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Si Cowe was only about 23 in that.
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Si Cowe was only about 23 in that.
Saw them cupla times in the 70s, fantastic.Despite them all being of a black and white persuasion, this should be canny. 9pm tonight BBC4
It's all bit tragic imo. I used to go to the Christmas concerts when young too.
Since I realised this documentary was on I've been listening to Lindisfarne again. Alan Hull - hugely underrated. Only just realised that Lady Eleanor was Poe influenced, never realised he was singing 'Roderick Usher'!
Rod Clements wrote Meet Me on the Corner.Is that plural? I thought most if not all the songs in their 'heyday' were written by Alan Hull?
Me too, my folks took us to the city hall to see them in (I think) 1988 when I was a kid. The place was jumping and I think they’re well underrated.Probably unacceptable to admit this but my first ever 'gig' was a city hall Lindisfarne thingy
I can't have been more than about 12
Don't think disliking geordieism was as much of a thing back then
I was about 18 before I heard the term mackem. It wasn’t used until early 80s and definitely not used in Sunderland.Really? I'm only 30 so I've never known anyone in Sunderland to call themselves Geordies.
I'll have to look at the 73 final. Never actually seen it.
That makes sense. Its the song that, in retrospect, sounds quite different to most of the others that I'm familiar with. I realise, of course, that I could check songwriting credits ... but I can't be arsedRod Clements wrote Meet Me on the Corner.
I was about 18 before I heard the term mackem. It wasn’t used until early 80s and definitely not used in Sunderland.
Played on Mandolin Wind (and not by John Peel as the myth would say). Ray wasn't best pleased with his payment for it.Ray Jackson did that jingly jangly bit in Rod Stewart’s Maggie May.
Stewart couldn’t remember his name so he’s listed on the record as ‘That fella from Lindisfarne’ or words to that effect.
The 60s, Mackem was used as a piss take until the late 80s and when the Geordie Nation were formed by SJH, much against the will of many of us. Like all insults it's best to neutralise them by embracing them.I was about 18 before I heard the term mackem. It wasn’t used until early 80s and definitely not used in Sunderland.
Ray Jackson – mandolin (listed on the album as "The mandolin was played by the mandolin player in Lindisfarne. The name slips my mind."Ray Jackson did that jingly jangly bit in Rod Stewart’s Maggie May.
Stewart couldn’t remember his name so he’s listed on the record as ‘That fella from Lindisfarne’ or words to that effect.
I play this one on my guitars often.Class band, good songwriters.
I went to see that too. Really enjoyed it. Thought Charlie Hardwick was excellent. Alan Hull wrote some classics.Few years ago we went to see the play "Clear White Light" which featured the songs of Lindisfarne. It was centred around a psychiatric hospital (Alan Hull had been a nurse at St Nicholas Hospital) & partly based on Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher"
Yes, Charlie Hardwick was good, I hadn't realised she could sing but she carried those songs offI went to see that too. Really enjoyed it. Thought Charlie Hardwick was excellent. Alan Hull wrote some classics.
That one and January Song.I play this one on my guitars often.