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After hhimring told me that it should be possible to embed video here I tried again and have managed it - so this is the video mentioned in the previous post, of Ruth Keggin and Rachel Hare, that I posted to my LJ -
I was going to add the post from my LJ today -
There would be an embedded video of Ruth Keggin singing. Except all I get is this -
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Sorry.
Sorry.
I have posted video of Ruth singing in the past, but not accompanied by this harpist.
Ruth is an example of the 'living on an island' effect - she was one of a handful of 'Manxies at York Uni' with my daughter and is one of D-d's wider circle of friends; we all tend to know a lot of people in our own age cohort because we almost inevitably either went to school with them, or were in the same youth groups :)
EDIT -
SEE NEXT POST - I HAVE NOW MANAGED TO EMBED IT!
EDIT -
SEE NEXT POST - I HAVE NOW MANAGED TO EMBED IT!
Concert on Saturday
17 Feb 2014 10:15 pmOn Saturday my daughter and I went to a concert by a young lady called Ruth Keggin. Ruth is a friend of D-d, and they were actually at York uni at the same time.
She sings much of her repertoire in Manx - here is a track that she sang on Saturday. I wonder if any of you, who know the music of Capercaillie, agree with me that Ruth's voice is reminiscent of Karen Matheson?
What is the song about? You may well ask. This is it more or less in a nutshell;
Fin and Oshin are Irish heroes of the mythic variety. They go off hunting leaving Young Orry to care for their horses (I think) - but the daughters of the two heroes sweet talk him and then tie him up and set fire to his hair (whatever turns you on, I guess!).
Young Orry escapes, sets fire to their houses in revenge - but the heroes return at that stage and, when the daughters say Young Orry did it, they pull him in two with their horses.
She sings much of her repertoire in Manx - here is a track that she sang on Saturday. I wonder if any of you, who know the music of Capercaillie, agree with me that Ruth's voice is reminiscent of Karen Matheson?
What is the song about? You may well ask. This is it more or less in a nutshell;
Fin and Oshin are Irish heroes of the mythic variety. They go off hunting leaving Young Orry to care for their horses (I think) - but the daughters of the two heroes sweet talk him and then tie him up and set fire to his hair (whatever turns you on, I guess!).
Young Orry escapes, sets fire to their houses in revenge - but the heroes return at that stage and, when the daughters say Young Orry did it, they pull him in two with their horses.
Dancing in the Dark....
20 Oct 2013 10:49 pmI don't watch The Voice. So I really had little idea of who had won it, although I vaguely remember that the winner wasn't the one who was expected to win. So when they said that the winner would be performing on Strictly Come Dancing tonight I was quite prepared to go and make coffee or something - until the opening bar of her performance when I recognised the intro. (Which, sadly, is missing on the video - it goes straight to the opening words.)
The Bruce Springsteen original of this was one of S2C and my favourite songs back in our early days - and I was prepared to be shocked and appalled by this - until about 6 bars in, when I was a convert!
So - Andrea Begley's version of Dancing in the Dark -
I think this might be my new favourite piece of music. Although goodness knows what the husband thinks of it! I guess he'll tell me when he gets home from work.
And yes, she is almost completely blind - although I do think she could find glasses that would look better than those ones!
The Bruce Springsteen original of this was one of S2C and my favourite songs back in our early days - and I was prepared to be shocked and appalled by this - until about 6 bars in, when I was a convert!
So - Andrea Begley's version of Dancing in the Dark -
I think this might be my new favourite piece of music. Although goodness knows what the husband thinks of it! I guess he'll tell me when he gets home from work.
And yes, she is almost completely blind - although I do think she could find glasses that would look better than those ones!
Shakespeare Meme
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pellegrina's journal -
When you see this on your flist, quote some Shakespeare on your LJ.
So - Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 52
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
...........
Which has special meaning to Tindómë and Rumil in The Winter Tale.
