i'm planning the music for my funeral

[Reg Smeeton]

 

roy harper - when an old cricketer leaves the crease

 Roy Harper.....there's a name from the past, I saw him loads of times I suppose from 70 to about 76, he's the sort who was always on the road.  

  It was about this time that he contracted some mangy disease from kissing a sheep....so had a bit of a break, my tastes changed and he fell off my radar....I actually thought he'd died, but is indeed alive and well and still performing.

 I suppose Billy Bragg, would be someone more contemporary of a similar type.

[sonic youth]

i believe his son is quite the musician as well, of similar ilk to his father. i don't know much about roy, only references in led zep songs and that the song in question was played at john peel's funeral.

were you ever a folkie reg or do you just have a pathological hatred of them?

[Reg Smeeton]

i believe his son is quite the musician as well, of similar ilk to his father. i don't know much about roy, only references in led zep songs and that the song in question was played at john peel's funeral.

were you ever a folkie reg or do you just have a pathological hatred of them?

   I developed a particular hatred of folkies when being run out of town at a festival at Bromyard, for singing football songs in a pub, and sticking my tent up somewhere where its wasn't supposed to be although there was available space.....other subsequent events, have merely reinforced  this view.

  I like the fact that a fella like Alfred Williams could produce a whole book of folk songs collected from  settlements between Swindon and Faringdon, because that was the active voice of the time in those communities, but whether we like it or not the active voice of "folk" music  (namely contemporary music ) is something altogether different now.

 There are pockets England,  where traditions can be maintained but few and far between.   Ireland, is somewhere where folk music still exists.