Eliza Carthy MBE
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30 years Queen of the Whirl! Trad/prog singer, violinist, writer & stage/film composer, available for radio/TV presenting/arts curation. Pres. EFDSS
Yorkshire, UK
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Apparently “dropping new music out of the blue” or something is a thing the kids do nowadays!
So to celebrate going ont rod with Jenn Reid today, have some of that!
Totally solo and mostly unaccompanied. Get it in you! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
#folkpunk
#folkmusic
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My beautiful mam passed away yesterday, January 30th 2022.
More details over on my Facebook page. Very tired today.
“Just a song at twilight”
to support my dad.
😔❤️
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Wasn’t up for saying anything yesterday, feeling private, rather than wanting to talk.
Two years yesterday, mam. The world turns, and I’m still grateful you’re not in pain any more and that you pop into my dreams to check in.
We miss and love you. I’m looking after him, promise.
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Thanks for these lovely words,
@juderogers
❤️🌺❤️❤️🩹🌞
Norma Waterson was one of folk’s greatest voices – and greatest people | Folk music | The Guardian
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Happy 80th birthday Daddy. In a few days…it feels right for you of all people to have a much-deserved birth month. I tried to wait & I give up! I love you. Loyal, honourable, genius, hardworking-all the things I want to be. You are what dads/humans/men should be, thankyou.
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He came home positively glowing. <3
Just interviewed singer Martin Carthy, who shepherded Bob Dylan around the London folk scene in the early '60s. Nice anecdote: Bob invited him to one of his London Palladium shows last week. They hadn't seen each other for decades. "We just fell into each other's arms."
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Not sure if anyone knew here, but for those wondering-Mam is out of surgery and should be home tomorrow. Shiny new heart valve, brighter days ahead. ❤️❤️❤️
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HAPPY FATHERS’ DAY! She’s home. Thanks to everyone who shared and helped, and thanks to the Monks Walk pub on Highgate. Please go there and spend your money!!!
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#normawaterson
🌞❤️🌞❤️🩹🌞
This week we lost one of the most remarkable voices in traditional English folk music, Norma Waterson.
Here we remember her on the show in 1996 with 'There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears' 🎶
You can find the full performance here:
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IT'S DEFINITELY MY BAG!
Spoke to the lovely Simon at Piccadilly today who described my bits, and said it's all fine in there...
I get it back Thursday after the Folk Awards.Planning summat spesh for you after...
you RULE
<3
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All together now ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Waterson clan in fine voice celebrating the unveiling of a new plaque at the former home of family matriarch Lal in Hull’s Park Avenue
@elizacarthy
@MarryWaterson
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Dad, looking all accidentally seasonal, wishes you a happy thing. 😁🎄🦌
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So great to hear the almost-ignored album Anchor on
@BBC6Music
with
@freshnet
.I’d love for people to recognise Mam’s last masterpiece, as a lot of love and artistry went into it.
@KateStJohn5
@NeillMaccoll
@Hartlepool_FF
@mattiefoulds
@daviddelarre
@misterhsk
@MarryWaterson
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Dad BLOWN AWAY by
@bobgeldoffans
Bob Geldoff waxing lyrical about him on
@BBCRadio4
just now. Thanks to
@julian_may
for making that massive grin possible on his birthday! Must be hard to be in
@bobdylan
‘s shadow as they celebrate their 80th-but he’s the humblest and sweetest ❤️
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Kind people. Just got back from visiting some very old family friends, and remembering there are kind people that see us.
Love, kindness, family. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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I’ve had an email from Manchester Piccadilly to say they think they have my suitcase in lost & found!!! Have to go on Monday to see. In the meantime I have to thank you all for your incredible help in a very dark week for me & my girls. What can I do for you? Post a song?
