Comments on: ratcatchers

by: Greg Stephens

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:16:23 +0000

No, it’s not available, it was a number we recorded but never issued. Come and buy me a pint some time and I’ll run you off a copy on CD. The Anglo-Swedish group Swap(with a little o over the a) has also recorded this tune, slightly bizarrely in the second half. Either I made a slip when I wrote it out for them, or they misread my notation. It’s good, though!

by: Richard

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:05:39 +0000

It certainly is a cracking tune Greg, really stirs the blood when you hear it. Is your recording of the tune available in all good record shops (as they say)? I’d be interested to hear it.

by: Greg Stephens

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:04:03 +0000

Well, I do know a lot Cumbrian tunes, and I did give this tune to Eliza C, but I dont think there’s anything wildly Cumbrian about it. I recorded it years ago when living in Lancaster, which is only ten miles out of Cumbria!!
A great tune isnt it, wherever it started?

by: Richard

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:41:31 +0000

Ah, well the sleevenotes implied that the tune comes from the North West of England - so I took that to mean Cumbria. I suppose it could be Lancastrian. But it sounds Cumbrian to my ear.

by: Greg Stephens

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:25:58 +0000

What makes you think Cobbler’s Hornpipe is a Cumbrian? I collect Cumbrian tunes, so I am interested.
If you read the sleevenotes to Rough Music, you will know who I am
Cheers
greg Stephens

by: Richard

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:52:32 +0000

Your brother obviously has excellent taste. You can tell him that from me. I am an expert on such matters after all. *ahem*

by: Daisy

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:38:37 +0000

Ah my brother has been raving about it too, I’ve added it to the “list of cds to bring with you when you visit or don’t bother coming”