For our 30th birthday on 21st October 2013 we updated our 'Compleat History of the Ram Club' booklet (PDF format, 10Mb). Click to view or download - it's a 'must read', with a list of all the guests we have ever had plus some stories and pictures!
Below is a list of the past guests from September 2006.
Both BBC Young Tradition Award winners, SEAN is one of the Devon-based LAKEMAN BROTHERS who burst on to the scene as young prodigies in the 90s, forming EQUATION (still doing mammoth USA tours) with KATE RUSBY and KATHRYN. Since then their careers have branched out in many directions with great success. Kathryn of course has a voice to die for, capable of sensitivity, restraint & full-on power. She plays a mean flute and keyboard while Sean has honed a virtuosic guitar style through years of touring & recording that is equally suited to accompaniment or lead. With trad songs & gems by the likes of TOM WAITS, RANDY NEWMAN and SUZANNE VEGA it's always a great night.
MICK, as you know, is a fine, highly-articulate songwriter in the English tradition as well as a great interpreter. His songs sparkle with wit, zest and sadness about real folk and their lives, as well as figments of his wicked imagination like the gloriously non-PC 'Widow On The Moor' (covered to great effect by KATE RUSBY). Once part of the highly-rated 80s group CROWS, since 1993 he has worked with PETE, a one-man 'Musical Director' & maestro of many things stringed who also gigs hectically with his own blues band.
Scotland's greatest living troubadour, DICK sings with passion & integrity about the subjects that concern him; social issues, Scotland and love - a Different Kind of Love. A tremendous & unique guitarist, he found early prominence in BOYS OF THE LOUGH and FIVE HAND REEL before releasing the truly brilliant landmark album 'Handful Of Earth' in the 80s. He continues to be a superb live performer, writer and interpreter of songs old and new. Uncompromising yet empathic, he'll stir - nay rattle - your heartstrings.
NIGEL is a guitarist to whom it comes unnaturally naturally. He popped up at short notice last year to dep with LOZ NETTO, and we thought, 'where has he been hiding?' Answer? Usually at a gig, whether it's with one of the many bands he's in, or accompanying visiting R & B acts like ANGELA BROWN & legends from PETER GREEN to CHRIS FARLOWE. Despite the fact that they had never actually played together before, they still delivered a stunning set of laid back bluesy rock a la Ry Cooder and Little Feat. Equally brilliant on acoustic guitar, tonight he brings harmonica ace EDDIE (Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Pete Seeger & Long John Baldry) for a night of Blues, soulful ballads, Folk, Country and goodtime Rockin'.