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23 Dec 23 - 04:54 AM (#4194117) Subject: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Greenie This has to be a cause for hope, doesn't it? No 1 in the 50 best albums of 2023 goes to Lankum's False Lankum https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/22/the-50-best-albums-of-2023-no-1-lankum-false-lankum |
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23 Dec 23 - 05:26 AM (#4194120) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST Yes, I think it’s a great record, both innovative and respectful of the tradition without being gimmicky. Championed by Ralph McClean on Radio Ulster, if only the English media could be a little less keen on putting labels on things and pigeonholing. |
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23 Dec 23 - 07:16 AM (#4194134) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman I have not heard the recording, so cannot make any fair comment. I am not very keen on the idea of these awards,what is the point we all have differing tastes, it publicises their work, good, but the idea of competitons and or awards, is it as important as getting young people to play music? |
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23 Dec 23 - 07:59 AM (#4194139) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Vic Smith Dick, It could be that albums like False Lankum will be getting young people to play music. It may not be the approach that you and I have been following for the last 50-odd years but it is obvious even to an old geyser like myself having heard a few tracks on Bandcamp that what they are doing is interesting and in its own way, respectful to the tradition. |
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23 Dec 23 - 08:02 AM (#4194141) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,henryp Guardian Saturday 16 Dec 2023 Kitty Empire's artist of the week Lankum, Roundhouse, London. Review – more like an exorcism than a gig ***** The Dublin doom-folk favourites crown a momentous year with a magnificent assault on the senses and a set rich in hypnotic tales of woe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/16/lankum-roundhouse-london-review-more-like-an-exorcism-than-a-gig-false-lankum Lankum |
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23 Dec 23 - 08:07 AM (#4194143) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Vic Smith Listen to The New York Trader by clicking here and tell me if you think that ths singer has been listening to some old traditional singers. |
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23 Dec 23 - 08:13 AM (#4194144) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Rain Dog "I am not very keen on the idea of these awards,what is the point we all have differing tastes, it publicises their work, good, but the idea of competitons and or awards, is it as important as getting young people to play music?" It is common practice for papers, magazines, websites etc to do a roundup at the end of the year of what they consider the 'best of' in various catagories. The publicity does more good than bad. |
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23 Dec 23 - 08:33 AM (#4194145) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST Are competitions and awards important ? Take a look at the lists of all Ireland championship winners in any instrument you like, or the Northumbrian pipers championship lists, or the Highland piping competition lists. Agreed, nothing’s more important than getting youngsters to play - and youngsters love competing, awards prizes, medals, badges. Any schoolteacher will tell you that. One of the great things about the competitions is that they have novice/beginner categories and do encourage cooperation too, as well as a love of the music. The people who organise these things don’t do it for the money, agreed a lot of the media may have different and more selfish reasons but that doesn’t mean competitions are inherently a bad thing. What about the colliery brass band tradition which was very competitive indeed - but which gave many, many working class youngsters a chance to learn and to perform ? |
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23 Dec 23 - 08:49 AM (#4194146) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman yes, valid points, but competitions also encourage competitiveness, music is not about being competitive these awards are only a perspns subjective taste, yes ,it is good publicity for the band.,it is debatable that awards bring new listeners to the music, but how many mew listeners we never know let us briefly look at two different approaches in ireland, CCE which is COMPETITIVE and the WILLIE CLANCY WEEK, which is not. the willie clancy week shows it is possible to encourage people of all ages to improve without competitions. competitions in music is in my opinion not the best way to encourage preople to get better. Back to the subject of awards, i think awards are not as important as money spent on encouraging musicians through non competitve events like willie clancy week |
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23 Dec 23 - 09:10 AM (#4194149) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman Yes, it is quite true i run a festival which has a competition, the competition is aimed at adults, who, I hope understand that judging a competition has a certain amount of subjective bias, it is not aimed at children who are on occasions discouraged if they do not win competitions. my comments are not a criticism of Lankum, they are a criticism of the idea of awards,when it might be better[ debatable] to be spending money, and time and publicity at a more grass roots level encouragement with lessons tuition etc |
