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STRUMMERCAMP 2007
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STRUMMERCAMP - May 2007
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Tymon Dogg & The Quikening played the Strummercamp 2007 Festival on Sunday the 27th of May. The band performed on the Main Stage playing "Lose This Skin", "Mondo Bongo", "Something To Prove" and new songs "Planxty John Mellor", "We Dragged Ourselves", and recent single "Guantanamo" among others. At some point during the gig, Richard Dudanski and Pablo Cook joined the band for a number or two. Below you will find stories/memories, pics, and video footage (courtesy of youtube.com member 'timere42') from the weekend festival regarding Tymon and the band. See the "Photo Gallery" section on this site for more pics from the Strummercamp weekend. The Council of Amigos put on a very special event this year consisting of 56 bands playing over 3 days. Let's hope there is a Strummercamp 2008. Thank you to everyone who was kind enough to share a story or allow me the use of their pics.
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Julius (aka IceCool_Kebab)
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"Tymon’s performance was for me one of the highlights of a wonderful Strummercamp. This wonderful musician was even better then I expected. He had some problems with the soundman (Hey mister soundman!) in the beginning while playing his harp thing but the best part of his show was the fiddle part.
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"I, like so many others, first heard Tymon on Sandinista! and it was a real treat to hear “Lose This Skin” played live. I remember when I first heard that song I found it really strange but I soon learned to like it alot. I did not hear from Tymon again until with the Mescaleros but thanks to tymondogg.net I have been able to listen to more of his work and realize he is an excellent musician.
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"Tymon’s set at Strummercamp included some new songs, like Guantanamo and Oil, and both sounded terrific. Mondo Bongo got me dancing and humming though Manchester Kev did not join the band on stage as Tymon wanted. Pablo Cook did his bit perfectly, as always. It was also great to have Richard Dudanski on stage with Tymon. The Quikening band sounded great, they all seem good musicians. I met Tymon briefly at the bar and got to thank him for a cracking show. I just hope there will be many more Strummercamps and wish Tymon will have another go. And then I wish he will do at least 30 mins longer set. And I am surely going to get hold of a Guantanamo CD."
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Mechela Knutson (aka fightthlaw)
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"I was able to meet him (Tymon) at Strummercamp and he was really the one main guy I wanted to hear and meet. I have loved his work for a while now. I was able to speak to him in the main tent, and he talked to me like I was friend he hadn’t seen in awhile. It made me feel really comfortable. We talked about how we have great memories and he told me how him and Joe would go back and forth with stories and how such and such happened, cos both of them had superb memories he said. So that was fun to talk about. He then introduced me to his bassist, and took a photo. I loved his get up he had going on, and I laughed ever time I saw his finger poking out that bottom corner of one of his pockets in his sport coat cos of the little hole there. When his band came on, I absolutely LOVED it! He was superb and everything I was hoping for. I loved the fact that he played 'Loose This Skin' also. Tymon Dogg alone made my weekend fantastic!"
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Magnus
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"Tymon Dogg and the Quikening was also fantastic. After some problems with the violin getting into the sound system he did a fantastic performance with old and new songs and the highlights for me were Mondo Bongo, with Pablo jumping in on bongos, and of course a frenetic Lose This Skin, I would never have thought I would have the chance to hear that song ever played live!!!!!! Bliss!! Tymon Dogg is an extraordinary artist; he’s got some weird mix of an ancient bard and an angry punk of him, a unique singing and playing style!!! When his bow hits the fiddle the bowstrings just breaks up from the power of his playing!!!! Another magical moment was when Richard Dudanski jumped in with a small hand drum, and seeing them two playing alongside together and really getting into it, two of Joe´s oldest musical mates, oh wow that was moving, magical and great!"
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Lee Shepley (aka Shep1)
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"Wish I could remember more about the Sunday night, all I can recall is bumping into him (Tymon) at the bar & havin a right good chat & laugh about everythin & nothin which culminated in the hat exchange... offered to buy him a Guinness but the bar had been drunk dry... partly my fault... told him to write an autobiography as he must have had a really interesting life. He asked me what I did for a living & replied "you don't want to know mate it's boring", Tymon said something like " Boring is all down to the boree", which sounded quite philosophical...so I tried to apply that when I went in work... no good... still bored! Sorry I can't remember more but I had been on the booze for nearly 3 days... he just came across as a really genuine guy… a true gentleman of life."
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Jock
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"Tymon was superb, I'd been chatting to young McHattie earlier on as well and was not aware he was the bass player, it was a great show, sound was superb and the song choice was excellent especially the one mentioning Che Guevera and Lose This Skin was incredible being a Clash fan also this was quite a poignant moment for me"
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Susan De Muth
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"The Strummer Camp gig was amazing - the best I have ever seen Tymon perform. I am not exaggerating when I say he made grown men cry with his Scottish fiddle piece (“Planxty John Mellor”) he wrote for Joe's 50th birthday and which he played with the most unbelievable passion. I wish I'd filmed it or it had been recorded in some way but I don't think it was."
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Heather (aka Kokey)
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"The other things that stood out the most among a weekend of pure happiness, were: 1. Speaking with Tymon for a good 15-20 minutes, and having him say, "Joe really would have liked you." Ohhhh, HEAVEN. Also liked Tymon's music, but sadly, I can't give you any other details... I didn't stay for the entire set (I forget why... again, Social A.D.D.), but he was better than I'd expected. I'm not a fan of Lose This Skin, but I really liked his performance/music."
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Michael Moody
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"Met Tymon when he arrived, such a brilliantly nice guy. Tymon signed my Global a Go-Go, as did Pablo, after I saw Night of Treason and The Quikening (n.b., seeing Lose This Skin live completed a section of my Sandinista! -involved life). And then there was the final surreal cherry on the cake; the bar afterwards… Ray Gange chatting, Tymon Dogg chatting, Italian Clash tribute guy (whose name I shamefully don't know) performing acoustically in the corner.”"
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Michael (aka tele)
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"Tymon was great! I honestly didn't expect much, I was just curious what his solo stuff would sound like and I was overwhelmed. Great performance, quite unique. And then on top of all, this striking version of loose this skin! I really loved it! Great set, great performer, I loved his unique harp, I wonder if it is self-built."
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Victoria (aka vicster)
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"It was a fantastic weekend. Highlight was Tymon doing Lose This Skin closely followed by Rob Galloway being a barmpot. Sunday night sat in the bar surrounded by some of the folks who made Clash history was fabulous. Tymon Dogg was such a gent and lovely to all who approached him."
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Lisa Marie (aka lisamarie)
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“Another of Joe’s compadres, Tymon Dogg, was so lovely, and yes he played ‘Lose That Skin’. But who had to go and schedule him at the same time as Night Of Treason? I got to see some of their set too, but I seem to have spent a lot of time at Strummercamp just running from tent to tent!"
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Danielle Millea
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“I happened upon Tymon Dogg by accident; a true multi-instrumentalist. He taught a young Strummer guitar chords as they busked around England, and was a member of Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros. Not only does he play Spanish guitar, mandolin and violin (which he holds nearer to his belly then his chin), he has also invented the New World Harp, a 3D pyramid-shaped harp. Here he is with his new band The Quickening, playing ‘Quantanamo’ and ‘Oil’, both political songs that Strummer would have been proud of.”
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Victoria (www.myspace.com/longmeg)
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“Tymon's version of Lose This Skin was the highlight of the weekend in my humble opinion. I find it ironic that the majority of the crowd were watching a Clash covers band in another tent and yet missed the "real thing" Ah well...”
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