Beards and jumpers optional

[venta]

Of interest to some:

Oxford Folk Festival, 16-18 April, 2004.
Line up so far here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0561/folk/

(Eh ? They're using an old-style university account there... aren't they all dead yet ?)

Many fine acts and Steeleye Span.
<ducks and runs>

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That looks rather fine. :)

*shares the Steeleye Span love*

Hmmm I should think more on this...

[venta.livejournal.com]

*shares the Steeleye Span love*

I was listing "fine acts" and "Steeleye Span" as distinct concepts :) Hence the ducking and running...

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha!

Okay, that'll teach me to read LJ entries without my critical faculties engaged!

I'll certainly concede that they're variable, though. At their best, though...

*still loves them*

Ducking and running, huh? Oh well, if you insist:

*throws things, but probably fairly soft and yielding things*

:)

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's become a bit of a tradition that I despise Steeleye Span; actually, I'm not really that rabid, I've just never been desperately impressed by them.

Will probably go and see them if they're there :)

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

*grin* Sounds like my husband's approach to folk music in general. :)

I first listened to Steeleye Span when I was in my 'teens (The Steeleye Span Collection album) and was utterly bowled over at the time. Since then I've refined my view a bit and certainly I think there are plenty of bands who are better, but I still enjoy their music very much.

I even tend to tread the sacriledgious myself by regarding June Tabor's voice as rather better than Maddy Prior's, though of course they sounded beyond fantastic together. "Silly Sisters" rocked. :)

*grin*

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup... I won the Silly Sisters LP (LP! Vinyl no less!) in a raffle when I was probably about 10, didn't like it, and gave it away.

Kind of wish I hadn't, as I suspect I'd enjoy it a lot more now.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

On Vinyl too!!!

eeep!

I'm trying to work out if I'd have liked Silly Sisters when I was 10. Probably, but I'm not certain. My musical taste definitely had elements of goodness back then, but I also owned the Kylie album, so...

If you want to find out how much you would/wouldn't enjoy it now, I have it on (a very old) tape and can easily be persuaded to copy it! :)

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

Liz, meet Lambert, another person who regularly posts folk music links in his diary... :)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lambertbehnke/68940.html?view=80716

[chrisvenus]

Eh ? They're using an old-style university account there... aren't they all dead yet ?

Well, it probably isn't on sable if that's what you mean. :)

Students still get web space though which is all that is unless I am missing the thrust of your question here. Shell accounts are still available to those that want them on (I think) linux.ox.ac.uk or something similar. I *think* you need a shell account for web space but I'm not really too sure, tbh.

[uitlander]

Hah, if it was a real 'old' style uni account, it would have been on black.

Regularly ???

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

Well I suppose once in a blue moon is kinda regular, but still ... meeting me is obviously always worthwhile, no matter how week the link.

Cheers though.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

black?

Nah. After my time.

[uitlander]

Befoe the dawn of wimble's history (well 1990ish anyway), undergrads all had accounts on black - the system had its wings clipped in a number of ways, the details of which I don't recall as I never had a black account. The postgrads and staff had accounts on the ?gandalf starmaster vax cluster or somesuch techno-babble. About 1992/3 black was killed off, and replaced by sable [spot the cunning play on words], a few months after the postgrads and staff were migrated to ermine and all our e-mail addresses changed from '[vax login id]@vax.ox.ac.uk' to '[real.name]@[dept/college].ox.ac.uk'.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it all went downhill when they let the hoi-polloi in. Back when I were a lad, they only had departmental accounts. So the computation students and the physicists (to my knowedge) who had computer access.

Then it all started going <AOL/>

Re: Regularly ???

[ruthytoothy.livejournal.com]

Muahahahahahah!

I've slipped in while the backdoor was open for Lambert!

And I must say, as a child I thought Steeleye Span were THE BEST ever! I have many happy memories of sitting in the back of my parents' car singing "All Around My Hat" :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Poor Venta has no chance, with folkie parents, conplete with beard and sweater (no, not her mum, who shares her views on Steeleye but likes Maddy Prior singing West Gallery). Oxford has Magpie Lane and Les Barker. That's "fine".

[(Anonymous)]

Poor Venta has no chance, with folkie parents, conplete with beard and sweater (no, not her mum, who shares her views on Steeleye but likes Maddy Prior singing West Gallery). Oxford has Magpie Lane and Les Barker. That's "fine".

Re: Regularly ???

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, regular, just not frequent :)

Not sure about Steeleye ...

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

I am not sure whether I can face that much 70ies Folk revival ...

But ... lunasa, 422, woodpecker band,les barker, luke dniels, speirs and boden, pete cooper and some others are well worth seeing ... and I am curious about the Witches from Elswick (seeing that I used to live what, less then a mile from there).

Re: Not sure about Steeleye ...

[venta.livejournal.com]

The Witches of Elswick are absolutely great, if you like unaccompanied harmony. (And they do live in Elswick, too).

Have you ever seen Lunasa live ? I bought an album of theirs in the summer, and was a bit underwhelmed by it.

I haven't seen Lunasa

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

Which album did you buy. I only have listened to two of them and I prefer Otherworld to Redwood.

The witches ... well I'll listen and see whether I like it, not sure. My heart has been won by the celtic harp but seeing that I am going to be in Edinburgh playing and listening to it for a week non-stop in April I don't mind their absense after that for a bit.