Podcasts about Tam Lin

Roud 35 - TAM LIN Historical guest: Amy Leach Singer Guest: Piers Cawley   Email us: intheroud@singyonder.co.uk Find us on social media via our LinkTree   Your host: Matt Quinn Traditional versions: Betsy Johnston & Willie Whyte (same track) Duncan Williamson Eddie Butcher Modern performances: The Old Songs Podcast episode on Tam Lin with Jim Moray Mike Waterson Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer Moira Craig Ewan MacColl The Forgetmenauts Jon Boden - A Folk Song a Day The Imagined Village (Tam Lyn Retold) Frankie Armstrong Fairport Convention Seb Stone Amy Leach Anne Briggs Folk song recourses: Sing Yonder The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library Sussex Traditions GlousTrad Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches Jon Boden's A Folk Song A Day Andy Turner's A Folk Song A Week The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection   Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers: Veteran Records Topic Records Musical Traditions One Row Records    Other Folk Song/Music podcasts: The Old Songs Podcast Every Folk Song Folk On Foot Fire Draw Near Handed Down

Anna and Kim unpack the final arc of A Court of Thorns and Roses, focusing on Feyre's physical and emotional unraveling Under the Mountain. They break down the long-awaited moment between Feyre and Tamlin—one that feels passionate at first glance but ultimately lacks emotional depth or support. In stark contrast, Rhysand's morally gray but consistent actions—his intervention during trials, their first kiss, and quiet moments of care—signal a growing bond and emotional presence that Tamlin never offers. The episode also covers Feyre's final, devastating trial, her death and rebirth as High Fae, and Rhysand's unforgettable goodbye. It's a powerful lead-in to ACOMAF, setting the stage for Feyre's reckoning with trauma, identity, and what it truly means to be seen. We hope you love it, and we'll be back next week with ACOMAF Part 1!! ⚠️ SPOILERS for the entire ACOTAR series!  If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to ⭐ rate and review the show! Your support helps other book lovers

