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Number 28 of '50 key events in world and folk music' apparently.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/16/sandy-denny-joins-fairport

But what is this 'Liege and Leaf' of which they speak ?  :o

Should we look out for subtle references on 'What We Did On Our Holidays' ?

Maybe 'Quarter o' Geer' ?

'Red Leb and Acapulco Gold' ?

Trust the Guardian to make a hash of it...

God knows what the 12-year-olds would make of "Unhalfbricking".

Anyone heard Blackwater Slide by Anne Briggs??

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jun/16/world-and-folk-music-playlist-download

Good old Grauniad.

Or indeed 'Who Knows Where The Times Goes?' (at number 50)? Presumably the Graun taking a smack at a rival newspaper?
 ;D

It's funny because they got it right in the first paragraph! Numpties.

The album title is spelled correctly in my paper copy.

Jules

you still take the guardian in its paper form!
how very quaint

For the school library, innit.

Jules

the kids read paper newspapers! what about their i-phones?

No.   :(

Jules

who actually, apart from people who get them buckshee, does read paper papers? apart from the racing post,obviously ::)

I read the following on another forum this morning whilst sitting in my empty shop:

'A secondary school nearby has completely removed their library and the current generation spend their lives surfing and texting on portable devices. The next generation will totally grow up with ipad-type devices, which like mobile phones are now - will be integral to their being.'

I had to stop reading and do something else as too much on that subject always gives me a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach.


My mum still gets the Times delivered everyday and reads it from cover to cover.

Me... 'i'...by far the best 20p I spend every day.  And, depending which day I'm working either the Saturday Grauniad or the Observer.

Me.

bloody hell you lot show a cavalier attitude to your hard earned cash in these days of the tinterweb

Reading a newspaper online will soon cost as much as the paper version (just ask Rupert).

It's the experience which is entirely irreplaceable.  

I'm resistant enough to Kindles etc with regards to books.  With newspapers, the aesthetics are as important as the content.  I'm only just coming to terms with the end of daily broadsheets (Telegraph excepted which obviously rules that one out)...  :)

Precisely.  Nothing online has yet replicated the experience of actually reading, rather than skimming, a newspaper or a magazine.  And I too pay for papers as a Guardian subscriber.

Yeah! RT covered that one didn't he?

Oh, the  Blackwater Slide, the  Blackwater Slide
They're gonna get you, dead or alive
Stab you in the back with a kitchen knife
Doing the sli-i-de
Do it all day, the Blackwater slide

 :)

and me.

Oh! You covered it to Chris?  :D ;) ;)

How do you know it's hard-earned? We might only have the papers to have something to do while it rolls in from our gold mines.

The piece concludes "Fairport mutated into the noble institution it remains; Denny, dead at 31, has proved irreplaceable".

Two evident truths.

As for the typos, well, it's the Guardina - I'd expect no loess.

 
They must have had complaints  :) :

'This article was amended on 16 June 2011. The original incorrectly called the album Liege & Leaf. This has been corrected.'

Bert Jansch's "Nottanum Town".

I went back and re-read the hard-copy version (yes, I buy it every day), and the Lief was correct the first time it was quoted in the article, then became Leaf the second and third times. I thought the final sentence (quoted by PaulT, above) redeemed whatever errors there might otherwise have been.

DC

I read a newspaper every day, and two on the weekend (not the Grauniad which I can't stomach). I like a newspaper, I try to complete the cryptic crossword every day,  and there's no way Mike would take a i-Pad into the loo for his daily constitutional.  ::)

hear hear me too! so glad they do a Saturday version now as well!

Hear! Hear! Me three! Extravagantly good value, especially the 30p Saturday version.

Someone should start a campaign for a Sunday issue!  I've emailed them a few times to suggest it.

Over here, the best place to start campaigning is to its advertisers.  If a publication is thinking of modifying or expanding its frequency, they are the first people asked.  I once heard that UK papers relied more on circulation revenue, than advertising (the exact opposite in the States).  I'm not sure if that's still the case, though.

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Someone should start a campaign for a Sunday issue!  I've emailed them a few times to suggest it.
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Isn't that the Observer?

DC

Someone should start a campaign for a Sunday issue!  I've emailed them a few times to suggest it.
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Isn't that the Observer?

DC
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We're talking about 'i'....

Isn't that the Observer?

DC
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We're talking about 'i'....
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Come on, keep up Doc!!   ;)