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We were hoping for another day or so to let it sink in, but here we are, these things have their own pace. Love you, my beloved boss and brother. Too soon. ✊🏻❤️🔥💔
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The Daddy is out of surgery ❤️❤️❤️
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I need to add my voice to the growing number of people asking our friends, colleagues and fans to in no way support this racist organisation. Shame. 🔔😡
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Happy New Year to everyone, and particularly all my brilliant and supportive followers here, some of whom have become dear mates this year. Health and love to a’bdee
❤️❤️❤️
(Even the weasels)
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I’m sorry for the lack of posting at the moment, I am spending these days thinking about my dear friend and how much I will miss him, the hole in our community he has left.
Hopefully back to silliness and news soon, but quiet time for now.
Xe
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Gujarati Morris! 🥰❤️🔥🔥
Attention Gujarati sisters! This Navaratri, check out dandiya Kerala style!
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Midnight hard to sharesies…a friend in the US has advised us to do this in light of Mam’s current condition.
Please share, please give if you can.
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Mental few days battling chest infections and high seas, seeing long lost friends and trying to prepare for the biggest tour I’ve had in a fair few years…
Already tired. I know, let’s cook Christmas dinner for ten hundreds of miles from home!
Nervous. Determined. Hug? Anyone?!😂
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For the record: NOT ANY BRITISH PEOPLE I KNOW.
Home Secretary James Cleverly "the British people support the Rwanda plan"
Fiona Bruce “Who here supports the
#Rwanda
policy?”
2 hands go up......
#RwandaBill
#bbcqt
#QuestionTime
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The UK folk music scene is massive, there are several Christmas folk tours happening this season, including mine with
@boden_jon
and one with regular chart-bothering folksinger
@katerusby
, on her 7th Christmas album.
Hard to dismiss the tens of 000s of audience as “faddists”…
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@RichardWLewis
Traditionally songs that depict crime and murder are catharsis, and have a specific purpose which is to act as a warning to the community to not behave that way. It’s not a song that celebrates the murder, and isn’t delivered that way. Murder ballads have a very important role.
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Hi Twitter! Off to rehearse for RT’s birthday at the Albert Hall. Have a lovely day! I’m bricking it 😂
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Almost £300 to buy two single tickets from Scarborough to London and back today.
Train travel is now not the ethical choice for everyone, but a bona fide luxury.
Return tickets are no longer available, even from booths and ticket machines. It’s no wonder they’re striking.
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MASSIVE solidarity to our dear friend Sam Sweeney for taking this difficult and principled decision. All pile on guys, give him a follow and buy ESCAPE THAT if you don’t already own it ✊🏻❤️🔥✊🏻❤️🔥✊🏻❤️🔥✊🏻
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Hi,
@TheAntonDuBeke
. As President of The English Folk Dance and Song Society I invite you to witness some wonderful English folk dancing, on a day of your choice. Whitsun is coming up but there are dozens of fantastic Morris teams, hundreds of dancers, out and proud all year.
Fuck
@TheAntonDuBeke
... when someone is passing the bullying on to those weaker than them, they're no better than their bullies.
I'm sick and tired of the excellent dancing tradition from the area I grew up in being the butt of lazy jokes from people who value Saturday night TV
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Mother whilst roasting giblets wishes everyone a harpy crispbob. Night night xxx
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For those on Facebook, there is a public group for sharing memories of
#NormaWaterson
the mammy called In Memory of Norma…please feel free to join the open community there and have a good natter with us xxx
Photo by
@ellylucas
❤️🌞🙏🏼❤️🩹🌟
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Such an amazing sight, I’ll see it again one day. I do wonder if all those fools banging on about St George’s Day know anything about the real traditions we celebrate, whether or not those in power let us have it as a holiday. May Day forever ✊🏻❤️🔥…unite! ❤️🔥
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She’s in the paper… ❤️✊🏼🥲
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@squeezyjohn
I’m going to challenge this, simply because the “folk scene” isn’t an organisation, isn’t an institution. Promoters are not authority figures, we enter into individual contracts with them, we’re an ecosystem and we can democratically purge as we find as we have done this weekend.
