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New St George and Lady Bay Revellers'

First Annual Ale

 

Held at Hose Village Hall on Saturday, 26th February 2000 from 8pm onwards.

Sorry, nobody took any pictures—they were too busy having fun (and drinking us out of beer)!

 

If you’ve never been to a morris ale before, it’s basically a disco for morris dancers.

You sort out a load of dances, fix up the order and make sure you’ve got people to play the tunes.

Then you dance and drink alcohol, preferably continuously, with a short break for solids.

 

Members of the following sides attended:

 

New St George

Lady Bay Revellers

Alford Morris

Anstey Morris Men

Brazenose Morris

Bunnies from Hell

Chip Off The Old

Dolphin Morris Men

Golden Star

Merrydale

Micklebarrow

Rutland Morris Men

Standon Morris Men

 

The evening went something like this…

Valentine

Field Town

Laudnum Bunches

Headington

Haste to the Wedding

Ilmington

Bean Setting

Headington

Banks of the Dee

Field Town

Pram Pushing

Bampton

Black Joke

Adderbury

Constant Billy

Ilmington

 

Show Dance Spot:

New St George

made heap big laughs by dancing Old Molly Oxford ("Step-Back"), Field Town with dancers and musician blindfolded

 

Jockey to the Fair

Brackley

Vandalls of Hammerwich

Lichfield

Lollipop Man

Ducklington

William and Nancy

Bledington

 

Show Dance Spot:

Lady Bay Revellers

executed mayhem of a military nature by dancing their version of Skirmish

 

Bobbing Around

Bampton

Constant Billy

Adderbury

Orange in Bloom

Sherborne

 

Show Dance Spot:

Anstey Morris Men

made lots of vocal and percussive noise and broke numerous sticks as they performed Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl from Adderbury

 

NSG and LBR members had prepared a lot of food.

This was when we ate it.

Show Dance Spot:

Bunnies From Hell

made everyone feel like a bunny by running their substitution-by-numbers version of Old Woman Tossed Up from Field Town

 

Lads a' Bunchum

Adderbury

Willow Tree

Bucknell

Balance the Straw

Field Town

Dearest Dicky

Field Town

Ring o' Bells

Lichfield

Young Collins

Bledington

Queen's delight

Bucknell

Cuckoos Nest

Bledington

Swaggering Boney

Longborough

Monk’s March

Sherborne

Lass of Richmond Hill

Field Town

Princess Royal

Ducklington

Trunkles

Bledington

Upton Stick

Upton-on-Severn

Banbury Bill

Bampton

Nutting Girl Jig

various traditions!

Getting Upstairs

Hinton-in-the-Hedges

Highland Mary

Oddington

 

Everybody then did

Bonny Green Garters from Bampton

and then the insomniacs did..

 

 

Step and Fetch Her

Bampton

 

Rodney

Headington

 

Valentine

Ascot-under-Wychwood

 

Collapse of stout parties!!

Some people were up till about 5am. Serves you all right!

 

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