#bellowhead

Beyond Paradise first Christmas special

Christmas Eve is the time to settle down and wrap those final presents, and what would be nicer than watching the first Beyond Paradise Christmas special? As the countdown to Christmas begins, residents of Shipton Abbott are left stunned as a string of bizarre burglaries occur overnight. When DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi) investigate the break-ins, it…

Forgive me!

I just can't help myself lol....

Here's a load of cuteness for you guys..

“Daniel Decatur Emmett wrote Jordan [Roud 2103] in the 1850s... This curious song, with its rollicking and defiant humour, was used to make political and social comment and a variety of jokes... It appeared in several broadside versions and was sung on both sides of the Atlantic, but we've only found the surreal imagery of the first verse in English versions. By changing ‘ladies’ to ‘lady’ in the third verse, the song gained a new immediate relevance when Thatcher was in power.” [x]

Hey, @we-are-swashbuckler and @we-are-knight and... people who are good with accents, could I ask for some help? I think that in the first verse, Bellowhead changed the “John Bull” of earlier versions to “John Ball”. Am I hearing it right? Here’s their album version for reference.

Bellowhead - Jordan

I looked to the east, I looked to the west And I saw John Ball a-coming according With four blind horses driving in the clouds To look at the other side of Jordan

Pull off your old coat and roll up your sleeves Jordan is a hard road to travel, I believe. 

Thunder in the clouds, lightning in the trees What do you think that I told him? It's goodbye, son, till the next kingdom come And I'll meet you on the other side of Jordan

The ladies of England have made a big address About slavery and hardships according They better look at home to their own white slaves They're starving on the English side of Jordan

There were snakes in Ireland not many years ago Saint Patrick saw the vermin all a-crawling But with his shillelagh he hit 'em on the head And he drove them 'cross the other side of Jordan

List ten songs you’re currently grooving on, then tag ten people to do the same.

(About half of these are the soundtrack to something I may or may not be writing - ie, something that I SHOULD be writing but haven’t started yet). 

Roll Alabama - Bellowhead

A song about a British pirate ship that fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. (No, really.) And even though I will always be furious with this band for splitting up before I could see them play live, this video does an excellent job of capturing what must have been the bliss of their live shows.

(Also: Bellowhead is the most kickass name for a band in the whole of ever.)

Bully in the Alley - Kimber’s Men

As one commenter said, John Bromley’s got the voice of Poseidon himself, and everybody else filling up that whole hall really makes the song ring.

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Mainly I’m obsessed with the intro. The layering is almost orchestral: the electric hammer-pull guitar riff foregrounds an approaching storm, heralded by a chorus of Southern-spiritual-style moaning, and punctuated by a thunderclap-fist of the bass drum. And when the rhythm guitar starts at 50 seconds in, the riff is finally complete and perfect, and you know why Malcolm Young was and always will be the heart and soul of this band.

Leave Her Johnny Leave Her - Coda

A gentle, lovely song for saying goodbye.

Row On Row On - Kimber’s Men

This song was originally a poem, written about the crew of a whaler that sank in 1820. They lingered for 95 days in lifeboats until they were rescued, and out of a crew of 20, only 8 survived. (Here’s another version with the backstory.)

A beautiful hymn to anyone struggling to hold on, especially when they can’t see the dawn beyond the night. Hold on another day.

I was tagged by @haulaway - I’mma tag some folks who’ve recently left notes on my blog (and whose Tumblrs will let me tag them, grrr). If you want to do it, cool, consider yourself tagged. If not, no stress:

@sherlockspeare, @pantherpause, @noadventureshere221b, @hellolovelyscientist, @dwellerinthelibrary, @downtherabbitholeproductions, @gritsinmisery, @liria10, @misocrickette, @penguinsweaters

*part 1 because Tumblr is an asshole and will only let me post 5 videos at a time, the puny fascists