And here is an added bonus because the meme reminded me of it; the hauntingly beautiful sung version of Prospero's Speech;
pellegrina's journal - When you see this on your flist, quote some Shakespeare on your LJ.
So - Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 52
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
...........
Which has special meaning to Tindómë and Rumil in The Winter Tale.
And here is an added bonus because the meme reminded me of it; the hauntingly beautiful sung version of Prospero's Speech;
I've spent the evening listening to Steeleye Span on YouTube whilst reading and doing some beta-ing.
I simply clicked onto someone's '100 favourite Steeleye Span videos', and mainly left it in the background - going over to watch now and again. Which I did a couple of tracks ago - Gaudete. And saw the following comment; "Nice song but 'Gow-Day-Tay'? How ridiculous a pronunciation is that?"
Now I'm wondering how else one one would pronounce it?
I simply clicked onto someone's '100 favourite Steeleye Span videos', and mainly left it in the background - going over to watch now and again. Which I did a couple of tracks ago - Gaudete. And saw the following comment; "Nice song but 'Gow-Day-Tay'? How ridiculous a pronunciation is that?"
Now I'm wondering how else one one would pronounce it?
I mentioned my fic Pure Morning in an e-mail at breakfast time today, and I've been going around singing the Placebo song that gave it its title ever since.
Except I've been singing the Rohirric version - my brain keeps changing the words to
"A friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend with mead is better."
For those who have never quite worked out what this has to do with my story, here are the full lyrics, with the relevant lines in italics...( under the cut to save space on your FList )
Except I've been singing the Rohirric version - my brain keeps changing the words to
"A friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend with mead is better."
For those who have never quite worked out what this has to do with my story, here are the full lyrics, with the relevant lines in italics...( under the cut to save space on your FList )
Of MCE and men and more music...
7 May 2012 12:06 pmWhenever 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.
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.
I was looking on YouTube for Kathryn Tickell as I wanted some Northumbrian pipe music, as you do. Then I found this, and watching Alistair Anderson immediately had me back, in the company of dougalsservant, in the 1970s at the High Level Folk Club on the banks of the Tyne where, as one of the High Level Ranters, he was a regular.
Here is a man who puts both body and soul into playing his concertina - and he's wearing rather well, too - this was filmed at the concert for his 60th birthday.
What's more - you get Kathryn Tickell, as originally sought, Alistair also playing the small pipes - and Richard Thompson. What could be better?
And - as a second course, very, very, different, here are Albannach playing at the Millport Maritime Festival on the island of Cumbrae.
What I really would like is someone playing Northumbrian pipes to those drums.... but that track is pretty close to what I am trying to imagine. And yes, Elves, Solstice, and Dancing might have been in my mind...
dougalsservant, in the 1970s at the High Level Folk Club on the banks of the Tyne where, as one of the High Level Ranters, he was a regular. Here is a man who puts both body and soul into playing his concertina - and he's wearing rather well, too - this was filmed at the concert for his 60th birthday.
What's more - you get Kathryn Tickell, as originally sought, Alistair also playing the small pipes - and Richard Thompson. What could be better?
And - as a second course, very, very, different, here are Albannach playing at the Millport Maritime Festival on the island of Cumbrae.
What I really would like is someone playing Northumbrian pipes to those drums.... but that track is pretty close to what I am trying to imagine. And yes, Elves, Solstice, and Dancing might have been in my mind...
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16 Dec 2011 10:27 pmWhere's the week gone? I was going to post mid-week but somehow... didn't.
This is just to share a song that I had almost forgotten, until I heard a tiny clip on TV at breakfast time today, and had to find it to listen properly.
I probably shouldn't post it as it is likely to make my husband home-sick.
This is Jimmy Nail singing Big River. And yes - the guitar work is Mark Knopfler - he's a Geordie too, so it's his river as well. (My husband is not Manx born like me, he is a Geordie, a Tynesider, I met him when I went to Newcastle to university and stayed for 15 years! This song makes me homesick for the Tyne, let alone him!)