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23 Dec 23 - 09:14 AM (#4194150) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Greenie Sandman, It wasn't a competition; no one entered. It's not an award. There are no prizes. Lankum released an album and it's been recognised as a very good one. The consequence is, a folk (yes, a FOLK!) album is getting national publicity. In what way can this be bad? |
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23 Dec 23 - 09:51 AM (#4194156) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman if it is recognised as album of the year that means it is better than everything else, that is the subjective view of a few people. now this is not a criticism of Lankum or their music, it does mean that a few people have decided what they think is best. I did not say anything was bad, the publicity is good for lankum and may or may not bring a few or possibly many people in to the music., how much it achieves is an unknown What i am saying is that in my opinion it is not the best way to encourage more people to PLAY the music, i believe it is more important to give young and old people lessons and tuition, rather than having best albums of the year. |
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23 Dec 23 - 10:02 AM (#4194157) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman i understood that the folk revival was about getting more people to sing and play the music, having best albums of the year is not going to do that as effectively as having courses and workshops I do not think having best albums IS TAKING THE FOLK REVIVAL IN THE BEST DIRECTION, a best album may or may not create interest in the mainstream media for a brief while, ok ,that is not bad, although it does move the revival more towards passive consumerism, so it is possibly a curates egg, these awards have all the elements of pop culture. none of any of my comments are a criticism of the decision or of lankum |
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23 Dec 23 - 12:21 PM (#4194165) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner Young musicians I knew never needed permission to play whatever they wanted, whatever the ‘labels.’ That was sixty years ago when I started playing music, round the time of the ‘folk revival.’ A creaking term by now… I like Lankum and the sonic world they pass their selected songs through. As I like some Walter Pardon recordings and even old McColl now that there is a lot of his work on Bandcamp to access. (Should have dumped the banjo player and found more creative partners imo but heyho). Not sure the dear old Guardian’s accolade will ring very far with anyone under 30 but you grab it where you can, I suppose. |
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23 Dec 23 - 01:30 PM (#4194169) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman From an Irish Times interview March 13th, 2023 With their triumphant return to live performance in Vicar Street last December, with further May dates sold out at the same venue, and a recent hairpin bend to London where they scored the show for Simone Rocha’s latest fashion collection, Lankum are back. One thing they’re clear about is that theirs is a sound that defies neat categorisation, challenging algorithms with each successive track. “We definitely wouldn’t consider our albums to be traditional music,” Ian offers as we all part company. “It’s obviously one strong element but it’s not what you’d call folk or traditional music. Those things are just ingredients or elements. Sometimes people refer to us as folk or folk punk but we’re not. We’re not claiming that this is traditional or folk. It’s just its own thing. It’s music.” |
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23 Dec 23 - 07:26 PM (#4194182) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Steve Shaw I keep looking at the photos of those guys. In 2006 I spent an evening at the Cobblestone and played a few tunes on the harmonica (as a result I got invited to another session in a pub just up from the Auld Triangle the next evening by a lovely lady called Marion McEvoy). Early in that Cobblestone evening a bunch of three blokes came to the pub and played for about an hour (allegedly for a few euros!), then moved on to somewhere else. They invited me to bust into their performance to play a set of tunes. God knows what they thought! The Lankum photos look uncannily like a couple of the chaps who were there that evening. I'm probably completely deluded but I'm hanging on to my theory that it was probably them! |
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24 Dec 23 - 02:26 AM (#4194192) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman Steve, that is a lovely story, and sounds true, .Apparantly lankum do attend sessions etc , so it could well have been them |
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24 Dec 23 - 12:38 PM (#4194217) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Steve Gardham Whatever they want to call themselves that's up to them. They obviously know a lot about folk music judging by their involvement and projects. You can like them or dislike them, but, whatever, they are pleasing a lot of people, and IMO they are bringing folk music to new audiences in a very positive way. The hypocrites can moan all they like, it won't alter anything. |
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24 Dec 23 - 02:37 PM (#4194224) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman Happy Christmas |
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25 Dec 23 - 04:30 AM (#4194264) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Greenie Thank you, Steve Gardham! I was beginning to think my initial statement, that this has to be cause for hope, was a mistake. Merry Christmas everyone! |
