! Can't have had quite as much Bushmills as I thought!
Tonight, we expected to see only five of us round the table, but isn't it great the way these sessions work out sometimes. Instead of just Fiddle, Flute, Guitar, Bodhran & a singer, we had a few guests.
Just as we were about to get started in walked three brilliant musicians frae Co. Down, so that was an extra Fiddle, Banjo & Mandola. Then two more appeared from Randalstown with another Fiddle & Guitar. Then another guitarist appeared & a Bodhran player who is touring with Mary Bergin just now, who's name I didn't catch.
So we ended up with a right squad & five hours of great music!
Ah Sessions - what would we do without them?
Goodnight!
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Re: Session bedtimes.
What no red diesel?
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by McMandolin
Re: Session bedtimes.
No Mc, it was time to celebrate so I had a few cups of tea with 'the surprise'!
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Re: Session bedtimes.
Our beginner session starts at 7 PM and ends around 8:45, when the leader calls "Bucks of Oranmore", which is our final number. Then the regular session starts around 9 and goes until whenever.
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Session bedtimes.
We start arount 11pm and finish when it's over (any time after 2am). We have a beginners session on Sunday evening starting around 7pm and finishing about 9.30pm then sometimes we follow up with a session which can go on till about 3.00am but not always.
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Bernie
Re: Session bedtimes.
When i'm at festivals I usually stay up all night playing and sleep throughout the day.
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by ecidralla
Re: Session bedtimes.
Have you no homes to go to?
Does nobody work?
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Bren
Re: Session bedtimes.
No, can we come to your's?
Work! - this is work ...........isn't it?
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Re: Session bedtimes.
Sessions in Bristol (UK) start 8.30-ish and go on to somewhere between 11 and 12, dpending on the lqndlord. But one or two can have a lockin until 1 or 2. I prefer to lea ve no later than midnight, in case I morph into a frog.
Next month, pubs and clubs in Bristol (and elsewher in England) will have the option to stay open to any time (as long as the money keeps rolling in), despite the obvious expected increase in street drunkenness and violence. Curiously enough, the Bristol Public Library service is also significantly reducing its opening hours, including that of its superb Reference Department which is used a lot by the university students and many professiionals. Bristol is also closing some of its public swimming pools and some public You may wish to draw your own conclusions from these facts.
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Session bedtimes.
The penultimate sentence of my last post should have read: "Bristol is also closing some of its public swimming pools and other public facilities such as some of the public toilets."
Sorry again - unfamiliar Belgian keyboard.
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Session bedtimes.
I have never lasted till the end of our mid-week session, but I did stay on late one night coz the session was so brilliant, and I lost track of time, not helped by the guys sitting next to me giving me the wrong time when I asked, I was surprised to see it was three am when I eventually left and the session was still in full swing!
# Posted on October 22nd 2005 by Fudge
Re: Session bedtimes.
In my experience, the landlord usually asks everybody to leave just as the session is getting good!
# Posted on October 25th 2005 by Wurzel