It occurs to me that many of you will live in places where these sentiments will resonate with you - I am thinking ofpetzipellepingo in particular - there is something about both video and song that makes me think of your lakes.
This is just to share a song that I had almost forgotten, until I heard a tiny clip on TV at breakfast time today, and had to find it to listen properly.
I probably shouldn't post it as it is likely to make my husband home-sick.
This is Jimmy Nail singing Big River. And yes - the guitar work is Mark Knopfler - he's a Geordie too, so it's his river as well. (My husband is not Manx born like me, he is a Geordie, a Tynesider, I met him when I went to Newcastle to university and stayed for 15 years! This song makes me homesick for the Tyne, let alone him!)
It occurs to me that many of you will live in places where these sentiments will resonate with you - I am thinking of
petzipellepingo in particular - there is something about both video and song that makes me think of your lakes.
Work and Pirates...
17 Mar 2011 07:44 pmWork has been hectic since I went back on Monday.
I walked into my office and went "That's not my computer!"
My black laptop had been replaced by a shiny silver one... "Ah," said office-mate, "we've been upgraded to Windows 7 whilst you were off."
And it seem the person from the tech dept thought the easiest way to do me was just to give me a new Windows 7 laptop - except that they didn't do anything about transferring links, icons, programmes... I switched it on and once logged in to the intranet there was a screen with nothing on but the recycle bin - my links to my diary, patient notes, etc. etc. are all missing.
So it took until about 10.00 a.m to get some of that restored - then they discover that they needed to make a programming change in the data base that covers a lot of the delivery of equipment to patients to make it compatible - and they hadn't done it. That took until Wednesday.
That was on top of the usual pile of letters and the 20+ messages on the messaging service - oh, and those included a message to say the messaging service would also be updated in the next week or so, sometime, and all our outgoing messages would be wiped... whenever they did it... sometime. Yeah - thanks!
In the middle of all this, of course, I had clinics to run, home visits to do... I think I need a week off to recover!
You might have thought it would figure in my nightmares, wouldn't you? Seems not. I woke up before the alarm this morning with a song in my head and I've been singing it all day. I came down and told S2C what I woke up singing, and he thought it really funny that, clearly, I had been dreaming about Gay Pirates.
I was humming it when I went up to 'head office' this afternoon and kindly shared it, via Youtube, with a couple of the main office staff - who fell around laughing, said they may never look at me the same way again, and were humming even as I left.
I think you should all share with me - so here is Cosmo Jarvis -
Yo! Ho! Sebastian!
Fans of Tolkien may never think of the Corsairs of Umbar in the same way ever again.
Come to think of it - Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Caribbean, um - you might not see Legolas without thinking Yo! Ho! Sebastian either.
I walked into my office and went "That's not my computer!"
My black laptop had been replaced by a shiny silver one... "Ah," said office-mate, "we've been upgraded to Windows 7 whilst you were off."
And it seem the person from the tech dept thought the easiest way to do me was just to give me a new Windows 7 laptop - except that they didn't do anything about transferring links, icons, programmes... I switched it on and once logged in to the intranet there was a screen with nothing on but the recycle bin - my links to my diary, patient notes, etc. etc. are all missing.
So it took until about 10.00 a.m to get some of that restored - then they discover that they needed to make a programming change in the data base that covers a lot of the delivery of equipment to patients to make it compatible - and they hadn't done it. That took until Wednesday.
That was on top of the usual pile of letters and the 20+ messages on the messaging service - oh, and those included a message to say the messaging service would also be updated in the next week or so, sometime, and all our outgoing messages would be wiped... whenever they did it... sometime. Yeah - thanks!
In the middle of all this, of course, I had clinics to run, home visits to do... I think I need a week off to recover!
