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Re: Kearey
- Subject: Re: Kearey
- From: "Paul Vallis" <paulvallis@ho...com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 10:03:07 +0000
Continuing the Ian Kearey / Fiddlers Dram chain, it occurs to be that our friends from abroad will have absolutely no idea what we are going on about (it can't have been a hit anywhere else but Britain can it?!)
Ignorance is bliss on some occasions. And believe me, this is one of them.
PV1
From: "Paul Vallis"
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To: blueplanes@st...net
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] more music biog
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:55:39 +0000
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- Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] more music biog
- From: "Paul Vallis" <paulvallis@ho...com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:55:39 +0000
I think most, if not all of the Oyster Band, which Kearey was a member of for a long time (and they are still going in his absence) actually played on it. If memory serves the singer was one Cathy LeSurf, who had been in the Albion Band for a while. I saw here appear as a guest at a couple of Fairport Convention's Cropredy Festivals back in the 80's, doing the guest-female-singer-to-sing-some-of-Sandy-Denny's-songs spot. Luckily for me, and probably everybody else there, they didn't play it.
"Awful folk nonsense" is one of the kindest things I've ever heard said about that record. It was truly dreadful, and probably ensured that the UK would probably have to wait another generation for a folk revival to happen. Quite how it actually got to number 3 in the charts, which is higher than virtually any other "folk" single I can bring to mind (unless you count Mull of Kintyre as a folk song, oh, and Ralph McTell's Streets of London, and Peter, Paul and Mary - actually there are a few, but I think that the argument still just about holds up!), is a mystery we could discuss for ages. But probably can't be ars*d.
PV1
From: "Roger Morford"
Reply-To: blueplanes@st...net
To: blueplanes@st...net
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] more music biog
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:54:22 +0000
Back to the Blue Aeroplanes for a second.. just been reading an interstic article on one-hit wonders in todays Guardian G2 section. anyone remember Fiddlers Dram who had a No1 hit with Day Trip to Bangor in 1979 (awful folk nonsence)? Well the bass player on that particular waxing was the BA's own Ian Kearey..
There you go fact fans...
Have a great weekend
Roj
>From: "Paul Vallis"
>Reply-To: blueplanes@st...net
>To: blueplanes@st...net
>Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] more music biog
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:59:27 +0000
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