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@CyndiAckermann 14 сағат бұрын
Wow, great interview with the very interesting artist on so many levels, Matthew Radford. I like the way you edited this video together. Clever how you mixed the narrative with intermittent displays of his great art along with compelling music selections. The last song ends it in a perfect way!
@NickBloomfield 3 сағат бұрын
Thank you Cyndi. Nice to hear praise from a professional and it's good to be appreciated for some of the techniques too. You even liked my song! To be honest, I only used it because it seemed to fit. I'm not precious about my music which is mostly just a bit silly.
@lone906 19 сағат бұрын
Great video and interview - powerful paintings.
@NickBloomfield 3 сағат бұрын
Thank you Lone. Matthew has become a good friend and I very much admire his passion and his work. Interviews can be fun...
@Jpmmasters 3 күн бұрын
So pleased you’ve put these up. Thanks!
@NickBloomfield 3 күн бұрын
Pleasure. Have you seen my Glennstonbury playlist on this channel. Plus there's a film coming of the whole thing which will be on here too.
@Jpmmasters 3 күн бұрын
@@NickBloomfield Hi Nick, I’m working my way through them in the evenings as a treat. I’ll be looking forward to the full video. Thanks
@NickBloomfield 2 күн бұрын
There may be a cinema showing to launch the full film so keep looking out. Nothing confirmed yet...
@Jpmmasters 4 күн бұрын
Legend
@NickBloomfield 3 күн бұрын
Certainly is!
@graham-v8y 10 күн бұрын
I worked in the restuarant below the cobweb/witch doctor. I used to take food up to the club. I met Donovan on the stairs(mellow yellow) and the Irish group Them. Some of the staff had been in Germany with the USA forces, and had a huge open top car Chevy impala? , bright blue and shiny! The group Unit 2 plus ten or some dumb name also played there. The whole building was built to be like a ship with cabins and lifts to all floors. No kitchens in the flats and stewards to bring food up, and a central dining room for more serious eating. A master piece of building now cut in half and sadly unloved.. Graham Frost.
@NickBloomfield 10 күн бұрын
A fascinating piece of social history. The first mention of Donovan being there too! Thanks Graham
@Luddite-vd2ts 13 күн бұрын
That performance is so stripped down and so absolutely beautiful as a result. This is the only song I've ever cried to and it affects me every time that I sit and listen intently to it. My eyes are watering now as I write this. Totally sublime lyricism. Words crafted to absolute perfection. This simple, heartfelt performance displays them so perfectly.
@NickBloomfield 12 күн бұрын
It is a great song! This performance, in particular...
@Groolcch 16 күн бұрын
Steve Marriott said he wrote the hits, but Ronnie Lane wrote their only American hit, Itchygoo Park. I will never stop missing The Small Faces.
@NickBloomfield 15 күн бұрын
Not quite true. Steve wrote the bridge as follows. A great Summer song Itchycoo Park (so called because of the stinging nettles.) was a bit of laugh from the small faces. They were not all hippy trippy but they thought it would be a laugh to make this. It also had some of the earliest flanging/phasing on the drums. Mostly written by Ronnie Lane who was inspired by the 'dreaming spires' of Oxford , Steve Marriott wrote the more basic verse for the bridge; I feel inclined to blow my mind Get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun They all come out to groove about Be nice and have fun in the sun I loved it then and now but I guess what sold it was the 'It's all too beautiful' chorus in 1967 which was very much the Hippy era. It was the only small faces single which ever made the top 20 in the US charting at number 16. It got to number 3 in the UK. They have always been my favourite band.
@rickyleigh2437 18 күн бұрын
Looks great!! Really peaceful, plus great track
@LucyHunter-sm8yw 24 күн бұрын
Beautifully explained and of much interest Nick. Plus, when you get a blue sky as blue as the ocean and an orange boat to enhance the colours of nature, then you’re on to a winner. Never knew the Seven Sisters story either x 🙏
@NickBloomfield 24 күн бұрын
I absolutely love the scenery and on such a day it was breathtaking as was the ride. One of the best days I've had in years xx
@LucyHunter-sm8yw 24 күн бұрын
@@NickBloomfield I concur completely with watching the footage x
@cheekona4058 25 күн бұрын
Great account and video of the history of Hastings Cliff Railways. Thank you for this virtual tour.
@NickBloomfield 25 күн бұрын
A Pleasure Sifu, glad you enjoyed it.
@ElizabethMortimore 26 күн бұрын
These lads are absolutely brilliant. Saw them at Harbour festival Bristol 🎉
@NickBloomfield 26 күн бұрын
Totally agree.
@joelfildes5544 29 күн бұрын
The UK’s Todd Snider !..YeeHawwww!
@NickBloomfield 26 күн бұрын
He's still American though and it was me doing the Yeehaws. I blame the beer...
