Archive for June, 2007
Jack O’ Diamonds
Here’s a song I was reminded of, in a roundabout way, by performing “On Ilkley Moor ‘Baht ‘At” to the tune of The House Of The Rising Sun last weekend at the Wolverley Summer Of Love festival.
And, just like The House Of The Rising Sun, it’s a song in which a gambler laments his ruined [...]HANDS ON MUSIC WEEKENDS - a message from Dave Townsend
Dave Townsend has had some trouble with the Royal Mail, so I’m reproducing below a note sent out by him for wide circulation.
HANDS ON MUSIC BOOKINGS
A Message from Dave Townsend
If you recently sent a booking or enquiry to Hands On Music Weekends, PO Box 1162, East Oxford D. O., OX4 4WS, U. K., your letter [...]Frank is… fantastic!
The internet is a wonderful thing.
Over on MySpace, I decided to chance my arm and ask the very fantastic singing phenomenon Frank Sidebottom if it was OK to record a cover of his song “Free Download” in a music-hall style on concertina as long as I put it up on my website as a free [...]Wolverley Festival, 23rd June 2007
I’ll be playing at the Wolverley Festival in Worcestershire, this Saturday, the 23rd of June - early evening (ish) I believe.
It’ll be an acoustic set featuring various concertinas, dulcimer, guitar, and autoharp, with my good mate Bert Priest joining me on various percussive thingummies. It’s a slight change of plan - originally I was going [...]If You Could Read My Mind
The two singers who inspire me most are Johnny Cash and Scott Walker, and ever since hearing Cash’s version of Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind on his posthumously-released “American V: A Hundred Highways” album, it’s been simmering away at the back of my mind. It’s a gorgeous song of regret.
I took [...]I Can’t Find Brummagem
As heard previously on Brumcast!
As this recording is now out and about “in the wild” I thought it time I put it up on here too. As I mentioned before in the previous plug for Brumcast, there’s some blurb about the song in this post. I’ve edited out the mildly incomprehensible verse I wrote about [...]