For those who haven't heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a forty-one-minute bonus episode available, on Judy Collins’ version of this song. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Erratum For about an hour this was uploaded with the wrong Elton John clip in place of “Saturday Sun”. This has now been fixed. Resources Because of the increasing problems with Mixcloud’s restrictions, I have decided to start sharing streaming playlists of the songs used in episodes instead of Mixcloud ones. This Tunemymusic link will let you listen to the playlist I created on your streaming platform of choice — however please note that not all the songs excerpted are currently available on streaming. The songs missing from the Tidal version are “Shanten Bells” by the Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” by A.L. Lloyd, two by Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, three by Elton John & Linda Peters, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow” by Sandy Denny and “You Never Know” by Charlie Drake, but the other fifty-nine are there. Other songs may be missing from other services. The main books I used on Fairport Convention as a whole were Patrick Humphries' Meet On The Ledge, Clinton Heylin's What We Did Instead of Holidays, and Kevan Furbank's Fairport Convention on Track. Rob Young's Electric Eden is the most important book on the British folk-rock movement. Information on Richard Thompson comes from Patrick Humphries' Richard Thompson: Strange Affair and Thompson's own autobiography Beeswing.  Information on Sandy Denny comes from Clinton Heylin's No More Sad Refrains and Mick Houghton's I've Always Kept a Unicorn. I also used Joe Boyd's autobiography White Bicycles and Chris Blackwell's The Islander.  And this three-CD set is the best introduction to Fairport's music currently in print. Transcript Before we begin, this episode contains reference to alcohol and cocaine abuse and medical neglect leading to death. It also starts with some discussion of the fatal car accident that ended last episode. There’s also some mention of child neglect and spousal violence. If that’s likely to upset you, you might want to skip this episode or read the transcript. One of the inspirations for this podcast when I started it back in 2018 was a project by Richard Thompson, which appears (like many things in Thompson’s life) to have started out of sheer bloody-mindedness. In 1999 Playboy magazine asked various people to list their “songs of the Millennium”, and most of them, understanding the brief, chose a handful of songs from the latter half of the twentieth century. But Thompson determined that he was going to list his favourite songs *of the millennium*. He didn’t quite manage that, but he did cover seven hundred and forty years, and when Playboy chose not to publish it, he decided to turn it into a touring show, in which he covered all his favourite songs from “Sumer Is Icumen In” from 1260: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Sumer is Icumen In”] Through numerous traditional folk songs, union songs like “Blackleg Miner”, pieces by early-modern composers, Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs, and songs by the Beatles, the Ink Spots, the Kinks, and the Who, all the way to “Oops! I Did It Again”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Oops! I Did it Again”] And to finish the show, and to show how all this music actually ties together, he would play what he described as a “medieval tune from Brittany”, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”] We have said many times in this podcast that there is no first anything, but there’s a reason that Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention’s third album of 1969, and the album other than Unhalfbricking on which their reputation largely rests, was advertised with the slogan “The first (literally) British folk rock album ever”. Folk-rock, as the term had come to be known, and as it is still usually used today, had very little to do with traditional folk music. Rather, the records of bands like The Byrds or Simon and Garfunkel were essentially taking the sounds of British beat groups of the early sixties, particularly the Searchers, and applying those sounds to material by contemporary singer-songwriters. People like Paul Simon and Bob Dylan had come up through folk clubs, and their songs were called folk music because of that, but they weren’t what folk music had meant up to that point — songs that had been collected after being handed down through the folk process, changed by each individual singer, with no single identifiable author. They were authored songs by very idiosyncratic writers. But over their last few albums, Fairport Convention had done one or two tracks per album that weren’t like that, that were instead recordings of traditional folk songs, but arranged with rock instrumentation. They were not necessarily the first band to try traditional folk music with electric instruments — around the same time that Fairport started experimenting with the idea, so did an Irish band named Sweeney’s Men, who brought in a young electric guitarist named Henry McCullough briefly. But they do seem to have been the first to have fully embraced the idea. They had done so to an extent with “A Sailor’s Life” on Unhalfbricking, but now they were going to go much further: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves” (from about 4:30)] There had been some doubt as to whether Fairport Convention would even continue to exist — by the time Unhalfbricking, their second album of the year, was released, they had been through the terrible car accident that had killed Martin Lamble, the band’s drummer, and Jeannie Franklyn, Richard Thompson’s girlfriend. Most of the rest of the band had been seriously injured, and they had made a conscious decision not to discuss the future of the band until they were all out of hospital. Ashley Hutchings was hospitalised the longest, and Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson, and Sandy Denny, the other three surviving members of the band, flew over to LA with their producer and manager, Joe Boyd, to recuperate there and get to know the American music scene. When they came back, the group all met up in the flat belonging to Denny’s boyfriend Trevor Lucas, and decided that they were going to continue the band. They made a few decisions then — they needed a new drummer, and as well as a drummer they wanted to get in Dave Swarbrick. Swarbrick had played violin on several tracks on Unhalfbricking as a session player, and they had all been thrilled to work with him. Swarbrick was one of the most experienced musicians on the British folk circuit. He had started out in the fifties playing guitar with Beryl Marriott’s Ceilidh Band before switching to fiddle, and in 1963, long before Fairport had formed, he had already appeared on TV with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, led by Ian Campbell, the father of Ali and Robin Campbell, later of UB40: [Excerpt: The Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Shanten Bells (medley on Hullaballoo!)”] He’d sung with Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: [Excerpt: A.L. Lloyd, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” ] And he’d formed his hugely successful duo with Martin Carthy, releasing records like “Byker Hill” which are often considered among the best British folk music of all time: [Excerpt: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, “Byker Hill”] By the time Fairport had invited him to play on Unhalfbricking, Swarbrick had already performed on twenty albums as a core band member, plus dozens more EPs, singles, and odd tracks on compilations. They had no reason to think they could actually get him to join their band. But they had three advantages. The first was that Swarbrick was sick of the traditional folk scene at the time, saying later “I didn’t like seven-eighths of the people involved in it, and it was extremely opportune to leave. I was suddenly presented with the possibilities of exploring the dramatic content of the songs to the full.” The second was that he was hugely excited to be playing with Richard Thompson, who was one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation, and Martin Carthy remembers him raving about Thompson after their initial sessions. (Carthy himself was and is no slouch on the guitar of course, and there was even talk of getting him to join the band at this point, though they decided against it — much to the relief of rhythm guitarist Simon Nicol, who is a perfectly fine player himself but didn’t want to be outclassed by *two* of the best guitarists in Britain at the same time). And the third was that Joe Boyd told him that Fairport were doing so well — they had a single just about to hit the charts with “Si Tu Dois Partir” — that he would only have to play a dozen gigs with Fairport in order to retire. As it turned out, Swarbrick would play with the group for a decade, and would never retire — I saw him on his last tour in 2015, only eight months before he died. The drummer the group picked was also a far more experienced musician than any of the rest, though in a very different genre. Dave Mattacks had no knowledge at all of the kind of music they played, having previously been a player in dance bands. When asked by Hutchings if he wanted to join the band, Mattacks’ response was “I don’t know anything about the music. I don’t understand it… I can’t tell one tune from another, they all sound the same… but if you want me to join the group, fine, because I really like it. I’m enjoying myself musically.” Mattacks brought a new level of professionalism to the band, thanks to his different background. Nicol said of him later “He was dilligent, clean, used to taking three white shirts to a gig… The application he could bring to his playing was amazing. With us, you only played well when you were feeling well.” This distinction applied to his playing as well. Nicol would later describe the difference between Mattacks’ drumming and Lamble’s by saying “Martin’s strength was as an imaginative drummer. DM came in with a strongly developed sense of rhythm, through keeping a big band of drunken saxophone players in order. A great time-keeper.” With this new line-up and a new sense of purpose, the group did as many of their contemporaries were doing and “got their heads together in the country”. Joe Boyd rented the group a mansion, Farley House, in Farley Chamberlayne, Hampshire, and they stayed there together for three months. At the start, the group seem to have thought that they were going to make another record like Unhalfbricking, with some originals, some songs by American songwriters, and a few traditional songs. Even after their stay in Farley Chamberlayne, in fact, they recorded a few of the American songs they’d rehearsed at the start of the process, Richard Farina’s “Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” and Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn’s “Ballad of Easy Rider”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Ballad of Easy Rider”] Indeed, the whole idea of “getting our heads together in the country” (as the cliche quickly became in the late sixties as half of the bands in Britain went through much the same kind of process as Fairport were doing — but usually for reasons more to do with drug burnout or trend following than recovering from serious life-changing trauma) seems to have been inspired by Bob Dylan and the Band getting together in Big Pink. But very quickly they decided to follow the lead of Ashley Hutchings, who had had something of a Damascene conversion to the cause of traditional English folk music. They were listening mostly to Music From Big Pink by the Band, and to the first album by Sweeney’s Men: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “The Handsome Cabin Boy”] And they decided that they were going to make something that was as English as those records were North American and Irish (though in the event there were also a few Scottish songs included on the record). Hutchings in particular was becoming something of a scholar of traditional music, regularly visiting Cecil Sharp House and having long conversations with A.L. Lloyd, discovering versions of different traditional songs he’d never encountered before. This was both amusing and bemusing Sandy Denny, who had joined a rock group in part to get away from traditional music; but she was comfortable singing the material, and knew a lot of it and could make a lot of suggestions herself. Swarbrick obviously knew the repertoire intimately, and Nicol was amenable, while Mattacks was utterly clueless about the folk tradition at this point but knew this was the music he wanted to make. Thompson knew very little about traditional music, and of all the band members except Denny he was the one who has shown the least interest in the genre in his subsequent career — but as we heard at the beginning, showing the least interest in the genre is a relative thing, and while Thompson was not hugely familiar with the genre, he *was* able to work with it, and was also more than capable of writing songs that fit in with the genre. Of the eleven songs on the album, which was titled Liege and Lief (which means, roughly, Lord and Loyalty), there were no cover versions of singer-songwriters. Eight were traditional songs, and three were originals, all written in the style of traditional songs. The album opened with “Come All Ye”, an introduction written by Denny and Hutchings (the only time the two would ever write together): [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Come All Ye”] The other two originals were songs where Thompson had written new lyrics to traditional melodies. On “Crazy Man Michael”, Swarbrick had said to Thompson that the tune to which he had set his new words was weaker than the lyrics, to which Thompson had replied that if Swarbrick felt that way he should feel free to write a new melody. He did, and it became the first of the small number of Thompson/Swarbrick collaborations: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Crazy Man Michael”] Thompson and Swarbrick would become a brief songwriting team, but as much as anything else it was down to proximity — the two respected each other as musicians, but never got on very well. In 1981 Swarbrick would say “Richard and I never got on in the early days of FC… we thought we did, but we never did. We composed some bloody good songs together, but it was purely on a basis of “you write that and I’ll write this, and we’ll put it together.” But we never sat down and had real good chats.” The third original on the album, and by far the most affecting, is another song where Thompson put lyrics to a traditional tune. In this case he thought he was putting the lyrics to the tune of “Willie O'Winsbury”, but he was basing it on a recording by Sweeney’s Men. The problem was that Sweeney’s Men had accidentally sung the lyrics of “Willie O'Winsbury'” to the tune of a totally different song, “Fause Foodrage”: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “Willie O’Winsbury”] Thompson took that melody, and set to it lyrics about loss and separation. Thompson has never been one to discuss the meanings of his lyrics in any great detail, and in the case of this one has said “I really don't know what it means. This song came out of a dream, and I pretty much wrote it as I dreamt it (it was the sixties), and didn't spend very long analyzing it. So interpret as you wish – or replace with your own lines.” But in the context of the traffic accident that had killed his tailor girlfriend and a bandmate, and injured most of his other bandmates, the lyrics about lonely travellers, the winding road, bruised and beaten sons, saying goodbye, and never cutting cloth, seem fairly self-explanatory: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Farewell, Farewell”] The rest of the album, though, was taken up by traditional tunes. There was a long medley of four different fiddle reels; a version of “Reynardine” (a song about a seductive man — or is he a fox? Or perhaps both — which had been recorded by Swarbrick and Carthy on their most recent album); a 19th century song about a deserter saved from the firing squad by Prince Albert; and a long take on “Tam Lin”, one of the most famous pieces in the Scottish folk music canon, a song that has been adapted in different ways by everyone from the experimental noise band Current 93 to the dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the comics writer Grant Morrison: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Tam Lin”] And “Matty Groves”, a song about a man killing his cheating wife and her lover, which actually has a surprisingly similar story to that of “1921” from another great concept album from that year, the Who’s Tommy. “Matty Groves” became an excuse for long solos and shows of instrumental virtuosity: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves”] The album was recorded in September 1969, after their return from their break in the country and a triumphal performance at the Royal Festival Hall, headlining over fellow Witchseason artists John and Beverly Martyn and Nick Drake. It became a classic of the traditional folk genre — arguably *the* classic of the traditional folk genre. In 2007 BBC Radio 2’s Folk Music Awards gave it an award for most influential folk album of all time, and while such things are hard to measure, I doubt there’s anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of British folk and folk-rock music who would not at least consider that a reasonable claim. But once again, by the time the album came out in November, the band had changed lineups yet again. There was a fundamental split in the band – on one side were Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, whose stance was, roughly, that Liege and Lief was a great experiment and a fun thing to do once, but really the band had two first-rate songwriters in themselves, and that they should be concentrating on their own new material, not doing these old songs, good as they were. They wanted to take the form of the traditional songs and use that form for new material — they wanted to make British folk-rock, but with the emphasis on the rock side of things. Hutchings, on the other hand, was equally sure that he wanted to make traditional music and go further down the rabbit hole of antiquity. With the zeal of the convert he had gone in a couple of years from being the leader of a band who were labelled “the British Jefferson Airplane” to becoming a serious scholar of traditional folk music. Denny was tired of touring, as well — she wanted to spend more time at home with Trevor Lucas, who was sleeping with other women when she was away and making her insecure. When the time came for the group to go on a tour of Denmark, Denny decided she couldn’t make it, and Hutchings was jubilant — he decided he was going to get A.L. Lloyd into the band in her place and become a *real* folk group. Then Denny reconsidered, and Hutchings was crushed. He realised that while he had always been the leader, he wasn’t going to be able to lead the band any further in the traditionalist direction, and quit the group — but not before he was delegated by the other band members to fire Denny. Until the publication of Richard Thompson’s autobiography in 2022, every book on the group or its members said that Denny quit the band again, which was presumably a polite fiction that the band agreed, but according to Thompson “Before we flew home, we decided to fire Sandy. I don't remember who asked her to leave – it was probably Ashley, who usually did the dirty work. She was reportedly shocked that we would take that step. She may have been fragile beneath the confident facade, but she still knew her worth.” Thompson goes on to explain that the reasons for kicking her out were that “I suppose we felt that in her mind she had already left” and that “We were probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, though there wasn't a name for it back then.” They had considered inviting Trevor Lucas to join the band to make Denny more comfortable, but came to the (probably correct) conclusion that while he was someone they got on well with personally, he would be another big ego in a band that already had several, and that being around Denny and Lucas’ volatile relationship would, in Thompson’s phrasing, “have not always given one a feeling of peace and stability.” Hutchings originally decided he was going to join Sweeney’s Men, but that group were falling apart, and their first rehearsal with Hutchings would also be their last as a group, with only Hutchings and guitarist and mandolin player Terry Woods left in the band. They added Woods’ wife Gay, and another couple, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, and formed a group called Steeleye Span, a name given them by Martin Carthy. That group, like Fairport, went to “get their heads together in the country” for three months and recorded an album of electric versions of traditional songs, Hark the Village Wait, on which Mattacks and another drummer, Gerry Conway, guested as Steeleye Span didn’t at the time have their own drummer: [Excerpt: Steeleye Span, “Blackleg Miner”] Steeleye Span would go on to have a moderately successful chart career in the seventies, but by that time most of the original lineup, including Hutchings, had left — Hutchings stayed with them for a few albums, then went on to form the first of a series of bands, all called the Albion Band or variations on that name, which continue to this day. And this is something that needs to be pointed out at this point — it is impossible to follow every single individual in this narrative as they move between bands. There is enough material in the history of the British folk-rock scene that someone could do a 500 Songs-style podcast just on that, and every time someone left Fairport, or Steeleye Span, or the Albion Band, or Matthews’ Southern Comfort, or any of the other bands we have mentioned or will mention, they would go off and form another band which would then fission, and some of its members would often join one of those other bands. There was a point in the mid-1970s where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport Convention while Fairport Convention had none. So just in order to keep the narrative anything like wieldy, I’m going to keep the narrative concentrated on the two figures from Fairport — Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson — whose work outside the group has had the most influence on the wider world of rock music more broadly, and only deal with the other members when, as they often did, their careers intersected with those two. That doesn’t mean the other members are not themselves hugely important musicians, just that their importance has been primarily to the folk side of the folk-rock genre, and so somewhat outside the scope of this podcast. While Hutchings decided to form a band that would allow him to go deeper and deeper into traditional folk music, Sandy Denny’s next venture was rather different. For a long time she had been writing far more songs than she had ever played for her bandmates, like “Nothing More”, a song that many have suggested is about Thompson: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Nothing More”] When Joe Boyd heard that Denny was leaving Fairport Convention, he was at first elated. Fairport’s records were being distributed by A&M in the US at that point, but Island Records was in the process of opening up a new US subsidiary which would then release all future Fairport product — *but*, as far as A&M were concerned, Sandy Denny *was* Fairport Convention. They were only interested in her. Boyd, on the other hand, loved Denny’s work intensely, but from his point of view *Richard Thompson* was Fairport Convention. If he could get Denny signed directly to A&M as a solo artist before Island started its US operations, Witchseason could get a huge advance on her first solo record, while Fairport could continue making records for Island — he’d have two lucrative acts, on different labels. Boyd went over and spoke to A&M and got an agreement in principle that they would give Denny a forty-thousand-dollar advance on her first solo album — twice what they were paying for Fairport albums. The problem was that Denny didn’t want to be a solo act. She wanted to be the lead singer of a band. She gave many reasons for this — the one she gave to many journalists was that she had seen a Judy Collins show and been impressed, but noticed that Collins’ band were definitely a “backing group”, and as she put it “But that's all they were – a backing group. I suddenly thought, If you're playing together on a stage you might as well be TOGETHER.” Most other people in her life, though, say that the main reason for her wanting to be in a band was her desire to be with her boyfriend, Trevor Lucas. Partly this was due to a genuine desire to spend more time with someone with whom she was very much in love, partly it was a fear that he would cheat on her if she was away from him for long periods of time, and part of it seems to have been Lucas’ dislike of being *too* overshadowed by his talented girlfriend — he didn’t mind acknowledging that she was a major talent, but he wanted to be thought of as at least a minor one. So instead of going solo, Denny formed Fotheringay, named after the song she had written for Fairport. This new band consisted at first of Denny on vocals and occasional piano, Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Lucas’ old Eclection bandmate Gerry Conway on drums. For a lead guitarist, they asked Richard Thompson who the best guitarist in Britain was, and he told them Albert Lee. Lee in turn brought in bass player Pat Donaldson, but this lineup of the band barely survived a fortnight. Lee *was* arguably the best guitarist in Britain, certainly a reasonable candidate if you could ever have a singular best (as indeed was Thompson himself), but he was the best *country* guitarist in Britain, and his style simply didn’t fit with Fotheringay’s folk-influenced songs. He was replaced by American guitarist Jerry Donahue, who was not anything like as proficient as Lee, but who was still very good, and fit the band’s style much better. The new group rehearsed together for a few weeks, did a quick tour, and then went into the recording studio to record their debut, self-titled, album. Joe Boyd produced the album, but admitted himself that he only paid attention to those songs he considered worthwhile — the album contained one song by Lucas, “The Ballad of Ned Kelly”, and two cover versions of American singer-songwriter material with Lucas singing lead. But everyone knew that the songs that actually *mattered* were Sandy Denny’s, and Boyd was far more interested in them, particularly the songs “The Sea” and “The Pond and the Stream”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “The Pond and the Stream”] Fotheringay almost immediately hit financial problems, though. While other Witchseason acts were used to touring on the cheap, all packed together in the back of a Transit van with inexpensive equipment, Trevor Lucas had ambitions of being a rock star and wanted to put together a touring production to match, with expensive transport and equipment, including a speaker system that got nicknamed “Stonehenge” — but at the same time, Denny was unhappy being on the road, and didn’t play many gigs. As well as the band itself, the Fotheringay album also featured backing vocals from a couple of other people, including Denny’s friend Linda Peters. Peters was another singer from the folk clubs, and a good one, though less well-known than Denny — at this point she had only released a couple of singles, and those singles seemed to have been as much as anything else released as a novelty. The first of those, a version of Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” had been released as by “Paul McNeill and Linda Peters”: [Excerpt: Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”] But their second single, a version of John D. Loudermilk’s “You’re Taking My Bag”, was released on the tiny Page One label, owned by Larry Page, and was released under the name “Paul and Linda”, clearly with the intent of confusing particularly gullible members of the record-buying public into thinking this was the McCartneys: [Excerpt: Paul and Linda, “You’re Taking My Bag”] Peters was though more financially successful than almost anyone else in this story, as she was making a great deal of money as a session singer. She actually did another session involving most of Fotheringay around this time. Witchseason had a number of excellent songwriters on its roster, and had had some success getting covers by people like Judy Collins, but Joe Boyd thought that they might possibly do better at getting cover versions if they were performed in less idiosyncratic arrangements. Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway went into the studio to record backing tracks, and vocals were added by Peters and another session singer, who according to some sources also provided piano. They cut songs by Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “You Get Brighter”] Ed Carter, formerly of The New Nadir but by this time firmly ensconced in the Beach Boys’ touring band where he would remain for the next quarter-century: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “I Don’t Mind”] John and Beverly Martyn, and Nick Drake: [Excerpt: Elton John, “Saturday Sun”] There are different lineups of musicians credited for those sessions in different sources, but I tend to believe that it’s mostly Fotheringay for the simple reason that Donahue says it was him, Donaldson and Conway who talked Lucas and Denny into the mistake that destroyed Fotheringay because of these sessions. Fotheringay were in financial trouble already, spending far more money than they were bringing in, but their album made the top twenty and they were getting respect both from critics and from the public — in September, Sandy Denny was voted best British female singer by the readers of Melody Maker in their annual poll, which led to shocked headlines in the tabloids about how this “unknown” could have beaten such big names as Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black. Only a couple of weeks after that, they were due to headline at the Albert Hall. It should have been a triumph. But Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway had asked that singing pianist to be their support act. As Donahue said later “That was a terrible miscast. It was our fault. He asked if [he] could do it. Actually Pat, Gerry and I had to talk Sandy and Trevor into [it]… We'd done these demos and the way he was playing – he was a wonderful piano player – he was sensitive enough. We knew very little about his stage-show. We thought he'd be a really good opener for us.” Unfortunately, Elton John was rather *too* good. As Donahue continued “we had no idea what he had in mind, that he was going to do the most incredible rock & roll show ever. He pretty much blew us off the stage before we even got on the stage.” To make matters worse, Fotheringay’s set, which was mostly comprised of new material, was underrehearsed and sloppy, and from that point on no matter what they did people were counting the hours until the band split up. They struggled along for a while though, and started working on a second record, with Boyd again producing, though as Boyd later said “I probably shouldn't have been producing the record. My lack of respect for the group was clear, and couldn't have helped the atmosphere. We'd put out a record that had sold disappointingly, A&M was unhappy. Sandy's tracks on the first record are among the best things she ever did – the rest of it, who cares? And the artwork, Trevor's sister, was terrible. It would have been one thing if I'd been unhappy with it and it sold, and the group was working all the time, making money, but that wasn't the case … I knew what Sandy was capable of, and it was very upsetting to me.” The record would not be released for thirty-eight years: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Wild Mountain Thyme”] Witchseason was going badly into debt. Given all the fissioning of bands that we’ve already been talking about, Boyd had been stretched thin — he produced sixteen albums in 1970, and almost all of them lost money for the company. And he was getting more and more disillusioned with the people he was producing. He loved Beverly Martyn’s work, but had little time for her abusive husband John, who was dominating her recording and life more and more and would soon become a solo artist while making her stay at home (and stealing her ideas without giving her songwriting credit). The Incredible String Band were great, but they had recently converted to Scientology, which Boyd found annoying, and while he was working with all sorts of exciting artists like Vashti Bunyan and Nico, he was finding himself less and less important to the artists he mentored. Fairport Convention were a good example of this. After Denny and Hutchings had left the group, they’d decided to carry on as an electric folk group, performing an equal mix of originals by the Swarbrick and Thompson songwriting team and arrangements of traditional songs. The group were now far enough away from the “British Jefferson Airplane” label that they decided they didn’t need a female vocalist — and more realistically, while they’d been able to replace Judy Dyble, nobody was going to replace Sandy Denny. Though it’s rather surprising when one considers Thompson’s subsequent career that nobody seems to have thought of bringing in Denny’s friend Linda Peters, who was dating Joe Boyd at the time (as Denny had been before she met Lucas) as Denny’s replacement. Instead, they decided that Swarbrick and Thompson were going to share the vocals between them. They did, though, need a bass player to replace Hutchings. Swarbrick wanted to bring in Dave Pegg, with whom he had played in the Ian Campbell Folk Group, but the other band members initially thought the idea was a bad one. At the time, while they respected Swarbrick as a musician, they didn’t think he fully understood rock and roll yet, and they thought the idea of getting in a folkie who had played double bass rather than an electric rock bassist ridiculous. But they auditioned him to mollify Swarbrick, and found that he was exactly what they needed. As Joe Boyd later said “All those bass lines were great, Ashley invented them all, but he never could play them that well. He thought of them, but he was technically not a terrific bass player. He was a very inventive, melodic, bass player, but not a very powerful one technically. But having had the part explained to him once, Pegg was playing it better than Ashley had ever played it… In some rock bands, I think, ultimately, the bands that sound great, you can generally trace it to the bass player… it was at that point they became a great band, when they had Pegg.” The new lineup of Fairport decided to move in together, and found a former pub called the Angel, into which all the band members moved, along with their partners and children (Thompson was the only one who was single at this point) and their roadies. The group lived together quite happily, and one gets the impression that this was the period when they were most comfortable with each other, even though by this point they were a disparate group with disparate tastes, in music as in everything else. Several people have said that the only music all the band members could agree they liked at this point was the first two albums by The Band. With the departure of Hutchings from the band, Swarbrick and Thompson, as the strongest personalities and soloists, became in effect the joint leaders of the group, and they became collaborators as songwriters, trying to write new songs that were inspired by traditional music. Thompson described the process as “let’s take one line of this reel and slow it down and move it up a minor third and see what that does to it; let’s take one line of this ballad and make a whole song out of it. Chopping up the tradition to find new things to do… like a collage.” Generally speaking, Swarbrick and Thompson would sit by the fire and Swarbrick would play a melody he’d been working on, the two would work on it for a while, and Thompson would then go away and write the lyrics. This is how the two came up with songs like the nine-minute “Sloth”, a highlight of the next album, Full House, and one that would remain in Fairport’s live set for much of their career: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth”] “Sloth” was titled that way because Thompson and Swarbrick were working on two tunes, a slow one and a fast one, and they jokingly named them “Sloth” and “Fasth”, but the latter got renamed to “Walk Awhile”, while “Sloth” kept its working title. But by this point, Boyd and Thompson were having a lot of conflict in the studio. Boyd was never the most technical of producers — he was one of those producers whose job is to gently guide the artists in the studio and create a space for the music to flourish, rather than the Joe Meek type with an intimate technical knowledge of the studio — and as the artists he was working with gained confidence in their own work they felt they had less and less need of him. During the making of the Full House album, Thompson and Boyd, according to Boyd, clashed on everything — every time Boyd thought Thompson had done a good solo, Thompson would say to erase it and let him have another go, while every time Boyd thought Thompson could do better, Thompson would say that was the take to keep. One of their biggest clashes was over Thompson’s song “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”, which was originally intended for release on the album, and is included in current reissues of it: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”] Thompson had written that song inspired by what he thought was the unjust treatment of Alex Bramham, the driver in Fairport’s fatal car crash, by the courts — Bramham had been given a prison sentence of a few months for dangerous driving, while the group members thought he had not been at fault. Boyd thought it was one of the best things recorded for the album, but Thompson wasn’t happy with his vocal — there was one note at the top of the melody that he couldn’t quite hit — and insisted it be kept off the record, even though that meant it would be a shorter album than normal. He did this at such a late stage that early copies of the album actually had the title printed on the sleeve, but then blacked out. He now says in his autobiography “I could have persevered, double-tracked the voice, warmed up for longer – anything. It was a good track, and the record was lacking without it. When the album was re-released, the track was restored with a more confident vocal, and it has stayed there ever since.” During the sessions for Full House the group also recorded one non-album single, Thompson and Swarbrick’s “Now Be Thankful”: [Excerpt, Fairport Convention, “Now Be Thankful”] The B-side to that was a medley of two traditional tunes plus a Swarbrick original, but was given the deliberately ridiculous title “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”] The B. McKenzie in the title was a reference to the comic-strip character Barry McKenzie, a stereotype drunk Australian created for Private Eye magazine by the comedian Barry Humphries (later to become better known for his Dame Edna Everage character) but the title was chosen for one reason only — to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the song with the longest title. Which they did, though they were later displaced by the industrial band Test Dept, and their song “Long Live British Democracy Which Flourishes and Is Constantly Perfected Under the Immaculate Guidance of the Great, Honourable, Generous and Correct Margaret Hilda Thatcher. She Is the Blue Sky in the Hearts of All Nations. Our People Pay Homage and Bow in Deep Respect and Gratitude to Her. The Milk of Human Kindness”. Full House got excellent reviews in the music press, with Rolling Stone saying “The music shows that England has finally gotten her own equivalent to The Band… By calling Fairport an English equivalent of the Band, I meant that they have soaked up enough of the tradition of their countryfolk that it begins to show all over, while they maintain their roots in rock.” Off the back of this, the group went on their first US tour, culminating in a series of shows at the Troubadour in LA, on the same bill as Rick Nelson, which were recorded and later released as a live album: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth (live)”] The Troubadour was one of the hippest venues at the time, and over their residency there the group got seen by many celebrities, some of whom joined them on stage. The first was Linda Ronstadt, who initially demurred, saying she didn’t know any of their songs. On being told they knew all of hers, she joined in with a rendition of “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”. Thompson was later asked to join Ronstadt’s backing band, who would go on to become the Eagles, but he said later of this offer “I would have hated it. I’d have hated being on the road with four or five miserable Americans — they always seem miserable. And if you see them now, they still look miserable on stage — like they don’t want to be there and they don’t like each other.” The group were also joined on stage at the Troubadour on one memorable night by some former bandmates of Pegg’s. Before joining the Ian Campbell Folk Group, Pegg had played around the Birmingham beat scene, and had been in bands with John Bonham and Robert Plant, who turned up to the Troubadour with their Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page (reports differ on whether the fourth member of Zeppelin, John Paul Jones, also came along). They all got up on stage together and jammed on songs like “Hey Joe”, “Louie Louie”, and various old Elvis tunes. The show was recorded, and the tapes are apparently still in the possession of Joe Boyd, who has said he refuses to release them in case he is murdered by the ghost of Peter Grant. According to Thompson, that night ended in a three-way drinking contest between Pegg, Bonham, and Janis Joplin, and it’s testament to how strong the drinking culture is around Fairport and the British folk scene in general that Pegg outdrank both of them. According to Thompson, Bonham was found naked by a swimming pool two days later, having missed two gigs. For all their hard rock image, Led Zeppelin were admirers of a lot of the British folk and folk-rock scene, and a few months later Sandy Denny would become the only outside vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin record when she duetted with Plant on “The Battle of Evermore” on the group’s fourth album: [Excerpt: Led Zeppelin, “The Battle of Evermore”] Denny would never actually get paid for her appearance on one of the best-selling albums of all time. That was, incidentally, not the only session that Denny was involved in around this time — she also sang on the soundtrack to a soft porn film titled Swedish Fly Girls, whose soundtrack was produced by Manfred Mann: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow?”] Shortly after Fairport’s trip to America, Joe Boyd decided he was giving up on Witchseason. The company was now losing money, and he was finding himself having to produce work for more and more acts as the various bands fissioned. The only ones he really cared about were Richard Thompson, who he was finding it more and more difficult to work with, Nick Drake, who wanted to do his next album with just an acoustic guitar anyway, Sandy Denny, who he felt was wasting her talents in Fotheringay, and Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band, who was more distant since his conversion to Scientology. Boyd did make some attempts to keep the company going. On a trip to Sweden, he negotiated an agreement with the manager and publisher of a Swedish band whose songs he’d found intriguing, the Hep Stars. Boyd was going to publish their songs in the UK, and in return that publisher, Stig Anderson, would get the rights to Witchseason’s catalogue in Scandinavia — a straight swap, with no money changing hands. But before Boyd could get round to signing the paperwork, he got a better offer from Mo Ostin of Warners — Ostin wanted Boyd to come over to LA and head up Warners’ new film music department. Boyd sold Witchseason to Island Records and moved to LA with his fiancee Linda Peters, spending the next few years working on music for films like Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange, as well as making his own documentary about Jimi Hendrix, and thus missed out on getting the UK publishing rights for ABBA, and all the income that would have brought him, for no money. And it was that decision that led to the breakup of Fotheringay. Just before Christmas 1970, Fotheringay were having a difficult session, recording the track “John the Gun”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “John the Gun”] Boyd got frustrated and kicked everyone out of the session, and went for a meal and several drinks with Denny. He kept insisting that she should dump the band and just go solo, and then something happened that the two of them would always describe differently. She asked him if he would continue to produce her records if she went solo, and he said he would. According to Boyd’s recollection of the events, he meant that he would fly back from California at some point to produce her records. According to Denny, he told her that if she went solo he would stay in Britain and not take the job in LA. This miscommunication was only discovered after Denny told the rest of Fotheringay after the Christmas break that she was splitting the band. Jerry Donahue has described that as the worst moment of his life, and Denny felt very guilty about breaking up a band with some of her closest friends in — and then when Boyd went over to the US anyway she felt a profound betrayal. Two days before Fotheringay’s final concert, in January 1971, Sandy Denny signed a solo deal with Island records, but her first solo album would not end up produced by Joe Boyd. Instead, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens was co-produced by Denny, John Wood — the engineer who had worked with Boyd on pretty much everything he’d produced, and Richard Thompson, who had just quit Fairport Convention, though he continued living with them at the Angel, at least until a truck crashed into the building in February 1971, destroying its entire front wall and forcing them to relocate. The songs chosen for The North Star Grassman and the Ravens reflected the kind of choices Denny would make on her future albums, and her eclectic taste in music. There was, of course, the obligatory Dylan cover, and the traditional folk ballad “Blackwaterside”, but there was also a cover version of Brenda Lee’s “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”] Most of the album, though, was made up of originals about various people in Denny’s life, like “Next Time Around”, about her ex-boyfriend Jackson C Frank: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Next Time Around”] The album made the top forty in the UK — Denny’s only solo album to do so — and led to her once again winning the “best female singer” award in Melody Maker’s readers’ poll that year — the male singer award was won by Rod Stewart. Both Stewart and Denny appeared the next year on the London Symphony Orchestra’s all-star version of The Who’s Tommy, which had originally been intended as a vehicle for Stewart before Roger Daltrey got involved. Stewart’s role was reduced to a single song, “Pinball Wizard”, while Denny sang on “It’s a Boy”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “It’s a Boy”] While Fotheringay had split up, all the band members play on The North Star Grassman and the Ravens. Guitarists Donahue and Lucas only play on a couple of the tracks, with Richard Thompson playing most of the guitar on the record. But Fotheringay’s rhythm section of Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway play on almost every track. Another musician on the album, Ian Whiteman, would possibly have a profound effect on the future direction of Richard Thompson’s career and life. Whiteman was the former keyboard player for the mod band The Action, having joined them just before they became the blues-rock band Mighty Baby. But Mighty Baby had split up when all of the band except the lead singer had converted to Islam. Richard Thompson was on his own spiritual journey at this point, and became a Sufi – the same branch of Islam as Whiteman – soon after the session, though Thompson has said that his conversion was independent of Whiteman’s. The two did become very close and work together a lot in the mid-seventies though. Thompson had supposedly left Fairport because he was writing material that wasn’t suited to the band, but he spent more than a year after quitting the group working on sessions rather than doing anything with his own material, and these sessions tended to involve the same core group of musicians. One of the more unusual was a folk-rock supergroup called The Bunch, put together by Trevor Lucas. Richard Branson had recently bought a recording studio, and wanted a band to test it out before opening it up for commercial customers, so with this free studio time Lucas decided to record a set of fifties rock and roll covers. He gathered together Thompson, Denny, Whiteman, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Pat Donaldson, Gerry Conway, pianist Tony Cox, the horn section that would later form the core of the Average White Band, and Linda Peters, who had now split up with Joe Boyd and returned to the UK, and who had started dating Thompson. They recorded an album of covers of songs by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Johnny Otis and others: [Excerpt: The Bunch, “Willie and the Hand Jive”] The early seventies was a hugely productive time for this group of musicians, as they all continued playing on each other’s projects. One notable album was No Roses by Shirley Collins, which featured Thompson, Mattacks, Whiteman, Simon Nicol, Lal and Mike Waterson, and Ashley Hutchings, who was at that point married to Collins, as well as some more unusual musicians like the free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill: [Excerpt: Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band, “Claudy Banks”] Collins was at the time the most respected female singer in British traditional music, and already had a substantial career including a series of important records made with her sister Dolly, work with guitarists like Davey Graham, and time spent in the 1950s collecting folk songs in the Southern US with her then partner Alan Lomax – according to Collins she did much of the actual work, but Lomax only mentioned her in a single sentence in his book on this work. Some of the same group of musicians went on to work on an album of traditional Morris dancing tunes, titled Morris On, credited to “Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield”, with Collins singing lead on two tracks: [Excerpt: Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield with Shirley Collins, “The Willow Tree”] Thompson thought that that album was the best of the various side projects he was involved in at the time, comparing it favourably to Rock On, which he thought was rather slight, saying later “Conceptually, Fairport, Ashley and myself and Sandy were developing a more fragile style of music that nobody else was particularly interested in, a British Folk Rock idea that had a logical development to it, although we all presented it our own way. Morris On was rather more true to what we were doing. Rock On was rather a retro step. I'm not sure it was lasting enough as a record but Sandy did sing really well on the Buddy Holly songs.” Hutchings used the musicians on No Roses and Morris On as the basis for his band the Albion Band, which continues to this day. Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks both quit Fairport to join the Albion Band, though Mattacks soon returned. Nicol would not return to Fairport for several years, though, and for a long period in the mid-seventies Fairport Convention had no original members. Unfortunately, while Collins was involved in the Albion Band early on, she and Hutchings ended up divorcing, and the stress from the divorce led to Collins developing spasmodic dysphonia, a stress-related illness which makes it impossible for the sufferer to sing. She did eventually regain her vocal ability, but between 1978 and 2016 she was unable to perform at all, and lost decades of her career. Richard Thompson occasionally performed with the Albion Band early on, but he was getting stretched a little thin with all these sessions. Linda Peters said later of him “When I came back from America, he was working in Sandy’s band, and doing sessions by the score. Always with Pat Donaldson and Dave Mattacks. Richard would turn up with his guitar, one day he went along to do a session with one of those folkie lady singers — and there were Pat and DM. They all cracked. Richard smashed his amp and said “Right! No more sessions!” In 1972 he got round to releasing his first solo album, Henry the Human Fly, which featured guest appearances by Linda Peters and Sandy Denny among others: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “The Angels Took My Racehorse Away”] Unfortunately, while that album has later become regarded as one of the classics of its genre, at the time it was absolutely slated by the music press. The review in Melody Maker, for example, read in part “Some of Richard Thompson’s ideas sound great – which is really the saving grace of this album, because most of the music doesn’t. The tragedy is that Thompson’s “British rock music” is such an unconvincing concoction… Even the songs that do integrate rock and traditional styles of electric guitar rhythms and accordion and fiddle decoration – and also include explicit, meaningful lyrics are marred by bottle-up vocals, uninspiring guitar phrases and a general lack of conviction in performance.” Henry the Human Fly was released in the US by Warners, who had a reciprocal licensing deal with Island (and for whom Joe Boyd was working at the time, which may have had something to do with that) but according to Thompson it became the lowest-selling record that Warners ever put out (though I’ve also seen that claim made about Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, another album that has later been rediscovered). Thompson was hugely depressed by this reaction, and blamed his own singing. Happily, though, by this point he and Linda had become a couple — they would marry in 1972 — and they started playing folk clubs as a duo, or sometimes in a trio with Simon Nicol. Thompson was also playing with Sandy Denny’s backing band at this point, and played on every track on her second solo album, Sandy. This album was meant to be her big commercial breakthrough, with a glamorous cover photo by David Bailey, and with a more American sound, including steel guitar by Sneaky Pete Kleinow of the Flying Burrito Brothers (whose overdubs were supervised in LA by Joe Boyd): [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Tomorrow is a Long Time”] The album was given a big marketing push by Island, and “Listen, Listen” was made single of the week on the Radio 1 Breakfast show: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Listen, Listen”] But it did even worse than the previous album, sending her into something of a depression. Linda Thompson (as the former Linda Peters now was) said of this period “After the Sandy album, it got her down that her popularity didn't suddenly increase in leaps and bounds, and that was the start of her really fretting about the way her career was going. Things only escalated after that. People like me or Martin Carthy or Norma Waterson would think, ‘What are you on about? This is folk music.'” After Sandy’s release, Denny realised she could no longer afford to tour with a band, and so went back to performing just acoustically or on piano. The only new music to be released by either of these ex-members of Fairport Convention in 1973 was, oddly, on an album by the band they were no longer members of. After Thompson had left Fairport, the group had managed to release two whole albums with the same lineup — Swarbrick, Nicol, Pegg, and Mattacks. But then Nicol and Mattacks had both quit the band to join the Albion Band with their former bandmate Ashley Hutchings, leading to a situation where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport plus their longtime drummer while Fairport Convention itself had no original members and was down to just Swarbrick and Pegg. Needing to fulfil their contracts, they then recruited three former members of Fotheringay — Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, Donahue on lead guitar, and Conway on drums. Conway was only a session player at the time, and Mattacks soon returned to the band, but Lucas and Donahue became full-time members. This new lineup of Fairport Convention released two albums in 1973, widely regarded as the group’s most inconsistent records, and on the title track of the first, “Rosie”, Richard Thompson guested on guitar, with Sandy Denny and Linda Thompson on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Rosie”] Neither Sandy Denny nor Richard Thompson released a record themselves in 1973, but in neither case was this through the artists’ choice. The record industry was changing in the early 1970s, as we’ll see in later episodes, and was less inclined to throw good money after bad in the pursuit of art. Island Records prided itself on being a home for great artists, but it was still a business, and needed to make money. We’ll talk about the OPEC oil crisis and its effect on the music industry much more when the podcast gets to 1973, but in brief, the production of oil by the US peaked in 1970 and started to decrease, leading to them importing more and more oil from the Middle East. As a result of this, oil prices rose slowly between 1971 and 1973, then very quickly towards the end of 1973 as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict that year. As vinyl is made of oil, suddenly producing records became much more expensive, and in this period a lot of labels decided not to release already-completed albums, until what they hoped would be a brief period of shortages passed. Both Denny and Thompson recorded albums at this point that got put to one side by Island. In the case of Thompson, it was the first album by Richard and Linda as a duo, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Today, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, and as one of the two masterpieces that bookended Richard and Linda’s career as a duo and their marriage. But when they recorded the album, full of Richard’s dark songs, it was the opposite of commercial. Even a song that’s more or less a boy-girl song, like “Has He Got a Friend for Me?” has lyrics like “He wouldn’t notice me passing by/I could be in the gutter, or dangling down from a tree” [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “Has He got a Friend For Me?”] While something like “The Calvary Cross” is oblique and haunted, and seems to cast a pall over the entire album: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “The Calvary Cross”] The album itself had been cheap to make — it had been recorded in only a week, with Thompson bringing in musicians he knew well and had worked with a lot previously to cut the tracks as-live in only a handful of takes — but Island didn’t think it was worth releasing. The record stayed on the shelf for nearly a year after recording, until Island got a new head of A&R, Richard Williams. Williams said of the album’s release “Muff Winwood had been doing A&R, but he was more interested in production… I had a conversation with Muff as soon as I got there, and he said there are a few hangovers, some outstanding problems. And one of them was Richard Thompson. He said there’s this album we gave him the money to make — which was I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — and nobody’s very interested in it. Henry the Human Fly had been a bit of a commercial disappointment, and although Island was altruistic and independent and known for only recording good stuff, success was important… Either a record had to do well or somebody had to believe in it a lot. And it seemed as if neither of those things were true at that point of Richard.” Williams, though, was hugely impressed when he listened to the album. He compared Richard Thompson’s guitar playing to John Coltrane’s sax, and called Thompson “the folk poet of the rainy streets”, but also said “Linda brightened it, made it more commercial. and I thought that “Bright Lights” itself seemed a really commercial song.” The rest of the management at Island got caught up in Williams’ enthusiasm, and even decided to release the title track as a single: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Neither single nor album charted — indeed it would not be until 1991 that Richard Thompson would make a record that made the top forty in the UK — but the album got enough critical respect that Richard and Linda released two albums the year after. The first of these, Hokey Pokey, is a much more upbeat record than their previous one — Richard Thompson has called it “quite a music-hall influenced record” and cited the influence of George Formby and Harry Lauder. For once, the claim of music hall influence is audible in the music. Usually when a British musician is claimed to have a music ha