@joelfildes5544 26 күн бұрын
@@NickBloomfield Aye,I realised after posting he was a yank (I’m married to a one !)…great stuff,and Christ knows how remembers all them lyrics…great stuff,cheers from Manc !
@NickBloomfield 25 күн бұрын
Even I was impressed and he'd had a couple of pints...
@saharmartinez6253 Ай бұрын
Incredible!!
@NickBloomfield 26 күн бұрын
Agreed.
@andywagstaff961 Ай бұрын
One of the best clubs I went to back in the 60's. Many fond memories.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
It does evoke a lot of happy memories for people...
@patriciathorpe8196 Ай бұрын
Great film.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
Indeed!
@o---rr-gh-tti9398 Ай бұрын
Bear Naked…👍
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
Must have missed that...
@CaptainOfTheLostWaves Ай бұрын
Art without expectation or limits becomes its own thing. This is the kind of performance you might see in the sub culture excesses of Glastonbury and not the usual fayre that is streamed 24/7 via the BBC … it’s the antithesis of Coldplay one might conclude? Beautiful story and full of hope, redemption and grace. Great film work too Nick and the atmosphere and set up feel tangibly otherworldly and infused with the fairy dust of possibilities x 🙏
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
It is a great story!
@fins59 Ай бұрын
Wow, this guy is awesome.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
Not bad at all...
@fins59 Ай бұрын
Very nice version, thanks for getting up at the crack of 2pm and recording it.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
They really are excellent!
@fins59 Ай бұрын
Is that the violets garden or the violence garden? Doesn't matter really, I think I may have just found my tribe.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
That's pretty much how I feel...
@fins59 Ай бұрын
I must dig that LP with it's round cover out, I feel like some Flake.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
In my place it's always Ogdens time...
@MarcelVanderBiest Ай бұрын
Ilja is the musical ambassador from Dendermonde, centre of traditional N.O. jazz music in Flanders.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
ja en hij is heel goed!
@lucypappas Ай бұрын
So glad I got to see you even though I didn’t get there to enjoy it live! x
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
They were great! One of the best at the festival in my opinion...
@lucypappas Ай бұрын
Praise indeed with that line up!
@RichardFlentge Ай бұрын
beautiful song
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
indeed.
@joelfildes5544 Ай бұрын
Lovely to hear a bit of Stanley Unwin on this rainy Manchester morning…cheers.(and see some sun!)
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
Agreed! There's a follow up which involves some all bran... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iOBzq8qBz8-nXZ8.html
@joelfildes5544 Ай бұрын
@@NickBloomfield more like a follow thru!
@2visiondigital Ай бұрын
Ah, This Mortal Coil. Now i know the author.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
He is a great writer...
@vanessanfowler Ай бұрын
Brilliant.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
Yes, it should be great!
@JT-rc7vx 2 ай бұрын
So much influence here. You can hear Ian Anderson carrying his torch into prog rocks future.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
It is so good.
@havefunbesafe 2 ай бұрын
Hats off to him.🎉
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
ha ha...
@keithskelton4914 2 ай бұрын
I've shared with several old friends 👌
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
It is still the best version that I've ever found.
@keithskelton4914 2 ай бұрын
I heard this tune & Roy Harper with my college friends first summer 71?? the vid in my head they are all smiling ✌ pass the rizlas ❤
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
I still remember the first time I ever heard it with a group friends and it was a similar experience...
@Drench3 2 ай бұрын
Very impressive
@NickBloomfield 2 ай бұрын
Isn't it.
@neilritson7445 2 ай бұрын
I play this with only two chords Cmaj 7 and Fmaj7 and it works so well....its beautifully simple.
@NickBloomfield Ай бұрын
Sounds interesting I may give it a try.
@junehunter1368 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much Nick. So privileged to be there but brilliant to be able to see it 'all' again ❤❤
@NickBloomfield 2 ай бұрын
I'm so glad you enjoyed it June xx
@junehunter1368 2 ай бұрын
Such a brilliant evening ❤
@NickBloomfield 2 ай бұрын
Wasn't it just. Still pinching myself that I was there...
@richardnewman5944 2 ай бұрын
A brilliant video 🙌🙌🙌 sorry about my voice 🙄
@NickBloomfield 2 ай бұрын
Ha Ha No problem Richard! Plenty more coming tomorrow - with your voice a bit too...
@YorkyOne 3 ай бұрын
In what way is a late 18th century chimney sweeps custom (the point of which was to make some money) 'ancient pagan'?
