Thanks, Armers. Ashes and Diamonds now playing, with the knowledge that No Man’s Land/Flowers of the Forest always makes me weep.
You could have played some Mike Harding instead.
I could, but I didn’t.
Out in the car I was listening to Julian Dawson; not this particular track, but there is very little of his on YouTube…
I suppose someone has to post a Christmas song… (Definitely NSFW!!)
And this one isn’t bad.
Christmas greetings from Gus x
Just the kind of thing for this time in the morning while smoking one last cigar…
please will someone check on the budgie…
Jake T stayed over at ours when my dad ran a folk club & he (Mr T) was ‘not quite in a condition to go home’ after his gig.
He was a quiet, pleasant breakfast guest.
If another damned day’s gone by… Aye right, but sometimes we all feel that way. Now enjoy this
Gussers x
And if that was too much on the miserable side, follow The Bike Song with The Swimming Song
Gx
Wednesday, instead of suffering the Pip/Helen delusional smug-in, we could have been listening to this, on RTÉ’s Arena. Rather lovely.
I like that, Joe. Thank-you
Carinthia.xx
Lovely, isn’t it? New to me, too - it was pure chance that I happened to be driving at the time and had the radio on. Just downloaded the album, so looking forward to listening to it later.
How had I not come across this before? A Grainger arrangement of La vallée des cloches. Normally I shy away from orchestrated arrangements of music written for piano. But Ravel + Grainger = entrancement
Start at 1:14:21
I think Grainger must be favoured by Tognetti. I heard something by him on R3 earlier today, and it wasn’t that: I would have noticed. (It was on a very dull bit of the M40, north of High Wycombe, at about a quarter past one.)
(Memory says it was a bit of Bach rejigged? Something like that.)
Blithe Bells, that was. All very well in its way but not a patch (imo) on the valley of 'em.
“sheep may safely graze”. Apparently. Wouldn’t bet me fleece on it.
Australia’s quite a small town, Fanta…
I am listening to Pete Atkin this evening:
Well, it amuses me…