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Nesta accidentally imbues her magic in the weapons she helped forge with the blacksmith and the gang decides whether to tell her about it. Nesta, Cassian, and Eris have a run-in with a beastly Tamlin. Training continues. Chapters 42-44 in ACOSF. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which Dominic, Joseph, Danann and Dan, each in their own special way, conspire to make themselves completely unemployable, in a surreal and anarchic conclusion to the evening's entertainment...   An improvised Call of Cthulhu scenario by The Apocalypse Players, performed live at the Loco Klub in Bristol.   Cast: Cynthia Vancitart - Joseph Chance Baz Peterson - Danann McAleer Cameron Cummerbund - Dan Wheeler Keeper of Arcane Lore - Dominic Allen   CW: This podcast contains mature themes, strong language and cosmic horror. Human discretion is advised.   APOCALYPSE PLAYERS LIVE! On Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May, AND due to popular demand Monday 26th May @ 7.30pm, we will be back at the Rosemary Branch theatre. https://www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/the-apocalypse-players-live-3 “Dare you join us again on a cosmic odyssey into the eldritch and strange? The four greatest roleplayers from the ancient city of Carcosa RETURN to the Rosemary Branch Theatre for further self-abasement at the altar of the Great Old Ones. Combining the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game with improvisational sorcery, the award-winning Apocalypse Players will take their sacrificial offerings (that's you, the audience) to the brink of sanity, but who will crack first!?” Hope to see you there!   The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers We now have a free Discord server where you can come worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will only be too eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH For more information and to get in touch, visit www.apocalypseplayers.com   The Apocalypse Players are: Dominic Allen @domjallen Joseph Chance @JosephChance2 Danann McAleer @DanannMcAleer Dan Wheeler @DanWheelerUK   Sound and music used in our live shows includes:   From Epidemic Sound:   Trade and Fortune – Mary Riddle Nature's Way – Jon Algar Higher Orbit – Christian Andersen A Phone Call from the Others – Etienne Roussel A Way of Life – Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Cosmic Sunrise Eternal Moment Once Upon a Road   From filmusic.io:   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4590-virtutes-instrumenti License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://incompetech.com The following music was used for this media project: Music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3863-heartbreaking License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseMarch of the Mind The following music was used for this media project: Music: Echoes of Time by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3699-echoes-of-time License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: Giant Wyrm by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3807-giant-wyrm Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: Irregular by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3928-irregular Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: Long note One by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3992-long-note-one License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: "Lost Frontier" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The following music was used for this media project: Music: Drowning Monas by Tim Kulig Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9331-drowning-monas License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The following music was used for this media project: Music: Night on the Docks - Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4130-night-on-the-docks-trumpet License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   In the public domain:   Little Bits Don't Go Way Nobody Gonna Get Me a Man Court House Blues Maybe In the Dark Flashes Jazz Me Blues Getting Old Blues Livery Stable Blues Waiting for a Train JS Bach Mass in B Minor   Additional sfx from:   Zapsplat Klankbleed The Gloomworker Swordcoast Soundscapes From the Bearded Tits Welcome to Tamlin

