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Why don't you like folk music?

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Roadkill said:
I could be tempted to go along for part of it, if I'm in the area. Haven't been for a few years, but it always used to be really good, especially the fringe stuff and impromptu sessions in pubs. The stupid fucking licensing laws rather killed those off, though. :(
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Yep, last year we just chose the day with the best line-up, I think it was Saturday. Then the impromptu pub session afterwards - that wasn't bad, pub with outside area and shelter.
 
belboid said:
well, to me, if it uses the word 'scene' then its become middle-class :) If it's just a thing where people hang out listening to a particular kind of music (or whatever) then it isnt a scene.
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oh.

i find that odd but if that's how you see it... :)

i've been spending a bit of time with mods recently and their scene is totally not middle class. and yeh, they do call it a 'scene'.
 
the button said:
(For the purposes of this thread, "folk music" refers to 'field' recordings of traditional singers, not performances by revival artists, or people playing acoustic guitars and being winsome).
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That's a really weird premise for a thread as hardly anyone, even me, has actually heard much of that stuff. It doesn't ever get played anywhere, you'd have to go and look for it.

As for English folk, I've had a weird relationship with it. I've played folk music since I was about 20, but only recently English stuff. Eventually I wondered why I was mostly playing French folk, rather than stuff from my own country, and went in search of songs and tunes I would actually like that wouldn't make my toes curl. My tolerance for it has gone up and up, but I too really hate that fake accent that people put on when singing folk music and am not too sure about the hey nonny aspects. I try to pick songs for my own repertoire that I actually feel have universal relevance, rather than stuff about the press gang or whatever.

Also I get on a lot better with English trad songs than English trad tunes. The songs are often in interesting modal minor keys, whereas most of the tunes are annoyingly jolly and slightly imbecilic.
 
DaRealSpoon said:
^^ This totally. All blues fans please see the work of Martin Simpson :D
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Everyone listen to Martin Simpson. Fantastic on guitar, banjo, pretty much anything with strings. Not a bad voice, eclectic sources of material. From Scunthorpe. I may be slightly biased. I've learned quite a few songs from him. I've always thought of him as the opposite of folk-rock. He plays and sings with a real rock and roll approach, but the music itself is generally very traditional. It's not simply playing a countrified version of a traditional song using electric guitars.
 
ericjarvis said:
Everyone listen to Martin Simpson. Fantastic on guitar, banjo, pretty much anything with strings. Not a bad voice, eclectic sources of material. From Scunthorpe. I may be slightly biased. I've learned quite a few songs from him. I've always thought of him as the opposite of folk-rock. He plays and sings with a real rock and roll approach, but the music itself is generally very traditional. It's not simply playing a countrified version of a traditional song using electric guitars.
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Yep, and loads of Bluesy stuff. Especially on 'Righteousness and Humidity' :D:cool:
 
DaRealSpoon said:
Once as a kid at Butlins I went to shake Jeremy Beadles gammy hand without realising and me Dad grabbed me arm and shot me the dagger eyes.

I didn't know... I was like 8.:(

Do I win five pounds? :hmm:
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I doubt it.

If I couldn't get a fiver by namedropping Jimi Hendrix, then I doubt very much that Jeremy Beadle is going to do it.

I could have used a fiver as well.
 
DaRealSpoon said:
Once as a kid at Butlins I went to shake Jeremy Beadles gammy hand without realising and me Dad grabbed me arm and shot me the dagger eyes.

I didn't know... I was like 8.:(

Do I win five pounds? :hmm:
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Absolutely not

I can't believe you went to shake the tiny hand. Were you fucking blind as a child or something?
 
weepiper said:
huh... Martin Carthy stayed at my family house three times when I was a kid... and June Tabor and Andrew Cronshaw are family friends :rolleyes:;)
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Does being on chatting terms in the pub with one of the early drummers for the legendary Hawkwind help my case at all?

On a slightly more relevent note, I like folk music, particularly Irish folk music, as long as it's played and sung well.
 
weepiper said:
huh... Martin Carthy stayed at my family house three times when I was a kid... and June Tabor and Andrew Cronshaw are family friends :rolleyes:;)
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yes but you're scottish, and erm, martin's english...

killer lives in preston ffs


e2a ANYWAY, stop making me jealous with your june tabor references
 
sojourner said:
Absolutely not

I can't believe you went to shake the tiny hand. Were you fucking blind as a child or something?
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I was 8!! (possibly younger) I vaquely understood the concept of handshakes and thought this would be a good, adult thing to do upon meeting him. So I just stuck an arm out, not thinking about which one. Lo and behold.. it was the wrong one. :(

Or maybe It was a subconsciuoss sadisticness that made me do it... I had just had to sit through a 2 hour live show of the unfunny bastard! :hmm:
 
Bakunin said:
I know someone who once spent an evening with a certain Jimi Hendrix. I think he played guitar a bit or something.

Do I win five pounds?
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pah, I used to live with someone who has a picture of herself sitting on Jimi's knee, and another of her on Bob Dylan's.
 
DaRealSpoon said:
I was 8!! (possibly younger) I vaquely understood the concept of handshakes and thought this would be a good, adult thing to do upon meeting him. So I just stuck an arm out, not thinking about which one. Lo and behold.. it was the wrong one. :(

Or maybe It was a subconsciuoss sadisticness that made me do it... I had just had to sit through a 2 hour live show of the unfunny bastard! :hmm:
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that sounds more like it tbh

i'm liking sadisticness :D
 
DaRealSpoon said:
I was 8!! (possibly younger) I vaquely understood the concept of handshakes and thought this would be a good, adult thing to do upon meeting him. So I just stuck an arm out, not thinking about which one. Lo and behold.. it was the wrong one. :(

Or maybe It was a subconsciuoss sadisticness that made me do it... I had just had to sit through a 2 hour live show of the unfunny bastard! :hmm:
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Jeremy Beadle is, so I'm told, a very nice bloke apparently.

He's also something of an expert in the field of true crime.
 
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