| Myself and my wife attended this talk last night and had serious doubts if he had actually written the book himself or was a stand in for Andy as he did not seem to know his own book or what he was even talking about. The lecture started off badly when he was asked by Waterstones "what relevance is the music are you playing" to a puzzled look, a mumble and shrug of the shoulders. The first slide showed two local sites one being Coldrum Long Burrow which was good except the slides were named incorrectly, and I know as I was there a few days ago. A series of disjointed slides were shown with no commentary of value to the now bored audience and they were so disjointed they made no sense or reason. As the talk ended (thank god) we heard the couple behind us whisper "how much longer" before swiftly leaving, the gentleman sitting to my left had nodded off. He seemed unable to answer basic questions from the audience pertaining to Ley Lines/Star Alignments and several other points mumbling "they were add ons" In which case why put them in your book or show the slides. We got the impression the book is just a collection of pretty pictures with no explanation to how they were built, why or by whom. Needless to say like many others we left as soon as we could and did not buy the book based on this very poor, amateurish talk. The book may be great but Mr Burnham is no lecturer of public speaker. |
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| Re: Andy B Talks, Thurs: 21st March Canterbury, Thurs 4th April Rode nr Frome by Anonymous on Friday, 22 March 2019 | | I guess that amongst 100 attendees there might be a few "Ley Lines/Star Alignments" believers with a cynical attitude. What did the other 98% think? |
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Re: Andy B Talks, Thurs: 21st March Canterbury, Thurs 4th April Rode nr Frome by Andy B on Friday, 22 March 2019
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hello, thanks for the feedback, truth be told I wasn't expecting to be asked about the music - really just some atmospheric tracks I like, with no direct connection to the talk - so I just briefly said the track listing was on the web site if people were interested - there really wasn't anything else to add.
I am sorry the Kent megalith captions were switched, there were three photos/sites on one slide page shown in turn, which probably wasn't a good way to do it. The caption ordering should have been Chestnuts, Coldrum, Kit’s Coty rather than Coldrum, Chestnuts, Kit’s Coty.
That slide was really just setting the scene for the main focus of the local section I had added specially for the talk, which went into some detail on what I think is a really interesting and important Neolithic Long House close by to the White Horse stone - of which more information here in the comments on this page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6945
On the length, Martin from Waterstones had initially said keep it to under an hour, but when he saw my slides a few days before he insisted I keep them all as he thought it was so interesting. Partly it was longer than usual due to the addition of the above section on the longhouse.
I think the point from a member of the audience at the end was that the various ideas, eg acoustics, alignments, feasting, journeying, colours of stones and stars, cover a wide range of topics, and don't necessarily give a coherent single answer to what these sites were about. This is part of the point of the talk, and indeed the information boxes in the book on which it is based, to touch upon many different ideas and theories, rather than come along like some Graham Hancock character (on next week at Waterstones Canterbury incidentally)
I was asked in the questions to sum up what I thought my overriding idea of what the builders were doing and I said 'reverence of the ancestors', which I think was quite clear. I had an interesting comment afterwards that with all this interest in ancestors perhaps the builders believed in re-incarnation, which I've not seen suggested before and is food for thought.
When asked about archaeoastronomy (sorry I mean 'skyscape archaeology!') I agreed some of it was quite speculative and that I didn't think it wasn't the central point of these monuments - and not the main focus of archaeologists' work on them either - that being the point of the 'add on' comment - I think it's an extra dimension to their design, not the be all and end all.
Although I find local alignments significant, and touched upon them in several places, including the orientation of Gaby Burns' carved boulder monuments, I can't pretend I'm a fan of country/continent wide ley lines, what more could I say. Incidentally the link to Gaby's free book - well worth a look - is here http://www.cavanburren.ie/
Can I also link you towards a review of my talk by the Devon Dowsers, which was substantially the same talk, minus the Kent additions:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=608079869647795&id=586677695121346 |
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Re: Andy B Talks, Thurs: 21st March Canterbury, Thurs 4th April Rode nr Frome by AngieLake on Saturday, 23 March 2019
(User Info | Send a Message) | Referring to that link at the end: if anyone is reading it without going down to the comments underneath the review of the Dowsers talk in Devon, note that I do not dowse from maps, but on the actual sites themselves. That was an error by the review writer.
Angie Lake. |
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