Wow!!!

These guys need a haircut!

Gerry Rafferty, RIP.

A sad loss to the music world was reported today ...



The saxaphone never held much appeal for me until I first heard this on a late-night radio programme.
It is late-night music, after all.
"Wow!!!" I exclaimed.

I am told that the sax-player was never credited on the original album.

Who's got gold these days?

Youtube has fallen foul of the Performing Rights Society (PRS) in UK.
I had to upload this before it disappears.

I haven't a clue what Neil Young's lyrics are about:
Drugs? Armageddon? UFOs?
Does it matter?



I woke up to this rendition by Prelude on the radio the other day.

I remain stunned!

Listen NOW!
This video might self destruct, taking your PC with it, within the next few days.
THEN, blame the mendacity of PRS!

Arran Boat Song

I bought my concertina through EBay from the nice guy on the left. I would REALLY like the one he's playing here, but he tells me it's not for sale.



Nice tune, Martyn, let me know!

A Demonstration of the English Concertina and a Creaky Armchair.

A traditional song called Searching for Lambs:



OK, I know I'm not very photogenic. Please regard this post as entirely experimental!

Don't believe in fairies?

I do now:



Clever, or what, eh?

Mairead Nesbitt, in diaphanous costume, live at Slane Castle. She was one of the fiddlers who featured in Mr. Flately's Lord of the Dance.

If she plays her cards right, she can come home with me!

Here she is again with Jay Ungar's Ashokan Farewell:



(My spelling of 'Ashokan' is correct.)

Remembrance

I have always had some ambivalence about celebrations of 'the eleventh hour on the eleventh day ...'

I repent!

Listen, Watch ... and weep with me now:



Thanks to Coope, Boyes and Simpson, and someone called Ollie who put together the splendid montage.

Positively Fourth Street

I just had to duplicate this from my suspended blog. Move over, Bob, there ain't room in my universe for both of you!