MAK's most recent show

[Lateralthinking1]

It looks very nice actually.....I see it has got Harveys. Did you get to the Lewes Arms? I signed the petition to keep it there and to stop them replacing it with Greene King IPA.

[johncorrigan]

I nodded off again - too much good-timing in Firle and you can't have the sound up
too loud in the bedroom of an old inn ! Must try to catch up though. I really like MAK -
particularly the understated attitude she puts in her Wo3 broadcasts. Well I know what
I mean !

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I think she's improving all the time as a broadcaster, Paul. Have a look at the first hour of her Radio Scotty show, a Bob Dylan spesh but concentrating a good bit on Victor Jara, and finishing the first half with a very fine Mahotella Queens version of I Shall Be Released - really enjoyed the journey in the car - didn't manage the second half though it looked good - I was just wanting to hear more Bob from the Septuagenarian Bobfest that was last eve's Gideon show.:cool2:

[Paul Sherratt]

Hi Lat,

Didn't get to Lewes or anywhere in fact ( 'cept for a quick trip to Brighton Museum to see the Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant exhibition ) We were down for the Charleston Festival and were booked for a number of events **

Minutes from Charleston, The Ram Inn was a perfect place for us - and others seem to like it too*. I was surprised we were able to get a room at the inn ...

* http://www.raminn.co.uk/reviews/

** The star of the weekend for me was the astonishing Sue MacGregor who masterfully controlled both a truly dodgy PA and a gale blown tent at the same time chairing a discussion with the excellent P D James. It was as if she faced these things every day. Up there with watching Pery Ribeiro caressing a microphone it was !

[johncorrigan]

Minutes from Charleston, The Ram Inn was a perfect place for us - and others seem to like it too*. I was surprised we were able to get a room at the inn ...

* http://www.raminn.co.uk/reviews/

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Looks nice Paul though I think I'd avoid 'Dinner by the dart board' - do you reckon that's the Ram Inn's equivalent of a reduced price for the seat behind the pillar?

[Paul Sherratt]

>>reduced price for the seat behind the pillar?

I couldn't say if that dart board actually saw any regular action ! But it is a cracking inn. Just four rooms
which will probably be taken by Glyndebourne-goers for the next ten weeks.

I think we'll be booking for next year next week !


PS
Did you know that Sue MacGregor and Leonard Rossiter were once an item ?

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, I did know that. Very weird.

I will need to check out that version of "I Shall Be Released". Someone once did me a tape of eight versions of that song - mainly Bob - and that wasn't on it.

[Globaltruth]

I enjoyed MAK's recent show - in particular, Belshazzar's Feast have retained their freshness and verve whilst sitll being v. accomplished. I'm not always a push over for this kind of music, but I do think it is one of MAK's strengths to be able to find these kind of groups worth listening to. Hey forgot to say - they were funny. I think this is oftimes called 'entertainment'.

Meshiya Lake & Little Esther - now they were a bit of a surprise; not a side of MAK's musical tastes we often see, but provided a definite contrast to the foregoing BF tracks, as well as an interesting comparison with each other. Little Esther was 17 when she recorded that track which is simply astonishing. And, hey Paul, could Gasandji be one of those pearls? Surely worth listening to in session...?

Marks out of 10? A healthy 7.

[johncorrigan]

Yeah I thought Belshazzar's Feast were good and funny too especially One Cold Morning in December which was great - it had me thinking of a totally different song that Kate Rusby sang on Kershaw once which was about the wife putting money away every time they had sex to buy a pub (am I making that up?) - was the pub called the Dog and Duck? - anyway I liked that Little Esther track too.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>could Gasandji be one of those pearls

Dunno.
Is she the love child of Sade and Véronique Sanson ?
No, that doesn't seem likely.
Tell you what though GT, I'd have liked to have been at that session.
And the Belshazzar Boys were great guests.
They're playing Penzance FC during WOMAD.
Now how lucky is that ...



PS
Has anybody seen my Esther Philips LP ?

[johncorrigan]

It's just where you left it Paul.

Mary Ann presented a rather excellent guest in the last half hour tonight talking about the hammer dulcimer on Radio Scot-u-like.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011tscw

She was also punting this - bit late but here's the link - I'd like to see the refugee Allstars among others.

http://www.africaoye.com/

[Paul Sherratt]

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Possible caption competition ...

The Oye - haven't been to the delightfully disorganised do for some years.
May possibly go this year depending on circumstances - looks like they need some donations.


PS
I looked there !

[johncorrigan]

?

http://www.cloudvalley.com/P8180018arforweb.jpg

Possible caption competition ...

Is Dulcimer A saying to Dulcimer B ' I feel like gettin' hammered tonight!'

[Lateralthinking1]

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"Blimey it's dark playing here in Lanarkshire - anyone might think there was a lunar eclipse!"

[Globaltruth]

talking of which tonight we have the red moon (@ 23.43)



cue for a song? Not by Creedence Clearwater though eh...

[johncorrigan]

.....nor the Neville Brothers - they've got one of those too.