The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152354   Message #3570810
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
28-Oct-13 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: Traditional Music: Where are we going wrong?
Subject: RE: Traditional Music: Where are we going wrong?
Mike Smith resigned as Program Controller of University Radio Loughborough to go and work for Dave Kettlewell collecting All The Tunes That Ever There Were for hammered dulcimer, and I succeeded him in post. Mike had been instrumental in promoting Mike Oldfield and Kraftwerk

I've still got my Dave Kettlewell book from 30 years ago, though I never did get the dulcimer to go with it! Kraftwerk are my heroes; and Mike Oldfield the fallen angel who graced us with a quartet of exemplary LPs born of a truly English visionary & pastoral eclecticism. Hergest Ridge should be our national anthem, all 40 odd minutes of it.