The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104501   Message #2141355
Posted By: Hamish
05-Sep-07 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
Yes, Ruth - the clips I posted are not meant to be representative. It's just what I chose on a whim to record., proximity to the stage being a key factor. It's only a "stills" camera, I wasn't really planning on taking any videos at all, so I didn't have any plan of approach, and I certainly didn't have any strategy to make it comprehensive.

The Parallelogram gig wasn't anywhere near as jazzy as the clip makes out - that was probably the most extremely jazzy passage in the whole set. It was completely random that I chose those two minutes. I wished I'd kept it running at the end: as you can get a hint, Martin Green was about to head off into a quite folksie and lyrical passage.

And I wish I hadn't left the camera in the car for the Van Eyken gig, which was awesome: probably my personal highlight of the weekend.

Incredibly, before I'd posted this trailer, and in under 24 hours, one of the Mike & Ali clips had notched up 279 views!!

Anyway, thank you all for your kind comments.

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Hamish