Thursday 15 February 2018

Folk in the south

Follow The Lost Cavalry around venues and it seems you unearth musical delights.

A Valentine’s event last night brought a number of folk acts together to folk about.

Salt Moon

This three piece combine cello, double bass and electric guitar with a female singer.

The style is occasionally reminiscent of Fairport Convention.

The songs tend to the tongue in cheek and melancholy, even when ‘love songs’, the vocal itself unquestionably strong for the style.

The Lost Cavalry

Again they performed well.

The arrangement is creative without being sloppy and the vocal performance really is hard to match.

Some of the songs tone have hints of Kurt Cobain, unusual for a lead singer who often sings beyond the rafters.

Patch and the Giant


These guys were the last to perform and a real treat.

They will be playing in Brighton tonight at ‘The Folk Room’, afraid all the details I have.

You will be treated to layered folk styles, unexpected brass and a haunting melancholy.

I would urge you to check them out in Brighton if you are free.






Wednesday 14 February 2018

Valentine’s for the world

Today is St Valentine’s Day, I won’t go into the story today, you can find it out in your own time.

On this day so often linked to love the news has exploded with more stories of sabre rattling in the U.S.A and North Korea.

Those at the Olympics are launching themselves into the sky from ski slopes and snowboarding half pipes in spectacular style.

Yet the powers that be in North Korea and the U.S.A feel it is far more important to threaten something horrendous.

Hydrogen bombs have been condemned across the world, we really need no more.

Destruction on that scale helps absolutely no one.

If you are good at Oragmi and you do not have anything else peaceful to do I suggest you take the Japanese example and start making collections of Oragmi shapes.

No one ever got more than a paper cut from Oragami.

Have the best day possible.

I really would recommend watching some of the Olympics.