spencer
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 02:01
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Sorry..should've said hirsute person of unrestricted lateral growth. Please note if I really wanted to insult I'd have said rat mate ;) Seriously, tho, respec ......and that is wee i r d...we were talking about MT earlier, wondering how he was doing since telly seems off limits (boo, hiss Beeb, C4) At least he looks happy enough. Nice line in dilated pupils too. Haven't sat in an audience of his for faaar too long. Top, top impish, worthy and totally righteous chap who I genuinely respect. That reminds me, haven't got a Stewart Lee Buxton ticket yet. Other fella looks very happy in his own skins. Whatever it takes. I've started to wander about in an old ski hat and feel chippier in public. (plus it hides the very grey apart from my er, rats tail)
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Stevo
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 11:05
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Turned up as a question on Mastermind this week too.
Song apparently written by Henry VIII about an adulterous woman or something to that effect.
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spencer
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 11:33
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Hmmm, Anne Boleyn? Interesting, that. Still haven't Wiki'd. Neil's version was played over the PA at the end of his Manchester '08 gig as folks were leaving. Not sure how many sussed it was him, they just kept on floating out the door. I stopped and listened. He does it well. Like I said, TUNE.
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Sin Agog
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 13:49
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Stevo wrote: Turned up as a question on Mastermind this week too.
Song apparently written by Henry VIII about an adulterous woman or something to that effect.
Think I read somewhere that Greensleeves followed an Italian renaissance chord sequence that came just after Henry VIII's time. Hard to prove really, but I suspect it might follow a similar trend to those Shakespeare rumours. With those, his University-educated peers like Thomas Nashe were incredulous at the idea that this unlearned scruff could have bested them, so said that Shakey stole the credit from someone else. Seems likely that Greensleeves was accredited to Henry the VIII He Is simply on account of his being a pezzonovante, when really some talented pleb or court lackey actually wrote it. You'd think if Henry did write it, he may have at least come up with a half-decent follow up at some point in between all the stag-bothering, Bluecuffs or Fuschiabonnet or Indigosurcoat, but no. Maybe he was the historical equivalent of Rick Astley, The Knack or Right Said Fred?
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Moon Cat
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 20:30
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spencer wrote: Sorry..should've said hirsute person of unrestricted lateral growth. Please note if I really wanted to insult I'd have said rat mate ;) Seriously, tho, respec ......and that is wee i r d...we were talking about MT earlier, wondering how he was doing since telly seems off limits (boo, hiss Beeb, C4) At least he looks happy enough. Nice line in dilated pupils too. Haven't sat in an audience of his for faaar too long. Top, top impish, worthy and totally righteous chap who I genuinely respect. That reminds me, haven't got a Stewart Lee Buxton ticket yet. Other fella looks very happy in his own skins. Whatever it takes. I've started to wander about in an old ski hat and feel chippier in public. (plus it hides the very grey apart from my er, rats tail)
MT's current show is splendid. Heart explodingly so.
The other chap is called Dave who was a very nice and interesting chap. Been having tattoos for 40 years, but only a few for the first 20 or so. Came into some dosh and decided to up his inky ante so to speak. He was 60 under the colouring. Looked a bit scary but with the manner of a polite waiter in a tea shop.
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Glam Descendant
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 22:54
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Why not just buy it from Merchandiser?
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Glam Descendant
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Perhaps my favourite
Feb 18, 2017, 22:59
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Marianne's first b-side -- would fit snugly on a Tarantino soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPdUFq6h1M
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spencer
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Greensleeves
Feb 19, 2017, 00:01
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: D : D : D on both counts
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Howburn Digger
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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 19, 2017, 11:47
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Sin Agog wrote: Gotta love those late-night youtube rabbit holes. Did Mary O'Hara's version pop up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8wOuKY6j5s
One of my favourite voices. Think she joined a convent shortly after recording this. God has to hog all the hot ones for Himself.
Yeah. But she sprang herself out of the Magdalene Laundries in the mid-70's. Good on her. I remember my pre-priapismic self being utterly captivated by what she looked and sounded like on variety shows on BBC around that time.
http://www.maryohara.co.uk/
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laresident
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Re: Perhaps my favourite
Feb 21, 2017, 03:22
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Nice. Thank you.
Just read her quite enjoyable Faithfull book in about two days. She must have been quite a lady to keep up with all the cool heavyweights of the time. Bit of a handful though, I'm sure. Even though her music from the sixties was nothing groundbreaking, it has a certain charm. I feel a few hours spent making a compilation coming on.
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