In which four actors pretend to know what happens in a theatre.   An improvised Call of Cthulhu scenario by The Apocalypse Players, performed live at the Loco Klub in Bristol.   Cast: Cynthia Vancitart - Joseph Chance Baz Peterson - Danann McAleer Cameron Cummerbund - Dan Wheeler Keeper of Arcane Lore - Dominic Allen   CW: This podcast contains mature themes, strong language and cosmic horror. Human discretion is advised.   APOCALYPSE PLAYERS LIVE! On Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May, AND due to popular demand Monday 26th May @ 7.30pm, we will be back at the Rosemary Branch theatre. https://www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/the-apocalypse-players-live-3 “Dare you join us again on a cosmic odyssey into the eldritch and strange? The four greatest roleplayers from the ancient city of Carcosa RETURN to the Rosemary Branch Theatre for further self-abasement at the altar of the Great Old Ones. Combining the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game with improvisational sorcery, the award-winning Apocalypse Players will take their sacrificial offerings (that's you, the audience) to the brink of sanity, but who will crack first!?” Hope to see you there!   The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers We now have a free Discord server where you can come worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will only be too eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH For more information and to get in touch, visit www.apocalypseplayers.com   The Apocalypse Players are: Dominic Allen @domjallen Joseph Chance @JosephChance2 Danann McAleer @DanannMcAleer Dan Wheeler @DanWheelerUK   Sound and music used in our live shows includes:   From Epidemic Sound:   Trade and Fortune – Mary Riddle Nature's Way – Jon Algar Higher Orbit – Christian Andersen A Phone Call from the Others – Etienne Roussel A Way of Life – Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Cosmic Sunrise Eternal Moment Once Upon a Road   From filmusic.io:   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4590-virtutes-instrumenti License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://incompetech.com The following music was used for this media project: Music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3863-heartbreaking License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseMarch of the Mind The following music was used for this media project: Music: Echoes of Time by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3699-echoes-of-time License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: Giant Wyrm by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3807-giant-wyrm Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: Irregular by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3928-irregular Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: Long note One by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3992-long-note-one License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: Music: "Lost Frontier" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The following music was used for this media project: Music: Drowning Monas by Tim Kulig Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9331-drowning-monas License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project: "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The following music was used for this media project: Music: Night on the Docks - Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4130-night-on-the-docks-trumpet License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   In the public domain:   Little Bits Don't Go Way Nobody Gonna Get Me a Man Court House Blues Maybe In the Dark Flashes Jazz Me Blues Getting Old Blues Livery Stable Blues Waiting for a Train JS Bach Mass in B Minor   Additional sfx from:   Zapsplat Klankbleed The Gloomworker Swordcoast Soundscapes From the Bearded Tits Welcome to Tamlin

