Saturday 8 June 2013

EVENSONG. JUNE TABOR AND MARTIN SIMPSON, STRANGE AFFAIR BY RICHARD THOMPSON

15 comments:

the noblest prospect said...

Sometimes, just sometimes, others can dip into Maestro Thompson's oevre and nail it. Like here.

Haven't listened to A Cut Above for a while, Mr Smith, thanks for reminding me. Brenda take note, eh?

call me ishmael said...

Yes. it happens now and again, but often it doesn't work, Dave Gilmour and Dimming of the Day, for instance, global superstar but like a fish out of water with something more subtle than his usual fare.

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DtP said...

Never trust a bird with a deeper voice than your own - it's the friction, you see? On a lighter note - did a side bar evening with Richard Thompson last night. Rather groovy. Getting tickets for Wizz Jones on the back of it - date type shit...hmmm...romance? Doubt it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDsQSOf6_ow

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"Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was recommended this blog by my cousin.I am not sure whether this post is written by him "

I am not reading this. The man who lives next door is reading it for me.

Arthur

slow service said...

why have you moderated my comment on the sinead thread, are you working for fawkes and the cia?

concerto in cia (part one) said...

(this comment is intended for the following, unjustly moderated, mr ishmael blogpost:

evensong dick the prick's blues)


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ok, on the balance of evidence provided, it does seem that ms o'connor is something of a wacked-out one-trick wassock, but surely it's her mate bono about whom we should be more deeply concerned...

...according to this delightfully discordant critique by george monbiot, the godfather of irish rock's greed-for-gratefulness, underscored by his grossly grandiose presence at the high-table of white-condescension-to-aid-blacks, has been blocking-out the grassroots protests of ordinary african farmers, who, as a result of g8 'initiatives' promoted by the new alliance for food security and nutrition, are not only being subjected to rapacious land-grabs by western multi-national companies, but are also being forced to buy these new-wave colonialists' cripplingly-expensive genetically-modified seeds...

basically, bono's brutally-biased sonic-boom has been drowning out the unamplified voices of smallholder farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, and environmentalists right across africa - obviously afro-fugal obama would far rather listen to the commercially manipulated meanderings of a dozy white twat like paul david hewson kbe than real african agriculturalists, who, given equal access to their maladministrative american uncle, would more likely love to tear a thousand strips off the neo-colonial protectionist prick, one-by-one, before feeding the end-product to their local band of honey-badgers as a form of pertinent yet somehow politically-correct fertility sacrifice.

instead of campaigning for a free-market where individual africans have the right first to feed one-another and then export their surplus goods to america and europe for potential personal profit, mr pro bono appears to be lobbying for the god-given right of rich multi-national western corporations to exploit the very people for whom he claims to care - and so today, at last, we see the long impoverishing curtain of protectionism pulled-down but at a price which will surely enslave africans forever-and-a-day; after the long sentence of slavery and colonialism, africans are finally permitted to export their produce to the rich nations, but only if the fat white controllers harvest all the plump profits.

bono cynically patronizes africans with complex offers of aid and charity, when in fact what the common african man and woman really wants is very much more simple: justice, and the freedom to trade on equal terms with their western counterparts. the guy seems infinitely more interested in schmoozing upto, and jumping into bed with, big-brother-in-business than genuinely helping his black brother in dire straits - does this jazzy-jerkoff realize that the mau mau uprising and subsequent commission of retaliatory genocide by churchill's officers was originally precipitated by oppressive colonial control of prime kenyan farmland which left the kikuyu tribespeople living in utter destitution?

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concerto in cia (part two) said...

(this comment is intended for the following, unjustly moderated, mr ishmael blogpost:

evensong dick the prick's blues)


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as an irishman, shouldn't bono understand the devastating effects that this manner of obsessive suppressive micromanagement, and de facto enslavement, can have on a population? as the grandson of a kenyan torture victim, shouldn't president obama also appreciate the insidious significance of the new alliance policies which he supports? it's well worth remembering that the genocide in 1950s kenya was deceitfully dressed-up as a 'civilizing mission', as indeed was the iron-fist of colonialism the-world-over, gloved as it invariably was in the pure velvet of christianity...

rather than assisting in the continued corruption of the african continent, would not mr bono's time perhaps better be spent ensuring that ireland itself does not once again become a subjected colony of a larger (european) empire? maybe when he admires his image in the mirror, bono sees himself as a brother and spokesman for the african continent, maybe he should take off those dark glasses?

when pop-saints like bono are invited to dine with the devil, they become part of the problem, not part of the solution...

of course, i know for a fact that mr ishmael has been invited to dine at the big white house on the hill too...but declined in the traditional vernacular manner - bunged wealth being no temptation for someone as tight as a sheeps-arse-with-acute-anal-cramps, who can stretch a penny to feed himself and his entire family for an entire year, and who further possesses the electrolytic capabilities to gild a turd and pass it off to the financial times as a gold ingot.

now, to be fair, i could forgive ms o'connor for her exorbitant celebrity self-centredness, if only she could redeem herself...make the world a better place somehow...perhaps repair the altogether unattractive unrepentant condition in which her good friend bono finds himself...relinquish her self-imposed religious repression for just one moment...do something right...and knock the cunt out.

not that i condone violence or anything like that...

...but in this one case...

...maybe the exception would prove the rule...

hey, oh well...another g8 conference goes down the drain of decadent democracy.

miss onwonkiwigwo said...

@concerto in cia

yeah sis, kick 'im in the fuckin' nuts darling

(for the sake of world peace na wa)

Rupert said...

You have no idea how enlightening these last few posts have been. They have fascinated me.

call me ishmael said...

Thank you, mr rupert, for your kind words but the blog is not me, the blog is itself, which includes you.

call me ishmael said...

I do not work for anyone mr multi-names but I do try to respond to all who comment; if you do not see how obstructive and impertinent it is of you to deploy a different name wth every comment then I don't know what to do.

If I did delete your comment it will be because its nomenclature made it confusing and I took it as being from that bloke who has a mad cousin, or is his own cousin.

Just put your name at the top of the page, as you did in school, and make it the same name every time. I am too busy for all this gnomic shit. I have a government to bring down and a planet to re-order.

Bono is unspeakable; another one who doesn't know what his real name is, is he your role model?

miss onwonkiwigwo said...

@concerto in cia

now, to be fair, i could forgive ms o'connor for her exorbitant celebrity self-centredness, if only she could redeem herself...make the world a better place somehow...perhaps repair the altogether unattractive unrepentant condition in which her good friend bono finds himself...relinquish her self-imposed religious repression for just one moment...do something right...and knock the cunt out.

yeah sis, do us a favour, kick 'im in the fuckin' nuts darling

(for the sake of world peace na wa)

title du jour (when a name is not a name) said...

@concerto in cia (part two)

turd plated with iron pyrites, i presume?

@concerto in cia (part one)

gross? more grotesque.