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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22114

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    brilliant cloughie

    a well-deserved K to/from you
    If anyone else is around I'm more than happy for them to Kick off!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26523

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      If anyone else is around I'm more than happy for them to Kick off!
      Other stuff on my plate this evening, I fear. Why don't you deliver a K when you're ready?
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22114

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Other stuff on my plate this evening, I fear. Why don't you deliver a K when you're ready?
        Well OK then.

        What K links

        A red hue.
        A textile
        A circus

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Other stuff on my plate this evening...
          Is food all you think about, calibs?

          Any chance of a clue, cloughie? I can think of King as in crimson, but that's not oblique enough for you

          (I've thrown a sickie today having been unusually moribundified by this bug. Mrs Flay laid the law down).
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22114

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Is food all you think about, calibs?

            Any chance of a clue, cloughie? I can think of King as in crimson, but that's not oblique enough for you
            (I've thrown a sickie today having been unusually moribundified by this bug. Mrs Flay laid the law down).
            Get well soon, Happy St Piran's Day!

            Je n'ais pas Oblique!

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              I've been looking at King Crimson's "discography" - I notice their "multi-part epic progressive rock song" called Larks' Tongues in Aspic, "released over the course of three albums and 27 years." (One more year than the Ring Cycle). It was derived from RVW's Lark Ascending.

              Perhaps we could hear that on R3 Breakfast for a change rather than the usual RVW Lark repeats?

              Back to the clues. Well they had Cirkus: The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26523

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                I've been looking at King Crimson's "discography" - I notice their "multi-part epic progressive rock song" called Larks' Tongues in Aspic, "released over the course of three albums and 27 years." (One more year than the Ring Cycle). It was derived from RVW's Lark Ascending.

                Perhaps we could hear that on R3 Breakfast for a change rather than the usual RVW Lark repeats?

                Back to the clues. Well they had Cirkus: The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live
                Assuming King Crimson to be the right answer for 1, I'm having trouble connecting King with a textile or a circus. Is either of them a classical music answer?
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  connecting King with a textile
                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cotton_(march) ????

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    connecting King with a circus
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_King ???

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      And the King with a circus must be this: http://www.enidblyton.net/adventure-...adventure.html

                      "Philip gets cross and tells Gus that he's not some kind of prince that can order people about. Gus stands up and announces that actually he is—the Prince Aloysius Gramondie Racemolie Torquinel of Tauri-Hessia! Astonished, the children listen as Bill and Allie reveal that the boy is being hidden away because there is unrest in the country of Tauri-Hessia, and the King's life is in danger."

                      Or maybe not...

                      Perhaps the Circo del Rey?
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26523

                        Oh mercia that's bloody brilliant!!! How did I not get that with my concert band background!?! I must have played it a dozen times!

                        No idea what Flay's on about though! Not for the first time!!

                        Is that the Night Nurse kicking in, Mr F???
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          No idea what Flay's on about though! Not for the first time!!

                          Is that the Night Nurse kicking in, Mr F???
                          I wish it were... Did you read your kids Enid Blyton books? - I confess I did. "The Circus of Adventure" where they rescued a king. I don't think we had that one, fortunately.
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22114

                            Just got back in - Sorry for delay it ticking the boxes

                            Flay for King Crimson and hence King

                            Mercia for his King Cotton and King composer of Barnum and Bailey

                            Well done both - Who the L's next?

                            For the record King Crimson's 'In the Court of the Crimson King' is in my top five all-time non-classical albums, and it's original gatefold LP sleeve is one of the Prog Rock era's best.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              I wish it were... Did you read your kids Enid Blyton books? - I confess I did. "The Circus of Adventure" where they rescued a king. I don't think we had that one, fortunately.
                              That rings a distant bell! Wasn't it the heir to a vague Eastern European kingdom called Prince Paul?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26523

                                Flay, I reckon - got the K-k-k-king connection.

                                My only links with Ms Blyton were being brought up on Peter Rabbit and Mr McGregor, &c., notably Mrs Tiggywinkle (the nickname for one of my grandmothers... "Before you let the sun in, make sure he wipes his boots") and a childhood addiction to the "Five" and "Seven" stories....
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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