Welcome to
Openhouse Studio
Folk Music Legacy
Created by Brian Jones, with daughter; Samantha, this website is a legacy project designed to bring ‘folk up to date.’
Explore the website, listen to the music and read the stories starting from the 60’s revival through to present day.
Welcome to
Openhouse Studio
Folk Music Legacy
Created by Brian Jones, with daughter; Samantha, this website is a legacy project designed to bring ‘folk up to date.’
Explore the website, listen to the music and read the stories starting from the 60’s revival through to present day.
OUR latestPODCAST
KEEP FOLK TALKING
Tom Topping Band
Step back into 1985 with the Tom Topping Band’s unforgettable performance at Rostock, Germany. In our latest episode of ‘Keep Folk Talking’, the band shares insights into this memorable event and how they clinched second place in Germany’s version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Step back into 1985 with the Tom Topping Band’s unforgettable performance at Rostock, Germany. In our latest episode of ‘Keep Folk Talking’, the band shares insights into this memorable event and how they clinched second place in Germany’s version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
KEEP FOLK TALKING
WITH the Tom Topping Band
Step back into 1985 with the Tom Topping Band’s unforgettable performance at Rostock, Germany. In our latest episode of ‘Keep Folk Talking’, the band shares insights into this memorable event and how they clinched second place in Germany’s version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Colin Henderson “I was starting to hang around my local folk clubs doing ‘floor spots’ either on my own or with friends and eventually gravitated to the folk club at the Black Horse pub in West Kirby. There I met Tom Topping and Brian Jones. Tom and Brian welcomed me into what became the Tom Topping Band and we embarked on a career that has seen us perform hundreds of shows in hundreds of places to thousands of people…”
The Resident
He does what’s known within the trade as ‘The Kamikaze Spot’
He’s there to warm you buggers up and try to make you sing
But the highlight of the evening is when he breaks a string!
Folk don’t always listen they’re busy at the bar
Or chatting to each other and drowning his guitar
Sometimes he thinks he’s cracked it
When some open mouths he’ll see
But it’s only some old friends he’s brought
And they came in for free!
Why do we do it? I don’t know, we masochistic band
Maybe one day we’ll find that never, Neverland
Where an audience has ears and sings just like a choir
When you ask them to join in they raise their voices higher
Like some Eisteddfod winners far removed from any pub
Why then I’ll know I’ve really died and hosting Heaven’s Folk Club.