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25 Dec 23 - 05:58 AM (#4194268) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman cause for hope, perhaps a little. If EFDSS was to have serious government funding similiar to CCE That would be a much more cause for rejoicing. At this time of year which is supposed to be about good will if all governments stopped fighting that would be even better and more important, if the armament industry was forced to stop for a year that would be much more important |
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27 Dec 23 - 05:51 AM (#4194303) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman I believe discussion should provoke thought, so on occasions I act devils advocate. So you are right and I am wrong. how much good we never know, but some good is better than none |
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27 Dec 23 - 12:51 PM (#4194336) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Steve Gardham Amen to that, Dick! Happy New Year! |
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27 Dec 23 - 01:20 PM (#4194338) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Peter Laban Just gone up snd perhaps adding more fuel to the fire: The Guardian's ten best folk albums of 2023 |
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27 Dec 23 - 01:54 PM (#4194340) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Rain Dog It might be more fuel to the fire for people who read this list. It draws attention to people who the general public might not know. That is a good thing.some of those people might well want to explore the music even further. We all have to start somewhere. |
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27 Dec 23 - 04:35 PM (#4194351) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive I don’t know why an album with traditional music as part of its DNA that gets critically acclaimed needs to be seen as some sort of entry point to folk music more generally, tbh. Just enjoy it for what it is. It doesn’t have to be put to work on behalf of the folk massive. |
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27 Dec 23 - 06:19 PM (#4194355) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey - heart on sleeve Just had a look at the Griniads ten best. Who writes this shite? "Draws attention to people the general public might not know." I and the majority of folk music devotees can also be added to the general public on that basis!!!!! |
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28 Dec 23 - 03:15 AM (#4194367) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman Is it the fault of Jim Carroll? |
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28 Dec 23 - 04:16 AM (#4194370) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive Malcolm, please could you help me understand what your problem is with the Guardian folk albums of the year? They include a collaborative album that fuses traditional Arabic and British folk music; an album by a member of the Waterson family featuring other acclaimed folk musicians; three albums featuring innovative and exploratory arrangements of traditional songs made by musicians who came out of the Irish traditional music scene; an album of unaccompanied sean nós singing; an album by a young Scottish small pipes player; an album of new recordings of folk songs from the Welsh National Library; an album by a much loved and respected veteran of the English folk scene; and an album by an Irish singer songwriter whose music is deeply steeped in Irish traditional music. I can’t imagine any reason why a folk fan would be upset or disappointed by this selection unless it’s based on some weird complaint that there aren’t enough English records: I guess English folk musicians might be spurred on to make better albums next year. Anyway, if this is music you don’t know, what a treat you’re in for, listening to it for the first time. I’m quite jealous! By the way you ask “who writes this shite?” I realise this was a rhetorical question asked for effect, but the answer is Jude Rogers, a journalist and long-time folk music fan. She has done a brilliant job of ensuring that lots of folk albums who wouldn’t otherwise get a chance in a national paper get covered. So may be give her a little more respect than calling her work “shite”, eh? |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:02 AM (#4194373) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Joe G I don't like the term 'best'. 'Our favourite 'would be more accurate. Having said that it is a perfectly good list and Lankum probably deserve their position at the top of it (though I haven't listened to most of the others) |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:03 AM (#4194374) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman The awards illustrate what is wrong with the uk folk revival. in my opinion a more important priority should be increased funding at grass roots performerlevel, funding similiar to CCE funding from the irish government, to be allocated to organstions such as EFDSS and newcastle degree course and other tuition courses and workshops. These awards might bring in new people[ how many we do not know] ok that is not a bad thing. But in my opinion there are more important issues to be adressed,that would help the uk folk revival in a more positive community participatory way. The awards are only of little importance in increasing the standard and number of participating creative musicians and singers, which is in my opinion one of the aspects of the uk folk revival which needs further development. the awards are not