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A Lark Ascending

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  1. In 1960s Moscow eating pasties was considered a revisionist (if not deviationist), petit-bourgeois affectation.
  2. Padstow is the place to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDcmj3QU0dc Now that the fun in Moscow is no more: Ah, tradition. Clearly an inspiration for Jon Anderson
  3. Sun out all day today - and everywhere looks gorgeous with its recent dampening. The moisture was steaming off the hedges and fields this morning. This evening all the leaves seem to have come out at once. Sadly more rain forecast.
  4. Starting at 4.30!!!!! I'm ripping up the paving stones as I type.
  5. Emperor penguins displaying total lunacy traipsing back and forth in the Antarctic and then huddling for the winter. Polar bears failing to get a walrus supper. And episodes 3 + 4 of 'The Bridge' which is marvellous.
  6. There are two - oddball, to say the least, but very enjoyable. Some intriguing songs drawing off a range of cultures. I'm especially fond of the rocking version of 'Loch Lomond' and Thompson's eerie 'Killing Jar' off the second; and 'Bird In God's Garden' off the first.
  7. Sounds good. The sight-lines at St. Ives are a bit off. The bar is on two tiers. If you get downstairs, fine, but not so easy to see from the top.
  8. That's useful info - I see they are there on July 22nd and then in St. Ives on 24th. I'm planning heading for Cornwall that weekend so may well arrange my plans to hit one or the other. I missed them in St. Ives by a day last year.
  9. He's ridiculously prolific. You can't go wrong with any of the Mujician albums with Keith Tippett, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin. Mind Your Own Music Website I suspect you've found it already, but there's a link there to Paul's catalogue - lots OOP as many are limited runs.
  10. Even though we are drowning down here, Scotland has clear skies! I trust the SNP are making good use of that to increase votes in next weeks elections.
  11. Careful - 'pasty' always gets US board members thinking we're all perverts over here. Hot pasty (taxed or otherwise)... And false goatee beard? I find it absorbs surplus water.
  12. I always carry a waterproof beret to jazz gigs. That really is bad luck. At least I won't have to be green with envy when you tell us how good the concert was! [one of those smiley faces]
  13. Interview with the late Robert Kirby http://www.nickdrake.com/Robert_Kirby_Q__A.html
  14. Still wet as...a wet place. One of the wettest Aprils on record. Still likely to have drought problems. 'The wrong kind of rain' (or more accurately, rain falling in spring/summer when we need it in winter when it gets a chance to soak in). Fill those water butts while you can.
  15. Last week's Jazz Record Requests at the time decided by the Good Lord.
  16. Never followed him but Nige, Kennedy or whatever he calls himself this week has always liked a bit of crossover. This is a nice disc: 'Meeting of the Spirit (Over a cup of cocoa)'
  17. Well, Jimmy and Anne probably have Satanism in common.
  18. No, a certain 'piano tinkler' beloved of the Cheltenham hordes ! Yes, I'd guessed. But was indulging in a nightmare of other TV celebrity perennials.
  19. Davina McCall? David Mellor? Michael Portillo? Actually, given that she never misses a chance to get in the limelight, I'm predicting Anne Widdecombe within 3 years. Sorry! That photo may well break a house rule somewhere.
  20. This was a fairly early dabbling recorded in 1971: Orchestra used for back drop and colour again.
  21. Probably marginal again, but this one works for me. A folk/classical thing but there are rock drums in places. A depiction of the supposed crossing of the Atlantic by a mad Irish monk several centuries before Columbus. Davey did a few of these things ('Granuaile' is a good one) - in the 80s. It seemed to ultimately feed into Bill Whelan's 'Riverdance' phenomena via a suite done by Planxty at a Eurovision Song Contest interval ('Timedance') - the latter part has Irish jigs, rock drums and orchestras all going for it.
  22. Not sure if these count: Shirley Collins with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London. Although a folky, Shirley would be involved with the early folk-rock Albion Bands (even marrying bass player Ashley Hutchings who was also a founder of Fairport and Steeleye Span). In fact the various mutations of the Albion band regularly mixed rock beats with elements of early music with Phil Pickett, who had another life as an early music specialist, often aboard (he also guested on many a Richard Thompson record). And on the same lines, a band called Gryphon with a liking for crumhorns and the like.
  23. Plays Offenbach! There are great chunks of cod-Messiaen in Henry Cow c. 'In Praise of Learning'. They knew their trendy left-field classical (they were fond of referencing John Cage).
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