The Etchingham College of Steam Technology
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
not sure if this will show up or not, but poster from 1976 albion country dance band featuring a funny little illustrated tree with a squeezeboxhttps://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/983654_10151976405632598_741147351_n.jpg
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
i would snuggle w/that cartoon tree
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
totally. sort of irritates me that there's not more cool shirley footage on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxtQhql0N4
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
it's weird, i used to search for her all the time on youtube, find nothing, and one day i gave up and set up a google alert, thinking that it would tell me when there was anything shirley related! and really it hasn't been particularly fruitful. i do find the odd thing, but maybe i have it set up wrong or something. still, that makes it more beautiful when something does come up. scarcity can be good.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
The spoken intro to this live "Poor Murdered Woman" is essential esp since Harking Back seems to be ridiculously hard to find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpGfQ0EUgWk
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151972147412139&l=ff4a785c33
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
omg
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/q84/s720x720/539793_10151972147412139_1532932372_n.jpg
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
awesome.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
haha wow
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
she has the most beautiful hair of all hairs
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
wah!
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
wondering if they saw her copper-coloured hair as a good fit for their brand identity
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Sellout! What year's that from?
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
HOLY SHIT EVERBODY. HOLY SHIT!
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
Just got back from seeing Current 93 in London and just before they took the stage, Shirl the Pearl came on and sang two songs!!!
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
Got an amazing reception, everyone was cheering and clapping like crazy even before she sang a note. She did All The Pretty Little Horses with Ian Kearey on some old stringed thing like a rebec or something, the she sang Death & The Lady with Ian switching to bluesy bottleneck guitar. Her voice was understandably a little rusty and she forgot the words to Death & The Lady bless her, but oh my, so great! And she was quite overcome by the reception too.
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
As a side note, Ian's a friend who I hadn't seen for a very long time and you could have knocked me down with a feather when he walked out on stage with her. He's had his ups and downs for the last few years so it was so fucking great to see him playing again.
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
Anyhow, FUCKING HELL!
Wow! That's awesome
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:03 (ten years ago) link
I know! Beggining to wonder if it was even real!
btw i lied, it wasn't a rebec, it was more like an appalachian dulcimer, a very old looking long skinny plucked instrument.
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:05 (ten years ago) link
Current 93 line itself was quite surreal too actually - James Blackshaw, Bobby from Comus, Jack Barnett from These New Puritans, TONY FUCKING MCPHEE from the Groundhogs...
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
A picture emerges
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
:-0 & :-) !!!
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
WOW!
― mr.raffles, Sunday, 9 February 2014 03:01 (ten years ago) link
she sang Death & The Lady
i would have passed out, so happy i tangentially know someone who has heard her sing. amazing. so so so envious but also happy for everyone who saw her.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 February 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
also i listened to "lovely joan" today and it sounded so great
Sorry to rain on this parade but I heard her sing at a folk club in Lewes around 2000 or so, she only sang one song though
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 9 February 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
Great post
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 February 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
I was there nick! That was amazing aye. She said she wouldn't have done it for anyone except Tibet.
― usic and luriqs by Stephen Sonnedheim (wins), Sunday, 9 February 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
No rain on my parade -- I hope maybe he can convince her to record again.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 February 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Mine neither, just saw a picture of her with Davy Graham in Electric Eden, which is almost as good, no?
― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 February 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
wins! seemed to me like everyone in the place did this simultaneous collective gasp when she was introduced.
another picture: https://twitter.com/Neodop/status/432296281290342400/photo/1
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
hey anagram, maybe send this person a tweet? >>>
https://twitter.com/PollyTaplin/status/432514023519571969/photo/1
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
i would imagine there was a collective gasp! this news has made me so happy. do you think there's a chance that she'll record again?!
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
it's a nice thought but i would be amazed. stranger things have happened though!
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
la lechera i did think of you last night btw and wished i could have emergency teleported you into the building :(
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
if i was considered in absentia, that's the best i could've realistically hoped for. i know that even if she performs again, i will probably not get a chance to hear it, which is why i am very interested in the possibility of future recordings. also i really liked the way her voice aged from her early recordings/youth to the later death and the lady era, AND since i believe that singers are interpreters of song (rather than people with "beautiful voices") she could really make an interesting record at this point in her life. imagine that life experiences that would come through her voice -- it would be so beautiful! anyway, i'm also thrilled that she could experience a room full of love like that.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
anyway, i'm also thrilled that she could experience a room full of love like that.
^ this was the best bit! i was quite far back but she was visibly moved.
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
oh look here's a review:
http://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/performance/7324
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
important twitter feed - ShirleyCollins Movie(!):
https://twitter.com/ShirleyCMovie
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
whoaare those filmmakers a known entity?
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
they're the same people who did this thing:http://www.wayofthemorris.com/
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRV1mW35FlI
wonder how much the fact that they were shooting a film influenced shirley's decision to perform?
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
oh man that looks totally like the kind of movie i would like to see. (i also like morris dancing -- will try to find a way to watch it!) looks like she's in good hands?!i was wondering the same thing about the possibility of influence, which is why my first question was "filmmakers are clowns y/n" and it looks like the answer is n, fortunately.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
I have that Morris film, but haven't got round to watching it yet.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
thought it might be along the same lines as the recent nic jones documentary which ended with him doing his first live performance for something like 32 years, but the style of that morris trailer seems to be a little more dreamlike and fantastical.
xp now's yr cue!
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
same director also did this which sounds pretty interesting:Epilogue - 2012 sci-fi TV series
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
talking of nic jones:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/efdss/8029993946/in/photostream/
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link