Martin Simpson on Later with Jools - archived show

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Brendy
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 02:38 PM

Ahhh, confusion... I only saw the clip from the website; I assumed it was the song he sang last night.

I need a 70cm dish to get the Sky signal properly over here.
I can only get BBC & RTE in good weather...
... but I digress...

B.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 02:36 PM

Hello Mr Person In The Backwoods
I didn't see the broadcast.
I somehow thought he was on Jonathan Ross, came in, turned on the intro, saw he wasn't and turned off.
Shame I missed KT Tunstall though.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Irene M
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 02:36 PM

My God! WHAT a stonking song!

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 02:30 PM

Diane, Martin didn't do 'Never Any Good', just 'Duncan and Brady' (or at least that was all I saw - if I missed something it must be because I was bored into slumber by all the other crap on there - KT Tunstall excepted of course!) :-) :-)

It's a shame, because he has such a huge repertoire including some of the great Trad songs, and it would have been a real treat to hear some of them.

However, 'Duncan and Brady' was a shining star in a firmament of dross (except for KT who was her usual excellent self). Let's hope Martin gets some more exposure as a result of his appearance on 'Later'. But I'm not holding my breath.

All IMHO, of course!   :-) :-)

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Brendy
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 02:19 PM

I wish him all the best with it.

I love those kind of songs, though.
It must be the greatest tribute to a parent to be seen in those kind of terms, where they are not 'judged' by the 'normal' social mores.

Mick Hanly, on his album 'Warts And All' sings his own 'Uncle John', about a long lost uncle of his.

They are songs to make the hair stand on the back of your neck.

B.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 01:24 PM

Is it his own?

Never Any Good is a self-written song about Martin Simpson's own father, born on 1899 (so he said at the Union Chapel where we all got a CD of that and 3 other songs).

I imagine he was on Jools to plug Prodigal Son,

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 01:07 PM

A version of Duncan and Brady

Mick

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Brendy
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 12:04 PM

.... matter of audience, ratings, and a whole lot of other criteria, I would imagine. I could quite gladly sit through 'Later...' and watch him sing one after the other.
Bob Harris, God bless him, tipped his hat to the Trad/Folk audience from time to time, in his day.

Oh.., I commend him for singing that song; considering the breadth of his repertoire. Is it his own?

B.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 11:52 AM

IMO, he sang the right song - I don't imagine 'The Granemore Hare' or 'Fair Annie' or 'One More Day/Boots of Spanish Leather' would have grabbed the non-folk audience in the same way.
I just don't understand why Martin only got one song when that sack-of-kack shower 'Beirut', whose vomit-inducing 'singer' was effin' abysmal, got two.
Just a matter of taste, I guess.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Brendy
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 07:05 AM

Absolutely. A bit of exposure is a step forward..., and Jools has always been good at that.
Interesting song to sing on such an ocassion, too.

Now that's guitar-playing, kat...!
Glad you got to hear him.

B.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 07:03 AM

I wish people wouldn't start threads with just the name of the person on its own - there's always a moment when I think "Oh no - he's not dead is he?"

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: jonm
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 06:29 AM

The one number thing is at least some exposure for a little-known acoustic/folk artist. Same treatment for Bela Fleck and Kaki King on previous shows.

There's a version of "Never Any Good" on the Later website, too.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 04:48 AM

One number?? What's that all about?

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 10:58 PM

Thanks for the link, Brendy. Listening now.

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Nick
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 09:28 PM

And a very fine bit of playing it was too.

And I always enjoy K T Tunstall too

Subject: RE: Martin Simpson
From: Brendy
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 03:10 PM

Watch it (or recorded highlights of it) online

B.

Subject: Martin Simpson
From: Lowden Jameswright
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 03:00 PM

... on Jools Holland tonight apparently