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The Lindisfarne Appreciation Thread

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(This could go tits up as I'm banking on Ninjaboy as the only actual support)

Anyway, Lindisfarne, from the folk/rock mould just up the road and named just over the road and short hope over the water from me

Some excellent songs Meet Me On The Corner", "Lady Eleanor" and "Run For Home" and the anthemic "We Can Swing Together

Run For Home being my favourite, there's something deep about that

Then of course theres Fog On the Tyne (with that pillock) which is probably a good example of a novelty folk song gone scarily big

Alan Hull, was a great writer and its a long 11 years since he passed, and 3years since the last official show

They're huge in Germany too!

Anyway, Lindisfarne

Beautiful Island, Beautiful Band
 
Im sure my mum was dating someone in the band or maybe he did a tribute band.........i will check...

anyway whats that song the popular one....
 
Its either Fog on The Tyne or Run For Home (which was used in some huge commerical that escapes me right now)
 
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for home, run as fast as i can OOOOOOOOO im a running man, running from homeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

cool, reminds me of being a nipper!!!
 
i saw them at the fleadh years ago, i was watching bob dylan, and he was cunting awful, so i went over to the small tent, squeezed in, lindesfarne were just starting, fantastic gig, we were all mostly dylan refugees and lindesfarne played a stormer:cool:
 
I love the fact that "Meet Me On The Corner"is all about buying acid and Radio 1 used to play it all the time.:cool:
 
I remember when I was at infants school, I think one of Lindisfarne was dating my teacher* at the time. He (and maybe others) used turn up now and again and they'd do a few acoustic tunes for us.

*The gorgeous Betsy. :)

Black hair, pigtails, about 20, possibly American. Drove a metallic turquoise/green VW Beetle... *sigh*. :oops: :D (-I was only about six years old though, so I can accept that she only had eyes for the singer in a highly successful band, rather than little ol' me. :D )
 
Alan Hull's daughter used to be my sisters best mate.She was always sleeping at our house for some reason.I didn't even know who she was at the time.They did knock a few good tunes out.
 
Lindesfarne are/were excellent and this thread has reminded me of how much - have just bought some tracks from iTunes to enjoy later:D
 
janeb said:
Lindesfarne are/were excellent and this thread has reminded me of how much - have just bought some tracks from iTunes to enjoy later:D
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i just did the same:cool:
 
there was a short series of programmes on BBC4 a while back that covered the whole history of the folk scene. My Amazon wishlist grew significantly at that time but it's self-destructed :(

No doubt the documentaries will get repeated at some point ...

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I like some of Lindisfarne's stuff. So long as you can erase all memories of their catastrophically bad decision to re-record 'Fog On The Tyne' with with that gurning buffoon Gazza, they produced some excellent folk tunes.

Some of their lyrics were excellent too, and how's this for a top anti-road building tune?

Councillors, magistrates, men of renown
Who needs to live in a dirty old town?
Yes, go on, tear it down

Who needs the trees and the flowers to grow?
We can have a motorway with motorway dough
I know, I know, I know, they've got to go

Tear them down, mess them round
Make a mockery of all of the ground
And if you ever have a sleepless night
Just count out your money, it'll be alright

Politicians, planners, go look what you done
Your madness is making a machine of ev'ryone
But one day the machine might turn on

We'll tear you down, mess you round
And bury you deep under the ground
And we'll dance on your graves till the flowers return
And the trees tell us secrets that took ages to learn
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They were supposed to be really good live too.

Alan Hull RIP.
 
I saw them a few times in the 80s and they were brilliant live. (Check out "Magic in the Air")

Best time was at the Belfast Folk Festival in about 1985 - supported by Davy Spillane and Melanie Holland. It was mushroom season and we were all well away with the fairies. Great party atmosphere but I've never seen so many drug squad officers at one venue!! When we got home later my mate's cat gave birth to kittens.

Alan Hull and Ray Jackson are dead now I think - shame. My mate's uncle still goes drinking with the drummer up in Whitley Bay.
 
Jeff is a huge fan, and used to run a Lindisfarne website. IIRC they had no website of their own at the time - this is nearly ten years ago - and his was regarded as semi-official. Certainly, he ended up going drinking with the band once or twice when they played in the Hull area.

I've never been that big a fan, although they did do some good stuff. Alan Hull was a great songwriter. :cool:
 
I didn't know Ray Jackson had died?
I worked with his daughter for a while about nine years ago. He was a great musician, played the mandolin solo on Rod Stewart's Maggie May hit.
 
I was just looking up the late Alan Hull and came across this story about Lindisfarne's fabulously disastrous tour of the US:

They went to America in 1972 and toured for a year, struggling to make a living on a wage of a dollar a day. "That's what Stratton-Smith paid us," recalls Colson, "We were out there for six months while their album was No 1 in the UK. We thought we could break America but it didn't really work out".

Most Americans were stoned on pot in those days and Lindisfarne were a drinking band so people didn't really understand them. Alan wasn't shy of the odd drink, but he always had a bacon sandwich in the morning to restore his electrolyte balance. He said he had to get the salts back into this body that the beer had taken out.

The band were reduced to playing half-hour versions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" to keep audiences happy who knew nothing about fog and cared less about the Tyne. Lindisfarne plugged on, supporting the Kinks at Carnegie Hall and such acts as Taj Mahal and Tim Buckley. At the tour's end, it transpired that Lindisfarne owed money. It was the last serious attempt to sell Hull's music to America.
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:facepalm:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-alan-hull-1582853.html

blossie33 - Ray Jackson is still alive! In 2003 he took Rod Stewart to court over the mandolin solo he played on Maggie May. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2816253.stm
 
Thanks for reminding me.
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An old favourite I must dig out.
 
Sittin' in a sleazy snack-bar
Snuckin' sickly sausage rolls
Slippin' down slowly, slippin' down sideways
Think I'll sign off the dole
'Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine

Could a copper catch a crooked coffin maker
Could a copper comprehend
That a crooked coffin maker's just an undertaker
Who undertakes to be a friend
And the fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine

Tell it to tomorrow, today will take its time
To tell you what tonight will bring
Presently we'll have a pint or two together
Ev'rybody do their thing

We can swing together, we can have a wee wee
We can have a wet on the wall
If someone slips a whisper that its simple sister
Slapped them down and slavered on their smalls
'Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine ....
 
editor said:
I was just looking up the late Alan Hull and came across this story about Lindisfarne's fabulously disastrous tour of the US:



:facepalm:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-alan-hull-1582853.html

blossie33 - Ray Jackson is still alive! In 2003 he took Rod Stewart to court over the mandolin solo he played on Maggie May. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2816253.stm
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Thanks Ed, glad to hear that!

Interesting about the Maggie May thing - wonder if anything came of his claim (probably not!)
 
Sad to hear that Lindisfarne founding member, Simon Cowe died at the beginning of the month.

Simon Cowe, one of the founder members of North East folk rock band, Lindisfarne has died.

The guitarist, who had made Canada his home for many years, had been ill for some time, according to an official statement on the official Lindisfarne website, which read: “It is with great sadness that we have to tell you that our dear friend and colleague Simon Cowe has died yesterday, 30th September.

“Simon had been ill for some time, and was being cared for in hospital in Toronto, a city he had made his home since the early nineties. At the moment we don’t have the words to express how we feel. Our thoughts are with his children Jessie, Dylan, and Bernadette.”

Much-loved Lindisfarne founding member, Simon Cowe dies after a long illness
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He certainly rocked a wild image in the 70s:

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If he was responsible for 'Lady Eleanor' there can't have been too much wrong with him. Especially with a haircut like that. RIP.
 
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