Hoy analizamos Una Corte de Rosas y Espinas (ACOTAR), la primera entrega de la exitosa saga de Sarah J. Maas. En este episodio, desglosamos todos los aspectos clave de la historia, incluyendo a los personajes principales como Feyre Archeron, Tamlin, y Rhysand. Exploramos los giros de trama, las emociones que despierta la novela y compartimos teorías y predicciones sobre el futuro de la saga. Si eres fanático de los mundos de fantasía, romance y magia, este análisis te encantará. Tanto si ya has leído ACOTAR como si eres nuevo en la saga, este video es perfecto para ti. ¡No olvides suscribirte y activar la campanita para más análisis literarios y contenido exclusivo sobre la saga de Sarah J. Maas! Redes Sociales: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puente4podcast/ X: https://twitter.com/Puente4Podcast iVoox: https://www.ivoox.com/s_p2_1105139_1.html Discord: https://discord.com/invite/PVJfnzBE82 Patreon: https://Patreon.com/puente4podcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgIHIhM0CmCWOFe0qWt2eBg TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@puente4podcast? Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Puente4Podcast/

We opened the episode with a continuation of our Villains Month coverage, diving into the more nuanced territory of morally gray characters. In this third week, we shifted from examining outright villains to exploring the blurred lines between villains and antiheroes.While often confusing, this distinction can help deepen our understanding of literary characters and narrative structure. We discussed how selfish motives and chaotic actions typically define villains, whereas antiheroes may lack traditional heroic qualities but are still driven by noble or relatable goals.What Is On Our NightstandsBefore diving into the main theme, we shared what's currently on our nightstands. Arthur has just finished Transmentation | Transcience by Darkly Lem, a multi-universe sci-fi thriller recently released by Blackstone Publishing. He's moving on to Rhino: The Rise of a Warrior by Nicholas Sainsbury Smith, which is being described as a Conan-meets-Mad-Max-style story set in the Hell Divers universe. A book review will be published soon.Meaghan, on the other hand, is juggling a few books. She's reading an advanced copy of When She Was Gone by Sarah Foster, a psychological thriller that explores family estrangement and disappearance through multiple POVs.She's also in the early chapters of Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, which touches on the dark history of homes for “troubled” girls, wrapped in Hendrix's signature dark humor. Additionally, she's reading Scythe and Sparrow by Brynn Weaver on her subway commutes - the final installment in the Ruinous Love trilogy, known for its dark romance and black comedy. The first book, Butcher and Blackbird, is even getting a film adaptation.Defining Villains vs. AntiheroesOur main discussion centered around defining the differences between villains and antiheroes. We agreed that villains are typically characterized by outright selfishness, chaos, and harm with little to no regard for others. They oppose the protagonist and often revel in destruction or dominance.Antiheroes, in contrast, may lack traditional heroic qualities - like moral clarity, compassion, or honor - but are usually driven by a personal code or a higher, sometimes noble, purpose. Their actions might be questionable, but their motives often aim toward the greater good. For example, they may take morally ambiguous paths to achieve just ends.We used Patrick Bateman from American Psycho and Joe Goldberg from You to illustrate this line. While both offer internal justifications for their actions, we agree that their intentions and outcomes mark them more as villains than antiheroes. They may rationalize what they do, but ultimately their actions are self-serving and destructive.Another great example we discussed was Zayden from Fourth Wing. Though initially perceived as a villain by the protagonist, Violet, his motivations are revealed to be much more layered, shifting his status into antihero territory. Similar shifts occur in characters like Rhysand from ACOTAR, who is misunderstood early on but ultimately acts with benevolent intentions.The Complexity of Character Roles in Narrative StructureWe examined how literary structure, especially multiple POV storytelling, can alter our perceptions of characters. With multiple viewpoints, we often gain deeper insight into the inner motivations of a character who might otherwise appear villainous from another perspective.Meaghan made the point that antiheroes don't need to be the main character. In stories with multiple perspectives, an antihero can be a supporting or secondary character whose actions significantly impact the narrative, even if they're not the protagonist.We discussed characters like Captain Ahab from Moby Dick, Jay Gatsby, and Shakespearean figures like Macbeth and Hamlet. These figures blur the lines between heroism and villainy by embodying both admirable and damning traits. Captain Ahab is fueled by vengeance but is also driven by deeper human emotions, while Gatsby's immoral actions are motivated by love and longing.We touched on how world-building can influence a character's perceived morality. In tightly defined universes, a single action might shift a character from hero to villain or vice versa. The broader and more complex the setting, the easier it becomes to justify or criticize those actions.Modern Obsession with Antiheroes and Reader RelatabilityA recurring theme in our talk was the rising popularity of antiheroes, especially in BookTok communities and modern literature. Meaghan emphasized how modern readers are drawn to nuanced characters who reflect the gray morality of real life. Straightforward good-versus-evil narratives feel outdated to many readers who want complexity and inner conflict in their characters.Romance novels, particularly dark romance, often play with this dynamic. Characters like Zade Meadows from Haunting Adeline or those in Lights Out by Navetta Allen operate with morally questionable methods but are driven by well-intentioned motives, making them compelling and controversial at the same time.We also reflected on Joe Goldberg's character arc and how the show's clever use of internal narration makes viewers uncomfortably sympathetic toward someone who is clearly a villain. This blurring creates tension and complicates our engagement with the story, prompting us to question our moral compass.Characters like Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones were also mentioned. While initially self-serving, he evolves over the series into someone with more noble intentions, even if he doesn't fit the typical heroic mold. He shifts from a villain to a morally gray character and eventually a reluctant hero in some people's eyes.Genre Examples and Pop Culture InfluenceWe highlighted how genres like comic books and dark fantasy frequently feature antiheroes. Characters like Deadpool, Daredevil, The Punisher, and Batman exemplify this model. These characters challenge traditional morality, often operating outside the law but still striving to uphold a personal sense of justice. Meaghan noted that even characters like Geralt from The Witcher are often misclassified as antiheroes when they may just be grumpy or reluctant heroes.Arthur brought up the Murderbot Diaries as another upcoming example - an android that hacks its programming to gain autonomy while also occasionally killing humans. It's complex, emotionally resonant, and set to become an Apple TV series.We also briefly touched on Silo's Juliet, who represents a reluctant hero more than an antihero. Her role highlights how characters are shaped by the world around them and are often pulled into heroism unwillingly.We examined situations where antiheroes may shift into villain territory, such as Tamlin from ACOTAR, whose descent into darker behavior between books one and two sparked significant conversation among readers. While some hope for redemption, others see the character's trajectory as complete.Finally, we discussed how some stories allow villains or antiheroes to win. Meaghan noted that this feels more realistic because, in life, good doesn't always triumph. These narratives, while less conventional, often leave a more lasting impact on readers.Final Thoughts and What's NextWe wrapped up by affirming our shared preference for morally complex characters over one-dimensional heroes or villains. Antiheroes, with their flaws, motivations, and layered choices, make for more engaging narratives. Readers want characters that mirror real-life complexity, and antiheroes offer that depth in spades.In the closing segment, we teased our next episode, where we'll focus on different portrayals of a famously adapted villain character across books, films, and shows. We plan to compare portrayals, potentially do a ranking, and analyze how this character has changed across time and mediums.In the meantime, we encouraged listeners to check out our latest reviews and ARCs on our website, FullyBooked.ca, and subscribe to the Bookish newsletter to stay up to date with all our content.

