Ivor Cutler OPO & S/D

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Ludo (the Ivor Cutler Trio) is a good musical album, re-released by Revola. I've just checked at Amazon & it's avaiable next day. Their other (non-musical) re-release is a live performance of the entire Life in a Scotch Sitting Room set. It's great - although the audience laughter (at the funny bits)...& Ivor's laughter (usually for no apparent reason) changes the mood of the performance. My personal favourite is the episode beginning: Our Street was a hippodrome... - utter genius!

― Jez, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 11:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

ivorcutler.org/sessions.html has a handful of MP3s, including one called "Sharks" that just about made my ears pop out of their... sockets.

Ludo's terrific, yes (a friend had the first verse of "Good Morning, How Are You, Shut Up" as her answering machine message for a while). But if I had to OPO... maybe "Go and Sit Upon the Grass," the best song ever written about ideology and how it's communicated...

― Douglas, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Go and Sit Upon the Grass - hahaha ...& feel your lumps!

We got away with playing that in a club over the weekend. Needless to say it didn't exactly fill the dancefloor.

― Jez, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

you can still occasionally find his creation albums - i see a few copies of "a wet handle" here and there which is worth buying for "the thatcher generation" alone. the one i see most often is "life in a scotch sitting room" which is wondrous in every way, especially "perambulating scottish colander"

my own favourite has to be "jammy smears" mainly for the song "a wooden tree". you can get some mp3's of live performances (about two cd's worth) from http://www.ivorcutler.org/sessions.html - for song based ones here go for "women of the world" and the godlike "good morning how are you shut up"

― commonswings, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

dunno if this counts, but his Songbook Series compilation, Cute (H)ey?, is pretty cool too

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 22 August 2002 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

hey, BBC4 are showing an hour long docu about King Cutler on the 15th of April, followed by a half hour of Ivors last ever show from last year. Yey!

― zappi (joni), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Rejoice! Oh and another thumbs up for Jammy Smears plus the cameos on Rock Bottom.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay! Is there, in fact, a bad IC record?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

no! although 'a wet handle' is a letdown cos it has no songs, and i love the songs best.

― zappi (joni), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Last Ever show? He retired (finally) then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

My brand new boyfriend took me to see an Ivor Cutler show on our second night together as a couple. Nottingham Playhouse, April 21st 1985. He performed his set before the support act, so that he could catch the last train back to Leicester. Such style!

On April 19th 2005, we'll be celebrating our 20th anniversary by seeing Bebo & Cigala at the Festival Hall.

I might therefore be the only person on the planet who gets soppy and sentimental over Ivor Cutler records.

If your breasts are too big
You will fall over
Unless you wear
A rucksack.

BOO HOO HOO I'M THE LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey! I thought you said you and K didn't do soppy.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, spooked now! :-)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Too many favourites to chose from but what about his tribute to 'Fiddler On the Roof', "Rubber Toy"!

"I opened up its lips
and spat in lots of pips
now my toy is full of forest"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

im trying t get hold of "prince ivor", i really like the sound of those rtadio 3 plays, but it doesnt seem to have been rereleased like many of the others. anyone else seen it for sale anywhere?

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Dandruff" (Virgin Records, 1974) is a rather good record; the only of his I have at the moment, though I oft heard him via Peel sessions and patronage. Oh, and a bit of "Sitting in a Scotch Sitting Room" was used in the first series of "Blue Jam", rather effectively as I do recall.

― Tom May (Tom May), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm so surprised this thread wasn't resurrected by hstencil since he kept telling me how much he loved cutler just yesterday.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Something called "An Elpee and Two Epees" just got released. I've ordered it out of curiosity.

I really really want a copy of "Prince Ivor" myself.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

did anyone see the doc? there are torrents of it on uknova (thjats how i saw it). it is realyl good actually. a lot of good archive footage from the 60s and 50s i think. nice to talk to lots of people involved although the McCartney/Connolly talking heads were dead tiresome (sample contributions: Macca: "I think some people should just be allowed to follow their own stream", Connolly, "you know, I think comedians are very miserable"...thanks guys, we'll get back to you)

i havent really listened to anything else except him since seeing it. Good Morning... and Beautiful Cosmos are my favourite songs i think

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

there is currently an ivor cutler radio show on bbc 7. if you go the website you can listen to it online.

― ladyintheradiator (ladyinradiator), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

oops. does anyone have the lyrics for go and sit upon the grass?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

>Something called "An Elpee and Two Epees" just got released. I've ordered it out of curiosity.

seen this in stores, a compilation of his earliest releases from the early 60's. song titles look great: 'gravity begins at home', 'a cowpuncher and a bird', 'get away from the wall'... anyone heard it?

Velvet Donkey is the one with "Grass" and Frith helping out with the music

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I got my copy. I am heartened by the fact that it's not nearly as good as his Ludo & later stuff, i.e. he didn't really bloom until he was well into his 40s.

"Get Away from the Wall" is a wonderful little song, though.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 24 June 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I just bought Dandruff - by god I love this sort of thing. the track "Life In A Scotch Sitting Room" is absolutely hilarious.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

In these horrible times I sometimes think that "Beautiful Cosmos" is the loveliest song ever written by anybody.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 July 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i have a 20 minute ambient piece by Charles Uzzel Edwards (http://2350.org/pw10/) where he went round to Ivors for afternoon tea (i think charles mum was a friend/neighbour) and he recorded the conversation and placed it in this swirly ambient backing ..

not great .. but i suspect not heard by many IC fans thats for sure

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 21 July 2005 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link

There is a Yahoo group for Ivor who have a blinding collection of Mp3's, radio shows, sessions, interviews. Incase anyone's interested.

Does anyone know the state of Ivor's health, I heard a rumour that he's no longer living in his flat but lives in an old folk's home, can anyone confirm this?

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, he retired last year. Who knew he'd outlive J.Peel?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

marcello OTM

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link

His 3 x Virgin albums "Dandruff", "Velvet Donkey" and "Jammy Smears" should be currently available (as mid-lines), as is the new "An Elpee & Two Epees" CD from Decca/Universal. Sadly, I hear his health is not good these days (as per Mr. Pete Brown, the Cream lyricist). Maybe someone should get on Rough Trade's case to re-issue "Gruts", "Prince Ivor" & "Privilege". Who owns them nowadays, anyway? Mr. Cutler is wonderful, I found him about the time Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" came out, remembered him as Buster Bloodvessel from "Magical Mystery Tour"...genius.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

should i pay $30 for a pretty-ok copy of "privilege"???

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 31 December 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

You know, I guessed the next time an Ivor thread was to appear here, it would be for 'final' reasons.

Cheered that it's not so.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 1 January 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Privilege is great. A really good collection.

Mentioned upthread but worth repeating - It's a faff but if you can be bothered to join up, this...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ivor-list/

Is a good group with lots of music on it. If Ambrose is still keeping tabs on this thread I'm pretty sure they've got the Prince Ivor "opera" on there.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 1 January 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Also I notice in Fopp (for UK readers) they've got a couple of his CDs for a fiver each. Worth every penny.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 1 January 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

My fav song is "Shoplifters" from Ludo (1967)

― antonio, Monday, 2 January 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

For those with Freeview or just those with Sky Arts, at 11pm tonight:

Ivor Cutler By KT Tunstall

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link

I found this just the other day, never seen it before - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RX1fMWkims

― Maresn3st, Monday, 18 January 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link

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