Darwin Song Project
Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
Great to see the original concert performances of four of
the songs written for the Darwin Song Project on YouTube -
'Clock of the World' by Krista Detor, Karine Polwart, Emily Smith &
Rachael McShane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzLgf66oOeE
'Mother of Mysteries' by Mark Erelli and Karine Polwart -
http:// ...
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Licensing - Conservatives back exemptions
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:48:55 +0100
The following from Hamish Birchall http://www.livemusicforum.co.uk/
The Conservative party has for the first time publicly backed the small gig
exemptions from the Licensing Act recommended by the all-party Culture,
Media and Sport Committee in May.
On 26 August the Conservative press office issued this stat ...
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Folk Dancing article in the Daily Telegraph
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0100
For your information & interest
Short article about ritual dance in England here :-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/6057328/Folk-dancing-in-step-with-the-times.html
Any publicity is better than no publicity !!
regards
Jake
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Re: Beau (from John Peel?s Dandelion label) - ?Abdelbaset al-Megrahi? on YouTube
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:14 +0100
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk88pZtg_s
>
> To see the full collection of Beau / John Trevor videos,
> visithttp://www.youtube.com/user/TrevMid
Some OK tunes
But if you're going to handle emotive stuff, the lyrics must be very,
very, VERY carefully chosen or you'll be playing to a squirm factory.
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Peel??s??Abdelbaset al-Megrahi??Re: Beau (from John Dandelion label) -
on YouTube
26 Aug 2009 15:28:32 GMT
Molly Mockford said:
> At 13:07:36 on Wed, 26 Aug 2009, David Kilpatrick
>
>>Wait until next week. I was at Holyrood yesterday. They had an
>>emergency meeting of the parliament the day before, but decided against
>>taking any votes. Our daughter line-manages the reporting teams, and
>>says that next week wh ...
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Re: Beau (from John Peel?s Dandelion label) - ?Abdelbaset al-Megrahi? on YouTube
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:00:48 +0100
At 13:07:36 on Wed, 26 Aug 2009, David Kilpatrick
<iconmags3@btconnect.com> wrote in
<ta-dnZ9MEdEVuAjXnZ2dnUVZ8o-dnZ2d@bt.com>:
>Wait until next week. I was at Holyrood yesterday. They had an
>emergency meeting of the parliament the day before, but decided against
>taking any votes. Our daughter line-manage ...
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Re: Beau (from John Peel?s Dandelion label) - ?Abdelbaset al-Megrahi? on YouTube
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:11:05 +0100
At 11:23:15 on Tue, 25 Aug 2009, TM <trevormidgley@ntlworld.com> wrote
in <ac988c1e-6ebe-4461-ae51-7f0c6998e620@k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>:
>John Lennon said songs should be like news bulletins.
And this one is nothing like a news bulletin. It is like a
politically-inspired polemic, with very little appa ...
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Peel?s Dandelion label) - ?Abdelbaset al-Megrahi? on YouTubeRe: Beau (from John
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:10:05 +0100
TM wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk88pZtg_s
>
Not bad at all, good concept and fitted well into the short lyric - but
the declamation-style of singing was a bit sort of 'hard' - all a bit
frantic, fast. I think it would have been better taken with a bit more
phrasing to the words.
The Strawbs ...
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Why licensing against noise is needed (banjo)
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:24:19 +0100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S0-MmJaq0
My late 19th c George Matthews Zither Banjo with Nylgut strings. Can
still empty a pub if played in anger, with or without singing.
David ...
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Re: Licensing - Claim - Pubs want restrictions
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:31:46 -0500
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:43:11 +0100, Peter Thomas wrote:
> He doesn't obviously show up in M*dc*t. Wonder why not?
He used to. I think his intransigency was too much even for the tolerance
of Mudcat and he was kicked out. He was "The Shambles" but I see that
user ID doesn't exist any more.
It would be good ...
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