Tag: Wicker
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The Black Dog – Sheffield Favourites
I’m a strange mongrel, one foot in Manchester and the other in Sheffield (appropriate metaphor since it’s always pissing on the Pennines). My family come from Sheffield so I have a particular fondness for the grey and damp rainy city (more overgrown village), it’s seven hills ‘just like Rome!’ and it’s put upon citizens. So…
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Lost Pulp or Tim’s Top 10 Pulp Tracks
And so I, I walked my way around town I tried to love the world Oh but the world just got me down Well not completely lost, but I think if you read Guardian’s Top Ten Pulp tracks you might think that certain parts of Pulp’s history never happened. The shiny 70’s nylon Pulp took…
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Wicker Man Day – 40th anniversary on Radio Clash Live
Wicker Man is 40! (well in December it is) and they’ve found a copy of the 99 minute cut, and this Friday 27th is showing in cinemas across the country (and I suspect the world). I’m seeing it with John at Curzon also with Memory Tapes performing the soundtrack. So to celebrate this, Radio Clash…
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Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs Are Bonny
One of the things I love about my fellow Brits – and I admit it’s not a big list – is the fact that you can know someone years and not know about their talents. I’m not talking about a humble brag, it’s just not done usually to push your work whereas in other countries…
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RC 193: Return to Summerisle Part 2
Dead Rabbit, Outer Hebrides 2006 Return to Summerisle for a musical Wicker sequel (one probably making more sense than Wicker Man II – yes it exists, yes it was written by Tony Shaffer, yes it was bonkers. Being molested by tree gods and throwing people off cliffs with eagles attached to them? Anyone?). This time…
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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…