tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post5589728115996653595..comments2023-08-08T11:48:10.725+01:00Comments on swisslet: I'll know my name as it's called again....swisslethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-64557330658004748952010-10-07T15:50:59.074+01:002010-10-07T15:50:59.074+01:00...and didn't this "folk bullshit" t......and didn't this "folk bullshit" take off at some point back in the mists of English History? The term itself has been around since the 19th Century, and the music for centuries before that. Johnny Flynn must be older than he looks.swisslethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-298327945518730952010-10-07T15:49:23.862+01:002010-10-07T15:49:23.862+01:00thanks for that anon. Like I said, perhaps I'...thanks for that anon. Like I said, perhaps I'm being unfair. As I say, I thought that actually their palate is much wider than just the folk edges and that they lose out by focusing their sound on that part of things, but I ultimately didn't find them very interesting on the evidence of the set I heard the other night. If you do, then I'm happy for you. Just expressing an opinion.swisslethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-73469286574658853812010-10-06T19:43:16.831+01:002010-10-06T19:43:16.831+01:00Footnote: Johnny Flynn had put out a few singles a...Footnote: Johnny Flynn had put out a few singles and been signed to Vertigo before Mumford & Sons started gigging properly (at the end of 2007).<br /><br />I'm fascinated by the crowd numbers and adoration they receive, having seen them get the biggest crowd all Latitude weekend and then observed the tumult up to half an hour before they came on at Summer Sundae (the trumpet being soundchecked got a huge roar!) It just seems to have happened under the radar, not even in a way that Marling has been able to capture.Simonhttp://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com