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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Let's talk about death discs 15 hours, 16 minutes ago
Pavane for a dead infanta, played by one of the best interpreters of Ravel.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Come on ye wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beasties! 1 day, 15 hours ago
It will come as no surprise that I am at a Burns Night on the nearest Saturday, every year, in a late medieval town house in the middle of Chester. I don’t think a soul there has any Scottish connection, but it’s […]
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Come on ye wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beasties! 1 day, 15 hours ago
We had him booked for the folk club last year, but had to postpone for the obvious. Looking forward to the time.
Here’s someone who came a few years ago. Such voices!
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Tubular Bells 2021 – when an artist makes a comeback in absentia… 1 day, 15 hours ago
I just plucked a random CD out yesterday and it was TB3. Utterly pointless. But he only sold to civilians if he put the TB brand on it.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Keyharp solo in the Toledo snow: Danza de los Carámbanos 1 day, 15 hours ago
My fanclub network spreads wide!
Don’t you love the way the French pronounce Chester, or anything, for that matter? Bet she’d struggle with Frodsham, mind.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Let's talk about death discs 1 day, 15 hours ago
Death Cab for Cutie
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Let's talk about death discs 2 days, 4 hours ago
Now look here, I sing folk ballads. I could be here all day.
So here’s some country and western instead.Body count = 12
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Keyharp solo in the Toledo snow: Danza de los Carámbanos 2 days, 19 hours ago
and here’s some big baldie bloke who has finally ended up on the internet
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Priti says we can have a knees-up as long as there's no more than 15 of us. 3 days, 1 hour ago
Yes, I recall the odious Rod Liddle arguing against the third runway at Heathrow as I means of controlling the ingress of infectious foreigners. Every now and then, their basic instincts align with what is […]
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Keyharp solo in the Toledo snow: Danza de los Carámbanos 3 days, 1 hour ago
What an extraordinarily handsome bloke that is leading the an dro.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Keyharp solo in the Toledo snow: Danza de los Carámbanos 3 days, 13 hours ago
This has brightened many many months.
I referred to this on another thread as my first foray into learning a song in breton. To sing the song has been a joy, but the next step, literally, is to get the dance […]
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, I Am So In Love With This Woman My Toes Crimp 3 days, 13 hours ago
Tough on the causes of Crime of the Century.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Priti says we can have a knees-up as long as there's no more than 15 of us. 4 days, 2 hours ago
I’m going with the ‘surely not’. I’ve had accusations of racism and sexism thrown at me and I’m not having it; I recognise them for what they are, having been lifted straight from the Spiked Online playbook. […]
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Sea shanties? 4 days, 15 hours ago
This just in.
though an insider tells me that the decision was also coloured by the fact that the G7 are meeting in Carbis Bay and all the accommodation in Falmouth has been hoovered up by the press corps who […]
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, I Am So In Love With This Woman My Toes Crimp 4 days, 15 hours ago
Kamala Police, arrest this man.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Sea shanties? 5 days, 2 hours ago
Talking of full time shanty singing, my paper this morning tells me that Nathan Evans has quit being a postie, to capitalise on his TikTok fame. I fear he may be overestimating the lifetime earnings potential of […]
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Tennis: Australian Open: celebrity v quarantine 5 days, 3 hours ago
I’ve been in Melbourne in January. Oh God yes, it’s a thing.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Priti says we can have a knees-up as long as there's no more than 15 of us. 5 days, 12 hours ago
The i is keeping me informed on the cronyism too, but why would the Mail, Express etc hold them to account? That’s not what PR companies are for.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Is this set to be the new normal in UK employment? 1 week ago
But worse, they decide they have to persuade a whole load more people to join them for the ride. And post fake news about empty hospitals. It’s so hard not to wish that they catch the virus.
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thecheshirecat commented on the post, Sea shanties? 1 week ago
This is a common theme, not just of shanties. The simplified story goes that the upper middle class Edwardian collectors went round the countryside recording the working class natives, (then publishing the […]
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