― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
had never heard her, but picked up the new Harvest Years comp as an introduction...have to admit, took a little while to "adjust" my ears (some of this stuff is so archaic as to make Fairport Convention sound like dubstep..I know, I know: what did I expect?), but now that I'm into it, I'm into it!...(she was quite the looker, too)...
― henry s, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I don't know how that comp is sequenced (or what exactly is on it) but I could see some of her stuff being a bit "unadorned" for ears trained by folk rock. I have almost every album (not the boxed set though.) Love, Death & The Lady is my favorite, probably.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Happy birthday Shirley! 75 today.
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Monday, 5 July 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy birthday Shirley!
― Fa la la (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Tomorrow is Shirley's birthday!!
Jul 5th * �7.00 * SHIRLEY COLLINS' BIRTHDAY PARTY
Now here is something really special!In the first half, Shirley will be presenting a shortened version of her latest multi-media show, You Never Heard So Sweet.In the second half she will introducing performances by friends including some of the best known names on the folk scene:-THE COPPER FAMILYMARTYN WYNDHAM-READ & IRIS BISHOPRATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPENAOMI BEDFORD & PAUL SIMMONDSIAN KEAREY & DAN QUINN (of DUCK SOUP)
Happy happy happy happy birthday, Shirley!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Oh shit, that's my friend Ian. Whereabouts is this thing happening?
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
ROYAL OAK3 Station Street,LewesBN7 2DA
If you go, please tell Shirley happy birthday for me!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
listening to love, death & the lady: happy birthday shirley collins and may there be many more!
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
That venue is only about 3 miles away from where I'm sat right now, which makes me feel all the more lame for inevitably not going.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
When I lived in Brighton I used to go there quite a lot for the folk nights with Shirley, the Copper Family, Martin Carthy and so on. Great little place.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:49 (eleven years ago) link
Never been! The thought of bowling up by myself to that sort of cosy, intimate space gives me the willies.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/intro.jpg
"Here, budge up a bit Norma would you..."
I only ever went on my own, primarily because no-one else would go with me...
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, you should've given me a shout.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 5 July 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not going = not cool
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Thursday, 5 July 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
If I had a zillion dollars, I would fly across the ocean to celebrate Shirley Collins' birthday with her and the Copper family in a tiny intimate venue.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHIRLEY!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
She's 77 today btw.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
She looks about 10 years younger though! There were some nice birthday celebration photos of her online somewhere or other.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
Her beauty always shines forth like a fountain of snow!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, her 70th birthday:http://www.shirleycollins.co.uk/birthday.htm
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
happy b-day shirley! reading electric eden made me angry at ashley hutchings for being a jerk to shirley.
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
reading electric eden made me angry at ashley hutchings for being a jerk to shirley.
I didn't know what but, uh, doesn't surprise me tbh
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
i'm still miffed that she doesn't get more credit for the alan lomax "sounds of the south" recordings. she gets one line in the box set liner notes, iirc. her book about that trip is great btw. it's sentimental, but i have no problem with that.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like she could have made better choices when it came to men!
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
Who among us can claim a clean slate on that front?
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
When courting the boys, don't be easy and free.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
precious booty from one of those Royal Oak evenings a few years back:
http://i.imgur.com/aej60.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Cool
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
my face looks kinda weird in this picture and the room is messy, but you can see two of my framed & signed anthems in eden poster! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7246/7508668582_ca06eefb0f.jpg
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
haha! i have no signed collins memorabilia, but listening to the shirley/dolly harvest years comp RIGHT NOW. https://search.mog.com/v2/albums/15406939/image.jpeg?size=800
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
I got a Christmas card from her once. It resides in the boxed set to this day.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 7 July 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
Tomorrow at Cecil Sharp House: http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/story.asp?nid=6503
At Cecil Sharp House on 1 November 2012 Shirley Collins, EFDSS President, who was herself a collector and whose voice has enchanted folk music audiences all over the world, will present an illustrated talk about Bob Copper's song collecting, to be followed by some songs and stories from the Copper Family themselves.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8176/8029993454_7b938b8883_z.jpgshirley and nic jones awww
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
listening to the albion band - no roses! this is great, like whole nother awesome fairport convention record you haven't heard basically
― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
great album!
― sug ones (omar little), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite yard sale find remains a NM vinyl copy (w/some acceptable front cover damage) of 'adieu to old england' for $1.
― sug ones (omar little), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
murder of the maria marten - wow!
― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
not that shirley is involved bu the first steeleye span record, that's basically like another fairport record you haven't heard, too.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 November 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yes and don't forget battle of the field by Albion Country Band
― buzza, Friday, 9 November 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
yeah is that hark the village wait? that's great too....been listening to a lot of this stuff...reading the book which you guys should read if you haven't:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ibTQpJa_o6s/TfO6Q7KQQlI/AAAAAAAACaI/JNvnyNDpM54/s1600/eden+1.jpg
it's kinda like the "this band could be your life" of UK folk/folk rock/witchy music
― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeahhh, great book. guess he just put a sdtk out too http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Eden-Unearthing-Britains-Visionary/dp/B008KGWWKM/ref=pd_sim_b_2 -- though there was spotify playlist that had tons more stuff too.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 November 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, spotify has pretty much revolutionized reading music books for me, that's all i've been reading lately, i just finished a history of the blues book too, it's so great to be able to go through the evolution step by step and actually hear all the songs that are reference while you're reading.
― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
fuck, i just looked up that playlist! damn! i almost want to start this book over
― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
ha, yeah, it is a great resource for that kind of thing. so many of those bands, 5-10 years ago, i'd be like, hmmm i wonder if i'll ever hear that. now you type in mr. fox or heron and you've got the whole discography. a little bit scary!
― tylerw, Friday, 9 November 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
Trees aren't on Spotify, though (at least not last time I checked) (Trees the electric folkies not the more recent one).
Isn't there a David Keenan book along similar lines?
― this update fixes the following known sugs (Jon Lewis), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
Did the CD companion to Electric Eden ever come out?
I found the book kinda dry myself.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
I should have read above. Thanks for the link!
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
xxp yeah there are definitely holes. in fact, last time i looked, spotify was kind of short on davey graham records. don't know about the keenan book? electric eden is definitely one of the best music books i've read in a long while.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 November 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link