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     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
I don't much recommend CDs, but there's a real bargain in Borders (and other record stores) at the moment. Proper Folk have a sampler CD out that's only £1.99 right now, well worth a purcahsing of. It's got new and previously unreleased (same thing?) tracks on it from: Eliza Carthy Karine Polwart Drever, McCusker, Woomble Cara Dillon Martin Simpson Athena Luka Bloom Mary Gauthier the Waifs Kathryn Williams Lau Bellowhead and Sharon Shannon and Mundy (a fine version fo "Galway Girl"). £1.99. What're you waiting for? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Good selection there, matey - I was 'browsing' that very disc on Play the other day - and they even include p&p in that price! We saw Karine Polwart on tuesday night - only the second time we've seen her but she's excellent - Mary Gautier - well, I think "I Drink" is stunning, although I've not heard loads of her stuff. John McCusker is great, and always a laff when he's touring wiv his missus - the only names there I'm not familiar with are Athena and Lau, so I'm off to Play to order a copy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...and here's a link for those of you with £1.99 burning a hole in yer pocket:- http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/5301110/That-Proper-Folk/Product.html | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
It's some good stuff on it all right. Anyone wondering what sort of thing to expect may recognise the last track from the Magners ad on TV right now. I'm very envious of you, getting to these gigs, Mick. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
There's a programme on CH5 tomorrow (sunday) moning about Kate Rusby, and in following weeks they're looking at Eliza Carthy & Athena... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
The gig going stuff is picking up - we're booked to see Bjork on monday (more out of curiosity as I only have one of her albums), Supergrass next week, Mick Taylor a couple of weeks later and Seasick Steve in the autumn. Plus, hopefully my mate in Hyde Park may be able to get us some tickets to see Eric Clapton and possibly The Police too, and Underworld a few weeks later. Here's hoping... It does help living on the outskirts of London though. You should come to see Kate Rusby next time she's dahn sarf, Mark, if it ties in with one of your trips to Kent, and we could meet up. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Ooh, and The B-52's are playing the Roundhouse in July! Not going to have time (or the money!) for a holiday this year... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.144.32.80 |
House moving is putting gigs a bit on the backburner at the moment after a glorious selection last year, but have managed to book.... Steve Earle - Norwich Theatre Royal The Zombies & The Yardbirds - Kings Lynn Corn Exchange Sparks - London, Islington Academy Brian Wilson - Ipswich Regent ..Not bad! Karine Polwart is playing Norwich Arts centre too I believe... gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Sparks! Aren't they doing an album a night or something? And what did Islington Academy used to be called? I saw posters for the Zombies/Yardbirds tour - might try to see them too. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...ooh, Fairfield Halls - that's almost six miles away! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Six miles. That's one small step for a Mick, one giant car journey for the rest of us. I'd hoped to get down south for the folk festival near Folkestone, Mick, but I can't make the dates work, alas. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Also can't make the dates work to get over to Manchester for Ramsey's gig at Waterstones, rather annoyingly. Grr. Weirdly, as I looked on the Waterstone's forthcoming author events listing, I noticed that GK Chesterton is gigging. I for one would be very interested to see how many turn up for that -- including if Chesterton himself does. I mean, I know the last author to fill the Albert Hall before Stephen King gigged there was Arthur COnan Doyle, and he was dead at the time, so this one will be itneresting. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
Eliza Carthy has an amazing voice, though her own songs don't always display it to best advantage. She's an exceptional singer (and player) of traditional music – all the more so as her selections are far from obvious. I'm a big fan of Waterson:Carthy, a band who can turn an evening of traditional music into an emotionally overwhelming experience. Mary Gauthier's albums are well worth seeking out, especially the superb FILTH AND FIRE. Her most recent album, BETWEEN DAYLIGHT AND DARK, includes the best song about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath I've yet heard: 'Can't Find the Way'. Sorry to be getting political on your ass once again, but whenever I think about New Orleans I wonder: if the UK Government allowed a major city to be obliterated by bad weather due to heavy cuts in its flood protection budget and a TOTAL absence of national emergency provision, how would the British people react? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
You missed Hull being sunk, then? A little less impressive sinking, but it sank all the same. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
Good point, Mark. National press coverage of the damage done to Hull, and the very slow repair process, was minimal. After all, 'everybody' knows there's only one city in the UK. That's why arts funding is being slashed across the UK (general arts funding cut by 25% in the West Midlands, literature development funding cut by 100% in the East Midlands): because the London Olympics is so much more important. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
because the London Olympics is so much more important. But to whom? My address says Surrey, but technically I live in London - I keep reading that the majority of Londoners want the Olympics, but I've yet to meet a single person who doesn't think it a complete waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...plus they've whacked up my community charge to help pay for it - never asked me if I wanted to - I don't mind paying for police, council amenities etc., but I think this is out of order. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...oh, and I really, REALLY hope it's not ready in time and that all these twats who witter on about how great it'll be having the Olympics in the UK are left with egg (and worse) on their faces. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"You missed Hull being sunk, then? A little less impressive sinking, but it sank all the same." Nearly a year on and I still haven't had my flat redecorated. Not that I care for such trifling baubles. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
You still sleeping underwater, Albs? Those bubbles, I hope they're from the aqualung . . . A lot of people are still reeling after the Hull flooding. A whole bunch of people have been left and forgotten. Not the same scale as new Orleans, but a national disgrace all the same. Mick, do you get a vote in the Mayoral election? Come on, it's got to be Boris for the comedy value . . . That or maybe you could vote for a Polish candidate. As for the Olympics. Well, the Mayans (I believe)do predict it's the end of the world in 2012. It's also the centenary of the Titanic going down. So the omens are looking cheesey. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Mick, do you get a vote in the Mayoral election? Come on, it's got to be Boris for the comedy value . . . Well, it ain't going to be Ken, that's for sure. Postal voting forms are on our kitchen table as I type. Although I never drive into London nowadays (the last time was to pick A. & D. up from King's Cross a couple of years back) I think Livingstone's congestion charge has done a lot more harm than good, and as ever netted his department many millions. I quite fancy Boris for mayor - he surely can't be worse than Ken (although it would be a first, me voting Tory) and he's certainly more entertaining... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
Mick, with all due respect, if you're not an habitual Tory voter I think you need to think more about what having a Tory Mayor (and a very right-wing one at that) will mean for London – and how it will affect the capital's relations with the rest of the UK. Boris Johnson's mask of amiable buffoon conceals a ruthless and very determined right-winger with a history of racist and homophobic statements and some very dodgy friends (including fraudster Darius Guppy, for whom Johnson is alleged to have tried to set up the beating of a journalist). The combination of Johnson as Mayor of London and the rise of Cameron as figurehead of a national Tory comeback will mean a new Thatcherite era, a severe polarisation of the North-South divide, a green light for privatisation and a lot more besides. For all his faults, Livingstone is one of the few barriers to the triumph of the neo-cons. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
Don't worry, Joel - I'm not really going to vote for him; Johnson may come across as a bumbling duffer but I know he's a pretty shrewd bloke with a very dodgy history (although he may be no worse than the rest; it's likely we don't know the skeletons all politicians have). However, there's a chap on the voting form who's in a nice-sounding group called the "British National Party" or some such... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.109.177.51 |
I think Ken's every bit as absurd and dangerous as Boris. He's pretty good at racism and has invited folk who'd quite like to blow it up to the capital. |