Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 13 - 01:07 PM

Hello Dave, Codgey (Colin Lewis) is my best fiend. Please get in touch for a natter, he says it's quite important. X x [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: sian, west wales
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:02 PM

It was on Celtic Heartbeat this last Saturday (BBC Radio Wales). It'll be up on Listen Again
for the next few days.

sian

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: GUEST,Irish Guest
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:52 PM

Couldn't agree more. Dave's voice has a quality that lends itself to the Miner Ballads . It is a smashing CD.

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:38 PM

I second all that Nigel says about this CD. I bought it when it first came out as a reissue. Brilliant stuff and a great souveneer of my time in Wales.

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 08:00 PM

BBC Club tonight, got a new email address for Dave:
[e-mail].

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 06:34 PM

Dear Nigel,Can you tell me where I can get 3 copies of the "DAVE BURNS - LAST PIT IN THE RHONDDA" C/D, thanks Kelvin

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 08:03 PM

how can i get copy of this cd thanks keith

Subject: RE: Last Pit in the Rhondda - Dave Burns CD
From: GUEST,Bill the sound
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 06:30 PM

Dave will be at the BBC club in Llandaff on the second Tuesday in January with the Hennesseys

Subject: RE: Last Pit in the Rhondda - Dave Burns CD
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 04:13 PM

Maybe some of the people from earlier thread?

Kitty

Subject: Last Pit in the Rhondda - Dave Burns CD
From: O
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 09:35 AM

I'm trying to track down Last Pit in the Rhondda by Dave Burns on CD, does anyone know where I could get it?

I've tried every record shop in Cardiff, looked all over the internet and tried Dave's email on the Hennessys website but it doesn't work.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: Peace
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 07:40 PM

Might wish to look at this thread, also.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=80060#1454113

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda-Dave Burns
From: MARINER
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 07:29 PM

Don't think so Wolfgang . Can't say I've ever heard those lyrics before.

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 04:55 PM

in this thread (misleadingly titled) Roberto asks for a song starting like this:

In every village in the Rhondda
Children cry for want of meat
Throughout the land their fathers wander
Singing for pennies in the street.

I'm interested as well. Is this perhaps one of the songs on the recording?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:16 PM

Just PM'd Mariner with Dave's e-mail address

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: GUEST,Mr Bean
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:24 PM

Contact Nigel Parsons and he will sort something out.
Mr Bean

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: MARINER
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:15 PM

Great to hear "The Last Pit2 is out on C.D. It is without doubt one of the best recordings of songs about miners , performed by the finest singer to come out of Wales. I have the original on vinyl and have been eagerly waiting word of a C.D. release. So, anyone know how we get it? Apart from travelling over to Cardiff, that is.

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 07:46 PM

I bought the tape in 1986 (or thereabouts). It's well done, if slightly too sentimental in places for my taste ('Tiger Bay' in particular), and Dave has a good voice. I could provide some of the lyrics that are not in the DT yet if anybody is interested.

Subject: RE: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 12:09 PM

Just re-read the case-notes, originally recorded in 1986, recently re-mastered & re-released

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: Mining Songs: Last Pit in the Rhondda
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:47 PM

Tuesday night at the BBC club in Cardiff, Frank Hennessy was having a night off. This left the club to be run by Dave Burns. Dave is well known for his work with The Hennessys & Ar Log.
He took the opportunity to boost his new CD. (I took the opportunity to get a copy!!)

"Last Pit In The Rhondda"

1, "Farewell to the Rhondda" written by Frank Henessy. (early 70's)
2, "Hearts on Fire" also frank, 1980's
3, "The Gresford Disaster" (author unknown) explosion at the Gresford Colliery, Wrexham 1934
4, "Tiger Bay" another Frank song, based on a 1929 poster for a new (if not better) life in USA
5, "Maggie's Hit Man" written during the '84/'85 strike by Colin Lewis (ex-miner from Pontlottyn)
6, "Roll On The Day" Allan Taylor sums up the agony of miners suffering from dust-related diseases.
7, Cân y Glowr" Written by Dafydd Iwan to the traditional "The Four Marys" tells of an old miner walking through a , now, desolate valley.
8, "Sacco and Vanzetti" Two Italian immigrants to the US at the turn of the twentieth century, involved in the organisation of labour, framed & executed in 1926. Pardoned by the US government 50 years later (lucky them!!)
9, "Joe Hill" Joe Hill was an activist in the 'wobbly movement' (Industrial Workers of the World, IWW) executed in Utah, 1915.
10, "The Ha'penny Strike" Based on the 1910 strike, written by Welsh actor Ray Smith from Trealaw in The Rhondda, close to where the incidents in the song took place.
11, "Mardy" The Last Pit in the Rhondda was the inspiration for this song, written by Dave Rogers of the Banner Theatre Company based in Birmingham.
12, "John O' Dreams" Singer/songwriter Bill Caddick wrote the words to a theme from Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony (the Pathetique)


The CD was made with the financial support of the South Wales NUM (National Union of Mineworkers)

My copy of this CD was bought straight from Dave last Tuesday at a cost of £10-. I didn't check for P&P details, and I don't like putting e-mail addresses in an open forum. If you're interested, then PM me

CHEERS
Nigel

ps I'm not on a 'cut'!