For Punkfolkrocker(s)

Subject: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 12:13 PM

I think the automatic goto for Punk Folk is probably The Pogues. More recently, maybe Ade Edmundson and the Bad Shepherds. If you have come across them. Recently though Radio 6 music has been playing Jinny Bingham's Ghost by Frank Turner.

Very enjoyable. Well for me anyway

Come on - Add your favourites. If you think it breaks the mold and is not folk, good! That's what punk is for :-)

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 12:39 PM

Dave - these days i have been mostly listening to Petula Clarke and Alma Cogan...


..actually, I gotta be honest..
a lot of self proclaimed punk folk I've heard in the last 2 or 3 decades hasn't been very interesting..

I like the idea of it, but not so much the execution...
Basically, I'll still argue punk was folk...!!!

One band I'd like to hear again is The Dancing Did,
I missed out on the CD reissue, now it's too expensive..
They might have been good, or cack.
Problem is.. I can't remember..???

The few youtube tracks sound alright..


5 MINS LATER.. ooh hold on.. it's currently free to listen to on Amazon Prime

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 12:52 PM

Pet Clarke had a fabulous voice. Can't say I listened much to Alma. One you may enjoy is Sandy Shaw's Sympathy for the Devil

Not a singer you would readily associate with the song but she makes a great job of it. Mind you, Keith Richards recounted in an interview that his original version was acoustic and quite folky! Mick put the bells and whistles on.

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 02:24 PM

Levellers?

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 02:30 PM

btw.. very off topic...

if you still like gritty historical movies with the best battle scenes...

The Battleship Island (2017)


I finally got round to enjoying it on Prime last night..

As per usual for Asian films it gets a bit confusing at times,
but I'd have been less befuddled if i'd read wiki potted history of Korean & Japanese political relations
up to the 2nd world war,
before viewing it...
Fortunately none of the crap slapstick comedy that can ruin Asian cinema...

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 02:47 PM

I'm not sure I know punk from a goat's backside but I like that song in the OP, and speaking of the Levellers- The Recruiting Sargeant with the Copper Family

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 04:52 AM

How could I have forgot the Levellers! Also reminded me to mention some stuff by New Model Army.

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 05:34 AM

Sydney's very own punk-folk band The Bottlers    The Bottlers on facebook

videos - Matthew singing Sargent Small, a tad loud for me but I've heard him sing it unaccompanied & I love his version.

Lyrics Sargent Small by Brad Tate

Australian Folk Punk Scene facebook group

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: GUEST,CJ
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 08:15 AM

Problem with punk-folk is very much the same as the problem with punk. and folk. As in, there are a few originators - in this case, The Pogues would be the obvious ones, and many, many less talented follow-ons, taking one aspect of the original and focusing on it, but without the talent to make it interesting. Hence there being many hundred Pogues copy-acts, but them only focusing on SPEED and GRAVELLY voice, which was only a tiny part of The Pogues.

Not a huge point in naming names, but there's dozens of such acts in the US right now, a few of them very successful indeed.

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 08:32 AM

The earliest proto punk folk band that caught my attention was Jack the Lad circa 1975...

Particilarly their TV appearance on Geordie Scene..

The shovel dance [or was it pick axes - memory is not reliable now]..

Their aggressive iconoclastic attitude was punk before even punk rock was a recognised culural thing...

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 08:41 AM

The Geordie Scene

EPISODE 12 - 14th December 1974
Hosted by: Dave Cash
Jack The Lad - 'Why Can't Be Satisfied', 'Oakey Strike Evictions', 'Peggy (Overseas With A Soldier)'.


EPISODE 21 - 13th February 1975
Hosted by: Dave Eager
Healing Force - 'It'll Come Together', 'Doing My Time'
Jack The Lad - 'Gentleman Soldier', 'Home Sweet Home', 'Ballad of Tonto McGuire'


EPISODE 30 - 17th January 1976
Hosted by: Dave Eager
Jack The Lad - 'Oakey Strike Convention', 'Rocking Chair', 'The Third Millennium',
'Captain Pugwash', 'The Wurm',
'The Ballad of Winston O'Flaherty' (includes Morris dance with shovels by the band).

Now that'd make a good DVD/CD set if tapes still exist..

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: Acorn4
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 08:58 AM

By coincidence we have Nottingham's own exponent of that genre appearing at The White Horse, Seagrave, Leics next Saturday - 8.00pm for any East Midlanders (UK) who are at a loose end.

Paul Carbuncle



https://www.folkatseagrave.com/

Subject: RE: For Punkfolkrocker(s)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 18 Sep 19 - 09:29 AM

Haven't seen this lot for years,
so don't even know if they're still going...

Surfin' Turnips


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Surfin%27+Turnips