What is 'feral folk music'?

Subject: RE: What is 'feral folk music'?
From: glueman
Date: 26 Jun 09 - 10:59 AM

The purloined hour, the filched session, the meet on the beach under a waning moon will always mean more than stuff from the attested herd. The folk revival has drifted into the comfort zone unnoticed and been stamped by convention until it has forgotten what it was for. It has become the pub back room and the stale ale and the grump.

Subject: RE: What is 'feral folk music'?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 26 Jun 09 - 12:00 PM

No H&S stuff, as they bypass it by charging only for the pitches. It was my first visit this Solstice, but quite taken with the thoroughly informal goodness and friendliness of the event.

Sounds heavenly. Kent? You never know...

It has become the pub back room and the stale ale and the grump.

And there you'll find me too, once a week anyway, guzzling the Body & Blood by way of Unholy Communion with the yet Unholier Ghost of Traditional British Folk Song - and I'm still the youngest in the fecking room! This is Demographic Indicator of the Central Myth of the (So-Called) Folk Revival; at 47 they call me a youngster!

Subject: RE: What is 'feral folk music'?
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 26 Jun 09 - 01:36 PM

They've been running for fecking years apparently. If yourself & Rapunzel are up for the long ride, the next date is: Wednesday 9 September - Sunday 13 (beware Autumn mud though, I'm told)
Otherwise there will be 'Knockers' threads to check, closer to the time.

Subject: RE: What is 'feral folk music'?
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 26 Jun 09 - 02:32 PM

I'm unashamedly listening to The Incredible String Band, specifically Earthspan, which contains one of my favourite Robin Williamson compositions The Banks of Sweet Italy. This all my dads's fault. Dad if you ever visit here at Mudcat and see this post, Thank you for introducing me to ISB!

Subject: Women are earning more than men
From: GUEST,NealZR
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 02:29 PM

Women are earning more than men in some public sector organisations - but only in the lower-paid grades, according to new research by the BBC.

Female clerical and admin staff are taking home bigger salaries than their male colleagues in 14 out of 17 public sector bodies which responded to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request about pay.

Figures showed that, on average, women in these grades were earning up to £350 a year more than men.

But higher up the career ladder it's a more familiar story, with male earnings outstripping females' and men outnumbering women in the senior management roles.

full news on bbc news


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Subject: RE: What is 'feral folk music'?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 03:02 PM

Yeah - right - er - ISB; they haunt me... I love Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, natch, but that was because in my utter ignorance of such matters I bought a reissue in 78 and thought it was new! Certainly sounded fresh enough to my ears. I love Be Glad For the Song Has No Ending and I actually do a version of The Iron Stone - the beachcombers anthem. RW's 2006 ECM album The Iron Stone is his best work for years, but I'm not much in touch these days.

I love Dr Strangely Strange though; 2 years on and Halcyon Days remains an enduring revelation. Seminal Feral Inspiration!

Meanwhile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9w6DJpDBs8