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
shirley collins google alert
http://olatheedge.com/news/2014/02/20/7781-overland-park-therapist-safehome-organization-volunteer-receive-statewide-honors
TOPEKA, KAN. — An Overland Park, Kan., therapist and volunteer with an organization working on behalf of victims of domestic violence have been recognized by the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence (KCSDV).
Shirley Collins was presented with the Outstanding Advocate of the Year Award and Helen LaValley was presented with the Volunteer of the Year Award during KCSDV’s 11th Annual Safe Homes, Safe Streets Awareness Day and Sunflower Safety Breakfast event in Topeka in February.
Since 1995, KCSDV has been recognizing outstanding advocates and allies who are working to enhance victim safety, to increase perpetrator accountability, and to prevent and eliminate sexual and domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking in Kansas.
“We honor both Shirley Collins and Helen LaValley for their tireless efforts on behalf of victims of sexual and domestic violence,” said Joyce Grover, executive director of KCSDV. “Their work is transformative and life-saving in many cases.”
Collins has been in the violence against women movement for almost three decades. She has worked one-on-one with victims and for ten years led SAFEHOME’s Clinical Counseling Program which, in 2013, served over 1,000 women, children and men.
“Shirley Collins has dedicated her life to supporting and improving the lives of victims of domestic violence. From her early service as the director of a domestic violence agency, to providing state of the art therapy to victims and their children, she never stops looking for new ways to help survivors find the strength, faith, courage, and hope that they don’t even realize they have,” said Janee’ Hanzlick, executive director of SAFEHOME, Inc., an agency serving victims of domestic violence in Johnson and Miami Counties. SAFEHOME nominated Collins and LaValley for the awards.
“Shirley Collins represents everything that the Juliene Maska Advocate of the Year is intended to be: victim-centered, compassionate, and caring,” says Joyce Grover, executive director of KCSDV. Collins has also championed efforts to train and mentor counseling staff and interns, advancing their skills through training on modalities that are particularly successful for working with trauma survivors. As a result, there are at least 50 therapists in Johnson County who are well-trained on working with victims of domestic violence and trauma.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like at least two great women share the same name. It's nice to hear an inspiring story about a non-famous person making the world a better place, even if it is because of a random internet coincidence.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 27 February 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-D3QCwirIdid we talk about this? matt sweeney and emily sundblad are doing an album of shirley collins songs? sounds kinda lovely in this live recording.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
once again, matt sweeney has the strangest/best career going.
He really seems to have a good time
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
omghe is trying to kill me y/ni love his face
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
what does "shirley collins songs" mean -- she almost exclusively recorded traditional tunes, albeit sometimes in new arrangements by her/dolly.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
drawing from the shirley collins repertoire i believe
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
yeah also i have a mild beef with that as well -- that toad from the decemberists did the same thing
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
i don't have a beef. i'd probably get this album. collins was always very careful to explain where a song (or indeed different parts/aspects of a song) came from, and i hope these folks can follow suit. alasdair roberts' album of traditional tunes was also careful in this regard--and it's an amazing album IMO. (speaking of "the crook of my arm")
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah but i wouldn't sing those same tunes and call it an album alasdair roberts songsthey're traditional songs
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
sort of more mysterious -- i'd never heard of sundblad, but i guess she's some kinda mixed media artist: http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2014/04/emily-sundblad-at-house-of-gaga/On Display:15 drawings made at the Santa Barbara Zoo, mounted on pleather, leather and card. 3 illustrations made in New York. adapted loosely from Rembrandt and Delacroix.A white wedding dress and a veil that mimics a cage and makes the dress suitable for both a wedding and a funeral made by Proenza Schouler, based on a concept by Emily Sundblad.One belt and one set of horse’s reins. One peep-hole into the dining room.8 old English folk songs played in the gallery and displayed each on it’s own USB stick with hardware. The songs are adapted from early recordings by Shirley Collins and performed by Emily Sundblad and Matt Sweeney. Recorded in January 2014 by Justin Smith at Pink Duck studios in Burbank. Produced by Matt Sweeney.1 Rib eye steak, frozen.1 Piece of goat meat in a ziploc bag, frozen.1 Assemblage/ visual EP consisting of a drawing titled “Lobster Dinner”, cutlery, four USB sticks with one song on each attached to various hardware, one plastic snake, a belt buckle and a glass of red wine.The show is an attempt to explore how two antiquated institutions- the zoo and marriage- and one institution that will always be a jour- death- illustrate a feeling of imprisonment by love.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
album OFoopssorry -- i'm running to a meeting and thinking about matt sweeney's teeth
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
xp
oh man that was a GREAT episode of macgyver
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
"The Teeth of Sweeney" kind of sounds like it could be song on a Shirley Collins album
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah but i wouldn't sing those same tunes and call it an album alasdair roberts songsthey're traditional songs― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, April 22, 2014 2:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, April 22, 2014 2:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we're making the same point bro
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
thanks bro
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10253906_10152397333486410_2764838862421813363_n.jpg
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
love dolly's faceclearly from the "for as many as will" photo shootapparently shirley's dress is an annabelinda dress, learned that too! (http://www.annabelinda.com/about/)
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
Ill at Ease is on And Now the Rain, right? I need to give that more listens. Besides Scenes, my go-to Roy is the 2nd Dissolve album (about which I have also talked to LL)
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
Oops rong thread
haha
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
podcast with shirley talking about her southern journey with alan lomax! http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4music
― funch dressing (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
Southern JourneysWed, 21 May 14Duration:59 minsIt's not an exaggeration to say that without the work of Alan Lomax, American music might have sounded very different. Lomax's field recordings of the music of the poor and disposessed, made in fields, churches and prisons, made a big impression on the likes of Bob Dylan and paved the way for the 1960s Blues revival. In this programme British folk singer Shirley Collins (who was both Lomax's lover and assistant) tells the story of his trips to the Southern States and in particular one made in 1959. where the pair discovered the great bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. This programme contains language which may offend.
nice!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
oh my gosh thanks!
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
warning! moby content! (but 4 real, it is a good listen)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
you mean TRIGGER WARNING
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
i'm glad there's moby on there - considering how much $ he (probably?) made from using those sampleshe might as well chime in
― funch dressing (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
also i can't wait to listen to this over the weekend!
― funch dressing (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah i kid moby, but i get the feeling moby would be a nice guy.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link