Of MCE and men and more music...

[curiouswombat]

Whenever I see 'use Tiny MCE' as an option when uploading to archives I have a mental image of my every word being entered on tiny keyboards by tiny mice. Now we have the MCE British Superbikes on TV - and again my brain has inserted an 'I'. So I see mice on bikes.

S2C, about to go to bed, suggests having both together Tiny Mice riding Superbikes. They would need string attached to the handlebars, he thinks - but would have trouble leaning into corners. 'More bits of string attached to weights and pulleys' I suggest.

Of course it made me think of Biker Mice from Mars - and ThisMaz and TalesofSnape will understand why I wanted them to be Byker Mice - with proper Byker accents.

So now I have Byker mice riding superbikes with the aid of weights, pulleys, and bits of string...

Almost as surreal as my brain - I said in comments to my post yesterday that as so many people seemed rather taken with Albannach I would post my very favourite clip of them from You Tube. I had thought it might be a bit long, but as so many of you agree with me that it is a wonderful sound, here they are busking under the Scott Monument in Edinburgh.

When S2C and I first visited Edinburgh together we had not long seen a TV documentary about Mad King Ludwig and his tastes in architecture. We came to the conclusion that the Scott Monument was actually built as a Zeppelin defence for Princes Street, in the style of MKL.

So, here we have something harking back to wild Highland Celtic traditions, underneath the epitome of Lowland Scots romanticism, packaged for the English in the style of Mad King Ludwig...

If you want to hear Albannach live you have a much better chance of doing so if you live in the USA - here is their tour schedule for the year.

Oh, and Aya, the young man on the right, dances exactly how I would to this music - exactly how I did to anything similar when I was his age, too.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that some of the elements of the mice conversation might be lost for you depending on which TV shows are seen where - Biker Mice from Mars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars) were around in the 190s - whereas Byker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker) is an area of Newcastle - quite near where I lived for some years, and also near where my husband comes from.

Albannach wear traditional belted plaids of the type that were banned by George the 2nd; a length of material gathered by hand (kilted) and held in place around the waist with the leather belt, rather than the 'dress kilt' which was invented in the nineteenth century, with the stitched-in pleats.

You can take the 'end' bit of plaid and wrap it over your shoulder, too, if it is very cold! It is the type of kilt worn by re-enactment societies etc.

[myrhiann.livejournal.com]

The reference to Biker Mice did go over my head. It probably never made it to Australia. I'm learning a lot from you, I didn't know about Byker either. Not to mention, that the information about the kilts was also interesting. Looking at Albannach reminded me that once upon a time most men wore some sort of dress, rather than trousers.