We're back with another episode talking about the ACOTAR series. If you haven't read A Court of Thorns and Roses and the second book in the series, A Court of Mist and Fury, there are spoilers hence! We tackle the first part of the book today, getting into slow dissolution of Feyre and Tamlin's relationship in the aftermath of Under the Mountain.

Christine Riccio & Natasha Polis talk all things nerdy in the book, tv, movie, pop culture, fandoms, and how they integrate into their adult lives. Today they're diving into the world of ACOTAR with Kelsey Dangerous. If they were in Tamlin's position, how would things play out? Plus they chat Voice of the Ocean, Nobody Wants This season, Spiderman 4, and more.  Main discussion starts at: 30:00 Today in Fangirl Tea Time: Join Christine and Natasha for more stories about their recent life escapades.  Check out our new those forking fangirls merch!  http://thoseforkingfangirls.com/store Support the pod by joining the Forking Fangirls Patreon community: http://patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls  Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls   Pre-order Voice of The Ocean by Kelsey Impicciche: http://linktr.ee/kelseydangerous Find Kelsey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelseydangerous Kelsey on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kelseydangerous Get Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy  Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS  Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/  Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

Shelley and Rachel are about to walk down the aisle, but are too haunted by what happened Under the Mountain to find any joy with their so-called beloved. But then Rhys shows up, whisking them away to the Night Court, and at last they find some peace. Will they join Rhys and forsake the Spring Court, or return to Tamlin and advocate for their freedom and sanity?   Find and follow our insta @canddpod Our intro and outro music is Take it Slow by Jay Man https://www.our-music-box.com/  

in this episode, we once again weigh in on your hot takes and unpopular opinions and dish out some unexpected life advice. we dig into the Goodreads vs Storygraph debate and also discuss the latest Booktok-island bombshell (Fabel) and its recent AI roasting controversy. the internet's faves like Colleen Hoover, Sally Rooney and SJM'S A Court of Thorns and Roses also gets a special mention. finally, it wouldn't be a talk lit, get hit episode if we didn't find space in the episode for a little bit of discussion on the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. if you have any hot takes or thoughts that need to be heard by the people. email us at hello@talklitgethit.com.spoilers and your hot take time stamps:1:10 - Goodreads is such a low-budget app considering it's Amazon6:28 - Colleen Hoover can get in the bin10:24 - should I move to the city next year?12:51 - should i quit my job?15:55 - my fave part of BookTok at the moment is Jodi Picoult18:34 - my neighbour keeps putting their rubbish in my bin!19:46 - 20:16 - Flight of the Conchords season 1 episode 7 spoilers21:23 - 23:48 - Tamlin deserves a redemption arc and Feyre sucks and ACOTAR series spoilers 23:48 - I don't like Normal People26:34 - 28:31 Eclipse is the best book in the Twilight series and Twilight series spoilersArticles and TikToks mentioned:Fable AI controversyJodi Picoult tutorialsend us questions, things you want us to speak about or just say hi!choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month!make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok.theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B.talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

We made it to the end of A Court of Frost and Starlight! The Solstice festivities are in full swing. Nesta is sad. Tamlin is sad. Feyre wants a baby, and she starts an art therapy business. Chapters 19-28 in ACOFAS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feyre and the gang start their Solstice celebration. Rhys pays a visit to a sad Tamlin, and Feyre pays a visit to a drunken Nesta. Chapters 9-13 in ACOFAS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Watch as we create our Book Character Hear Me Out Cake featuring beloved (and questionable) literary favorites! Join us for laughs and heated debates as we defend our controversial character crushes and share hilarious one-star reviews of our favorite books. From Sarah J. Maas's iconic heroes to surprising picks like the Sandworm from Dune, we're building the ultimate bookish cake that will make you question everything – and maybe your own taste in fictional characters! Get ready for shocking character choices, passionate defenses of unlikely crushes, and plenty of playful banter as we tackle everything from Tamlin to Tom Hanks in Polar Express. Whether you're Team Hobo-on-the-Train or Team King Triton, this episode serves up the perfect blend of bookish humor and questionable taste. Plus, discover which one-star reviews of beloved books had us clutching our pearls and which ones actually made us laugh out loud. This episode is packed with literary references, unexpected picks, and the kind of friendship that makes reading (and judging books) so much fun. From ACOTAR to Crescent City, Twilight to The Hunger Games, no character is safe from our "hear me out" considerations. Even if you disagree with our choices, you're guaranteed to laugh along with our passionate defenses and outrageous selections.

#8: ...My eyes are heavy...

Happy Halloween!Rob and Eamonn from Monster Fuzz join Alison and Timothy for our annual Halloween hangout. We discuss books, records, movies, comics, cryptids, and more.If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25Strange Familiars merch: https://www.strangefamiliars.com/merchOur Strange Familiars / Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, t-shirts, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://lostgrave.etsy.comFollow us on Whatnot: https://whatnot.com/invite/strangefamiliarsEpisode 496 notes and links:Check out Uncommon Goods: https://uncommongoods.com/STRANGECheck out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone.comStrange Realities: https://www.strangerealitiesconference.comCarbondalien Fest: https://carbondalienfestival.comMonster Fuzz: https://monsterfuzzpodcast.comStrange Familiars Curiosity of the week #131:1. Mt Washington Hotel photo2. Cyanotype of eerie boyPlease support Kiya.Life and their work at Pine Ridge.KIYA.LIFE: https://kiya.lifeLancaster Conservancy: https://www.lancasterconservancy.orgProtect Cuff's Run: https://www.lancasterconservancy.org/protect-cuffs-run/Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.comRiverbend Comics Instagram: @riverbendcomicsTimothy's books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5Chad's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad's channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.)Chad's etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckRabbitOutdoorsTo help with the Capuchin Day Center's work with the homeless you can donate here: https://www.capuchindaycentre.ieand here: https://www.cskdetroit.orgMaynard's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/maynard-walk-againContact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.comhttp://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliarsJoin the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/instagram: @strangefamiliarshttp://www.strangefamiliars.comIntro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.comThe closing song is Tam Lin by Eamonn and Timothy: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/tam-linOur Sponsors:* Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone.com* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code STRANGE for a great deal: www.uncommongoods.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Feyre, disguised as Ianthe, sneaks into the Hyburn camp with Azriel to rescue Elain. Tamlin helps everyone escape, and once safe, Feyre finally decides to enlist the help of the Bone Carver. Chapters 65-68 in ACOWAR. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a great Irish reel to learn and play. Anurakt Scheepers has some nice tabs for this song. Dave Hum's family also sells Dave's tabs and original backing track for the song on their website. I used Dave's YouTube video as a template to make my backing track. I added a pulsating synthesizer like he uses, which is cool. I used MIDI for the bass, piano and drums. I also added a real audio drum loop to enhance the overall percussive sound. I humbly think the backing track came out nicely. Dave Hum plays the song in D minor (aDGBD). Anurakt plays it in standard tuning (gDGBD). Enjoy!

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This week, we return from our lengthy and unplanned hiatus with the world's! nichest! episode! That's right, we're talking about Among Others by Jo Walton, Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater, and Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, three fantasy novels set on school campuses that blend faerie folklore and coming-of-age stories.  Topics of discussion include how each book puts their own spin on the supernatural and the folkloric, tragically canceled book series, reproductive rights, and where on a college campus you're most likely to run into a faerie. (And yes, this episode was meant to be released several months ago, as our discussion at the beginning indicates. Oops.) Other media mentioned Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly La Chimera dir. Alica Rohrwacher Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre Challengers dir. Luca Guadagnino Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix show) You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce (creepy faerie book Lulu couldn't remember the name of) The Wicker King by K. Ancrum Aye and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Chime by franny billingsley The Hounds of Ulster by Maggie Stiefvater Apotheosis (concept, not katabasis) A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin StarCrossed by elizabeth bunce The Oracles of Delphi Keep by Victoria Laurie How to Train Your Dragon  Lord of the Rings (film & books) Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Content warnings: discussions of sibling death, parental abuse, a car crash, pregnancy and abortion, suicide, and dubious sexual consent

The High Lords finally meet. Tamlin crashes the party. Things get dramatic. Chapters 43-45 in ACOWAR. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come one come all, Mia & Karly are talking about how to spread the gospel (Maasiverse) to your friends. Spoilers ahead, so listen at your own risk! The girls are spiraling through the stages of grief one experiences while watching friends dive into the Maasiverse for the first time. From pretending Tamlin's likable to surviving the emotional pain of “take it off” and the Thirteen to the full crossover in House of Flame and Shadow, they're breaking down the reactions from friends on their first reads. They're also diving into their excitement (and a little dread on Mia's part) for the upcoming fall season. Between nostalgic fall fashion, cozy days with PSLs, and the endless scroll of FallTok inspo, the crisp autumn air is on the way. Even though Mia's a self-proclaimed fall virgin, Karly's ready to drag her into the season.

It's a grand showdown within the throne room. It's time to overthrow The Rotten King! ----more---- The exciting finale of the community oneshot of Dungeons & Dragons played at The Dice Club in Midland. Featuring players from the Perth D&D community and provided as a free podcast!  The adventure is "Den of the Rotten Kings" by Mike Shea from the Kobold Press: Book of Lairs 2016. Thank you to Jeremy at The Dice Club for hosting us and the amazing players! CAST OF CHARACTERS: DM | Andrew Master Hummingbird | Eduardo Gerard | Andrew Augustus | Kevin Master Oozeway | Ben ----more---- SOCIAL Twitter: @nwtbugbear Facebook | YouTube | Instagram @NWTBPODCAST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NWTBPODCAST MUSIC "Delightful Dread" by John S. © 2024 John S. All Rights Reserved. Music: "Planning", "Tam Lin", "Battlefield", "Dark Hollows", "Prepare for War", "Battle for the Creek", "Mega Boss Fight", "Blood Eagle", "The Enemy", "Countdown", "The Great Battle" and "Fantasy Ambience" by Alexander Nakarada (creatorchords.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All other sounds and effects are sourced from https://freesound.org using the Creative Commons 0 License.

It turns out the sewer hideout is occupied by more than rats!, thugs and crabs appear to thwart the adventurers as they get closer to the drug's source. ----more---- It's episode 2 of our impromptu community oneshot of Dungeons & Dragons played at The Dice Club in Midland. Featuring players from the Perth D&D community and provided as a free podcast!  The adventure is "Den of the Rotten Kings" by Mike Shea from the Kobold Press: Book of Lairs 2016. Thank you to Jeremy at The Dice Club for hosting us and the amazing players! CAST OF CHARACTERS: DM | Andrew Master Hummingbird | Eduardo Gerard | Andrew Augustus | Kevin Master Oozeway | Ben ----more---- SOCIAL Twitter: @nwtbugbear Facebook | YouTube | Instagram @NWTBPODCAST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NWTBPODCAST MUSIC "DnD Battle" by John S. © 2024 John S. All Rights Reserved. Music: "Planning", "Tam Lin", "Autumn Walk", "Fólkvangr", "Battlefield", "Dark Hollows", "Prepare for War", "Battle for the Creek", "Mega Boss Fight", "Blood Eagle", "Lurking Sloth", "Foam Rubber", "The Great Battle" and "Fantasy Ambience" by Alexander Nakarada (creatorchords.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All other sounds and effects are sourced from https://freesound.org using the Creative Commons 0 License.

