Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.

Subject: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:12 PM

BBC Radio 1, and BBC4 TV, both covering the Panasonic Mercury Prize, Eliza is nominated for her album Anglicana.

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:25 PM

So, it's Dizzy Rascal, urban folk music or what?

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:29 PM

Dizzy rubbish more like, if that crap is the best brittish album released in the last year, then i am a green snowman!
bunch of crap, eliza should have won.john

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:38 PM

Well, I think we'll take that as a no-no from green snowmen to indigenous music about real issues.

Though Anglicana was just as good.

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Bassic
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 06:20 PM

Great Eliza, loved the green eyes!! By the way, them two lads you have playing a box and a fiddle, I would sack `em, think they are holding you back*:-)*. Also can I have my pen back that I lent you after the gig in Whitby to do autographs with? You can bring it to the Sun in Beverley on the first Sunday in the month (They have good bear). If you wait your turn, Ossonflags might let you sing a song or play the fiddle but dont play that octive thingy cos you will be stealing my lines on the cello! And if you want to win that Mercury Music thingy next year I think you should sel your `ouse and buy a Garage............................. (make sure it has a plug with electric tho cos you have to record your next album in it)................ and where a england crikit cap
................................but put it on backwards!! :-)

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: GUEST,eliza c
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 07:32 PM

cheers Bassic, I'll remember that. Me no richer or famouser then. Hurray.
x

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Gray D
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 07:37 PM

"Good bear"?

How Elizabethan is your pub?

Gray D

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Bassic
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:12 PM

Sorry Gray D, its a Hull thing.

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:22 PM

Hull is a strange place, and you do have to be quite careful about the bear; but by all accounts it will do you no harm if you treat it with the respect, or caution, that such things merit.

Sorry to hear that Eliza didn't get the award, but it's not too surprising. Just not fashionable enough, though for my part I'd rate her work above that of the other contenders. Mind you, is there another case of a mother and daughter both being serious contenders -in different years- for an industry award of this kind? That in itelf is pretty impressive.

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Bassic
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:38 PM

and I have found annother pen down the back of the settee so you can keep that one. (I think the problem with the Mercury was that you didnt have your stomping box on stage, that is a good gimmic and the cameras could have taken lots of pictures of you giving it loads of welly and no one else on the show uses one and they would be selling them in toysRus and doing diy kits in B&Q and you could make lots of money that way even if you didnt win and you could get someone to do a version with a midi and have all kinds of drum sounds and other instruments and you wouldnt have to pay for a drummer but I still think you should use real cellos). Never mind tho, next year the BRITS!! :-)

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: GUEST,eliza c
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 07:41 PM

Smash Hits Awards!
x

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Bassic
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 08:43 PM

But seriously Eliza, is it no coincidence that last years Fame Accademy had at least two (the Irish man and woman) finalists that had some of their background in traditional music and the runner up from Pop Idle was from Yorkshire.

I understand that the viewing figures have crashed this season. Perhaps a word to the producers pointing out that you combine both those atributes in one and could get a few famous mates to do "master classes" (aparently this is another name for a festival workshop), might provoke some interest?

I am told that they do free "spray on" Suntans and you get to have lots of free clothes and do daft things in the garden late at night. And your mum and dad get put up in a hotel and can go to London on the train every week and get to go on telly for the Showdown. However, this is only likely to work if you use real cello`s and get rid of them two fellas who are holding you back................

*COME ON MR WATERMAN, TIME FOR YOUR BATH*!!.....

..........sorry matron, I am comming now................. yes I would love some of those tablets................. no I havnt been altering the medical records on the computer again.......................Matron.................did you know?............................... I was the most successfull r..e...c...o...r...d....pro....du.......c..........

Subject: RE: Eliza Carthy on BBC Radio & TV NOW.
From: Trevor
Date: 12 Sep 03 - 07:56 AM

How about the presenter on Radio Five who asid on the night of the awards that'.....it might EVEN go to Eliza Carthy, the folk singer...'