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John West's "Winster Gallup"

I've just seen this TV Ad which has irritated me greatly

http://www.john-west.co.uk/our-ads/no-drain-less-mess/

The only "annoying" thing is their attitude towards traditional music. :-(

I'll be buying fresh Tuna from now on.....

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Back for a while

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Oops, I should have said "Gallop" :-)

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Back for a while

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Come on, somebody tell the joke already...

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by gravelwalks

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Well Johannes, it sounds to me like yet another classically trained musician, trying to sound Trad! :-(

Look on the bright side, I'd rather see & hear good tunes being played on TV, {however badly ;-) } than not hear any at all.

& at least they're getting away from the old salty stereotype of the Concertina! :-)

Cheers
Dick

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Ptarmigan

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Or, they could have used the ~ 'Fresh Fish Blues'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATtz__l9S8

Cheers
Dick

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Ptarmigan

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I do like tuna but, sorry, no dolphins and no fiddles.

Also - Should he not have played the "B" part twice through? Seemed to me he did not, and this may have adversely affected the efforts of the dancing fisherman.

Cheers, matey.

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Rook

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Maybe a possible gambit for use at a session ....

"Let's have that tune again - this time without the annoying fiddly bit!" ... ;-

On a similar topic, did anyone catch that series "The Victorian Farm" that was screened on BBC TV recently?

In one episode, they were trying to catch a runaway pig. The background music was "the Merry Backsmith". Well, I never knew that pigs were fitted with horseshoes - but if they were, they wouldn't they be called "pigshoes"? ... :-)

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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Ahoy there,
Didn't you lot know Winster was near the sea?

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by geoffwright

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Winster Gallop and The Merry Blacksmith were tunes just made to be played comically to/by people wallying around in English TV adverts. My withers are un-wrung by any suggestion that this is subjecting them to heinous abuse!

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by nicholas

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Not sure what exactly "un-wrung withers" are nicholas, but I guess that any public exposure of the kind of stuff that we play is on balance a good thing ... :-)

And it makes a welcome change from the perennial dubbed bluegrass music that those TV programme and ad producers are so fond of .... :-(

One thing that really does get my goat though (withers and all) is the propensity for producers to dub Irish music onto any programme featuring Scottish mountain scenery ....

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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Ahoy there, Geoff! There's a Winster in Cumbria, but that's near L. Windermere. A big lake, admittedly - but hardly the sea. And I don't think that there's any record of tuna fish having been caught there.

But I had always thought that Winster (of Gallop fame) referred to the Winster in Derbyshire - and you couldn't get much further from the sea than there!

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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... Well, the Winster morris side (Derbyshire) have claimed it as theirs, anyway ...

http://www.winster.org/Morris/WinsterMorris.htm

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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Not nearly as offensive as their previous ad, demonstrating a cavalier disrespect for world ecology, and the defenseless, endangered Balmoral Bear in particular.
http://www.john-west.co.uk/our-ads/the-salmon-bear-advert/

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by oldstrings

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Talkin' of Bears, in the film 'The Longest Day' Peter Lawford (Lord Lovat) tells his piper to play 'Blue Bonnets (o'er the border) The piper strikes up with 'The Black Bear'

# Posted on February 28th 2009 by Free Reed

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Like you, Free Reed, I just can't "bear" it when they play the wrong tune ... ;-)

I trust that you reported this transgression to the Black Watch ... ;-)

# Posted on March 1st 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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According to a poster on Mudcat, the fiddler playing Winster Gallop on the ad is Anna Esslemont from the band Uiscedwr.

# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by DavyR

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http://www.uiscedwr.com/

She looks a lot bonnier than the fiddler in the TV ad.

# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by Back for a while

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.. and here is a link to that band's website:

http://www.uiscedwr.com/

Ptarmigan: perhaps you should ask Anna Esslemont if she is "a classically trained musician, trying to sound Trad" ... ;-)

.. 'tiz all a bit fishy ..

# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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(x-posted)

# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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Sorry, the Anna Esslemont reference was on the Froots forum, not Mudcat

http://froots.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4186

# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by DavyR

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Mix - I actually reported it to Film Data Base and it it now mentioned on the 'Goofs Section' appertaining to that particular film.

# Posted on March 3rd 2009 by Free Reed

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Well done you - and may your reeds may remain ever free ... .

We need to keep these journalists and producers on their toes ..

... and it might be interesting if you could post a link to it.

# Posted on March 3rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

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Some you Winster, some you don't.

# Posted on March 9th 2009 by geoffwright