The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66960   Message #1115443
Posted By: The Shambles
13-Feb-04 - 05:50 PM
Thread Name: bbc folk awards
Subject: RE: bbc folk awards
The Waifs were a breath of fresh air.

Jim Moray's performance reminded me of Michael Crawford's Frank Spencer's performance of the same song. It was the episode where he sings at a holiday camp and has fireworks under his coat........

Martin Simpsons guitar performance of John Henry was brilliant - but it and a lot of the other tight performances left me wishing to see some rough old pub band come on - to thrash out a lively if out of tune version of Wild Rover. It would have been nice to see some evidence of some folk being present.

The nearest thing to this was the Unusual Suspects - although the brass section was not really needed.