"Such a hit...one of the most original voices on the scene" MANCHESTER CITY LIFE
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"Wowed crouds with his own unique blend" TAMESIDE ADVERTISER- (yeah I know- the dizzy heights eh?!)
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"Pope does a mix of traditional numbers and his own material: carefully constructed songs...performed with an immense passion, silencing traditionally noisy audiences... a world away from the stream-of-consciousness "ain’t-life-awful" approach adopted by many songwriters I’ve encountered." MANCHESTER CITY LIFE (A little out of date now- not many traditionals and has become MUCH more visual and passionate!)
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Started off many years ago with a mission to educate younger people into the realms of folk music... Flirted with protest songs and political statement songs, before finding my feet better as a songwriter.
Now I sing about being drunk, devious women, subversions, perversions and manipulations. In short...life! And if I’m feeling really vindictive, the odd old folk song might start coming out too!
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The usual line up is me on guitar and vocals, and Stu on Sax and Clarinet, sometimes other musicians get involved on double bass or percussion (depending on the gig), and the set often consists of us intimidating the audience, prancing about the stage, and putting on a show for however long they can stand!
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We’ve got rough demo recordings up here, but we’re just getting together an album at the moment, watch this space- should be fantastic! Looks like it will be- sounding great so far!
Stef.
It'd be great to have a pint and a chat and play a coupla songs anyway,
the workshop i do has songs in it from all over the world and talks a lot about the social history etc of the music. It's a singing focussed thing where kids join in with choruses, call & response etc.
hey stefan!! how are you? havnt seen you lately? how are you getting on? will you be around this weekend? Whit fri an beer walk!! still lovvvvvin the tunes ^_^ hope you're well xxx
ok mr pope, this is it, we are bloody coming to a gig, we just bloody are ps thank you so much for coming to "my 2 hour wait to say surpise to natalie" party, i wish i would have arrived earlier so i could have talked to you more than a kiss on the cheek and goodbye its brill that amadeus got to spend some time with you 1 yr older than the last time he met you. x
nah man i live in mottram used to go down glossop all the time i fink its the moon n sixpence the one near tesco i was in there once playing the guitar messing about n the owner come round with his penny whistle n had a jam with me yeh mate im pretty cool writing lots n lots of songs suddenly this week iv had nothing for ages n suddenly iv wrote about 20 haha yeh mate il definatly get down to one of the glossop gigs it would be good to see you stef
Ta for that Dys! For anyone at all intrigued by that last comment, it's a preview (if a little squewed!) of a forthcoming song I'm recording for my album at the moment, entitled "Madman on the Hall"... It's interesting! Ta for the plug Dys, hope things are going well with you, you've got some exciting possibilities on the horizon I hear?...
And he strolled along the hall, mind fueled by the overheard rumours of the madman..... No-one spoke directly to this valiant gentleman because of respectful reverence, thers no need to speak to one whome you have total respect.....
He took out eve by eve protecting his commune... the rumours suggested a weapon, of course one must take a weapon to fight a weapon less death befall you...........
Stroll the hall night and noon, whistling 'la chanson de la loon'....
I'm just stopping by to say hello! Jason and I were shopping at Fiesta Mart yesterday and looking (longingly) at all of the British Imports, remembering all our good times in your kitchen! They had all sorts of Heinz products, Branston's pickle and Spotted Dick! But three times the price...Glad we brought some home.
stefan need to talk to you about the festival in july can,t send you message because you have it set to your away !!!! get back to me soon if you can!!! cheers craig !!!!
Hello Stefan! Just stopping by to tell you that I'm thinking of you:) I hope all is well. Looks like you're busy giggin' all over! So come play music in Texas now!!!!
awsome tunes you all did last night realy appreciate you comming over i will let you know about the festival soon !!!!!! take it easy see you soon ""C""
Sorry old bean. The time for a Captian GreenPope spesh will have to wait. We've agreed to not gig again until a demo is sorted. Shame that, would have been quality.
Enjoy the trip. Make sure Charlie doesnt break his fingers/ hands or other drumming paraphanaelia. :D
