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Spelled Alnwick, pronounced 'Annick'. The Northumbrian pipes are for those who feel Scottish bagpipes still sound too much like cats being scalded.
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Let's rouse the spirits of the earth...
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/f...me_all_ye.html ]Come all ye rolling minstrels
And together, we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky
Those that dance, will start to dance
And those who don't will stay
In time to [unverified] our merry tune
That we play for you today
So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky
Our fiddler, he just loves to play
And that's why he plays so good
And now he plays a violin
Made out of solid wood
So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky
Possessor of the magic touch
And no magician he
Will play for you some magic notes
Instead, as you will see
So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky
Sound of beating on the drum
Song behind you'll hear
And to the rhythm of guitar
We hope you'll lend an ear
So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky
Well, the man who plays the bass does make
Those low notes that you hear
And the high notes come from you and me
For we will sing so clear
So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky
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That great patriot, Colonel Rainsborough:
The Putney Debates 1647- http://www.putneydebates.com/"....for really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he; and therefore truly,
sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a Government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that Government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under; and I am confident that when I have heard the reasons against it, something will be said to answer those reasons, in so much that I should doubt whether he was an Englishman or no that should doubt of these things."
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra and 'Giles Farnaby's Dream' ....
Giles Farnaby: Died Nov 25, 1640 in London, England
A talented and original, if somewhat uneven, composer of the English Elizabethan and Jacobean age, Giles Farnaby was noted especially for his music for the virginal, a domestic keyboard instrument.
His parents were Thomas and Jane Farnaby. Some accounts conclude that he was of Huguenot descent on his mother's side, since she gave a bequest to the Dutch Reformed and French Protestant churches. Thomas was a joiner (cabinet maker), and trained Giles (sometimes spelled Gyles) in that craft. Farnaby gave "joiner" as his occupation for most of his life.
Farnaby's Uncle Nicholas was also a woodworker, and specialized in making virginals. Farnaby sought a degree in music, studying at Christ Church, Oxford from 1580 to 1592. It is likely that he was also working at the family trade during this period. In 1587, he married Katherine Roane at St. Helen's Church, Bishopsgate. They settled in that parish and had five children, including two daughters named Philadelphia (the first Philadelphia died in infancy). Richard Farnaby and Joyous Farnaby, two of the sons, also became composers.
In 1592 Farnaby wrote nine settings published in Thomas East's Whole Book of Psalms. In 1598 he published 20 Canzonets to Four Voices. Around 1600 the Farnabys moved to Aisthorpe in Lincolnshire, where they received the lease of an estate in return for Farnaby's instructing Sir Nicholas Saunderson's children in music. By 1611 they were back in London, where they lived in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, until Farnaby's death.
Farnaby had one other publication, The Psalmes of David, for voices and viols. He wrote a considerable number of works that were never published, but some of his keyboard works appear in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the most widely distributed English keyboard collection of the day. The best of these pieces are highly spontaneous and original, and in general his style was advanced for the time. The best of his virginal works are perhaps his 11 keyboard fantasias in variation form. His polyphonic works are less praiseworthy, for his large-scale formal thinking was not at the level of his imaginative variation and fantasia treatments. Farnaby's secular vocal works, the canzonets, are engagingly tuneful, with novel harmonic ideas.Leave a comment:
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Oh how jolly. A song to remind me of where and when I was a teenager...
Ghost Town.
As we were saying yesterday evening, the main difference between then and now is that the B.N.P. and National Front are busted flushes and there are Pound Shops and 99p shops and even more fired chicken outlets. Oh, and probably even more ex-public schoolboys in the Cabinet....Leave a comment:
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Robert Wyatt gets the blues, 'bout ev'ry night ? Probably not...
Roger's in the archive looking up casement
Martha's in the government digging up the basement
Rebel into representative for the voter
Shadow backhencher couldn't get a word in
Turned up anyway ... issues burning
All consuming ... drinks in the cabinet
Spent a lot of time just examining the building
drinks on the house? you must be joking
Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bills
Long time no see underneath the floorboard
Looking for the roots of the family treetops
Toe's in the water but you've only got ten.
Fingers in the eel pie poke around tip top
Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish
Meadow brown peacock ... pupa-larva-caterpillar
Hibernate in winter of our discotheque no
End in sight .. more like a spiral ... coil
Or curler ... just unwinding ... very slowly
Revealing endless disappearing pipelines
Genuflecting ... bowing deeply ... it
Don't take a weathergirl to see where
The wind is blowing ... what the wind is bending
Isobars are opening ... sex to midnight
Cabinet shuffling homeward bound ... taking
A detour ... rendezvous do ... chapel in the valley
Of the blown up doll ... that's not Martha
Shunting in a siding ... she got homework
Up to here
Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones
Verse and chapter disinterred
Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy
The weight of the evidence in parenthesis
Beggars tightly furled belief
Heads on blockabeater repetition on the line
Shell shock supertroopers ... whirl banking oil palm
Intercontinental drift ... over the rainbow
Over the sea to ska rocker skintone
hirsuit missed a link and that's not all
That he got missing inna thousand years of
Orthotoxic waste disposal ... god proposal
Jealous sky ... whatever is a girl to do
To break the service in its tried and tested
And found wanting state of oh! boy network
Stewardship?
Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt
Nobody ... Martha friend and Roger too
Tone down a little ... sotto voce ... some tall order
Given that four minutes seems eternity time
In the bushed up world of waspish Vsigns
A-sides sui-C-side salads of the bad young B-sides
What's the point of digging deeper just to lay
The ghost of Sala Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
"Don't give up" the dead man cried
"There's more of us than there of you
Soon you'll all be on our side ... forever more or
Lester Young died ... 'Fat Girl' also ... blowing all the blues
Away side ... dust ain't just dust ... trust us like we
Live forever ... broken loose from greystone tether
Keep on tiptoe through the archive ... we are dead
But you are alive ... Martha yes and Roger too
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B.B.C., T.U.C., I.T.V., C. Of E. .... My god, it's Amyl Nitrate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rule Britannia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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