Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Paul Burke Date: 24 Sep 10 - 08:23 PM Gone, sadly, down to Yarmouth Town. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Matthew Edwards Date: 24 Sep 10 - 07:30 PM Thanks, Pip for this tribute to Peter Bellamy. I remember listening to the Young Tradition on John Peel's radio programme in the mid 1960's. Then, in the summer of 1969. while I was still a schoolboy in Colchester I went to see an incredible folk day at the University of Essex featuring Tim Hart & Maddy Prior, Shirley and Dolly Collins, the Young Tradition and Fairport Convention. Maddy and Tim sang a song which (marginally) involved hunting, and explained the context of the song and apologised for any offence it might cause. Next up was The Young Tradition, and it was clear that Peter wasn't going to brook any compromise when the group launched into a full-blooded hunting song. The audience responded with an initial stunned silence, before some rather nervous applause! A great man indeed. Matthew |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Phil Cooper Date: 24 Sep 10 - 03:42 PM Picked him up from the airport for a gig in Chicago once. He had seen the Blues Brothers many times and was wondering about whether I could drive them past Joliet Prison. I had to explain Chicago area geography, and why that couldn't happen. Margaret and I did a ballad workshop with him one year at Fox Valley Folk Festival. He was very complimentary about our arrangement of Lord Thomas & Lady Margaret. I always appreciated the comment. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: MGM·Lion Date: 24 Sep 10 - 02:36 PM >>>Michael - the full picture is in the book accompanying the reissue of the Transports.<<< Many thanks for that, Pip. I shall seek it out. ~Michael~ |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: katlaughing Date: 24 Sep 10 - 01:53 PM Thanks for the links, Pip. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: raymond greenoaken Date: 24 Sep 10 - 01:30 PM I'll be singing his setting of Kipling's Three Part Song tonight at the Cartwheel in Sheffield, and Butter 'N' Cheese 'N' All if they'll let me. Miss him every day. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Phil Edwards Date: 24 Sep 10 - 12:34 PM I've also posted an unaccompanied version of Poor Fellows, closer to Tony Rose's cover than Nic Jones's original rendition, here. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: The Sandman Date: 24 Sep 10 - 07:58 AM yes,RIP. I saw him at Whitby folk festival shortly before his death, he came and listened to one of my sets, and he made a mildly complimentary remark.I think as an interpreter of songs he was very underated, and he is sorely missed.Dick Miles |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: MikeofNorthumbria Date: 24 Sep 10 - 07:12 AM Little birdie, little birdie, Come and sing to me your song. Got a short time to stay here with you, And a long time to be gone. Hail and farewell, Peter. And to all those still above ground who remember him, Wassail! |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: doc.tom Date: 24 Sep 10 - 05:17 AM Gone. Missed. Never forgotten. The most singular consistently creative individual ever to have graced the scene. There'll be several glasses raised and many of his settings sung at this weekend's Song & Ale. TomB |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: banjoman Date: 24 Sep 10 - 05:13 AM Difficult to believe its that long ago. Peter Bellamy stayed with us when he was doing a gig locally and we talked till the small hours and he played & sang Roving on a winters night in our living room. He gave us some tapes which we still have. I always recall his comments about his own concertina playing that night- Bottle neck Concertina - because someone had told him it sounded as if he had broken bottle necks on his fingers when he was playing. Wonderful Character and sadly missed |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: GUEST Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:53 AM Happy birthday, good man. Death day, even. Can't quite get that right.. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: GUEST,Ed Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:45 AM I'm crap at singing (crap at most things, for what it's worth) but I will still raise a glass. Happy birthday, good man. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:43 AM PS - The full picture also features in the Wake the Vaulted Echoes booklet. PPS - Does anyone have a recording of The Transports that featured Jim Eldon as The Ballad Singer? It went out on Folk on 2 at some point in the 80s, and my tape has long since vanished... PPPS - My cherished vinyl copy of The Transports (gifted to me by life-long Bellamist Ian McCulloch of Durham) is not only signed by the great man but on the Transport Ship itself PB has added a 'Quantas' flag. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:27 AM Hmmmm - still no actual footage on YouTube I see. I do a have a VHS tape stuffed with concert & interview footage - including a pan across his famously eclectic cassette collection; one can but ponder how he would have fared in the world of digital media - the words pig and shit come to mind. Anyhoo, to add to this wee celebration, here's something I did a few years ago which re-unites PB's singing of The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate with the Raldoph Caldecott picture book that inspired it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQMsONIwng I'll no doubt be singing it mesel' at The Moorbrook tonight... |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Phil Edwards Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:26 AM Michael - the full picture is in the book accompanying the reissue of the Transports. |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: MGM·Lion Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:23 AM The quote that is the title of this thread he had sarcastically spelled out on the Scrabble board which features in the backsleeve photo to match his Dutch master pastiche front illustration on his original LP of Both Sides Then. You can only actually see "Bor... Old Tradd..." on the sleeve as printed; but I know what it said because my late wife Valerie took that picture. Is it really 19 years! Still miss him... ~Michael~ |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Anglo Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:10 AM Jeez, of course he liked you, Art! You have always been something completely different from boring old traddies like us, and I love you for it. As did Peter, I'm sure. JR |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Sep 10 - 03:55 AM A Roving On a Winters Night -- an American song--simply exhilerating in the hands of Peter Bellamy with Lisa Null. After I finished a set in Connecticut, Peter came running up to me and excitedly exclaimes, "That was the most laid-back set I've ever heard!" ----------- To this day, I've not figured out if he liked what I'd done or not. His loss still haunts me. Art |
Subject: RE: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Les in Chorlton Date: 24 Sep 10 - 03:41 AM He was extraordinary. I saw him Leeds at the Grove, he borrowed my guitar, retuned it into E or something and used it on a Kipling song. Saw him later at Chester Festival -truly amazing. He got inside a song and told it's story like no one else. Of all the trees that grow so fair ............ L in C# |
Subject: Boring, Bleating Old Traddy From: Phil Edwards Date: 24 Sep 10 - 03:36 AM The incomparable Peter Bellamy ended his life 19 years ago today. Raise a glass - better still, sing a song - in his honour. Shepherd of the Downs (with Louis Killen) Minesweepers (Kipling arr. Bellamy) The Leaves in the Woodland (Bellamy) Elmer P. Bleaty RIP. |
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