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shewhomustThree years ago and a day, we heard Martin Simspon play at the Old Cinema Launderette. On Thursday we were there again, this time to hear Martin Carthy. The venue has changed a bit in the interim - they've knocked down a wall to increase the performance space - but it's still unmistakably a working launderette:
and Carthy is still unmistakably Carthy - a bit older, but in good voice, playing guitar with, if anything, even more ferocious attack. It was, he said, more than ten years since he had made a record, and he hoped to make a new one soon; but the problem with making so many records was how much good stuff you left behind. Which is an interesting way of looking at it. It gave us an evening of old friends - High Germany, and Lovely Joan and (preceded by the recollection of how he learned the song from Davey Graham) Bruton Town. But I didn't recognise this instrumental, The Downfall of Paris:
This, too, came with a story, that it is the same tune as the French Revolutionary anthem, Ah, ça ira! which had been taken up by all the armies of Europe because it was so irresistible - this detailed study disputes this, and a number of other colourful tales on the subject, so here, for purposes of comparison, is Edith Piaf.
The support act, from Shetland by way of Barnard Castle, was Toni Sidgwick: not my kind of music, but interesting, with a good voice and distinctive style.
and Carthy is still unmistakably Carthy - a bit older, but in good voice, playing guitar with, if anything, even more ferocious attack. It was, he said, more than ten years since he had made a record, and he hoped to make a new one soon; but the problem with making so many records was how much good stuff you left behind. Which is an interesting way of looking at it. It gave us an evening of old friends - High Germany, and Lovely Joan and (preceded by the recollection of how he learned the song from Davey Graham) Bruton Town. But I didn't recognise this instrumental, The Downfall of Paris:
This, too, came with a story, that it is the same tune as the French Revolutionary anthem, Ah, ça ira! which had been taken up by all the armies of Europe because it was so irresistible - this detailed study disputes this, and a number of other colourful tales on the subject, so here, for purposes of comparison, is Edith Piaf.
The support act, from Shetland by way of Barnard Castle, was Toni Sidgwick: not my kind of music, but interesting, with a good voice and distinctive style.
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