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New Message Posted!2013-06-16 22:56
A classic album cover that graced a classic album.Ladies and gentlemen I give you-Thunder and Consolation from New Model Army.The Celtic artwork is taken from a stone in Scotland,I believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjj0hHBvDg
New Message Posted!2013-06-12 19:59
One of a few songs by M4SK 22 featuring prehistoric sites, real and imagined, this example being the most blatant and symbolic.
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New Message Posted!2013-06-07 18:20
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9
The second movement alludes to “Stonehenge” and “Tess”, that is her arrest at Stonehenge in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. The symphony was composed in 1956-7, much of it while staying in the picturesque village of Ashmansworth in Hampshire, home of the composer, Gerald Finzi, and only 30 miles from Salisbury. It was first performed under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent on 2nd April 1958 only four months before Vaughan Williams death at the age of 86.
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New Message Posted!2013-06-07 18:08
Folk Band Titus play songs The Fat of the Land and Stanton Drew at Bexhill Museum
They will be playing there again on July the 5th.
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New Message Posted!2013-05-19 19:46
Another ancient sites inspired name, this time for Scottish artist Johnny Lynch who goes under the nom de plume The Pictish Trail. He used to live in Fife, hence the name presumably. He now lives in a caravan on the Isle of Eigg!
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New Message Posted!2013-05-17 20:27
What is it with heavy rock and prehistoric connections? Anyway it's a good link IMHO.
Wait for it: Dutch free-jazz/metal/grindcore duo Dead Neanderthals bring their incendiary noise to the UK's shores this week. In advance of their shows, they spoke with Stewart Smith about disjointed drums and a 'tongue-in-cheek' connection to jazz
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New Message Posted!2013-05-02 11:23
One from the Portal's archives. Vicky wrote in 2004: Purchasers of the latest single from flamboyant British Rockers, The Darkness - ‘Love is only a Feeling’ – are treated to a somewhat unexpected B-Side. Entitled the ‘Curse of The Tollund Man’ the song covers the demise of the prehistoric man discovered in a Danish Bog in 1950, in the tradition of true rock theatrics.
The song begins with the following lyrics, written by all four members of the band, and brought to life by lead singer, Justin Hawkins, in his characteristic, high pitch:
‘His actions were slated
His guts were hated
His day, night, his life
Should be truncated
His demise the townsfolk plotted
Ambushed, beaten garrotted
Curse of The Tollund Man….’
It’s not the kind of subject you expect to hear about in a rock song, but it works (of course it does, its perfomed by The Darkness).
The Darkness’s debut album, Permission to Land, released in July last year and winner of Best British Album at this year’s Brit Awards, also features the ghostly ‘Black Shuck’, the legendary black Hell Hound who claws at the Blytheburgh Church Door, a phantom familiar to many an earth mysteries enthusiast.
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New Message Posted!2013-04-29 19:06
One from a Mysteries angle - a hip hop group called Ancient Astronauts. Track Bass and Time featuring lots of samples from 'Ancient Aliens' TV programmes (or something)
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New Message Posted!2013-04-28 19:30
I wonder where these were taken?
An insanely heavy French band described as Celtic / Pagan Black Metal
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