Blyth Power are looking for funding to put out a new album. If you've got a few spare quid, let me try to convince you why this is a worthy cause. Here's Katherine's Will from their 1996 album Out From Under The King . The Katherine of the title is Katherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII, and it is her role to wait and to endure. The vile Henry is dying. Katherine, whose only power is to hate him, will soon be freed. She will finally be out from [...]
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. Margaret Thatcher For Margaret Thatcher, the enemy with was the UK trade union movement. She turned the full power of the state against the British people, and she will never be forgiven for this. It was a campaigned ostensibly fought under the flags of economics and democracy, but it reality it was borne of fear and hatred, and the exercise of [...]
I have a confession to make: I have no idea what the vast majority of Blyth Power's songs are about. I have been listening to them for years, can sing along with a healthy percentage of the lyrics, and love the sound of the words. It's just that I really don't know what they mean. Take Under the Sea Wind , for instance. It's possibly their best song, and this version, from the hard-to-find 1990 album Alnwick & Tyne , is an absolutely brilliant recording. Yet apart from the surface anti-clericalism I find [...]
Joseph Porter, lead singing and drummer of Blyth Power is a great songwriter. However much later Blyth Power songs sometimes seemed to be recycling old musical themes, it's impossible to ignore the vitality of the lyrics. Here's one of his finest, the closing track from 1988's The Barman and Other Stories . The treble on this vinyl rip of Goodbye to all That is a bit overpowering, but it doesn't stop the plangent, anthemic nature of the song coming through. Few bands would have written anthems about Robert Graves and the long [...]
"Chevy Chase" (All The Madmen, 1985) Cricket?? ...don't ask me, I know nothing! I could talk all day about football though, but football records? ...I'll change the subject quicker than you can say Twickenham. When others have failed spectacularly with records inspired by the beautiful game, somehow a bunch of anarchists-come-folkies nailed a killer tune about bloody cricket without needing a
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