Tag: Sumer Is Icumen In
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Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle English
English is a funny one, we think of it now as what is spoken either in the US or UK or indeed International English, but there was a long journey to get there, from Germanic and later French influences, and I think Norse. Here you have Kate Bush‘s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle…
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RC 323: Dark & Lonely Folk Horror with Ian of The Lloydbrary
Sumer is Icumen in, Loudly sing, cuckoo! Grows the seed and blows the mead, And springs the wood anew. Happy May Day! It’s sunrise on May the 1st and here’s a witchy folk horror & Black Aquarius edition of Radio Clash with Ian of The Lloydbrary blog and podcast. We stumble into the sleepy pastoral…
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RC 192: Return to Summerisle Part One
Outer Hebrides, 2006 Get out your apples, pipes and fairisle jumpers, it’s a trip back to the 1970’s folk and a return to Summerisle – the Wicker Man+ awaits…This part is about the older influences to the amazing soundtrack by Paul Giovanni – English, Irish and Scottish songs dating back upto 800 years – to…