Yarr! In honour o’ this day, here be one o’ me favourite nautical songs. Broadside Electric, wi’ “The Royal Oak”.
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Yarr! In honour o’ this day, here be one o’ me favourite nautical songs. Broadside Electric, wi’ “The Royal Oak”. Well, I suppose he answered that question, but it raises a few others! Captain Kirk, the primary erosion threat to the mountains of the future. Not the news I was expecting when I got home tonight.
In recent decades his life has been a descending spiral into ever-increasing bizarreness. Maybe it’s better for him that it has ended, as his obvious mental anguish has had an obvious affect on the upbringing of his children. They’ve been living in a grotesque parody-world. Perhaps now they’ll have a chance of something approaching a normal life. I don’t know. The whole business, his entire life, just feels like a Greek tragedy where the audience has gained enjoyment from watching his gradual meltdown. He needed a lot more help than he received. Nevertheless, as a teenager during the 80s, his music has been a big part of my life, and I’ll miss him. On the Rachel Maddow show this week, Rachel and Kent were a little mean about Eurovision. Sadly some otherwise liberal US folks nevertheless find it hard to truly comprehend that other nations might actually sometimes prefer their own cultural styles over imported US ones. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy For my American friends that fancied hearing the winner without hearing them giggle over it about us silly Europeans not having invented any proper music, here it is. For the record, I rather like it. The ancient Scandanavian dancing style in the video is known as Laus, or Halling, and it is a pretty spectacular dance-form requiring extreme levels of fitness, not to mention a degree of fearless disregard for one’s own safety! It was fantastic to see it on display at Eurovision. Watch out for the bit at the end when they kick the hats down from the poles! Warning. This song will haunt both your days and your nights. I reveal it unto you, only that I may have company in the asylum, once this has run its unnatural course.
This is what we should have all been doing today instead of being cooped up inside. Dancing around the Maypole and making merry is not something we seem to do much, any more. I didn’t see a Maypole anywhere in Norwich. Perhaps they’ll come out on Monday. If I see any celebrations, I’ll try to take some pics. A blessed Beltane to you all. Update: A Bonus Track. One of my favourite Madrigals, “Now is the Month of Maying.” by Thomas Morley. I was lucky enough to get to perform this many years ago. It’s splendid fun to sing! As so often with a lot of the folk music of the middle-ages, most of the recordings I can find are a bit too choral for my tastes, which sucks some of the sheer joy out of it, but this recording is fairly merry!: Something to get you in the mood for Cthulhumas: If there is one musical I could be in, it would be “A Shoggoth on the Roof.” |
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