went to Caldey Island as a wee child, memories are mixed up with other places but I know there was a monastery and you could walk there when the tide was out and i got a sweet patch for the back of my Wrangler jacket.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, yes, have similar childhood memories. Except the patch.
― djh, Saturday, 28 May 2011 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
was there a monkey sanctuary there or was that somewhere else?
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 May 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
my girls were fascinated that monks wore crocs. monkey sanctuary is on the mainland, near kilgetty iirc
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Sunday, 29 May 2011 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah it's quite possible. we stayed in Tenby for a fortnight, think it was the summer of 76? i sunburned my legs so bad early on that i had a day when i couldn't walk on them.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 May 2011 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Get back to basics my friends.
― Proger, Sunday, 29 May 2011 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
My father in law point blank refuses to believe that that track is about anything other than how sticky rock gets. "We didn't sing about those kinds of things back then." I tried to play him "Shave 'em Dry" but he put his fingers in his ears and went 'la la la'.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am not sure if Fornby wrote his stuff, but the song is surely less than innocent.
― Proger, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wd've thought so, it seems in the vein of the old music hall tradition, like the Fella that Played the Trombone or Cock-a-doodle-doo, barely a comic song that didn't have that sort of innuendo.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think he was a latter day arctic monkeys, but with better backing tunes. It was the george Fornby subterranean homesick blues lyrics stolen by Bob Dylan, that I remember best. The genius of Fornby and Morris.
― Proger, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well the whole sketch is genius, but I think most of the ILX people out there are aware of it.
― Proger, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
With my little stick of Blackpool Rock, along the promenade I strollIn the ballroom I went dancing each nightNo wonder every girl that danced with me, stuck to me tight...
Yes, Formby did write his own lyrics (mostly). It was actually banned by the BBC (or rather unplayed, I think they still persist with the myth that they didn't ban songs) because of its suggestive lyrics.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
(actually Formby's lyric writing is not quite as straightforward as I though - http://www.georgeformby.org/biography/records-songs-films/)
there is no evidence that Formby even contributed, let alone actually wrote any of the songs synonymous with him and his ukulele, and plenty of evidence that he didn’t. He and Beryl would insist that his name be added to the songwriting credits, thereby earning him a nice bite of the royalty pie
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does anyone remember when they tried to revive that CITV show called Knightmare back one summer in the mid-'90s with a one-off Seaside special?
This... cannot be true...
― kinder, Sunday, 29 May 2011 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sadly I wish it were. Sorry for getting yr hopes up :-/
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Monday, 30 May 2011 03:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
:(Spellcasting J-E-L-L-Y-F-I-S-H lol tho
― kinder, Monday, 30 May 2011 05:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seaside:
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Coast:
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And Burgh Island:
<img src=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3804470624_6bb7c2d9dc.jpg>;<img src=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3804473968_762dd9db15.jpg>;
I grew up by the seaside in Dawlish (birthplace of Nicholas Nickleby). When Brunel built his railway it went from being coast to seaside (and "a watering hole for Victorian celebrities" according to Wikipedia). Amusement arcades, nuclear-bunker-esque ice cream shops, dilapidated beach huts, deckchairs, budget Butlins-esque holiday camps and caravan parks down the road at the Warren; I grew up with all that.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 30 May 2011 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Once more, with feeling.
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I think I pretty much love all that. There's a nice (or there was) pub on Burgh Island too.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 30 May 2011 10:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
has anyone read this?
http://www.alexandraharris.co.uk/modernism-on-sea
I loved her book on Romantic Modernism so I'm thinking of giving this a go, hoping it will be more Coast than Seaside?
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess since she's focusing on architecture it'll be more Seaside but at least it'll be the beautiful bits.
― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Unless I've seriously missed something, I don't think she's focusing on architecture? She's been much more interested in Modernism as a whole movement, literary, visual arts, architecture is part of it but certainly not the main focus. At least of her other book.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
only skimmed the blurbs tbh but the places that are named are quite firmly rooted in a form of Seaside culture. seems perverse to think of the wild stuff breaking into Modernism much, but i'm cool with perverse. Definitely looks worth a read.
― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was last night's Coast worth catching when it's repeated?
― djh, Monday, 6 June 2011 11:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kimmeridge. Worth a visit?
― djh, Saturday, 11 June 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
?
― djh, Monday, 13 June 2011 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
No idea, sorry. Just bumping the thread for you, though.
― emil.y, Monday, 13 June 2011 12:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Missed this. Yes it is. At least as far as that bit of coastline is involved, I don't know much about Kimmeridge per se - 'cept there's not much there. Maybe that's what you're after though? It's near Lulworth Cove which is lovely and there's a splendid and unusual church near Worth Matravers which is on a nice walk onto the headland.http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/st-aldhelm.html
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 13 June 2011 13:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
And there's Corfe Castle nearby of course, from which you can get on the Swanage Railway (if you like that kind of thing, I do, but I am old and love trains).
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 13 June 2011 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
it makes my Tryophobia act u pBIG TIME
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
For Llewelyn Powys the cliffs and downland of the Dorset coast sustained a poetic experience of the world in which 'to be alive is the prize above all prizes, to be out of the grave, the great exemption'.
Sounds ok.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 13 June 2011 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm going for a very short, possibly quite glum, weekend to Margate soon. What to expect?
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
people telling you you can keep your costa brava
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
sunburned ppl
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
crushed hypodermics
donkeys
contentment
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have never visited any of the classic south east seaside resorts but i'm pretty comfortable with that
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
november is good for the seaside, on a good day it's still mild yet almost totally deserted
they could literally blow up a hotel in brighton and nobody would know
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
seaside towns out of season always remind me of the small town i grew up in, tons of metal kids, random and frequent brute violence, every scene the decaying corpse of something that the city kids got bored of 10 years ago, desperation fitted as standard.
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
the home counties bourgie population have just about enough residual enthusiasm for blighty-on-sea that about half of brighton-hove-worthing and maybe a couple of places in suffolk have escaped that fate
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
hastings can be fucking grim, most of north kent too
Try Hastings for authentic violence and desperation.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol xp
Hastings - bookshops, heroin and black black depression. Still quite like it. Lovely walk you can do from Hastings over to Rye. Changes from chalk cliff downland to marshes and military canals. Some pleasant bathing to be had within sight of Dungeness as well.
Folkestone is fucked tho. I went there for the first time in ages last year and it was the bits of it that weren't being demolished were utterly dilapidated. And there was a grime singer channeling a curious mixture of enthusiasm in his delivery and seaside no-hope bleakness in his content, standing in a bandstand with some pensioners who had nothing else to be curious about swaying slightly in front of him. Some vicious sods in a transit van driving round swearing at Asians.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hastings is fine. I seriously do not get a heroin and violence vibe from it. The seafront is remarkably intact and rather lovely (in the sunshine).
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Such a shame they got rid of the old cricket ground -
The Central Recreation Ground, Hastings was a cricket ground in Hastings, Sussex. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864 and the last in 1996, following which Priory Meadow Shopping Centre was built on the site.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
With perfect timing the Guardian big up Kent.http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/aug/05/kent-coast-art-summer-holiday
Somewhere between this and ilx's bleak view lies the truth.
― Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 6 August 2011 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Saltburn by the Sea. Worth a visit?
― djh, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink