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Subject: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 06 Sep 05 - 04:50 AM Hi there....just to let you know that tonight on BBC4 is The Mercury Awards...9pm this evening and the Folk World's very own Seth Lakeman is up for nomination! So...stop what you're doing today and yell at the top of your voice..."Come on SETH!" and then tune in and see what happens! In our book, down here in Devon, Seth has won anyway...no matter what the outcome of tonight, as we've already got his fantastic 'Kitty Jay' CD which tells some of the legends and stories of Dartmoor and The West Country....and we love his music. Mike Harding played one of his new songs 'The Colliers' from his forthcoming CD 'Freedom Fields' last week....you can still 'listen again' to it over on BBC Radio 2...just click on Mike's name under the list of 'Presenters'...it's in the first 10 minutes or so. I'm sure that Kitty Jay herself will be rooting for him, as he has brought her story to life so much over the past year...and if you've never seen Seth Lakeman play live then you truly don't know what you're missing! He's like a firework on stage, fizzing, whizzing everywhere...and his audience stare in disbelief at this young man and his superb fiddle playing. Can't put his site up at present as the 'blue clicky' isn't working, but he's easy to find and you can listen to Kitty Jay on there too. Kitty was a young servant girl who committed suicide back at the turn of the 17th/18th Century after finding herself 'with child' by the Master's son and being turned out. There was a rumour that she had been buried quickly and quietly in a field, although this was never proved, until, in later years, the new owner of the house investigated it further and found the bones of a woman on his land. He then decided to give her as decent a burial as possible and to this day Kitty lies in a raised, grass-covered grave, where two tiny Dartmoor lanes crossover, just outside Manaton. From the day Kitty Jay's Grave appeared fresh flowers were left on there, no-one knows by whom. They are still left there to this day, along with keepsakes, little crosses make from twigs, small toys, messages of love and hope....I know because I've been there myself.....a very special yet sad place to be. But at least by Seth's song she has gained a dignity in death which she never had in life. Rest well Kitty. We feel in our family that Seth Lakeman is going to be one of the deeply talented young people around in the folk world today who is going to be able to finally break through that 'Oh no NOT folk music!' barrier and get this wonderful, incredible music 'out there' to our young people at long last. It's way overdue and much needed too! Give our children back their history, their heritage, their customs and....their music! So....Positive Vibes all day long guys! Good luck Seth! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Rasener Date: 06 Sep 05 - 05:10 AM Is that not the brother of Sean Lakeman who duo's with Kathryn Roberts? |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Paco Rabanne Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:09 AM His nomination even appeared as a news item on the main BBC1 news at 6pm yesterday!!!! |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 06 Sep 05 - 07:46 AM Yup Villain...it certainly is! Sean plays alongside Seth now in The Seth Lakeman trio with Ben Nicols too. AND there's Sam Lakeman as well of course...who's married to Cara Dillon. And hasn't Kathryn Roberts got a superb voice! Have you ever seen she and Sean in Equation? AND then there's Daddy Lakeman....Geoff....who plays with his band 'Speakeasy'. We saw them a while back down at Morwellham Quay the Cornish side of Tavistock....they played sort of 1930's music amongst other things and I wasn't too sure at first, but by the end of the very first song they had us all hooked! They were wonderful and we were all singing away out in the open, down by the Quayside...loads of youngsters dancing in the background too...and Geoff is such a cool dude! He'll have you falling off your chair with laughter....he's just so relaxed and laid back and his 'patter' is brilliant! ...so is his spoon playing!! ;0) Very talented family! And Seth is all over the Devon Today Magazine this month. Literally all over the front cover and a six page article inside too. You can order it from them if you want. Well worth it I'd say. He's grinning at us in all the newsagents all over Devon.....wonderful to see Folk Music coming forward like this. I know the Mercury has a folk nomination every year....but I've just got a feeling about this year! Only another 8 hours to go. So exciting! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Dazbo Date: 06 Sep 05 - 10:22 AM Just how did I know you'd started this thread Lizzie my dear! I'll think I'll drop into BBC4 for a look tonight. