Traditional shanty session with the quartet Completely Scuppered, who encourage audience and guest singers, at The Jenny Lind in Hastings.
Completely Scuppered are back with another shanty session at The Jenny Lind on Thursday 12 November, singing traditional shanties the traditional way. They're a quartet of men who've been singing together for sixteen years, though not all of them at the same time, and their repertoire runs to nearly 300 shanties and work songs. That covers the well-known ones and the more obscure, alongside new material and parodies, so there's a fair bit to draw from. They encourage audience participation and guest singers, too, so you don't have to just sit and listen if you fancy joining in.
The session has been the home of Hastings' shanty scene since it moved to the Jenny Lind in August 2015. Before that, it was at The Stag Inn, where serious shanty sessions began in September 2010 and where the Hastings Shanty Singers were later formed. The pub itself is in Hastings Old Town, a medieval Cinque Port and a Tudor seaside valley full of antiques, crafts and curiosity shops, not far from the Stade and its large beach-launched fishing fleet. The name honours Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale', one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century.
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If you want to sing along, you'll find QR codes dotted around the bar to scan for the song sheets. It's a Thursday night in the Old Town, with the shanties sung the traditional way by Completely Scuppered at The Jenny Lind on 12 November.