You might have thought it would figure in my nightmares, wouldn't you? Seems not. I woke up before the alarm this morning with a song in my head and I've been singing it all day. I came down and told S2C what I woke up singing, and he thought it really funny that, clearly, I had been dreaming about Gay Pirates.
I was humming it when I went up to 'head office' this afternoon and kindly shared it, via Youtube, with a couple of the main office staff - who fell around laughing, said they may never look at me the same way again, and were humming even as I left.
I think you should all share with me - so here is Cosmo Jarvis -
Yo! Ho! Sebastian!
Fans of Tolkien may never think of the Corsairs of Umbar in the same way ever again.
Come to think of it - Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Caribbean, um - you might not see Legolas without thinking Yo! Ho! Sebastian either.
Not quite that music meme...
12 Jun 2010 05:30 pmThe first day of that music meme is a song that makes you happy - and this is most certainly one of those. Not that I'm all that likely to do every day, to be honest.
This is the version with the sing-along-words - there are lots of others around, but the picture quality is not always good and, anyway it really cries out for you to sing along -
This is especially to help Cronopio get in the mood, of course!
And as for the proceedings so far; first match was pretty good; France/Uruguay - gave me the urge to clean my surfaces; the Greeks - it's a tragedy they're there when good, entertaining teams like the Irish aren't there; Argentine/Nigeria - oh how I wanted the Nigerians to win.
The only consolation is that if the 'Hand of God' keeps up all that leaping up and down on the touchline he might have a heart attack.
(S2C suggests it should be a question in the citizenship test for the UK "What is your opinion of Maradonna?")
This is the version with the sing-along-words - there are lots of others around, but the picture quality is not always good and, anyway it really cries out for you to sing along -
This is especially to help Cronopio get in the mood, of course!
And as for the proceedings so far; first match was pretty good; France/Uruguay - gave me the urge to clean my surfaces; the Greeks - it's a tragedy they're there when good, entertaining teams like the Irish aren't there; Argentine/Nigeria - oh how I wanted the Nigerians to win.
The only consolation is that if the 'Hand of God' keeps up all that leaping up and down on the touchline he might have a heart attack.
(S2C suggests it should be a question in the citizenship test for the UK "What is your opinion of Maradonna?")
The Mighty Atlantic.
4 Dec 2009 06:12 pmAfter posts featuring stormy weather, the Ben-my-Chree, and the wreck of the Ellan Vannin my mind appears to be on the sea. In the comments to the post about the Ellan Vannin I was reminded of a track by my favourite band Runrig, and zanthinegirl and I decided it was well worth sharing. Especially as so many of my FL live, if not near the mighty Atlantic, then near water of one type or another.
The version I have embedded here includes the words.
I am curious as to how some of my friends 'feel' these words.
Callum, the lyricist, is a practising Christian and I think this may come over to some - but apart from that, when I listen to the lyrics myself I find myself thinking of Tolkien's elves and I wondered if the lyrics struck the same chord with any of my friends?
zanthinegirl and I decided it was well worth sharing. Especially as so many of my FL live, if not near the mighty Atlantic, then near water of one type or another.The version I have embedded here includes the words.
I am curious as to how some of my friends 'feel' these words.
Callum, the lyricist, is a practising Christian and I think this may come over to some - but apart from that, when I listen to the lyrics myself I find myself thinking of Tolkien's elves and I wondered if the lyrics struck the same chord with any of my friends?
Have a nice St Patrick's Day...
17 Mar 2009 06:40 pmHappy St Patrick's Day to all my American friends - and to Sammy amd Myles - I guess it might have got a mention or two in your part of the world...
So - here is a picture of St Patrick's Isle - which is here, attached to the Isle-of-Man by a narrow strip of road -
And here is a favourite piece of music - The Saw Doctors sing The Green and Red of Mayo -
So - here is a picture of St Patrick's Isle - which is here, attached to the Isle-of-Man by a narrow strip of road -
And here is a favourite piece of music - The Saw Doctors sing The Green and Red of Mayo -
Happy New Year to all.