bad, and congratulations to all who got awarded, but how much difference do they make, none of us know |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:07 AM (#4194375) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST They're not awards, dick. These are mere end of year listings where critics and journalists trot out their favourites of the year. |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:12 AM (#4194377) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive Dick, it’s not an award. It’s an article by the Guardian folk reviewer covering her ten favourite albums of the year. The idea is that people will read the article and if they don’t know the albums reviewed, they might go out and listen to them. It really is as simple as that. Funding for music lessons is a completely different issue. |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:13 AM (#4194378) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST “Trot out” - I’m doing a performative eye roll at your pejorative language here |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:27 AM (#4194380) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman So, they are articles, reflecting one persons subjective taste. funding for the uk folk revival is an important issue, it is an issue that i thought it was necessary to mention, because in my opinion it is linked to the fundaments of the uk folk revival. what is the purpose of the uk folk revival, does in exist to be inclusive and to encourage everyone to participate in an active way, has the uk folk revival lost its way? and is this an example of the uk folk revival going off the rails and into the sidings? these are questions, not statements |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:33 AM (#4194381) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman I Wonder how many contributors to thIs thread are meMbers of EFDSS, being a member is helpful to the uk folk revival, the organisation has its faults, but it is what we have and if it was funded better ,it might do better. |
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28 Dec 23 - 05:54 AM (#4194384) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive It’s not a zero sum game. I think it’s possible have album reviews and end-of-year-lists in newspapers and magazines *and* to push for making music tuition accessible for all. It’s not particularly about folk music: access to extracurricular music lessons - in England at least - is increasingly a postcode lottery favouring the middle class. This is why my friend - a classical musician - set this charity up to help poorer kids in Manchester access music: Olympias Music Foundation As for the EFDSS, I used to be a member but I’m not any more. I have mixed feelings about the whole ‘official’ youth folk tuition scene in England. Whilst it’s great it exists, and that parents who want their kids to learn to play folk music can access it (and I do worry that it’s mainly accessed by children whose parents are part of the folk scene) there’s always a risk it will produce identikit players and singers who do a very polite form of folk that ends up sounding like state-sanctioned music. I guess people like Lankum, who were probably Comhaltas kids, show that it doesn’t have to be that way. |
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28 Dec 23 - 08:00 AM (#4194387) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman As for the EFDSS, I used to be a member but I’m not any more. I have mixed feelings about the whole ‘official’ youth folk tuition scene in England. Whilst it’s great it exists, and that parents who want their kids to learn to play folk music can access it (and I do worry that it’s mainly accessed by children whose parents are part of the folk scene) there’s always a risk it will produce identikit players and singers who do a very polite form of folk that ends up sounding like state-sanctioned music. I guess people like Lankum, who were probably Comhaltas kids, show that it doesn’t have to be that way. quote CCE encourages a CCE style through their competitions and discourages regional styles in their national judging, that illustrates that you are not correctly informed. |
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28 Dec 23 - 01:14 PM (#4194399) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman So cause for hope? yes its good young people are playing trad music or trad related music, and publicity is always good. vic smith quote It could be that albums like False Lankum will be getting young people to play music. quote maybe, maybe not we do not know what i do know is that in ireland there is comparably MUCH more money spent on traditionaL Music and there are more youngsters performing it as a result of money spent on workshops tuition competitions, fleadhs,and these factors appears to me to be much more effective than an opinion made by siobhan long which opened this thread |
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28 Dec 23 - 01:34 PM (#4194400) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST Young people in Ireldnd play music because there's a social context and appreciation for it. Not primarily because money is spent on it.You can't bring a culture to life by throwing money at it, there needs to be a societal context for it. And Siobhan Long never came into any of this. |
