Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:54 PM

Oh hello Deirdre :-)

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:53 PM

I am happy that we have Kerfuffle on in 2010, where we can see Sam Sweeney at his best :-)

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:52 PM

The only time I've seen Bellowhead live (about 2 years ago) I either loved it or hated it - no shades of grey. This programme is the same. Sloe Gin Set on air now is great.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: double stopping
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:48 PM

The Coventry Carol was dire and thankfully the Unthanks (no pun intended) are at last performing something that has a bit of rhythm and life. This show is turning out to be rather disappointing - had expected something more lively.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:46 PM

I thought Jim Moray sounded in pain as he "sang" - especially in the Rejoice chorus bit Hmmm

I was at the pub christmas session on Tuesday and it surpassed all of this. Some fine singing and magic tunes.

What a sad ruined space of the very little folk time we get. All the performers looked nervous and unsure or super smug

Just my thoughts I'm sure some will enjoy - think I'll turn over for the news of the expected snow deluge at 10pm

Sarah

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Weasel
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:44 PM

Just switched back and caught Unthanks doing "Tar Barrel in Dale" (sounds like that) - I rather like it.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:41 PM

Oh, I was just commenting on the Unthanks 'In the Bleak Midwinter' - which of course was set up as an "I dare you" by a previous post anyhow! But it was god-awful frankly. Had Mr.CS peeing himself laffing at my imitation of it a minute ago ;-)

I didn't dig Bellowheads take on Mistletoe Bough much - too drunkenly rollicking for the death of a bride - even if the lyrics are cheesily sentimental.

I thought Lisa Knapp's Coventry Carol was stunning myself - she's got a thin, breathy sounding voice (like the Unthanks do) which I don't dig too much usually, but it was atmospheric from the theatre - which she seemed to draw up outa somewhere. Never heard her before BTW.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:40 PM

Rapunzel's pointed out that people might not get the irony embedded in my last post. X-factor sums it quite nicely, VT.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:38 PM

Just caught 20 seconds of O Come Emmanuel in between Gavin & Stacey and QI. On the evidence of this I am reassured that English folk is indeed alive & well and in very rude health indeed. I am heartened & inspired.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:37 PM

now that's better... I like the swanee whistle

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:35 PM

Some young lady came on, and my daughter of 14 said "That is dreadful"

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:35 PM

christ... think i might swear off folk now...

ears bleeding from x factor style Emanuel.

they are murdering sans day carol.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Effsee
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:33 PM

I lasted as long as the Weasel did! Knap-sacked, you might say!

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: GUEST,Aghast
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:33 PM

I hope nobody's feeling suicidal!

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:28 PM

I just turned to it and caught last chorus of something to do with mistletoe bough.

It was dire, but I should not make a judgement on a fragment.

Why are they being so cheesy in the talking parts between songs?

Also is it a fancy dress affair?

Coventry carol not to my taste.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Weasel
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:20 PM

Sorry, it's about 9.25 and I've had enough - it's going off.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Weasel
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:16 PM

Sorry, I've never seen or heard Unthanks before: oh dear.

I have to agree with everything crow sister has said. Suffice it to say that mid dirge I turned to this forum to see if I was the only one suffering. Apparently not.

Sorry if everything else they do is wonderful but they just lost my pound.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:12 PM

I'll do it!
What a dull 'singing by numbers' uninspired dirge.
Sounds like something 'uncomfortable' from the school nativity to me.. ;-)
Can I have my Mudcat grumpy prize?

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 04:03 PM

I have seen the unthanks live, and IMHO they are brilliant.

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Folknacious
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 03:46 PM

In about 75 minutes, the first person will pop up here to say how much they hated it, with special ire reserved for the Unthanks. Guaranteed. It's a Mudcat tradition.

White Christmas, anybody?

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Marje
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 10:26 AM

3 a.m. on Xmas morning's an interesting time - is this for Santa to watch while he chills out after his duties, I wonder? Or for parents whose children wake them up at this time to open their prezzies?

Marje

Subject: RE: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 09:00 AM

BBC Four Christmas Session - and it's repeated too!

Fire and Ice. December 17th, 2009 at 9:00pm BBC 4
Fire and Ice. December 17th, 2009 at 11:30pm BBC HD
Fire and Ice. December 18th, 2009 at 3:05am BBC 4
Fire and Ice. December 20th, 2009 at 10:30pm BBC HD
Fire and Ice. December 24th, 2009 at 5:15pm BBC HD
Fire and Ice. December 24th, 2009 at 10:30pm BBC 4
Fire and Ice. December 25th, 2009 at 3:00am BBC 4

Subject: Heads up - BBC4 tonight Christmas Folk
From: Marje
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 08:22 AM

Taken from the Radio Times website (I've set my PVR to record it!):

BBC FOUR Christmas Session: Fire and Ice

Thursday 17 December
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4

BBC Four celebrates midwinter with a blend of folk tradition and burlesque fun. Bellowhead and The Unthanks get together with singers Thea Gilmore and Lisa Knapp, plus other guests, to perform seasonal songs of their own alongside yuletide favourites. There are folk ballads, carols, parlour songs and carousing dance numbers, with everyone coming together for a final knees-up. Filmed at Shoreditch Town Hall, the setting evokes an old music hall combined with a festive Victorian family parlour.