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Rasener Date: 06 Sep 05 - 10:58 AM Ah thought it was lizzie. Isn't it wonderful to have such a talented musical family. You never know they might all be starring on eday in the revised version of The Sound of Music :-) I saw Sean and Kathryn at Gainsborough Folk Club, not so long ago. I have to say how impressed I was with them. I wanted to try and get them at my club, but they live so far away, its really not very practical. No doubt I will get more chances to see them when they are next in Lincolnshire. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 06 Sep 05 - 11:29 AM I'm hoping very much to see them at Otley Black Sheep Festival the weekend after next Villain....never been there before....very excited... Ay up! Just off to practice my Yorkshire! Hi Dazbo.....We're going to be glued to the screen tonight down Devon way. Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 06 Sep 05 - 11:34 AM Villain...just a thought, but have you ever heard Lincolnshire lass Miranda Sykes? She plays with Show of Hands a lot at present, but her solo CD 'Don't Look Down' is great and has a couple of beautiful songs about Lincolnshire on it...one written by her Mum and one by her Dad...very descriptive, gentle words...really paints the picture of your part of the country. She's got a website too. Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Rasener Date: 06 Sep 05 - 11:46 AM Lizzie I know Miranda. She very kindly donated the Lincolnshire Song (written by her dad)for the Lincolnshire Yellowbellies CD that I did for charity. Have a look at the review http://www.icogitate.com/~celticfolkmusic/uk-VariousArtistesYellowbellies.htm The reference to Les Worrall in the review is me :-) I am so proud that it raised over £1000 pounds for Radio Lincolnshire Gold Appeal. I also have the CD of her that you mentioned. I have also seen the Miranda Sykes Band and Show of Hands with Miranda in it. :-) Blimey you are well informed about Lincolnshire Lizzie Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Rob Peak Date: 06 Sep 05 - 11:48 AM I saw the Equation at Cheltenham this year and wondered what they were doing at a festival? They were very average pop music rather than a main stage folk act. Not impressed at all. Rob |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Leadfingers Date: 06 Sep 05 - 12:17 PM Memories , Oh Memories ! I was in a Ceilidh band with Mom and Pop Lakeman back in the seventies before Geoff and Joy moved down West !! And saw the Lakeman Brothers do a trio set at The Ram at Claygate - that was Sean Seth and Sam - Scarily good musicians all three of em !! |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Cats Date: 06 Sep 05 - 12:42 PM OK so if we are getting into reminising..... I used to teach Seth, Sam and Sean when they were in the infants School in Buckland Monachorum. Good luck from across the Tamar, Seth. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 06 Sep 05 - 01:59 PM Oh Cats....this is getting spooky! I used to live in Horrabridge, bought my vegetables from the one-time shop...where Sean and Kathryn now live....and many years ago went to Buckland Monachorum Fayre only to see a family singing in the street, just standing there singing their hearts out....surrounded by a large crowd....Yup...it was those Lakemans again. My daughter was about 3, she's 18 now so that would put Seth around 13 at the time....they were brilliant then and haven't they done well since! Leadfingers....Oh you lucky thing...bet that was fun. Geoff literally had us rolling in the aisles that night a few weeks back...I shall never forget it! Go and see Speakeasy if you get the chance..you'll be really pleased you did! What a lovely chap he seems....lucky Mrs. Lakeman...don't tell him that though else it he'll be unbearable to live with I expect..I know what you men are like!! ;0) ;0) And Les...that's wonderful to read. Isn't Miranda brilliant! Do you know I'm sitting here right this very minute listening to 'Lincolnshire Song' as I type this.... "Time stands still on the Linconlshire Fenland which the sea once embraced in its' watery arms. The dykes and the ditches cut deep their incisions and the only landmarks are the churches and farms...When the rain tumbles down...." Isn't that just beautiful!! A painter of pictures using music...but then I'm deeply in love with Norfolk and those wondrous skies and sunsets...so I love that sort of landscape. I looked at that site too..thanks for that...sounds an interesting CD and great to know you raised so much money! Didn't know about that 'yellowbelly' expression though Les....see you learn something every day! ;0) About time Miranda had a thread over on Radio 2 I reckon.... Right...I'm off...only 2 hours to those Mercury Awards now... "Spring-cleaning the fields in life-giving sunshine turns brown soil to green, then yellow and red. And women bend backs, beheading the tulips to strengthen the bulbs in their peaty beds......." Magical! