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?!?

Comments

[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 :-)