I want to share this piece of music with you all, because to me, New Year is a very Celtic thing.
It is the piece made especially for the opening of the new BBC Alba service - the BBC Gaelic language channel for Scotland.
If you like scenery, and people, you will love it, but is especially forrunriggers, talesofsnape and fionnabhar - they will all see why, if they play it!
Also formylescorcoran for his birthday, if he likes this sort of thing...but there wasn't room to put you on the header - sorry!
I want to share this piece of music with you all, because to me, New Year is a very Celtic thing.
It is the piece made especially for the opening of the new BBC Alba service - the BBC Gaelic language channel for Scotland.
If you like scenery, and people, you will love it, but is especially for
runriggers, talesofsnape and fionnabhar - they will all see why, if they play it!Also for
mylescorcoran for his birthday, if he likes this sort of thing...but there wasn't room to put you on the header - sorry!
Music for St. Paddy.
17 Mar 2007 05:35 pmHappy Saint Day to all my Irish friends - and also to my friends in America where it seems to be celebrated even more enthusiastically than in Ireland.
I was going to bring for your dilectation two pieces of music you may not have come across before - the first one is suitable not only to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, but also the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire!
I played this for S2C this morning and he was very, very taken with it -
That is Ziggy Marley and The Chieftains, playing 'Redemption Song', and it is quite beautiful.
I also had a link to The Saw Doctors singing 'The Green and Red of Mayo' with a beautiful video to go with it - but it seems to have stopped working - not my link, but the actual You-tube thing itself - sad, but maybe I'll link to it some other time.
In the meantime, enjoy Ziggy and the Chieftains!
Also, I'm sure Kes will understand - my Scottish blood is grovelling to my Irish blood just at the moment - it's a little matter of rugby. :~(
I was going to bring for your dilectation two pieces of music you may not have come across before - the first one is suitable not only to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, but also the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire!
I played this for S2C this morning and he was very, very taken with it -
That is Ziggy Marley and The Chieftains, playing 'Redemption Song', and it is quite beautiful.
I also had a link to The Saw Doctors singing 'The Green and Red of Mayo' with a beautiful video to go with it - but it seems to have stopped working - not my link, but the actual You-tube thing itself - sad, but maybe I'll link to it some other time.
In the meantime, enjoy Ziggy and the Chieftains!
Also, I'm sure Kes will understand - my Scottish blood is grovelling to my Irish blood just at the moment - it's a little matter of rugby. :~(
Firstly –
Happy Fathers’ Day to the Dads on my Friends List – and also the ones I know once removed, like Frank and Mr. M. etc.
S2C got a card and some Maltesers from Daughter-dear. She was going to make him some Chocolate Fridge Cake, but is too busy revising for her LAST EVER A LEVEL EXAM – so she will make him some tomorrow she says, after the exam, as she has the whole day off work.
Yesterday I hemmed the underskirt of her Prom dress – and the whole shuttle assembly of my machine fell apart and landed on my feet. After a number of attempts I now know exactly how it all fits together(!) – and the machine is working fine! Sigh of relief because although I am about to hem the tulle layer by hand, I didn’t fancy having to do all the rest of it that way as well.
maevebran tagged me to name seven pieces of music I am listening to at the moment – sorry it took me a while!
( Music Meme )
Anyone else want to share their current sounds, feel free.
In our house we are mainly watching football. We are not happy. T&T were robbed by England. And had Ghana beaten anyone other than the Czechs I would have been very happy for them, but now the Czechs might not get past the group stages. We have the Budvar in ready for the next round and they may not get there. S’pose we may have to use it to drown our sorrows.
We were quite happy to see how badly Brazil are playing – pity the Aussies aren’t better finishers or it could have been a real stunner.
Finally - the weather has been wet today – first time in three weeks, so more a relief than a problem!
Happy Fathers’ Day to the Dads on my Friends List – and also the ones I know once removed, like Frank and Mr. M. etc.
