Fairport Convention

[altariel]

Last night was the night that all good Cambridge crusties assembled in the Corn Exchange to laugh at jokes nearly as old as the band telling them. Oh, and listen to some folk-music-with-drum-and-bass. Amongst the classics, there was a new song by Chris Leslie about a man who travelled with Lord John Franklin, but the highlight of my evening was seeing this.

A bloody bass mandolin! Look at the size of it! (You can see it with the whole person attached here.) I mean, who knew such a thing existed?!?

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[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Crikey, that's enormous!

It sounds like a great evening.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I love the bit about it being fitted for a strap.

A good time was had by all :-)

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I want one. I love bass intruments, especially contrabassoons, which sound like old plumbing. I myself am a bass flutist (http://www.contrabass.com/pages/flutes.html), whenever I get the chance, which isn't often.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, beautiful things, those flutes. I've not heard a contrabassoon - bassoons sound a bit like plumbing!

The mandobass was brilliant, it had a great sound. She had plenty of stage banter about it, such as taking it on an EasyJet (cheapo) flight to Paris. It was booked under its own name: "Mandobass, James".

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous of you.

It was booked under its own name: "Mandobass, James".

*g* Yep, my brother-in-law-in-training books for himself and "Catherine" the Cello; Yo-Yo Ma's is apparently named Petunia.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think that website has links to downloading the music as MP3s, should you be desperate for some mandobass action...


"Catherine" the Cello; Yo-Yo Ma's is apparently named Petunia.

Lovely!

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Whoa!!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The funniest thing was that I didn't see it straight away, because there was an amp in the way. When Mr A. pointed it out, I nearly hit the ceiling. Not often a mandobass jumps out on you.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

It's self-propelling too?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Didn't you see the feet at the bottom of the first picture?

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

Is it related to The Luggage do you think?
A musical cousin perhaps?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love that idea!

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

That's the coolest thing I've seen all day!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it brilliant?! :-D

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

That's completely brilliant! Was played with a plectrum?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm now imagining a massive plectrum, like an Emperor-sized piece of Toblerone! She played it like a double bass, so far as I could tell. Got some good thumping sounds out of it by slapping on the strings too.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

I'm now imagining a massive plectrum, like an Emperor-sized piece of Toblerone!

That's what had me intrigued :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Sounds great, doesn't it? :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I bet you'd like the MP3 clips linked off the site.