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I’ve stood up for the English my entire adult life.I’ve always believed in an inherent generosity, community mindedness & love for one another & neighbours; I truly hope I’m not proved wrong tonight & we’re not witnessing the isolation & breakup of our family. Sleep Easy. Love ❤️
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The lovely
@eddireader
took this in Scarborough on Thursday night! What an outstanding bunch of humans
@JoolsBand
are. ❤️❤️❤️🌟🌟🌟🌹🌹🌹
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One of the less generous comments on the BBC’s clip of our Biggest Weekend appearance said “Who let someone’s mum onstage?”
1. “Let?” Try and stop me. Just fucking try.
2. My mum couldn’t be onstage last night, and we were all the poorer for it. Mums RUN THE WORLD 😂❤️❤️
🎻
@elizacarthy
and The Wayward Band with a show-stopping performance from our
#BiggestWeekend
Watch their FULL performance:
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Well, hi Simon from
@ExcessBaggageCo
at Manchester Piccadilly!! You have something for me? You do? Whoohoo!
Thanks
@TPEassist
for everything. Off to enjoy the
@BBCRadio2
#folkawards
now.
Thanks EVERYONE for your help in fact! ❤️❤️❤️
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Getting very close to a big milestone here on Twitter...only 74 more followers to 14,000! The 14,000th follower gets a free signed copy of either Anchor or Restitute, your choice! Please RT 🤗🤞🥰
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Thankyou Billy. She loved you ❤️✊🏼❤️
Very sorry to hear that Norma Waterson, the last of the singing Watersons from Hull, has passed away. She started out as a skiffler and went on to become one of the defining voices of English traditional music. My thoughts are with Martin and Eliza and the rest of the family.
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#thedaddy
🥰🥰🥰
Martin at the Watersons mural on Clumber Street in Hull this morning.
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This Saturday! Daddy will be playing LIVE his very first solo concert in months.
PLEASE TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS, AND PLEASE ATTEND!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
One of this country's most loved and respected folk performers, Martin Carthy, plays an online gig for the wonderful folks at
#LiveToYourLivingRoom
this coming Saturday 16th at 8pm. Be sure to get your tickets at .
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Happy birthday The Daddy! ❤️❤️😂
Happy birthday Martin Carthy! What a man, what singer!
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Been carol singing down the Dock with all the village today. That was bloody lovely. Here’s a whole face in front of our kissing bough which is the first thing to go up at Christmas! Because I’m cheerful. Merry thing. Xe
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Continuing the theme...what do you think of this letter?
Too long to email the PM, but may stick it in the post tomorrow!
#WeMakeEvents
#LetTheMusicPlay
✊🏼✊🏼❤️
@BorisJohnson
@OliverDowden
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Dad has a great story about a bloke telling him that any character riding a “milk white steed” is going to be an arsehole. Look at the horse, not the guy! Look at the horse!!! Classic diversion tactic. 🤣
@elizacarthy
For example, Lovely Joan. Fine young man sees lovely Joan and plans to have his wicked way. She outsmarts him and rides away with his horse and ring. This is a great insight into people's values I think.. probably at odds with the values of the aristocracy...
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@kathryn_sean
have made the incredibly brave decision to cancel their gig in Oxford tonight, at considerable cost to themselves.
Please visit their page, give them a follow and get to the website and buy their albums! Let’s see how many follows/sales we can support them with. ✊🏻
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Last one to leave the year, make sure to turn the lights out & LOCK THE DOOR BEHIND YOU. There’s petrol in the shed. Fill watering can with it, pour through letterbox, stand well back when you stick the burning paper through there too.
Happy New Everything, friends.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Happy new Year, everyone. Here’s to a loving, peaceful and creative ’24. ❤️🔥🌟✊🏻
Image by Shiloh Z. Vanaver
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No, economic stagnation in the Arts is not down to Covid. Since well before 2016 the catastrophic effect of Brexit on my industry has been real. Stop gaslighting the Arts.
