The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117535   Message #2534869
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
08-Jan-09 - 04:26 AM
Thread Name: Oh My God, That's Dreadful!!!
Subject: RE: Oh My God, That's Dreadful!!!
Yes, quite, Bland and uninteresting.

I don't think she was actually playing that accordian (too engrossed in spinning round in circles), just as Nigel Eaton was doing an imitation of grinding coffee. He was dead good in Blowzabella too, but there he had interesting parts to play.

Dreadful is perhaps too impassioned a word to use about McKennit-Enya-like tosh. The whole point is that it is NOT a "branch" of world music, but commercialised, sugar-coated, very poor but pretentious and rootless pop.

I'm mildly surprised that you acknowledge that English traditional music is part of the "world heritage". I recommend a visit to Charlie Gillett's SOTW to repeat that . . .