Our revived Beer & Cheese Nights... in Tritton Hall (Hut 44, Addison Rd Community Centre), generally on the first Friday Night of each month. Now that the weather's warmed up, get along and bring a song or two (at least vaguely matching the theme!). There are lots of good old songs from our traditions - and the "theme" just makes us do a bit of research for the right ones.

I would hope more of our own Club would be keen to learn – practise – perform some good old songs from our traditions.

Back in the bad old days, it was "Ladies bring a plate - Gents bring a bottle"... but we know better nowadays. Just for starters we want something edible on the plate - and a decent drop in the bottle!

To keep the brains ticking over, here are the three fairly general themes picked as starting points for the last three Beer & Chees Nights in 2008:

Friday 4th June: To The North!

Maybe that's just your winter holiday plans - but the original British settlements were all down south, in the "temperate climes", (except for secure islands and near tropical 'hell-holes' for refractory convicts)... until mineral finds, the prospect of vast cattle holdings, resources to exploitand new world tastes for tropical fruits (and the need for a very long telegraph cable) attracted explorers, exploiters towards the top end.

Don your tropical gear, drape the mozzie net over your solar topi... and bring along your songs for the topic of the tropics!

Friday 2 July: The West's Awake

Things have always been been a bit different on the far side of the Nullarbor... look into Western Australian folk song. (I'll start off with 'Herbert Hoover's Love Song'... to a Kalgoorlie barmaid!)

Friday 6th August: The Continuing Tradition

New/Old/Bush/Town?