SETH LAKEMAN TOUR AND COMPETITION

Win a pair of Tickets to see Seth on his upcoming UK Tour!



Seth sets off on the road again on 22nd October for the Poor Man's Heaven Tour. He'll be heading to many parts of the UK and Ireland. For your chance to win a pair of tickets to a gig of your choice, simply answer the question HERE and fill in your details.

The competition will close on 30th September and winners will be informed after that date. Prize includes a pair of tickets to the show of your choice. You will need to be able to make your own way there and back.

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TOUR DATES:

October
22 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun
23 - Liverpool Academy
24 - Lincoln Engine Shed
25 - Northampton Roadmender
26 - Cambridge Junction
28 - Oxford Academy
29 - Bristol Academy
30 - Aberdeen Lemon Tree
31 - Dundee Fat Sams

November
1 - Glasgow QMU
2 - Norwich Waterfront
4 - Newcastle Academy
5 - Sheffield Leadmill
6 - London Shepherds Bush Empire
7 - Portsmouth Pyramids
8- Manchester Academy
9 - Leeds Metropolitan University
11 - Loughbrough University
12 - Bournemouth Opera House
13 - Cheltenham Town Hall
14 - Belfast Spring & Airbrake
15 - Dublin Academy
16 - Exeter Great Hall
17 - Falmouth Princess Pavillion
18 - Brighton Corn Exchange

Seth of course is not only an inventive and boisterous fiddler, but also plays tenor guitar and banjo. The tenor guitar will be featured in the next blog

SETH LAKEMAN OFFICIAL WEBSITE HERE

Crimson Dawn video:

Banburyshire brolly podcast ( folk and news )

Please take the time to drop by this excellent podcast.

What is the Brolly?

A collection of podcasts, featuring a number of presenters, covering a number of music styles (folk, roots, blues, rock, contemporary, etc). Promoting and celebrating the music, heritage and characters of Banburyshire. With interviews, information, stories and humour.

Previous guests have included:

Leatherat
Spank The Monkey
Anna Ryder
3 Daft Monkeys
Little Johnny England
Karine Polwart
Kev Dempsey and Tom Leary
Mawkin
Steve Tilston
Fairport Convention
David Stevenson
Colvin Quarmby

http://www.banburyshire.com/brolly.html

Show 174 currently available:

Show 174 - Thursday August 7th 2008
Presented by Jules Procter.

Featuring :

Chasing The Dragon by Andy Guttridge
Couldn't Find The Craic by Leatherat
Listen To Me by Spank The Monkey
This Is The Last Time by Wee Alex

Interviews with Ray Jackson and Gerry Donahue from "The Gathering" recorded at the Woodford Halse social club on Wednesday 6th August.

Bert Jansch, Danny Thompson, John Renbourne FREE

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn & Danny Thompson - Open Air Festival, Gandino, Bergamo, Italy, August 5th 1990, from master.

Disc One :

Bert Jansch Solo Set:

1. Bonny Portmore (aka The Ornament Tree)
2. Durban's Flowery Vale
3. David
4. Pretty Sara

Bert Jansch & Danny Thompson Set :

5. Let Me Sing
6. One For Jo
7. Chat
8. Black Mountain Side part. 1 (with vocals, same trad. Jimmy Page made famous)
9. Black Mountain Side part. 2 (1 glitch between the two parts)
10. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer

John Renbourn Solo Set :

11. Instrumental
12. I Know That Someday I'll Sing A Lullaby
13. Watch The Stars (Pentangle's cover)
14. Lord Franklin
15. Little Niles (Randy Weston Cover)
16. Lindsay
17. Sandwood Down To Kyle pt. 1 (1 glitch between the two parts)
18. Sandwood Down To Kyle pt. 2

Disc Two :

1. Three Sheeps
2. Cherry Instrumental (Dollar Brand Cover)

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn & Danny Thompson Set :

3. Instrumental
4. The Time Has Come >
5. Servant >
6. Sally Free And Easy (Pentangle's cover)
7. I've Got A Feeling (Pentangle's cover)

Really nice recording, awesome performance.