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28 Dec 23 - 02:13 PM (#4194402) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman GUEST Date: 28 Dec 23 - 01:34 PM CCE Funding The day to day activities of Comhaltas are funded partly by members, partly from the proceeds of events such as Fleadhanna and partly from a grant from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts Gaeltacht, Sports and Media. Also Comhaltas is currently in receipt of grant funding from the Government of Ireland – Emigrant Support Programme, coordinated by the Department of Foreign Affairs, to support its activities in Britain, North America, Japan, Australia, South America and Brussels. Government Funding 2021 (€)1,850,000 2022 (€)3,300,000 Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports & Media 1,850,000 3,300,000 Government of Ireland - Emigrant Support Programme ( Department of Foreign Affairs) 209,067 198,541 young people in ireland play music because they want to, but, because it is funded well and money is spent on encouraging them to do so, there are better facilites etc etc AND False Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light ... The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com › music › review › 2023/03/17 17 Mar 2023 — Siobhán Long. False Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light ... The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com › music › review › 2023/03/17 17 Mar 2023 — Siobhán Long. Siobhán Long, a contributor to The Irish Times, writes about traditional music and the wider arts. Lankum. IN THIS, a contributor to The Irish Times, writes about traditional music and the wider arts. Lankum. IN THIS, SO GUESTFalse Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light ... The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com › music › review › 2023/03/17 17 Mar 2023 — Siobhán Long. Siobhán Long, a contributor to The Irish Times, writes about traditional music and the wider arts. Lankum. IN THIS False Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light ... The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com › music › review › 2023/03/17 17 Mar 2023 — Siobhán Long. Siobhán Long, a contributor to The Irish Times, writes about traditional music and the wider arts. Lankum. IN THIS |
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28 Dec 23 - 03:44 PM (#4194410) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman aAguardian journalist and an irish times journalist siobhan long, BOTH think their album is excellent |
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01 Jan 24 - 03:36 PM (#4194653) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST I tend to agree with many of your points sandman. Back to the band Lankum, though, which was the original topic, have a look at their performance at the Mercury prize show, which went out on BBC and is available on iPlayer. The jazz band, who I thought were brilliant also by the way, got the gong, but if you haven’t heard or seen Lankum it would be interesting to have your thoughts. They were certainly a different flavour from the outfit on Jools Holland’s New Year show, who came over as a Pogues tribute act. I’m old enough to remember the Pogues themselves debut, thinking ‘ isn’t this what we had Planxty and The Bothy Band to rid us of ?’ Happy new year ! |
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01 Jan 24 - 03:55 PM (#4194655) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Steve Shaw I thought the Jools outfit were awful. |
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01 Jan 24 - 04:47 PM (#4194657) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST Yep… |
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06 Jan 24 - 03:15 PM (#4195043) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive The Mary Wallopers? Bit of a good time party band. Great live by all accounts but you wouldn’t necessarily want to listen at home… |
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07 Jan 24 - 05:52 AM (#4195066) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Nick Dow Have a look on Youtube at a more considered performance of Smuggling the Tin and The Blue Tar Road. I feel the lads are making a bob or two—more power to them. |
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13 Jan 24 - 04:13 AM (#4195369) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive They’re playing good sized venues on their upcoming tour so they must be doing something right. More power to them! |
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20 Jan 24 - 02:45 AM (#4195840) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: The Sandman They’re playing good sized venues on their upcoming tour so they must be doing something right" Or being promoted and managed well. I remember seeng jimi hendrix in a small venue with not many people in attendance, it was no reflection on ihs ability as a performer or his music |
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20 Jan 24 - 04:11 AM (#4195842) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Backwoodsman Good to see Lankum’s ‘False Lankum’ in the list of nominees for the International Folk Music Awards 2024 - Album of the Year. Also great to see Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway’s ‘City of Gold’, which would get my personal vote for the award. |
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21 Jan 24 - 08:36 AM (#4195872) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,henryp NB Molly Tuttle - supporting Tommy Emmanuel JAN 21 SUN Buxton Opera House JAN 23 TUE Corn Exchange Theatre Kings Lynn JAN 24 WED Theatre Severn SOLD OUT JAN 25 THU Alban Arena St Albans JAN 26 FRI Floral Pavilion Wirral JAN 27 SAT Royal Hall Harrogate |
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21 Jan 24 - 02:04 PM (#4195881) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: Backwoodsman I saw Molly solo at The Greystones, Sheffield back in 2019 - she played a great hour-long set to a packed house (including some UK Folk-music luminaries, such as Kate Rusby and Martin Simpson), and wowed everyone. I’m not by any means a fan of TE but, if they had a date close enough, I’d go to see them. Sadly, it ain’t so. |
