Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: Cluin Date: 04 Dec 02 - 03:43 PM "Rough bands of sinewy men roaming the countryside, terrifying people with their close harmony singing." ---from Blackadder. Also, from the same: "You need a half-pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place-names. Never ask for directions in Wales... You'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight!" ;) |
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: Bert Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:16 PM Thanks Sian. ...a folk song about the evacuee's... Now that would be one SAD song Gareth. Perhaps a parody of The John B - "I wanna go ho-ome!" |
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: Gareth Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:50 PM Oh I don't know Bert, we still get aged Londoners, and Kentish People wandering in to see, and remind themselves where they spent part of their childhood. Gareth |
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Dec 02 - 04:44 AM Heard on Radio 2 yesterday (whether jokingly or not) BBC are planning a spin-off from the soap 'Eastenders' showing 'Dot Cotton' as a wartime evacuee to the Welsh valleys. Nigel |
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: sian, west wales Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:59 AM I see we mentioned Shirley Bassey, but not Iris Williams. We also provided the scenery for a number of films, including Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Didn't we provide the practice reservoirs for the Dambusters mission? Re: Dafydd Iwan, I can't think which American singer he might parallel. He started out doing Welsh versions of Guthry, and a lot of the Burl Ives repetoir. I don't like comparing anyone with Seeger, but DI's songs have developed along the sames lines: some highly political, some on global issues, some just 'comfortable', some trad. etc. And, yes, his songs are very much sung by the Welsh-speaking 'folk' of Wales. sian |
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:04 AM Portmeirion! Clough Williams Ellis's joyous, crazy fantasy village (home to The Prisoner TV series). If you haven't been -- go! BJ |
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ? From: breezy Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:07 AM organised th snorbens folk club |