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
omg
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
damn ur eyes flickr:
^ nic'n'shirl
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
oops: http://www.flickr.com/photos/efdss/8029993454/in/photostream/
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
TONY FUCKING MCPHEE from the Groundhogs...
... blimey. I often approach revived threads of, ahem, more senior artists with some dread in case they're dead (Holger Czukay has given me a couple of near heart attacks) so I'm glad to see Shirl alive and kicking it.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
The one sad thing about Tony McPhee's appearance was that he was so low in the mix you could hardly hear what he was doing. They did finish the performance with a version of Sad Go Round though.
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Sunday, 9 February 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
let's see if this shows up…
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/1009961_10152214704407139_263710273_n.jpg
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 10 February 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
can we be shown weirdos + Shirley Collins?
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2707/4053921604_1bf5b1a28e_z.jpg
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Did anyone link to the following before? It's a talk that Shirley gave last year at the Southbank...
https://soundcloud.com/southbankcentre/shirley-collins-on-the
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Alasdair Roberts on the right I think, but who's on the left?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
guy on the left is ned oldham, will's brother
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
i was wondering the same thingtheir expressions are priceless
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 10 February 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
zomg http://twitter.com/shirleyecollins
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
Oh geez
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rx9mmzLXA
^ London performance on Youtube at last
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
wow super intense! i started crying during all the pretty horses, and then felt an actual chill in my bones when she sang in death's voice (lords, dukes, and ladies bow down to me). amazing!!amaaaaaaaazzzzziiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg
ty for posting
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
not the jolliest choice of song eh?
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
oh that's true but i loved it!
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
double thanks for posting that, just knowing it happened makes me glad and seeing shirley's face always makes me smile :-)
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
wow that was great
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
vid's gone already!
― ogmor, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link