Sean Cooney

Yeah, all set up for a good night here.

They've got some sort of mood lighting thing going on with candles, which is a bit weird, but the room's filling up nicely and people are ready to sing.

Yeah, I think it's organised folk clubs that 99% of them met in the back room of pubs.

David used to take a digital recorder around and sort of record everything.

We've got some really precious recordings because a lot of the people we got to know in those days, they've all passed away now because they were all of a certain age then.

So we've got these precious early recordings of pubs.

singers but yeah it was very much like we couldn't you know the youtube wasn't really hadn't really taken off then and we folks just weren't easy to find weren't easy to get hold to so you'd go to the club and you'd hear a song and you might timidly ask the person who sang it if they could give you the words and then maybe the next week you might have a go yourself

Me and Patrick were singing it in the park.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I hope I've got to pitch it right, actually, because it's a bit like... I don't want to do this thing where I start too high and start squeaking and I start again.

But, you know, that's the friendly environment.

You can do that.

Often people stop halfway through and say, oh, I've forgotten the words, and then people help them out.

feel quite I don't know really I mean it depends what it is if it's something new like this then yeah I am because I haven't like yeah yeah yeah whereas if it's like a young'uns gig it doesn't matter how many people were in front of it because if I know the songs and you've got two lads with you on stage it doesn't feel as bad but it's the uncertainty it's the new stuff really so yeah I'm sure it's going to be great I'm really looking forward to hearing well after hearing it this morning it was fantastic oh thank you and I hope you enjoy it too

Evening, everybody.

I'm Sean, and as you can see, there is some recording going on.

Basically, I'm writing songs about dogs at the minute, and I'd love to sing a song.

about a local dog whose name was Tip, a hero dog from the 50s.

And the chorus is, Tip on the moor, Tip on the moor, how loving and loyal was Tip on the moor.

There will be dogs just as faithful, I'm sure, but there'll not be another like Tip on the moor.