S2C got a card and some Maltesers from Daughter-dear. She was going to make him some Chocolate Fridge Cake, but is too busy revising for her LAST EVER A LEVEL EXAM – so she will make him some tomorrow she says, after the exam, as she has the whole day off work.
Yesterday I hemmed the underskirt of her Prom dress – and the whole shuttle assembly of my machine fell apart and landed on my feet. After a number of attempts I now know exactly how it all fits together(!) – and the machine is working fine! Sigh of relief because although I am about to hem the tulle layer by hand, I didn’t fancy having to do all the rest of it that way as well.
maevebran tagged me to name seven pieces of music I am listening to at the moment – sorry it took me a while! ( Music Meme )
Anyone else want to share their current sounds, feel free.
In our house we are mainly watching football. We are not happy. T&T were robbed by England. And had Ghana beaten anyone other than the Czechs I would have been very happy for them, but now the Czechs might not get past the group stages. We have the Budvar in ready for the next round and they may not get there. S’pose we may have to use it to drown our sorrows.
We were quite happy to see how badly Brazil are playing – pity the Aussies aren’t better finishers or it could have been a real stunner.
Finally - the weather has been wet today – first time in three weeks, so more a relief than a problem!
Runrig & Idlewild
25 Jun 2005 10:08 pmWhen I tagged makd for the five songs thing yesterday, she did it almost straight away, and her songs were all Cuban music. I commented how very different all of the people I know on LJ's music tastes are, and she linked a couple of samples to her post.
I promised to do the same. Now you may have noticed that Runrig often crop up when I mention music - in fact we first heard one of their tracks on our honeymoon in Edinburgh almost twenty years ago - and S2C's first thoughts were 'Big Country have just got even better'. Most of you won't have come across their particular brand of music - it ranges from heavyish rock to almost folk, and is about 2/3 English to 1/3 Gaelic. This link will take you to the samples on their own website
http://www.runrig.co.uk/c_downloads.htm
One of the tracks is one of those I mentioned yesterday - (Stepping Down the)Glory Road. The reason this has been in my mind and my CD player recently is actually because we were discussing what music we would like played at our funerals! So you'll get some idea of the tone of my funeral - hopefully many, many years in the future!
Idlewild are a much more recent music love - my daughter introduced me to them - you can listen at
http://www.idlewild.co.uk/wp-sampler/
I couldn't work out how to download a Big Country sample at their site!
Also talking about groups my daughter introduced me to - you can also find me listening to Lost Prophets and Snow Patrol. Oh, and Linkin Park are brilliant live!
makd for the five songs thing yesterday, she did it almost straight away, and her songs were all Cuban music. I commented how very different all of the people I know on LJ's music tastes are, and she linked a couple of samples to her post. I promised to do the same. Now you may have noticed that Runrig often crop up when I mention music - in fact we first heard one of their tracks on our honeymoon in Edinburgh almost twenty years ago - and S2C's first thoughts were 'Big Country have just got even better'. Most of you won't have come across their particular brand of music - it ranges from heavyish rock to almost folk, and is about 2/3 English to 1/3 Gaelic. This link will take you to the samples on their own website
http://www.runrig.co.uk/c_downloads.htm
One of the tracks is one of those I mentioned yesterday - (Stepping Down the)Glory Road. The reason this has been in my mind and my CD player recently is actually because we were discussing what music we would like played at our funerals! So you'll get some idea of the tone of my funeral - hopefully many, many years in the future!
Idlewild are a much more recent music love - my daughter introduced me to them - you can listen at
http://www.idlewild.co.uk/wp-sampler/
I couldn't work out how to download a Big Country sample at their site!
Also talking about groups my daughter introduced me to - you can also find me listening to Lost Prophets and Snow Patrol. Oh, and Linkin Park are brilliant live!
Another Music Thingy!