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29 Jan 24 - 12:06 PM (#4196334) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive Saw Lankum on Friday at a packed Manchester Albert Hall. I’ve been to 100s of gigs over the years since I saw the Clash 45 years ago aged 15. I can honestly say this was one of the best gigs I’ve ever experienced - the intensity of the drones, the solo, unison and harmony singing, the incredible arrangements and playing. I was completely blown away. Sandman, your comment about Jimi Hendrix is fair enough (even if he did go on to fill big venues and play to huge festival crowds). Most of the gigs I go to have been ti y- I prefer small venues. And Lankum have spent plenty of time playing the small venues and are still happy to join in pub sessions etc. I just think it’s good to see a folk group - especially one so uncompromising in their vision - do well these days. And yes- I’m sure they have a good manager! |
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29 Jan 24 - 12:13 PM (#4196335) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,North Country Primitive In fact, this review of their recent London gig totally sums up the visceral live experience Lankum live review |
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26 Feb 24 - 05:54 AM (#4198026) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,henryp HTSI 24 February 2024 No folk like Lankum https://www.ft.com/content/52a3668d-c24a-459d-bd1c-efeaccda1a12 No folk like Lankum; Dublin's most thrilling traditional band discuss uilleann pipes, punk and poisoning. Interview with Ludovic Hunter Tilney |
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26 Feb 24 - 06:54 AM (#4198029) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Peter Laban In the srticle they say: '“Nobody takes up the pipes in their 20s because it’s just so hard.”' That a load of, well, nonsense Plenty of examples to disprove this hype. |
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26 Feb 24 - 09:35 AM (#4198043) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,henryp That's rather taken out of context! One of the examples, of course, is Ian Lynch. "It takes a long time before you can produce anything that is more than noise," Ian says. "What Ian did - which is take up the pipes in his 20s, and get as good as fast as he did - is amazing," Peat avers. "Nobody takes up the pipes in their 20s because it's just so hard." She's just emphasising how difficult an instrument it is to learn to play. |
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26 Feb 24 - 09:52 AM (#4198046) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Peter Laban And she is using extreme hyperbole to make the point. He is not unique as a late starter and we could argue over the difficulty. Personally, I find the fiddle much harder. |
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27 Feb 24 - 06:09 AM (#4198115) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,henryp Hyperbole is exaggeration used for emphasis or humour. It is not meant to be taken literally! The interview is relaxed and informal, but largely devoted to their background. "They're one of the most important Irish bands of their generation," says Jim Carroll, chairman of the RTE Choice Music Prize, an annual award akin to the UK's Mercury Prize. There is no explanation of the personal circumstances that have caused them to cancel their tours in 2024. I hope things will be resolved happily. |
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28 Feb 24 - 11:06 AM (#4198219) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Peter Laban Lankum, predictably, did we in the Rte folk awards |
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28 Feb 24 - 01:22 PM (#4198225) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,JoeG '"They're one of the most important Irish bands of their generation," says Jim Carroll, chairman of the RTE Choice Music Prize, an annual award akin to the UK's Mercury Prize.' I assume that is a different Jim Carroll? Unless he has had a Damascene conversion ;-) |
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29 Feb 24 - 05:38 AM (#4198257) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,matt milton " There is no explanation of the personal circumstances that have caused them to cancel their tours in 2024. I hope things will be resolved happily. " They've said a few things about this on social media, giving the impression that it's largely to do with most of them being parents. I got the impression they won't ever be doing hugely extensive international touring. Which is fair enough - you can't do the school pickup if you're in Spain. |
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29 Feb 24 - 06:27 AM (#4198261) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,henryp From: GUEST, JoeG Date: 28 Feb 24 - 01:22 PM '"They're one of the most important Irish bands of their generation," says Jim Carroll, chairman of the RTE Choice Music Prize, an annual award akin to the UK's Mercury Prize.' I assume that is a different Jim Carroll? Unless he has had a Damascene conversion ;-) This Jim Carroll is the editor of RTÉ Brainstorm. Combining opinion, analysis and features, and edited by RTÉ, this initiative aims to provide readers with informed views and perspectives on a vast range of topics. |
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02 Mar 24 - 11:28 AM (#4198382) Subject: RE: Lankum - Guardian Album of the Year UK From: GUEST,Peter Laban If you're into that sort of thing, the Rte folk awards, concert etc is here: RTE folk awards 2024 |