The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75415   Message #1324726
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
12-Nov-04 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: 'twee voices'
Subject: RE: 'twee voices'
That was me, pursuing the age-old pastime of slagging off the alarming direction of the Mike Harding show on the board hosted by its producers.

To illustrate the 'twee' comment in its full context, here is the full post:

A Black Obsession - Dick Gaughan's Sail On is intended to be interpreted, he says, as a shout of hope in troubled times. It's been an inspiration to many more than me to keep on keeping on.

"Don't waste your time in asking where the time you spent has gone".

Yet I find on last night's MH playback the ultimate travesty of it being warbled by Mary Black as a pretty ditty without expression or the faintest comprehension of its aspirations or meaning.

This follows Ms Black's rendition on the show a couple of weeks ago of Song for Ireland which someone else described as reminiscent of an Edwardian drawing room.

Can we hope for the delivery of a few tons of grit chez Smooth Ops and an end to this preoccupation with the bland Blacks and their ilk?        Or are you planning a twee lisping by Cara Dillon of the Freedom Come-All-Ye next?


No-one disagreed.