@Keir_Starmer
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Nothing more joyful than playing with that chap there ❤️
@elizacarthy
@sweeneyfiddle
@squeezyjohn
@smileysaul
Not the best quality video....but kinda captures the feel!
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The news just followed people in Yorkshire saying they voted Tory for the first time because they didn’t like Corbyn with a report about how A&E waiting times are the worst in Yorkshire since the 80s. You really couldn’t make it up. Dark days, friends. Look after eachother. <3
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No one who has ever had the terrifying experience of being spiked and waking up in hospital can trust
@JamesCleverly
now. Disgusting. I still have the scar.
@elizacarthy
Sadly, there are plenty of people jumping to Cleverly's defence. How anyone could think rape or spiking make acceptable subjects for humour escapes me.
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Politics. Literally about people. Everyone gets a say-there is no unknowable class that gets to decide for us what’s good for us, it’s everyone’s business. Including musicians, street sweepers, glass blowers, doctors, the unemployed-we fought for the right to have an opinion.
The lack of self awareness here is breathtaking. Entertainers should shut up about politics … but a reality TV star should be president??? Really????
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Oh my god that picture of dad 🤣🤣🤣
Well I’m chuffed at finding this during one of my daily charity shop rummages 🤣
@elizacarthy
#thedaddy
🥰
Bargain! £1:50 🙌
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People do care. Spoke to mam in the ward today via FaceTime, and she was moved to tears. 🥲✊🏼❤️
I am completely obsessed with the Martin Carthy/Norma Waterson family fund drive. Their music shaped my life & art.
Last night at 9,990 donations; now up to 10,950. People care! And thanks to
@elizacarthy
for giving us all the chance to say so. Keep 'em coming!
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Do you know what it isn't any more? It isn't that day. It's not Friday 13th, it's not the day after that thing. Let's rejoice...let's all pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, don binbags and PARTY LIKE WE'LL MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE IN THE END <3
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Absolutely heartbroken to see this go quietly through while everyone has had their eyes across the sea.
The consequences of this, the shortsightedness of it, for my industry during a time of real hardship-
Sorry, I’m normally more able to write coherently than this.
Bastards.
After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament.
We are delivering on the will of the British people.
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Very sorry to see
@NicolaSturgeon
go. She has always been a voice of reason in the UK, one of the few steady hands. Thanks Nicola. ✊🏻🏴❤️
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@yorkshirepost
Martin Carthy MBE’s irreplaceable Martin guitar has gone missing after a gig in Beverley tonight. It’s a Martin 000-18 MC signature edition in a soft black case, may have been found in the road. Please if found get in touch! We don’t yet suspect theft. Please RT ❤️
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This is absolutely outrageous. No one should be hounded out of their home for playing an instrument.
Defend the Right to Play Musical Instruments ✊🏻
twitter.com/FionaFeyMusic/status/1655140847870935040 - Sign the Petition! via
@UKChange
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Yes indeed. To the woman last night…I raise you the entire Albert Hall singing with Peggy, because that’s what she loves…and the person next to her with the violin…that’s me. Think I’ll leave this now and look ahead, thanks everyone for your much needed support today. ❤️🩹🌹🙏🏼🌟
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Been waiting for this beauty for a while! Here comes new Linda! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Linda Thompson announces new album 'Proxy Music' for June 21st.
Ft. Kami and Teddy Thompson, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Proclaimers, Ren Harvieu, John Grant, Rails, Dori Freeman, Eliza Carthy and The Unthanks.
Hear lead single 'The Solitary Traveller':
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He did champion me! Lovely lovely man, he came to the house to interview my parents and me for a television show he was presenting ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
🖤 John Peel died on this date in 2004
Most of my music collection is due to him
Today it’d be nice to think he’d champion prolific Folkies like
@IAMKP
@elizacarthy
@juliefowlis
@msimpsonian
Country like
@Dianajonesmusic
@LauraRCantrell
as well as Half Man Half Biscuit et al
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I’m afraid I’ll be jumping ship too if i have to pay for it. Years of work and friendships made, lost.
