New Adventures In Folk
Last night I decided to listen to the DIGITAL RADIO my flatmate has recently installed in our kitchen! By install I mean “plugged in”, for all you technophobes. Of course I take advantage of this digital age like no man’s biz, and tuned straight into BBC Radio 2. Gosh! It was GRATE! Has Radio 2 ALWAYS been grate?? I feel like such a fool for sticking to BBC LDN (with the occasional switches to Magic and Gaydar Radio). Yesterday I listened to a show about folk music – the best bit was a song called Mediocrity U.K (right on!!) which featured the lyrics (nb from memory, possibly IMPROVED):
Staring at the magazine rack/ who would have thought/ that silicone/ could save Iraq
RIGHT ON!! Then after this came a song which told the story of a father and son team of petrol station robbers, who nearly got caught, but didn’t… but it was close! (Someone hiding in the gents had rung the FILTH on his mobly phone halfway through the raid, you see)! Folk music… is brilliant! I shall be listening to the Folk Show again! Checking the BBCR2 website, I think I was listening to Mike Harding, who is a big BEARD with an accordian. Wonderful stuff. Folk is THE WAY TO GO! I felt even stronger in my opinion after listening to a session by Feist on the Maconie show afterwards, which just felt like watered down pish. Feist have been “bigged up” a little, but I can’t say I was enthused. Goethe would have rolled in his grave, yes, ha ha, ha ha indeed.
Shurely it’s ‘Feist has’. Anyway, she’s lovely and you are wrong and also you wish you could grow a beard. A big ginger one.
Er there is a group of them you know! So ‘have’ is fine!
You are right. I am jealous of a big ginger beard. Specifically YOUR beard!
Now I know how the Pink Floyd trolls feel.
Yeah, but Feist is her surname.
It’s like saying ‘Morrissey have’
he is legion
The tragedy of pop told in two lines:
J W Goethe: “You must be anvil or hammer.”
P Anka: “I slice like a fuckin’ hammer.”
Anka no doubt believes his stamp should be bigger and cost more money (fyi, Canada Post has a new series of stamps celebrating Canadian musicians – the others are Lightfoot, Murray and Mitchell).
Hmmm, adventurous choices there…
I had a dream recently where Paul Anka was fronting Arcade Fire and doing his “the guys get shirts” routine. Win and Regine got fed up with this and started feeding him peanuts…
Maybe one day they will have a sequel series with Burton Cummings, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Celine Dion as “Great Canadian Voices.”
Paul Anka at the Post Office: “I’M THE ONLY IMPORTANT ONE ON THAT ENVELOPE!”