Well, I was idly flipping through the digital channels earlier this evening, and came across the opening minutes of a 'Wycliffe' episode - something about a Cornish folk band and unrequited love and a local legend - the band included union pipes, a bodhran, irish bouzouki, and I'm not sure what else.
Just curious - anyone we know in that band ? Apart from actual actors, of course.
PS Later this year I should be on tv in New Tricks, playing my guitar to a polytunnel of plants - got extra for using a 'special skill'.
I wondered about that too, "bc". There's a great tune on that recording with the wonderful title "The Hole In The Harper's Head" - in fact was that not the title of the record ? Maybe about time I posted a Cornish tune. I met the band many years ago at the Lorient festival in Brittany. Great bunch of musicians. Don't remember them having pipes, though.
Isn't it a rule that all cinema folk bands have to be the Chieftains?
GP, New Tricks is one of the very few shows I watch. I'll look closely for your presence. Unless......you really are Alun Armstrong?
Oh, caught the end of the show on the late night repeat, and they credited the band, and this morning the name's gone right out of my head............
Whenever the New Tricks episode comes on, I'm tending plants in the polytunnel, Alun Armstrong is chatting to me (very nice guy too, no side to him) , and then I pick up my guitar and play to them. They had a prop guitar, but I took along my second-best instrument to play instead. But I did another episode months earlier, as a person at a Real Ale festival, in a tweed jacket plus my long hair....versatile, eh ? But it's been a quiet year for me in the extras business, only just heard there's a big movie coming up, lots of hairy beardie people no doubt, but no idea of how many days I'll be doing on it, and the shooting will be about 4 months duration, so I have to wait and see what I get offered. They plan these things like a military operation, but the grunts only get told what to do at the last minute. And then they take a couple of months to pay you. At least you get fed every day you're working.
Finally looked it up on IMDB - all information you might ever want on film and tv - 'Scatter the Mud', folk band, it says. The only ones I could find by that name are Canadian, but then, they didn't say anything themselves, plus maybe it was a more local band but they wanted to remain anonymous ? Who knows ? Maybe the local bands weren't 'folkie' enough for the director, so he got in these other guys ? They sounded good enough on half-asleep hearing.
This 'Scatter The Mud' was an Irish Trad band based in Cornwall, that existed during most of the 90's. They played pub gigs in and around Cornwall, and apart from a few line-up changes, were made up of uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute and guitar/bouzouki.
I met up with the piper (Jerome) and fiddler (Dan) a while after the band had folded, and we played as a three piece for a few years. I'm still playing with Jerome regularly, as we both ended up moving to Ireland a while back!
As it was before my time, I can't recall how they got asked, but I think the director particularly wanted and Irish band rather than Cornish music. Maybe he just liked ITM!
Would that be the Jerome who comes from Lostwithiel and plays the pipes? Excellent fellow he is! If it is indeed he, he came to The Tree Inn a few times. Once or twice he turned up with an excellent fiddle-player, who may have been Dan but I can't recall his name. Be sure to remember me to him!
And just to show how small a world it is... the Canadian 'Scatter The Mud' included Gzeg, who haunted this very site at one point - he sent me a copy of their CD. Last I heard he had a problem with his hands, so may not lurk here any longer...
Steve - that sounded almost like a name drop. But it couldn't have been, knowing how much you despise name dropping in any shape or form. Phew. Good to know you're still so perfect and continuing to set a fine example. Thanks again.
BTW I'm down your way soon, so shove up and make way for flute player who has name dropped everyone except Michael Coleman.
What am I supposed to have said, mush? What name-drop and what have I said to make you think I think I'm perfect? You've got something seriously twisted here, old chap. My post was just a hello to someone I haven't seen for a while, not famous as far as I know but whose playing I appreciated. Take a paracetamol and have an early night.
Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Well, I was idly flipping through the digital channels earlier this evening, and came across the opening minutes of a 'Wycliffe' episode - something about a Cornish folk band and unrequited love and a local legend - the band included union pipes, a bodhran, irish bouzouki, and I'm not sure what else.