This time last year I had a blue tick that meant I was who I said I was ... now a blue tick is almost certainly an identifier of a political propagandist/bot ... I stayed here because it's a useful outlet to a significant following ... if X becomes paid for that goes too.
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The Robin Hood’s Bay Dinosaur has returned to its natural habitat. Who knew they could play the violin?
#naturereclaimstheearth
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You’ve never heard Dick Gaughan, Billy Bragg, Chris Wood, Leon Rosselson, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan…?
You never heard Ewan Maccoll, Hamish Henderson, Robert Burns? Karine Polwart?
The Scots have a massive tradition of political songs.
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Daddy filming in a former church in Lincolnshire...how pretty is this?
❤️❤️❤️
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The seventies before Thatcher? I’m in.
This is fine with me. The list of gigs I’d get to would be endless.
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There are definitely worse places to be locked down. Sun’s out, birds are birding, new EP plans...🌷🌸🌞
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Half my delighted face is very happy to tell you that NORMA WATERSON WILL BE APPEARING TOMORROW
@BarbicanCentre
for
@TopicRecords
80th birthday do!!! PLEASE RT AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!!❤️❤️❤️👑👑👑❤️❤️❤️
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The Daddy ❤️❤️🩹❤️
So wonderful to be in the presence of Martin Carthy very emotional
@elizacarthy
@MarryWaterson
@marcrileydj
@PaulHusband_
@badly_drawn_boy
@MHFolkShow
@IMcMillan
@SeanTaylorsongs
love this man
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Watching “Renegade Nell” on Disney+, and I couldn’t be more angry about the music. I’m just sick of the lack of imagination and almost wilful need to bypass traditional English music in OSTs.
Banjos. Old-timey fiddle. In 1705! JIGS!!!! Bloody jig after jig, and lame skipping…
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Behold! The revised poster for the
#queenofthewhirl
30th Anniversary Tour! So looking forward to seeing you, & playing our salty bangers!
Expect-
Whirly Whorl
Pretty Ploughboy
Stumbling On
Two Tears
Good morning Mr Walker
Accordion Song
The Snow it Melts the Soonest
& others!💥
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#thedaddy
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
There was a very special event
@oxford_brookes
University today.
@ThinkHumanFest
. The legend that is Martin Carthy gave the most beautiful insights into the essential force of music, and played with love and power.
@elizacarthy
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@BobBorsley
@theclawsoftime
No, I put my trust in someone who got himself arrested promoting equal treatment for everyone. And, among other Jewish voices who saw what was happening to him, this:
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@piersmorgan
Hahahahahaha! Of course they were, you massive one-argument pony and trapbag. Seriously, do you have any other opinions than the PC brigade shtick? Do everyone a favour and grow another idea, humongous idiotic twat.
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@Glinner
I stand with Billy. Women’s rights and transwomen’s rights are human rights. Placing them in opposition to eachother endangers vulnerable trans boys, too. Billy is right, it’s male aggression that is the problem. So we should get together to deal with that.
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New single OUT TODAY!!!
#hohoho
#thewassail
🔥❤️🎅🏽❄️🧑🏻🎄🎄☃️🌟❤️🔥
Fairytale of New York our new single and cover of the great Pogues song is OUT NOW!
Pre-order Glad Christmas Comes
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Oh my good God hahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
#NormaWaterson
❤️
@juderogers
@elizacarthy
A lovely piece of writing. Apart from the singing, my favourite NW moment is sitting near her and Martin at an Eliza Carthy concert in Whitby. EC: "This is a song I learned from my mum... who's here." NW (shouts): "You're doing it wrong."
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@veryfathomer
Right. Because people who do wonderful things for other people should never have things for themselves.
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Who is this person, and why do we cheer the decline of any kind of knowledge? Where is the pleasure in learning?
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