24 Jun 2005 10:53 pmI was tagged for this by ny friend elsaf
List five songs that you are currently digging... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the five songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
Dust Runrig
Disconnected Idlewild
Blame it on Obvious Ways Idlewild
Stepping down the Glory Road Runrig
The Storm Big Country
Now who do I want to tag -elisi - you have interesting musical tastes, and so does my SO - so SO it's going to be you - speakr2customrs. Also makd, mawombat and spikereader tell us what's on your iPod, MP3 player, Cd player, or just your favourite radio station.
Talking about music - I am watching Glastonbury on TV - currently The Killers, who I quite like. Within 10 seconds of starting to watch I spotted the first MAnx flag in the crowd, and within a minute I'd spotted two more! It is one of D-d and I's pastimes, spotting the Three Legs flags at all big events - we don't think it counts as a major event unless we spot our national flag. And the amazing thing is - it's always there somewhere - Olympics, European Cup final, you name it, and someone from here will be there!!
elsafList five songs that you are currently digging... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the five songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
Dust Runrig
Disconnected Idlewild
Blame it on Obvious Ways Idlewild
Stepping down the Glory Road Runrig
The Storm Big Country
Now who do I want to tag -
elisi - you have interesting musical tastes, and so does my SO - so SO it's going to be you - speakr2customrs. Also makd, mawombat and spikereader tell us what's on your iPod, MP3 player, Cd player, or just your favourite radio station.Talking about music - I am watching Glastonbury on TV - currently The Killers, who I quite like. Within 10 seconds of starting to watch I spotted the first MAnx flag in the crowd, and within a minute I'd spotted two more! It is one of D-d and I's pastimes, spotting the Three Legs flags at all big events - we don't think it counts as a major event unless we spot our national flag. And the amazing thing is - it's always there somewhere - Olympics, European Cup final, you name it, and someone from here will be there!!
Music thingy!!
6 Jun 2005 09:11 pmI've been tagged twice in the last twenty four hours to do that favourite song thingy! Really difficult because which songs are my favourites tend to vary depending on what I've heard recently, and even then I often forget what they are called, or who they are by, and try to get the husband or daughter to tell me which song I mean by singing what I think sounds like the right tune, but when they sometimes do figure out what I mean, they usually tell me I've got the tune wrong anyway! So you can see that this might take me a bit of concentration!!
So, my favourite six songs as far as I can remember them today -
Well I could just have listed six Runrig tracks, but that would have been a bit boring, so I'll just have a couple:
Cnoc na Feile - Runrig.
Skye - Runrig.
Then something by Big Country - which track though - let's give the vote to
The Storm - Big Country.
Current up to date thing is definitely
Disconnected - Idlewild.
Just to confuse you now, one by a band who are brilliant live - I know because I've been to 2 concerts!
In the End - Linkin Park.
And finally - um - U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday or something completely different like Kate Rusby? Can't remember the name of my favourite Kate Rusby track, so
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2.
So who hasn't done this yet?
I think I'll tag the spousal unit! OKspeakr2customrs, and also magic_wanderer, and manoah, mommanerd and frimfram if you haven't already been tagged - you're it!!
So, my favourite six songs as far as I can remember them today -
Well I could just have listed six Runrig tracks, but that would have been a bit boring, so I'll just have a couple:
Cnoc na Feile - Runrig.
Skye - Runrig.
Then something by Big Country - which track though - let's give the vote to
The Storm - Big Country.
Current up to date thing is definitely
Disconnected - Idlewild.
Just to confuse you now, one by a band who are brilliant live - I know because I've been to 2 concerts!
In the End - Linkin Park.
And finally - um - U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday or something completely different like Kate Rusby? Can't remember the name of my favourite Kate Rusby track, so
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2.
So who hasn't done this yet?
I think I'll tag the spousal unit! OK
speakr2customrs, and also magic_wanderer, and manoah, mommanerd and frimfram if you haven't already been tagged - you're it!!