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
This was my first visit to the festival and I mostly copied the idea from local sources including the phrase ‘ancient pagan'. I also got in trouble with words I used later on suggesting that it was a good excuse to dress up and have a few beers. I have since carried out some proper research and filmed it a bit more comprehensively. Your ‘chimney sweep’ origin though is not terribly ‘all encompassing’ either. The Jack in The Green or Green Man theories may predate Christianity. It is certainly a symbol of the start of Summer. If you check out my playlist kzfaq.info/sun/PL6M1IvdjEIj10y1_cTcRG8yg8Y-U7ctij You will see that the festivities start at dawn on the first of May up on the West Hill. Jack in the Green, also known as Jack o' the Green, is an English folk custom associated with the celebration of May Day. It involves a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework that is decorated with foliage being worn by a person as part of a procession, often accompanied by musicians. The Jack in the Green tradition developed in England during the 18th century. It emerged from an older May Day tradition-first recorded in the 17th century-in which milkmaids carried milk pails that had been decorated with flowers and other objects as part of a procession. Increasingly, the decorated milk pails were replaced with decorated pyramids of objects worn on the head, and by the latter half of the 18th century the tradition had been adopted by other professional groups, such as bunters and chimney sweeps. The earliest known account of a Jack in the Green came from a description of a London May Day procession in 1770. By the 19th century, the Jack in the Green tradition was largely associated with chimney sweeps. In a 1939 article, Lady Raglan proposed that the Jack in the Green tradition was linked to the medieval church carvings which she described as the "Green Man". She further interpreted both the Jack in the Green and the Green Men as pre-Christian spirits of nature and fertility. Her interpretation was an extension of the ideas about fertility deities which had been promoted by the anthropologist James Frazer in his influential book, The Golden Bough. Raglan's linking of the Jack in the Green to the Green Man and pre-Christian belief systems took "direct inspiration"-in the words of historian Ronald Hutton-from the 1934 suggestion by folklorist Margaret Murray that the Sheela-na-Gig carvings found in medieval churches represented pre-Christian fertility goddesses. Whatever the origins and, no matter how pagan it is - or not, it is a highly colourful and joyful festival which is enjoyed by thousands of locals and visitors from all over the world.
@kathrynkluth 3 ай бұрын
Haunting...fab lyrics!
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
Powerful too!
@kathrynkluth 3 ай бұрын
Love this song!!
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
Me too!
@joelfildes5544 3 ай бұрын
I heard a tale about this song,the record company wanted to sign them on the back of this track,but…they wanted this song for Cliff Richard,they declined and had a massive hit anyways…that’s what I read anyways,you can imagine Cliff doing this.
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
Ha Ha. I can imagine but nowhere near as well!
@jazzigreycat 3 ай бұрын
Well done, Mike 😊
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
It was a great job!
@frogmaster83 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for this. I remember my older sisters talking about the club, but could not place it until now.
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it.
@RickHardcore 3 ай бұрын
Very well played my friends!! Love your sound!🎸
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
It is a good cover.
@ludovica8221 3 ай бұрын
The ex-boyfriend that introduced me to this song and to Roy Harper, whom I knew since we were 5 years old, was recently found dead in his home, and this song pops up to remind me of happy sunny days many years ago, and how we shall not meet again. Love you Min xxx
@NickBloomfield 3 ай бұрын
Even sad songs can sometimes have happy associations...
@ludovica8221 3 ай бұрын
@@NickBloomfield the sad meaning now takes over ...and the happy days are gone You dont think so much about the meaning of songs when youre young and caught up in a romance. When you are old and lonely the resonance changes. RoyHarpers genius was that he knew that as a young man too
@Luddite-vd2ts 13 күн бұрын
Believe that you will meet again. Every time I hear the album, The James Gang Rides Again, I'm reminded of one woman and one idyllic summer in my youth in the early '70's. I'll carry that to my grave. Music and memories and love do not die, they live on.
@christianspecht 4 ай бұрын
Eine geile Stimme 😮😮
@NickBloomfield 4 ай бұрын
Ich stimme zu
@philiphaigh8349 4 ай бұрын
👍
@NickBloomfield 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@quentik9619 4 ай бұрын
les algorithmes youtubes m'ont proposé cette chanson, il y avait 8 vues, mais ça en mériterait davantage. C'est très joli. Bravo ! (message venant de France)
@NickBloomfield 4 ай бұрын
Les algorithmes sont un mystère ! Je suis tellement contente que ça te plaise. Les vues sont maintenant de 79 car lorsque vous l'avez vue, la vidéo n'était sur KZfaq que depuis moins d'une journée. J'espère que beaucoup plus. Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire. Nicolas
@annaanise 4 ай бұрын
It was such a lovely night!
@NickBloomfield 4 ай бұрын
It was and you were great!
@RickHardcore 4 ай бұрын
Really good guys!
@NickBloomfield 4 ай бұрын
Agreed!
@daryllcornier4509 4 ай бұрын
Steve named the Royal Standard. Walthamstow. Brilliant circuit gig. I played it dozens of times with various bands over the years. Long gone unfortunately
@NickBloomfield 4 ай бұрын
Like so many wonderful old venues...