Just curious - anyone we know in that band ? Apart from actual actors, of course.
PS Later this year I should be on tv in New Tricks, playing my guitar to a polytunnel of plants - got extra for using a 'special skill'.
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
You mean they haven't got a Cornish bouzouki yet?
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
I used to have an album by a Cornish band called Bucca. Don't know if they're still going, but the lineup of instruments would be similar.
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by bc_box_player
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
I wondered about that too, "bc". There's a great tune on that recording with the wonderful title "The Hole In The Harper's Head" - in fact was that not the title of the record ? Maybe about time I posted a Cornish tune. I met the band many years ago at the Lorient festival in Brittany. Great bunch of musicians. Don't remember them having pipes, though.
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Kenny
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Isn't it a rule that all cinema folk bands have to be the Chieftains?
GP, New Tricks is one of the very few shows I watch. I'll look closely for your presence. Unless......you really are Alun Armstrong?
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by oldstrings
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Oh, caught the end of the show on the late night repeat, and they credited the band, and this morning the name's gone right out of my head............
Whenever the New Tricks episode comes on, I'm tending plants in the polytunnel, Alun Armstrong is chatting to me (very nice guy too, no side to him) , and then I pick up my guitar and play to them. They had a prop guitar, but I took along my second-best instrument to play instead. But I did another episode months earlier, as a person at a Real Ale festival, in a tweed jacket plus my long hair....versatile, eh ? But it's been a quiet year for me in the extras business, only just heard there's a big movie coming up, lots of hairy beardie people no doubt, but no idea of how many days I'll be doing on it, and the shooting will be about 4 months duration, so I have to wait and see what I get offered. They plan these things like a military operation, but the grunts only get told what to do at the last minute. And then they take a couple of months to pay you. At least you get fed every day you're working.
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Finally looked it up on IMDB - all information you might ever want on film and tv - 'Scatter the Mud', folk band, it says. The only ones I could find by that name are Canadian, but then, they didn't say anything themselves, plus maybe it was a more local band but they wanted to remain anonymous ? Who knows ? Maybe the local bands weren't 'folkie' enough for the director, so he got in these other guys ? They sounded good enough on half-asleep hearing.
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
This 'Scatter The Mud' was an Irish Trad band based in Cornwall, that existed during most of the 90's. They played pub gigs in and around Cornwall, and apart from a few line-up changes, were made up of uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute and guitar/bouzouki.
I met up with the piper (Jerome) and fiddler (Dan) a while after the band had folded, and we played as a three piece for a few years. I'm still playing with Jerome regularly, as we both ended up moving to Ireland a while back!
As it was before my time, I can't recall how they got asked, but I think the director particularly wanted and Irish band rather than Cornish music. Maybe he just liked ITM!
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Mike C
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Would that be the Jerome who comes from Lostwithiel and plays the pipes? Excellent fellow he is! If it is indeed he, he came to The Tree Inn a few times. Once or twice he turned up with an excellent fiddle-player, who may have been Dan but I can't recall his name. Be sure to remember me to him!
# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Steve Shaw
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
And just to show how small a world it is... the Canadian 'Scatter The Mud' included Gzeg, who haunted this very site at one point - he sent me a copy of their CD. Last I heard he had a problem with his hands, so may not lurk here any longer...
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by bc_box_player
Re: Cornish 'folk' band on tv......
Steve - that sounded almost like a name drop. But it couldn't have been, knowing how much you despise name dropping in any shape or form. Phew. Good to know you're still so perfect and continuing to set a fine example. Thanks again.
BTW I'm down your way soon, so shove up and make way for flute player who has name dropped everyone except Michael Coleman.
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by Alf Tupper
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What am I supposed to have said, mush? What name-drop and what have I said to make you think I think I'm perfect? You've got something seriously twisted here, old chap. My post was just a hello to someone I haven't seen for a while, not famous as far as I know but whose playing I appreciated. Take a paracetamol and have an early night.
# Posted on July 30th 2008 by Steve Shaw