Bert Jansch official site

John Renbourn official site

Danny Thompson official site

FREE DOWNLOAD: Waterboys Galway

THE WATERBOYS
GALWAY - SEAPOINT BALLROOM
DECEMBER 23 1988
IRELAND

AUDIENCE RECORDING

Recorder: Sony WM-D6C
microphone: Sony ECM series

01 Intro
02 Fisherman's Blues
03 Medicine Bow
04 Twa' Recruitin' Sergeants *
05 Strange Boat
06 Meet Me At The Station *
07 Has Anybody Here Seen Hank ?
08 Old England
09 And A Bang On The Ear
10 Mr Customs Man
11 Jimmy Hickey's Waltz
12 When Will We Be Married ? *
13 When Ye Go Away
14 Be My Enemy
15 Savage Earth Heart / Satisfaction*
16 Intro Tomas Mac Eoin
17 An Cailin Alainn *
18 Bleann Na Bo *
19 Piano intro by Mike
20 The Stolen Child *
21 The Whole Of The Moon
________
22 Audience / Here we go...
23 A Pagan Place
24 Intro Guests
25 O'Carolan's Welcome *
26 The Good Ship Sirius
27 This Land Is Your Land *


GUESTS : Tomas Mac Eoin - Lead vocals 17,18,20
Charlie Lennon - Fiddle on "When Ye Go Away"
Alec Finn - Bouzouki on "When Ye Go Away" and "O'Carolan's Welcome"
Brendan O'Regan - Bouzouki on "The Good Ship Sirius"
Sean Lennon - tr. 25, 26
Sean Smith - tr. 25, 26



Grab it HERE !

FREE DOWNLOAD: Waterboys Bonn

THE WATERBOYS
BONN - BISKUITHALLE
GERMANYOCTOBER 5 1990

Disc 1:

01 - Hello Berlin - eh Bonn
02 - In search of a rose
03 - Kiss the wind / intro: German National Anthem
04 - Rags
05 - Strange Boat
06 - Medicine Bow
07 - Be my enemy
08 - Something that is gone
09 - A man is in love
10 - Everything is broken
11 - Good man gone

Disc 2:

01 - The thrill is gone
02 - The healing has begun
03 - Karma
04 - When ye go away
05 - Old England
06 - A life of Sundays
07 - Savage Earth Heart
08 - Trumpets
09 - The whole of the moon
10 - Fisherman´s Blues
11 - Room to roam
12 - Why don´t we do it in the road


BAND LINE-UP:

Mike Scott - Vocals,Rhythm and Lead Guitar,Piano,Bodhran
Anthony Thistlethwaite - Sax,Electric Mandolin,Organ,Lead Guitar,Electric Piano
Trevor Hutchison - Bass
Ken Blevins - Drums

Grab it HERE !






Waterboys official site
Waterboys myspace
Wiki

The Imagined Village Womad download

HERE

and HERE

The Imagined Village, what an amazing concept and an amazing band.
Simon Emmerson ( brainchild of IV and also from many musical projects including Afro Celt Soundsystem ) has just finished a question and answers stint over on TALKAWHILE ( drop by and you can read all the conversations )

From Wikipedia:

The Imagined Village is a folk musical project spearheaded by Simon Emmerson of the Afro Celt Sound System. It is designed to produce modern folk music that represents modern multiculturalism in the United Kingdom and as such features musicians from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

The project led to the release of an album by various artists on Real World Records. Some of the tracks on it are modern re-interpretations of traditional folk songs. The title of the album comes from a book "The Imagined Village" (1993) by Georgina Boyes.

"The Imagined Village E.P." was released earlier in 2007, and is a remix of the album tracks. The 2008 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards voted "Cold Haily Rainy Night" as best traditional track.

( They have also won a " Hancock " award from Talkawhile due to be presented very soon. See TAW for details )

The most powerful imo ( and controversial to some ) track on this amazing album is Tamlin retold, featuring the lead vocals of Benjamin Zephaniah ( who I first heard of when I was 17, stoned and listening to Rasta ) , and joined by the backing vocals and fiddle of the eternally gorgeous Eliza Carthy. A reggae dub version of a very traditional folk song with some folkie fiddle thrown into the mix ! Whatever next :)



More Afro celt stuff HERE
Imagined Village official site HERE

And then of course " Cold hailey rainy night " everything folk should be ( taken from their live jools holland appearance and just pinging with incredible energy... )