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Rasener Date: 06 Sep 05 - 02:41 PM Yes it is a lovely song. The part that gets to me when she sings about the Lancaster Bombers using Lincoln Cathedral as the sign that they are home from bombing Germany in the second world war. Incidentally Lincoln Cathedral is a lovely cathedral. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Herga Kitty Date: 06 Sep 05 - 03:37 PM Geoff and Joy were Herga residents before they moved west, so we booked Seth, Sean and Sam as the Lakeman Brothers some years ago.... Unfortunately I'm not digitised, so can't get BBC4. Good luck anyway! Ktity |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,BanjoRay Date: 06 Sep 05 - 03:42 PM God, this brings back memories - I had a superb Yorkshire Dales holiday back in '73 with Geoff & Joy Lakeman, and John Leonard and a bunch of other musicians, playing in pubs through the Dales. Great times - Geoff was a hoot then, looks like he still is. Cheers Ray |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:03 PM Never mind Seth, we all know you were the real winner anyway... |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Alf Tranter Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:18 PM Have to say young Lakeman wasn't as good as some of the previous Mercury nominees such as Kate Rusby and Eliza Carthy. There's always one token 'folkie' among the Mercury nominees but it's debatable whether Seth was really the best from our musical genre this year. I have to agree with Rob Peak about Equation. Bland MOR pap. And when I first saw the Lakeman boys at The Swan in Stockwell a few years ago the only thing I remember is how glum they all looked on stage. At that time they had a pushy mum as their manager. I'm glad the lads have kept at it and there's nothing wrong with their music but if Sean and Sam want to hear real star quality they should just look to their stage partners rather than bruv. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: greg stephens Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:19 PM Well, I'm sorry Seth Lakeman, but it was a bad move to be in the same competition as Antony and the Johnsons! I marked them all ot of 10, and had Antony and KT Tunstall neck and neck. Some very interesting stuff, but Antony was obviously a total star. Well deserved award I thought. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 07 Sep 05 - 07:27 AM Well Greg I liked Antony as a person and thought his music was good, but for me a little would go a long way and I think I'd end up quite depressed at the end of it. Lovely chap though...really shone. I'd love to see KT Tunstall and Seth doing a CD together, they'd just blend perfectly imo. They outshone everyone else on the bill for me. Seth performed brilliantly last night, just one young man and his fiddle. No special effects, no ego, no preciousness, no fancy outfit....just simple, yet stunning music! Felt very proud of him last night and it was so good to hear Mark Radcliffe singing his praises. I think it was one of the best moves Seth's made. He's got a lot of coverage from it....you watch him rise! ;0) And 'Guest Alf'......we're all different I guess, that's what makes life so interesting isn't it! Now I saw Equation in Tavistock earlier this year...outstanding! We boogied all night long to them! ;0).....and did Katherine not sing 'The Cuckoo's Nest' then when you saw Equation? They did quite a few folk songs when we saw them, along with some 'rocky' ones too, but that all helps to bring young people into folk music doesn't it? My children love their music. Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Roy Peak Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:13 AM I agree about people being different but the Equation won't attract many young people because what they are doing is fundamentaly cheesy. It's pop/rock content is ten/twenty years out of date and has no contempory elements of modern music. It still bases itself on 70's folk rock, this seems to be a common problem with folk when combined with rock. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: greg stephens Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:31 AM The inability of musicians in the English "folk scene" to connect with anyone outside that scene is obviously an ongoing discussion point. Let's face it, there is no English equivalent for the Dubliners, the Chieftains, Christy Moore, Altan, Planxty or whatever. Each year we are told that the latest bright young folkie is going to leap the barrier and make some connection with mainstream yoof culture, and each year it doesnt happen. English ciulture is very compartmentalised, and the fact is that the standards, styles and overall approach that will get a young performer gigs at folkfests, picture in FRoots etc etc, are not the things that work with Joe Public. Folk music that connects with the public will not come from the "folk scene"...or at least, it has shown no sign of doing so in recent years. That time is yet to come. Different people blame different things for this very obvious fact: too many singer songwriters, to many traddy folk police, too many beards, too many schoolteachers, too many songs about sailorboys, not enough songs about sailorboys. Everyone has a pet theory. The breakthrough will come, but from somewhere you least expecct. Remember, the folk revival didnt come from the EFDSS, it came from Lonnie Donegan. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST Date: 07 Sep 05 - 12:35 PM Agree mainly with Greg, but there does seem to be more crossover going on at the moment, look at bellowhead they're playing pop festivals and nightclubs alongside folk and world music festivals, Seth's nomination and a tour supporting the Levellers will undoubtedly take him to new audiences, Jim Moray seems designed for crossover action. Also this new crop is primarily male, far more marketable to the average squealing teenage girl. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: greg stephens Date: 07 Sep 05 - 12:48 PM Bellowhead obviously have great potential, they arte a very inerestiong band; but I havent seen any signs of them leaping over the particular fence I was talking about. But give them time, maybe they'll prove me wrong! |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Topper Date: 08 Sep 05 - 06:50 AM You really have to look to Scotland for crossover action. Bands like Shooglenifty, The Peatbog Faeries, Croft No.5, The Tartan Amoebas and a host of others have successfully taken our music to new and younger audiences in recent years as has the late, great Martyn Bennett. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Sep 05 - 07:13 AM Hang on a little ol' minute there Topper..... ;0) We're doing pretty damn well down here in England too, you know. OK...here we go! Seth Lakeman,(YAY!) Ashley Hutchings Rainbow Chasers, The Demon Barbers Roadshow (which includes superb clog and rapper dancing as well)...Jim Causley, Jim Moray, Jackie Oates, Bryony Griffiths, Mawkin, Gloworms, Dulaman, Kate Rusby, Kathryn Robers and Sean Lakeman, Hocus, Spiers & Boden, Eliza Carthy, Bellowhead, Kathryn Tickell, Show of Hands,Martyn Joseph (OK Welsh) The Oysterband..(OK, OK, so there's a mixture of Celts in there as well)....and that's just off the top of my head! I could go on and on...and usually do about all this incredible music, but I'd best stop there, for the moment at least! ;0) And don't forget...you've got Karine Polwart and Dougie McLean too! My kids listen to them as well as all the others above....although Jackie Oates first CD isn't due out for a little while yet, but we've seen her live and loved her music..... My children are 11 and 18 and they listen to folk music all the time, out of choice! 'Times are a-changing' Greg....have faith! Well done to Seth for being part of the 'folk team' out there who are bringing it out into the open for everyone to fall in love with! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Topper Date: 08 Sep 05 - 08:04 AM You've missed the point again Lizzie old gal. Greg was making the point that young English artists are not attracting a new young audience outside the English folk scene. Sure there are young people at English folk festivals but they've often grown-up in families where ma and pa are also folkies. Your own kiddies are an example of this. Go to Scotland and you will find hordes of young people from outside our scene enjoying the bands I listed and getting into our music as a result. The big Scottish festivals like 'T in the Park' have main stages dedicated solely to our kind of music. You won't see any of the artists you've listed playing to a main stage audience of tens of thousands at Reading, Leeds, the 'V' Festivals or even Glastonbury. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Date: 08 Sep 05 - 08:26 AM Have to say young Lakeman wasn't as good as some of the previous Mercury nominees such as Kate Rusby and Eliza Carthy. There's always one token 'folkie' among the Mercury nominees but it's debatable whether Seth was really the best from our musical genre this year. i never heard of him until seeing him perform twice in the last week or so on bbc4 [probably the same song both times].. Kate Rusby and Eliza Carthy are over rated and over marketed by both corporate sunday news magazine media appetite for unthreatening photogenic music novelties; and folkie establishments desparate need to prostitute its profile in public arena.. [ btw..rusby also now looks tired and strange [desicated by pressures of fame..???].. and still has a band with that bloody infuriating egotistic rythm guitarist who overplays and overpowers her live stage sound..] my 1st impression of seth lakeman.. is at last.. a young UK folk perfomer with genuine energy, force, and bollocks.. me and mrs are well impressed and will buy his cd and see him live at earlist opportunity.. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Date: 08 Sep 05 - 08:28 AM oops.. buggered up the 'QUOTE' code for 1st paragraph.. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Sep 05 - 09:04 AM Right Topper, Old Celty....this is 'Pistols At Dawn' stuff!! ;0) I've absolutely no need to 'go to Scotland'....I have it all here. Or, to quote Chris Wood..."The Gold That You Are Searching For Is In Your Own Back Yard" You're just jealous..I know...you can't fool me. ;0) You Celts are getting scared to pieces because English Folk Music is taking off at such speed. We're on you're tail and we're catching up soooooo fast! Go along to The Levellers very own festival, 'Beautiful Days' next year and take a look at what is happening with young English lads and lasses. The Paetbog Faeries were there this year...so was Seth Lakeman...and they BOTH played to packed out audiences...YOUNG audiences. True you're 'roots' music is very firmly embedded, but that's because you've been allowed to keep your roots, traditions and culture, as have the Irish and the Welsh. Ours though, have been taken away from us, true, we have also let it happen. But my poor country has been verbally kicked, abused and ridiculed now for decades!! We've had no pride in who we were for many years......BUT....something is changing, really changing! We want our history back, our songs, our dance and our pride! Our Festivals are packed out all over the place too, with young people. Our folk world is being lit-up by deeply talented youngsters and shortly the message is going to explode everywhere...you just watch! And even Eliza Carthy and Show of Hands made it up to Celtic Connections this year. They, along with Spiers & Boden and Bellowhead are having a HUGE impact on English Folk Music...and now I've discovered The Duncan McFarlane Band too...brilliant! Folk rock at it's best....it's just the sort of thing to bring in the youngsters...let them throw themselves around whilst absorbing our traditional songs...and Damian Barber's Demon Barber Roadshow is also fantastic! Check them all out Topper...see their audiences reaction. So....much as I love Scotland, the Scots and your breathtakingly beautiful music....I'd suggest that you come down South next year and take in a few of our Fabulous Festivals! ;0) English folk music is rockin' and rootin' all over us and its wonderful! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Sep 05 - 09:33 AM Oh bums...sorry...The PEAtbog Fairies....won't be able to live that one down....be kind Topper! ;0) Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Topper Date: 08 Sep 05 - 11:35 AM Blimey, I've really set the old buzzard off on one now. At least Lizzie's apologised for mis-spelling Peatbog. Now she just needs to apologise for mis-spelling Faeries. As for Beautiful Days, note that The Peatbog Faeries from Scotland commanded a headline spot in Devon whereas young Lakeman, however promising he may be, has yet to command headline spots in the other direction. Sorry Lizzie old gal but I still think the crossover scene in Scotland is far more interesting and likely to attract a far greater young audience... but then traditional music in Scotland and Ireland has always attracted more enthusiasm and interest among young people compared to England. And the reasons for that are a topic for another thread maybe.... |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Sep 05 - 01:40 PM Hang on....'Old Gal'....'Old Buzzard'....I know that voice don't I? Are you sure you're a Scottish Eagle and not a Southern Fried Chicken? Faeries? Oh double bums! You must have put a celtic spell on me so you could come back and tell me off again. :0) And Seth was in exactly that same tent as those Peatbog Faeries...The Big Top...I know...I was there! And the crowd went WILD when he finished! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST Date: 08 Sep 05 - 02:22 PM Peatbogs Beautiful Days gig was early evening wasn't it? Not dissing their performance though... bellowhead had a headline spot, they too took the roof off the big top, and unless I'm much mistaken they headlined a night a Celtic Connections... so some have crossed the border in a prominent position. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Guest 2 Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:19 PM "Bellowhead... headlined a night at Celtic Connections" ... to a pitifully small Sunday night audience in The Arches. Great band but still to breakthrough in Scotland. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:24 PM You see Topper....Scotland just needs to wake up to what's happening down here! ;0) Tell you what Guest above...those gorgeous Oysters also took the roof off The Big Top at Beautiful Days too! Sad I missed The Levellers though, but great to hear that Seth is going to be playing with them shortly. Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: greg stephens Date: 09 Sep 05 - 09:31 AM Lizzie Cornish: well, I'm afraid you can list successful English folk acts who are big on the folk scene till you're blue in the face. And they may well appeal to the young people who to folk festivals ytoo. But that does not affect my point in any way: I was sayinfg that the "folk scene" in England is largely ring-fenced, and these acts do not escape into the wild. I named half a dozen Irish folkies spread over the last 40 years who are widely known and appreciated in Ireland: the fact is there are no such acts occupying the same slot in English society, and my point was that when English acts do eventually make the breakthrough into mainstream acceptance, they may not learn their trade on the folk scene: they may come from somewhere else. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Topper Date: 09 Sep 05 - 09:54 AM And I still agree with everything Greg says! I wish he wasn't right. I wish English folk acts found it easier to attract a large, young, mainstream audience. I wish they could sell lots of records and become rich and famous. The fact is they don't. In days gone by the likes of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Donovan and many others had a string of hit records, best-selling albums, and sell-out concert hall tours. I'm afraid Bellowhead, Jim Moray, Seth Lakeman et al have yet to do so. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:16 AM Greg Stephens ;0) I'm sitting here right now listening to Patterson Jordan Dipper's 'Flat Earth' CD which is, quite simply astounding me! Have faith Greg! I know you've been waiting a long time for it to change, but it's all out there and it's rumbling louder every day...I'm on your side..honestly! And Lonnie Donegan....ah I remember singing to him when I was very small...only one song I can recall mind, but I can still rustle up all the words without having to look them up, mind you whether they're right or not is a different matter! ;0) "In 1814 we took a little trip, along with Col. Packham down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans and we fought the bloomin' British in the town of New Orleans. Well we fired our guns and the British kept a-coming...." There you go....now you'll be singing that all weekend! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: greg stephens Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:28 AM Lizzie, I have great faith, I do, I do. I have all the faith needed by an English professional folkie who's been gigging since 1962, facing the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; and in particular the faith of a folkie who works largely outside the folk scene. I have boundless 100% faith in English folk music. But I have to confess(as is obvious to all who know me) that I do not have boundless 100% faith in the English folk scene. Or at least, I dont have boundless faith in its abiity to produce acts with the oomph to jump over the scene's self-erected walls. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Paco Rabanne Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:28 AM Whatever happened to that upcoming lad Mike Harding? |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: greg stephens Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:29 AM Mind you, there is one act I might put a fiver on, who might make that jump in the next year or two. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Herga Kitty Date: 09 Sep 05 - 02:30 PM Billy Bragg, in an interview in today's Imdependent, said he would have voted for Seth! Kitty |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: Lizzie Cornish Date: 09 Sep 05 - 02:37 PM Oh go on Greg....go on, go on, go on, go ON!...believe it's going to happen! It IS Greg....it really IS!! Let's hear it for Billy Bragg Kitty! Whooo! Lizzie :0) |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Anon Date: 09 Sep 05 - 02:44 PM Hardly a surprise Billy Bragg would have voted for Seth. Never much chance the Mercury judges would though. Let's face it. There's better performers on our scene. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Anon Date: 10 Sep 05 - 10:39 AM ... but having watched the Mercury Music Awards on BBC2 last night I have to admit Seth performed well and was a good ambassador for his musical genre. Antony & the Johnsons were a bit special though. |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,nona Date: 10 Sep 05 - 11:02 AM Bellowhead didn't have a headline spot at Beautiful Days, they were supporting Chas And Dave who WERE headlining, which was about right for their 'act'. After Drunk in Public, when the tent WAS mobbed, most peeps wandered off to see Dreadzone. The Peatbogs were supporting the Oysterband and Steeleye Span. Seth was on very early, in a half empty tent, half the festival was still asleep. He went down well enough, if Billy Bragg liked him so much why didn't he join him? |
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Subject: RE: National Seth Lakeman Day! From: GUEST,Siobhan Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:39 AM did anyone see Seth on the death of Celebrity on Channel four on sunday?? it was brilliant!! |
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