John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers walking to the Wickham Festival

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This episode has by far the largest cast of walkers we’ve ever assembled – and the most musicians. The lead singer of Oysterband John Jones started walking from gig to gig and singing on the way long before our podcast was invented. He’s done it all over the country and he’s usually accompanied by a bunch of fans who call themselves the Reluctant Ramblers. On a scorching hot summer’s day, we join them for a walk over Old Winchester Hill, along part of the South Downs Way and the Meon Valley to the Wickham Festival.

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0:00.0	Do you know, I can't for the life of me think why we haven't interviewed this person before.
0:06.0	He's like the patron saint of folk on foot, our guest today.
0:10.0	John Jones of Oyster Band has a habit of walking to all of his gigs.
0:17.0	And he takes a bunch of people with him called the Reluctant Ramblers who are his band,
0:23.4	and then some of his fans come too.
0:26.7	So why on earth haven't we been on one of the legendary names of British folk and British folk rock.
0:52.0	They've been around for years since the 1980s and they've gone through a number of different incarnations.
0:56.5	But at their heart has always been a passion for British traditional music and arranging it in new and different ways and performing it with energy and passion on stage.
1:07.3	And John is the frontman of all of that.
1:09.4	And we're going to walk from here to the Wickham Festival
1:12.6	where he and the reluctant ramblers are going to play a set this evening
1:15.6	and we're just going to go around the corner now to the pub
1:18.6	and rendezvous with the other walkers
1:21.0	and set off on what is an absolutely glorious day for walking.
1:53.0	Music absolutely glorious day for walking. Will, here, it's going to be back marker. Some of these lanes, they look like quiet, but people do speed along them.
1:56.0	Be very, very careful.
1:58.0	Our first aid skills are minimal.
2:00.0	You probably know by them
2:03.6	okay let's walk to the next car park
2:08.6	here we go
2:12.6	good morning John lovely to see you thank you you very much. Nice to invite you.
2:19.3	Tell us where are we and where are we going?
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