Join Melissa and Ellie for a bookish adventure like no other! In this episode of their lively podcast, the duo dives into the enchanting world of Sarah J. Maas with a special "Love Island: Sarah J. Maas Edition" featuring guest Daniel Alexander. Expect laughter, drama, and lively commentary as they explore the potential romantic pairings and unhinged matches among beloved characters like Elaine, Tamlin, and Nesta. With their sharp wit and genuine camaraderie, Melissa and Ellie weave through the intricacies of Maas's universe, offering insights into character dynamics and plot twists. Get ready for engaging BookDiscussion, ChapterAnalysis, and LiteraryHumor that entice every BookLover. Engage with the hosts and share your thoughts and theories. Connect on social media for continuous BookishBanter and PodcastFun. Don't miss out—tune in and let Melissa and Ellie be your delightful companions on this riveting literary journey! #CharacterPairingsAnalysis #BookReviewsAndDiscussions #BookRecommendations #SarahJMaas #SarahJMaasCharacters #SarahJMaas #CharacterAnalysis #FantasyBooks #DanielAlexander CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 02:02 - Fleetfoot and Abraxos 03:24 - Chaol and Elain 05:30 - Danika and Cassian 08:05 - Amren and Hunt 17:23 - Twister Game 19:16 - Fire Sprites in Love Island 21:48 - Lucien and Elain Relationship 23:20 - Lucien and Vassa Dynamics 27:34 - Do We Actually Hate Azriel? 32:34 - Game of Thrones Influence 35:44 - The Powerless Realm Explained 37:05 - Book Imagery in Fantasy 45:55 - Cormac and Calanmai Analysis 50:28 - Bryce and Azriel 53:45 - Hologram Information Dump 56:43 - What a Waste of Potential 59:43 - Mates Concept in Love Island 1:09:10 - Mating Bonds Explained 1:10:25 - Nesta and Azriel Relationship 1:13:04 - Sam's Role 1:16:58 - The Bond Explained 1:19:35 - Dorian's Influence 1:22:49 - Twilight of the Gods Themes 1:25:59 - Final Thoughts on Love Island 1:27:05 - Outro ---------------------------------- Get Connected with us! IG: https://www.instagram.com/lamebookclubpod/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2exV4FVCLeN7mYfxcNs9cB?si=36805589642e442c Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l-a-m-e-book-club-podcast/id1703598706

It's a parley between rival crews! A mutiny against the evil captain Jarzon, but which crew will backstab the other first? ----more---- The thrilling finale of our first D&D live show, played on location at our friendly local game store: The Dice Club Midland. We hope you both enjoyed and forgave us for dipping back into Dungeons & Dragons for old times sake :) The adventure is "The Pirates Cove" by Brian Engard from the Kobold Press: Book of Lairs 2016. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us! CAST OF CHARACTERS: DM | Andrew Basil Tidewalker | Sam Halder Leatop | Doug Blitz Blacktooth | Andrew Wet Flare | Ben ----more---- SOCIAL Twitter: @nwtbugbear Facebook | YouTube | Instagram @NWTBPODCAST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NWTBPODCAST MUSIC Music: "Pirates Journey", "Tam Lin", "Wonderland", "Looking for Treasure", "Hor Hor", "Fólkvangr", "Battlefield", "Dark Hollows", "Prepare for War", "Battle for the Creek", "Mega Boss Fight", "Blood Eagle", "Elysium" and "Fantasy Ambience" by Alexander Nakarada (creatorchords.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All other sounds and effects are sourced from https://freesound.org using the Creative Commons 0 License.

Two sisters, Nicole and Lexi explore chapters 29-34 of Sarah J Maas's A Court of Wings and Ruin! Factor - Head to factormeals.com/fantasyfangirl50 and use code fantasyfangirl50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month. Ritual - Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/FFG. Miracle Made - Go to TryMiracle.com/FF and use the code FF to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Apostrophe - Get your first visit for only five dollars at Apostrophe.com/FF when you use our code FF. BetterHelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/ffg today to get 10% off your first month.  *All episodes include spoilers for the entirety of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series* Lexi and Nicole begin with Inner Circle Debrief (summary of this section), then Step into the Cauldron for critical insights, theories, and foreshadowing, and then finish off with taking a trip to the Sipping Tea with the Suriel to learn all about the Ouroboros mirror! Inner Circle Debrief: 4:11 Step into the Cauldron: 10:03 Foreshadowing: 1:42:48 Suriel Teatime: 1:45:08 Fae-vorite Moments: 1:49:48 Maasverse Madness: 1:53:02 Videos/Theories Mentioned  Sunshine theory: https://offtorivendell.tumblr.com/post/692336340525776896/the-sunshine-elain-needs-may-not-be-the-assumed  Steven as Cassian pretending to be Tamlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAILgkOhCs&t=3s  Elain Cauldron Theories: https://www.reddit.com/r/acotar/comments/1am6ext/cauldron_theories/  UPCOMING EVENTS:  FFG Live Show - https://comedyworks.com/comedians/fantasy-fangirls  Get Tickets to the Dragon Gauntlet: https://app.gopassage.com/events/dragongauntlet   Tickets to Romantasy BookCon: https://www.fabledfantasyevents.com/la-itinerary-and-tiers  Swords & Shadows Masquerade with mountains and Magic - https://mountainsandmagic.com/events/  JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER:https://fantasyfangirls.beehiiv.com/subscribe    JOIN PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyFangirls   SHOP FANTASY FANGIRLS MERCH: https://fantasy-fangirls.printify.me/ SUPPORT THE SHOW THROUGH OUR AMAZON SHOP: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fantasyfangirlspodcast     ACOWAR PLAYLIST:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UMYHVUj4Rqnsf143K9Gdb?si=b90c1d5be5854008  Give us a follow: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@fantasyfangirlspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@fantasyfangirlspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: @fantasyfangirls   Email us your favorite ACOTAR/Maasverse theories: fantasyfangirlspod@gmail.com Listen to the Fantasy Fangirls Podcast on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/24KydMMzrYfVpDggkFZx4j?si=fd7dc956393041b8    Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-fangirls/id1706179464    Visit the Fantasy Fangirls website: https://www.fantasyfangirls.com/   Don't forget to send this podcast to your fellow ACOWAR readers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four sailors without a ship sulk at the local tavern staring into their mugs of seaweed infused ale waiting for their fortunes to improve until a frantic captain offers them a daring adventure of rescue and plunder. ----more---- Here we go! We hope you enjoy Episode 1 of our very first Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition live show, played on location at our friendly local game store: The Dice Club Midland. It was an amazing night of swashbuckling fun and we cant wait for you to hear it, so here it is! Thank you to everyone who came out to support us! CAST OF CHARACTERS: DM | Andrew Basil Tidewalker | Sam Halder Leatop | Doug Blitz Blacktooth | Andrew Wet Flare | Ben ----more---- SOCIAL Twitter: @nwtbugbear Facebook | YouTube | Instagram @NWTBPODCAST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NWTBPODCAST MUSIC Music: "Pirates Journey", "Tavern Brawl ft Kevin MacLeod", "Tam Lin", "Wonderland", "Looking for Treasure", "Hor Hor", "Fólkvangr", "Battlefield", "Dark Hollows", "Prepare for War", "Battle for the Creek", "Mega Boss Fight", "Blood Eagle", "Halloween Textures" and "Fantasy Ambience" by Alexander Nakarada (creatorchords.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All other sounds and effects are sourced from https://freesound.org using the Creative Commons 0 License.

Send us a Text Message.Today your esteemed hosts are joined by their friend Chloe, who you may notice was also featured in our recent Eternals episode. This was the first episode we recorded with her, and we all had a ton of fun reading our tales: The Ballad of Tam Lin, Molly Whuppie, and Are You Angry? You can contact us at tmttspodcast@gmail.com Website: https://tmttspodcast.wixsite.com/home Follow us on social media: @tmttspodcast on Instagram and TikTok. Also on YOUTUBE! THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY IS A SPOILER-FILLED SHOW PLEASE LISTEN WITH CAUTION.

Two sisters, Nicole and Lexi explore chapters 22-28 of Sarah J Maas's A Court of Wings and Ruin! LMNT - Get your free Sample Pack with any LMNT purchase at DrinkLMNT.com/FFG. AG1 - Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at drinkAG1.com/ffg.  *All episodes include spoilers for the entirety of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series* Lexi and Nicole begin with Inner Circle Debrief (summary of this section), then Step into the Cauldron for critical insights, theories, and foreshadowing, and then finish off with taking a trip to the Sipping Tea with the Suriel to learn all about the Old Gods! Inner Circle Debrief: 4:34 Step into the Cauldron: 10:38 Foreshadowing: 1:53:31 Suriel Teatime: 1:55:55 Fae-vorite Moments: 2:02:24 Maasverse Madness: 2:06:14 Videos/Theories Mentioned: Sunshine theory: https://offtorivendell.tumblr.com/post/692336340525776896/the-sunshine-elain-needs-may-not-be-the-assumed  Steven as Cassian pretending to be Tamlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAILgkOhCs&t=3s  Elain Cauldron Theories: https://www.reddit.com/r/acotar/comments/1am6ext/cauldron_theories/  Get Tickets to the Dragon Gauntlet: https://app.gopassage.com/events/dragongauntlet   Tickets to Romantasy BookCon: https://www.fabledfantasyevents.com/la-itinerary-and-tiers  JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER:https://fantasyfangirls.beehiiv.com/subscribe    JOIN PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyFangirls   SHOP FANTASY FANGIRLS MERCH: https://www.fantasyfangirls.com/merch  SUPPORT THE SHOW THROUGH OUR AMAZON SHOP: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fantasyfangirlspodcast     ACOWAR PLAYLIST:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UMYHVUj4Rqnsf143K9Gdb?si=b90c1d5be5854008  Give us a follow: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@fantasyfangirlspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@fantasyfangirlspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: @fantasyfangirls   Email us your favorite ACOTAR/Maasverse theories: fantasyfangirlspod@gmail.com Listen to the Fantasy Fangirls Podcast on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/24KydMMzrYfVpDggkFZx4j?si=fd7dc956393041b8    Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-fangirls/id1706179464    Visit the Fantasy Fangirls website: https://www.fantasyfangirls.com/   Don't forget to send this podcast to your fellow ACOWAR readers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Morgan Daimler joins the circle to discuss the possible benefits and dangers of dealing with the Fae, as well as Faerie concepts of gender and sexuality, and how the details of the interaction with faerie beings detailed in the English/Scottish Ballad of Tam Lin can inform our craft, in discussion with Dave Gaddy and Frater Aaron. Find more about Morgan Daimler at https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/moon-books/authors/morgan-daimler Intro contains music provided by "Vivek Abhishek"https://www.youtube.com/user/VivEKhsi... Music used : "1 HOUR OF HORROR MUSIC" originally composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" https://youtu.be/JrNjyEixUEk Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VivekEKhsihbA/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivek.abhis...

A traditional tale of a brave maiden who braves beast, fire, and fairy magic to save an enchanted knight from the court of the Faerie Queen. Intro contains music provided by "Vivek Abhishek"https://www.youtube.com/user/VivEKhsi...  Music used : "1 HOUR OF HORROR MUSIC" originally composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" https://youtu.be/JrNjyEixUEk  Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VivekEKhsihbA/  Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivek.abhis...

