Spring'11

Posted by the parlour bard , Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:29




Martyn Bennett 1971-2005

Posted by the parlour bard , Sunday, 29 May 2011 11:34

A virtuoso scottish piper who fused traditional folk music with dance and electronica,
if he had not sadly died of cancer I think he would have become as influential as
Miles Davis or John Coltrane.
Here's a track of his called swallowtail I've set to some clips from the film man of aran.

Tomorrow never knows

Posted by the parlour bard , Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:44


I'm not a great beatles fan but somebody gave me a collection of unreleased
stuff, early demos, alternative takes and stuff that was just too weird to
release. I'm now hooked on it, here's a take of tomorrow never knows thats
almost like hip hop, its set to some clips from yellow submarine, turn up
the volume.

Posted by the parlour bard , Sunday, 22 May 2011 02:14

state censorship and youtube

Posted by the parlour bard , Saturday, 21 May 2011 03:10


the us and uk governments are asking youtube to take down videos
of their citizens engaging in lawful protest, and its happy to comply.
Google, youtubes owner has a track record of collaborating with the
chinese to censor the internet, now it is doing it in the west.
www.prisonplanet.com/government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protest-videos.html

There aint no end to this song baby

Posted by the parlour bard , Thursday, 19 May 2011 13:42

If only he'd stuck to playing in bars for
a few dollars