howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
did anyone see them today in the town centre?
superb music.
i have now completely forgiven them for the way they treated custer.
i urge all dovorians to follow suit.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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#2
I'm not quite sure why I'm commenting because I have no real issues with these performers, people enjoy the music and I wish them well, but I just find the whole thing a bit naf.
It's sort of like ethnic karaoke with people reproducing something that never really existed in the first place (for example the backing tracks have bass guitar on them). It is just my own silly problem and they are good street performers but the whole thing doesn't sit well with me. The way the thing is presented as 'authentic' as the performers conceal a mixing unit under an animal skin and stomp on an effects unit with their moccasins and then head off to their semi detached in their ford focus.
#3
But that's how music develops. Trad irish music still exists, but there is some fabbo music out there that blends trad irish with electric and jazz and blues. It's called entertainment. If you want history go to the museum - it's fabbo too!!!
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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#4
This is my issue Bern, it is neither development or tradition.
As for entertainment, some regard Britney Spears as this!
#5
Say it ain't so..........
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
They couple often peform in the local towns, touring around Folkestone, Canterbury and other places. I think they must 'do their stuff' in Dover once a month or so during the summer.
I expect if you got talking to 'Chief Running Deer' and his squaw you'll find they are probably really Duncan and Hilda from Strood.
#7
I don't understand the prblem: we don't expect Ian McKellen to actually be Estragon, or Barbara Windsor to work behind the bar in a pub. it's entertainment.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Bern,
I always expected Ian McKellen to actually be a grey wizard from Middle Earth. I was quite disappointed to find out he is actually a human RSC thesp with no magical powers. It ruined the trilogy for me when I found out, and now I refuse to read the books because none of it smacks me as realistic any more.
. Oh, on that note I saw an interview with Leonard Nimoy the other day and found he doesn't have pointed ears. That's ruined Trek for me too.
Good luck to the musical native Americans, they are good at what they do and always pull a small crowd.
#9
Actually, I can still feel the pang of disappointment when I realised that Emu was actually a part of Rod Hull, so I am with you Phil.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#10
emu wasn;t real?
pull the other one, much as emu did with michael parkinson.
a word of advice here, if the bloke in the singing duo offers to give you a haircut, tell him to clear off.