Ruth Flecknell We did go on a ghost hunt at featherstone but the real spirit was definitely in that bottle and the trip to haltwhistle was in my car- a helicopter would have been much more well driven! It was definitely a weird experience for the adults as well as the youngsters we took. The genius is in the way you narrate the event and from the adult perspective looking back I can see how bizarre it was on so many levels for some of the children on the periphery of events. Good luck with your tour, I will catch your next one, the tickets were sold out this time before I woke up to how in vogue you are Like · Reply · 1 · 10 February at 15:05
RICHARD DAWSON Mrs Flecknell - there will always be room for you at a gig, please remember this!Like · Reply · 10 February at 15:15
Ruth Flecknell I will. Thanks richard. You deserve your success.Like · Reply · 1 · 10 February at 15:16
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:16 (nine years ago) link
the best person. 'Mrs Flecknell'!!!
didn't get a ticket for tonight :( and scarletmist is gone :(:(
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
thinking there's no great hardship sitting in a pub for a couple of hours and keeping an ear open for spares & returns.
― woof, Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
maybe we might join you tbh
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
how big is the venue? slightly surprising he has such a followingcity boys paying high three figures on the secondary no doubt
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
by 'we' i mean me and my fifteen friends, all of whom like to barge in front
the lexington is what i'd call a 'large pub venue'
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
i reckon I'll recognise you lj, so I'll say hello, shake hands before the fight to the death over the single spare.
Vile Stuff as city boy drinking anthem, I can see it
― woof, Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
If I wasn't feeling like shit I would have joined you, but no doubt he'll be playing Cafe Oto at some point soon.
how big is the venue? slightly surprising he has such a following
I'm not at all surprised!
― Nut-bloody-rageous (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
we are here (it's near my gf's work)...let the hunt begin
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Awww man Mrs Flecknell
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
He was incredible last night. Did an 80 minute set, felt too short. I got a little overexcited and drank a whole bottle of red wine during the set and could barely walk afterwards, I blame him doing The Vile Stuff last, if he'd done it first I'd have felt forewarned.
http://photos-f.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/10979611_1413180728981101_1236214605_n.jpg
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 14 February 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Had to leave the Lexington after four songs because I was getting besieged by texts about Steve Strange and had to go and sort out coverage. Unfortunately I was right at the front in the corner, which made getting out horrible for me and everyone I had to get past.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Saturday, 14 February 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Didn't scrounge a ticket, but booked in for May at Bethnal Green WMC.
― woof, Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
the qawali element of the vile stuff hadn't really struck me before, but hearing everyone clapping along to it and with dawsons voice wailing high above the rhythm, it was so damn obvious. Could have done without people tunelessly moaning along to poor old horse though, felt like dawson was altering his phrasing every time on that chorus just to try and shake them off his tail
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
The Lex gig was amazing. Poor Old Horse. What an upsetting song.
― Doran, Saturday, 14 February 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Cambridge gig tonight was so good. I've been ill for a few days and thought about not going but reading this thread convinced me - thanks guys! Highlights included stories about his cat, Poor Old Horse, when his guitar string broke halfway through The Vile Stuff and he ended up singing "In Dreams" instead with audience participation.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8654/16555073335_29d5b781a3_z.jpg
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
seandalai i had no idea he was playing cambridge. damn!
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 11:25 (nine years ago) link
Joseph an 84/100 in carpentry? ridiculous.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 March 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Saw him last night at Bethnal Green WMC. cannot remember being transfixed like that in an age. ghost of a tree…
― woof, Thursday, 14 May 2015 09:05 (nine years ago) link
woah just announced playing in bristol next month with eek and islam chipsy
― nxd, Thursday, 12 November 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck are tickets on sale?
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
yep, just £10http://musicglue.com/qu-junktions/events/12-dec-15-islam-chipsy--eek--richard-dawson--kit-wilmans-fegradoe--dave-howell-dj-arnolfini/
― nxd, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
damn bit all to hell I can't go.... aaaaargh!!!
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 13 November 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/22164-new-richard-dawson
so this is going to be the best album of the decade, then
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
i don't like the new song as much as the stuff on the previous album, but i do like it.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
and he's playing bristol with a full band soon! whoop!
I just listened to it for the first time while walking through an abandoned rural village in blazing sunshine and now I am Woden himself
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
New sound is maybe a bit like if you took the old sound and added North Sea Radio Orchestra. It is deep imago.
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
his guitar style seems to have mellowed a tad though..
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 6 April 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Maybe for this song, but those background sonics, especially during the climax, my god...if that's mellowing...
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 6 April 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaW-yD7DoA&
simpler times
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
It's too much. I'm extremely emotional
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
love this.
now for a rewatch of Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/22157-richard-dawson-peasant-interview-michael-hann
....aaaand the record was inspired by Hard To Be A God. Of COURSE :D
Wonderful interview - by one of ILX's own
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
been in my head all weekend
― ogmor, Sunday, 9 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
yep
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 9 April 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
this new song came up on Spotify, sounds a bit like peter hammill
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 28 April 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Spent a big part of the weekend listening to Peasant. A real mind-boggler, album of the year contender for me.
― maarten, Sunday, 28 May 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
I am excited & very ready for this
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
this is better than i had dared hope
― imago, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
at some point during 'prostitute' the distinct sensation of music being broken and remade settled over me
― imago, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
Haha Richard Dawson's retweet of you has just hit my timeline.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:40 (six years ago) link
It was a like, not a retweet! Twitter has begun timelining likes haha
― imago, Friday, 2 June 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
Waiting on mine from Norman but I have a couple of ordered in items before they ship.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
Definitely going to buy this as well but I couldn't wait to hear it
― imago, Friday, 2 June 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
everyone kindly stop talking about the sodding arcade fire and start talking about this pls
― imago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
Regarding Dawson's guitar playing. Most of the time it's *reasonably* conventional. Relying often on the classic alternating bass thumb etc. I've barely heard Bailey or Orcutt but I'd imagine they are less structured
― Duke, Saturday, 3 June 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Was about to say the guitar playing reminds me a bit of some Incredible String Band tracks, something like "White Bird" perhaps.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
He also plays a travel guitar with a short scale and strings downtuned, which gives him loads of string buzz
― Duke, Sunday, 4 June 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
So even when he's playing deft little melodies, it can sound slightly "wrong"
― Duke, Sunday, 4 June 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link