Madeline Smith is an actress best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die with Rodger Moore but also had larger roles in the Hammer horror films The Vampire Lovers, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Tam-Lin, Theatre of Blood and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. She stared in comedy films including Up Pompeii, Up the Front and Carry On Matron and the musical film Take Me High with Cliff Richard. Her television credits include Doctor at Large, The Two Ronnies, His and Hers with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Casanova '73 with Leslie Phillips, Steptoe and Son and The Howerd Confessions with Frankie Howerd. She was a member of the regular cast of the BBC2 series The End of the Pier Show and In The Looking Glass alongside satirists John Wells and John Fortune and composer Carl Davis. Madeline also starred in The Passionate Pilgrim which was the final screen appearance of Eric Morecambe.Madeline Smith is guest number 397 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she'd like to preserve and one she'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Madeline Smith on Twitter: @maddysmith007 .
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An ancient curse has been cast on Alex Pearlman, a curse of 624 pages of fairy romance. And this curse was cast by the team leads at Pearlmania500.net. You are cordially invited to hear the TWO AND A HALF hour tale, of Mr. P explaining the plot of A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOTAR BOOK 2) to Mrs. Pearlmania. *This episode, LIKE ALL OF OUR BOOK CLUB EPISODES is chock full of spoilers* We cover it all, from Sarah J Maas's need for an editor who will cut at least one page of exposition, to how soup is a running theme, and how this is a story of a 19 year old woman who doesn't understand how to establish boundaries that aren't fairy bargains. Feyre, Tamlin, Rhysand, Jurian, Lucien, Amarantha, Amren, Azriel, Cassian, Nesta and Mor are hear. So Many many Mor. Prepare your mind and sould to reenter the land of Prythian and Hybern, which is definitely not the British Isles. And listen for the sounds of THE NIGHT COURT, which does not have judge Harry Stone. Alex has added more cities to the tour! Including, NJ, AZ and CA!TICKETS FOR THE SOUP FOR MY FAMILY TOUR HERETo become a Team leader: Join our patreon (not a cult): https://pearlmania500.netThe Pearlmans have a NEW Post Office Box: P.O. Box 72151, Thorndale, PA 19372.Follow us on Instagram: @Pearlmania500 & @mrs.pearlmania500You can watch this episode on our Youtube Channel!!!Our theme song and all of the music for our show comes from our friend's project called "His Name Was Dusk." Check out his website for more info at: hisnamewasdusk.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Embark on a literary escapade that will weave you through the laughter, love, and lunacy of high fantasy worlds! With Josh's epic trek to join us (complete with a pitstop at Best Buy), we promise an episode packed with the charm of audiobooks and the secrets behind the draw of "A Court of Mist and Fury." Unwind with us as we compare notes on the alluring narration styles that transform mundane jogs into epic quests and the spellbinding tales that might just replace your workout playlist.From the intricate spellwork in Brandon Sanderson's creations to the entwined destinies of Sarah J. Maas's heroines, we dissect what makes these authors' series bewitchingly resonate with readers—and listeners. Our candid banter flits from the gripping world-building to character arcs that spark debates, while social media's power in propelling these stories into the limelight gets its due spotlight. And when it comes to Feyre's artistry (or lack thereof), we spare no jests nor hold back on the sweetness of Cassian's confessions.We wrap up with a hearty chat about the spicy scenes that set our pulses racing, the emotional rollercoasters of Nesta and Feyre's journeys, and the high stakes drama of immortality. Whether it's Feyre's fierce battles or the simmering tension between characters, we dissect it all with humor and heart. Plus, don't miss our foray into the Harry Potter realm, where we ponder how the series feels when you're coming at it fresh as an adult. Tune in, and let's navigate the laugh-out-loud moments and deep connections that define our favorite fantastical narratives.Summary:Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.*Summary from Goodreads****Produced by Jen Hardin***

SHOW NOTES VISIT OUR SPONSORS The Louisiana Renaissance Festival https://www.larf.org/ Ocean Renaissance Foundation http://www.oceancityrenaissance.com/ The Ren List http://www.therenlist.com/ Happy To Be Coloring Pages https://happytobecoloring.justonemore.website/ RESCU https://rescu.org/ The Patrons of the Podcast https://www.patreon.com/RenFestPodcast SONGS Drink Boys Drink[2] performed by Axel the Sot and Gibbon the Troubadour from the album Keelhauler[2] www.facebook.com/pg/Axel-the-Sot-145245625508912 Silk Road[1] performed by Ladies at Play from the album Once Upon A Waltz www.ladiesatplayband.com Itches in Me Britches[6] performed by Righteous Blackguards from the album Just The Tip www.righteousblackguards.com The Girl I Left Behind Me[1] performed by DeCantus from the album Tonight We'll Merry Bee www.decantus.com/ Barrel of Whiskey performed by Langer's Ball from the album Hold Tight www.TheLangersBall.com The RecruiterFree Rum Ain't Free performed by Whiskey Bards from the album The Recruiter...Free Rum Ain't Free www.facebook.com/whiskeybards/ Jennie Mccall performed by Black Oak Shillelagh from the album Och, The Places We've Been www.blackoakshillelagh.com Hobbit Walking Song performed by Broceliande from the album The Starlit Jewel www.broceliande.org Loch Lomond[3] performed by Chaste Treasure from the album Chaste Treasure www.chastetreasure.com Scarborough Faire[8] performed by Merry Wives of Windsor from the album Happy  Endings www.mwow.net Tam Lin[3] performed by Misfits of Avalon from the album Avalon Moon www.facebook.com/misfitsofavalon/ Farmors Polska[2] performed by Wolgemut from the album Singles[5] www.wolgemut.net Ye Mariners All performed by Crannog from the album In Your Own Dreams www.facebook.com/pg/Crannog-127889473932778/ Isn't It Grand[4] performed by MenageAMoi from the album Raise a Toast www.menageamoicomedy.com How Can I Keep From Singing performed by Lady Prudence from the album All's Faire www.facebook.com/lady.prudence.piper Vada, chmieĺ, solad (Water, Hop, Molt) performed by Stary Olsa from the album Kola Rycerska www.staryolsa.com/en/home.html Johnny Medley performed by Capt'n Black's Sea Dogs from the album Tales of the Black Dog www.facebook.com/seadogsmusic/ So Early in the Morning performed by Jesse Ferguson from the album Sea Shanties and Whaling Ballads www.jessefergusonmusic.com Harvest of the Moon performed by Jon Baade from the album Cliche Rocky Road to Dublin,the Butterfly performed by Bubble and Squeak from the album Bits and Pieces Scallywagg performed by Boom Pirates from the album Prepare To Be Boarded www.facebook.com/boompirates/ Sin performed by Hey Nunnie Nunnie from the album Hey Nunnie! Nunnie! www.heynunnienunnie.com/ Sarah, Sarah[1] performed by Iris and Rose from the album The Crass Menagerie www.iris-n-rose.com/ Old Keg Of Rum performed by Rum Fellows from the album Okie Maritime Music-For The Landlocked Pirate www.facebook.com/OkiePirates/ Scotland the Brave[6] performed by Klaxton from the album Singles[3] Spanish Rose performed by Nazario Chickpeazio from the album It's not my Fault I'm a Chick Magnet www.chickpeazio.com Swarm of Cicada's performed by Cu Dubh from the album Walkn' the Cinders www.cudubhtribe.com/ Parting Glass[19] performed by Embra from the album Three Part One Heart www.facebook.com/EmbraKC/ HOW TO CONTACT US Post it on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/renfestmusic Email us at renfestpodcast@gmail.com HOW TO LISTEN Patreon https://www.patreon.com/RenFestPodcast Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/renaissance-festival-podcast/id74073024 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/76uzuG0lRulhdjDCeufK15?si=obnUk_sUQnyzvvs3E_MV1g Pandora https://www.pandora.com/podcast/renaissance-festival-podcast/PC:1139 Listennotes http://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/renaissance-festival-podcast-minions-1Xd3YjQ7fWx/  

Hey Nerds! We have a special guest this week, Sarah! We had the best time diving into part two of A Court of Mist and Fury.  We miss you Stacy!Have you ever found yourself so immersed in a book's world that you forget reality for a while? This episode, we bring along Sarah, a dedicated listener turned guest, who shares that very passion for getting lost in literary escapes. We revel in the nostalgia of childhood favorites like American Girl Dolls and introduce fresh loves from Sarah's recent reads, such as "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" and "Once in a Millennial." Our shared laughter and stories form the tapestry of today's conversation, weaving through the threads of fiction and non-fiction alike. Summary:Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.*Summary from Goodreads****Produced by Jen Hardin***

Ever found yourself arguing with friends over whether audiobooks or physical books provide the superior reading experience? That's precisely the kind of debate we ignite as Chanel, myself, and the Fiction Fanatics welcome Dannie to the fray. While Stacy's off snuggling her new bundle of joy, we dive headfirst into the lush landscapes of Sarah J. Maas's "A Court of Mist and Fury," comparing the sensory delights of ink on paper to the spoken word, and even entertain the thought of a dramatized Harry Potter series to spice up our future episodes.Fantasy worlds collide with reality as we unravel the threads of love and toxicity within Maas's narrative, holding a magnifying glass over Tamlin's controversial character arc. Mother's Day is on the horizon, so amidst our literary excavation, we pause to tip our hats to the powerhouse moms out there—including ours. Dannie steps bravely into the podcasting limelight, reminding us that the bonds of friendship and shared passions can turn workplace acquaintances into lifelong comrades.Summary:Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.*Summary from Goodreads****Produced by Jen Hardin***

Join us (Valerie and Taylor) as we deep dive into the Character Tamlin from A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. We thought it would be fun to commemorate our podcast being out for a year by re-discussing why we are #TeamRhysand but we do not hate Tamlin. After finishing all of Sarah's books in the #Maasverse, we were able to really explore all of the potential avenues for Tamlin's future as a character in ACOTAR. Thank you all so much for joining us this season. We love you all and are so thankful for the continued support of our platform. Check out our social media accounts @whimsygossip to stay up to date on our latest projects and for announcements on when our podcast will return for season 4! It has been such an amazing year and we cannot wait to dive into more book content and interviews in the next season.

What makes an appropriate April Fool's post? How about a book that FOOLED its own art directors, editors, publicists, etc. by including copulation? I'd say that counts! In fact, you might say that Trina Schart Hyman was the ultimate April Fool's picture book creator! She snuck insults of book reviewers onto gravestones. She managed to get the missionary position into a Howard Pyle book. She even made her ex-girlfriend the evil queen in her version of Snow White (while she made herself one of the seven dwarfs). But going back to that case where doing the wild thing made an appearance of the margins of a table in a picture book, Betsy has been hoping to do King Stork with Kate for years. And let us say, it doesn't disappoint. It's just as weird, sexist, strange, and funny as you'd expect. Think The Twelve Dancing Princesses meet Tam Lin. For the full Show Notes, please visit: https://afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/01/fuse-8-n-kate-king-stork-by-howard-pyle-ill-trina-schart-hyman

Two sisters, Nicole and Lexi explore chapters 25-28 of Sarah J Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses! Try AG1 and get a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 PLUS 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at https://www.drinkAG1.com/FFG DAILY HARVEST Get 25% off your first month of Ritual at https://www.ritual.com/FFG   Go to http://www.zocdoc.com/FF and download the Zocdoc app for FREE, then find and book a top-rated doctor today! Enjoy an epic role playing meditation podcast at https://www.seekanomalie.com/  *All episodes include spoilers for the entirety of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series* Lexi and Nicole begin with Inner Circle Debrief (summary of this section), then Step into the Cauldron for critical insights, theories, and foreshadowing, and then finish off with taking a trip to the Sipping Tea with the Suriel to learn all about the feud between Tamlin in the Spring Court and Rhysand in the Night Court! Inner Circle Debrief: 00:02:20 Step into the Cauldron: 00:09:32 Foreshadowing: 1:53:56 Suriel Teatime: 1:57:45  Fae-vorite Moments: 2:03:00 JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER: https://delightful-kiwi-27448.myflodesk.com/ffgsubscribe   JOIN PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyFangirls   SHOP FANTASY FANGIRLS MERCH: https://fantasy-fangirls.printify.me/products   SUPPORT THE SHOW THROUGH OUR AMAZON SHOP: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fantasyfangirlspodcast   ACOTAR PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25MKU8SEGieN4ECk6T5N1f?si=b78fd23dea86489a  Give us a follow: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@fantasyfangirlspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@fantasyfangirlspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: @fantasyfangirls   Email us your favorite ACOTAR/Maasverse theories: fantasyfangirlspod@gmail.com Listen to the Fantasy Fangirls Podcast on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/24KydMMzrYfVpDggkFZx4j?si=fd7dc956393041b8    Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-fangirls/id1706179464    Visit the Fantasy Fangirls website: https://www.fantasyfangirls.com/   Don't forget to send this podcast to your fellow ACOTAR readers!

IT IS TIME (thorny air horns playing in the background)! Time for Sam and Emily to finally dive off the deep end and into the world of Sarah J. Maas. In this episode they will be breaking down and summarizing the first part of A Court of Thorns and Roses. After two years of pleading on Sam's part, Emily finally gave into the peer pressure and lucky for you guys, now there is content planned for at least a year. So strap in and drink up! Cheers!