TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184RIAEDugA

Anyone know anything about it?  Obviously a KLF-type thing, and there's a couple more videos, apparently filmed at Cecil Sharp House:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmnyc7Bars&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2D0cjceoYc&feature=related

Yes, we were there. It was the launch of Walking With Ghosts, the LUSH CD set made by Simon Emmerson, it was a great night.

FLK were support, apparently there are Belles of London City in those costumes. All very mysterious, they came on, they performed, they left, with no introductions/explanations.

It made me sick to my stomach to see all those vinyl's being burned. >:( At least they were second presses.Or at least one of them was.

having just waste a few minutes of my life i know i am getting old :o

Great idea! Now burn some books, oooooh.............. and what next after that?

I see Emma Hartley has picked up the same thing.

I'm not sure what I think about it, which I guess is the point, or at least part of it.  It's certainly open to a lot of interpretations but I don't think it's meant to be funny, as is queried on the other thread.  A break with the past, a symbolic destruction of the most iconic folk album of the last forty-odd years, a wind-up?

It was also probably just one copy of L&L and some specially made sleeves - cheaper that way.

I may be missing something, but I found that offensive. Musically just a dirge, then scenes akin to the Nazi book burnings. I don't know who did this, but it had no merit whatsoever.

Ignore it. It's irrelevant publicity-seeking.

There's an album as well apparently, which from Colin Irwin's fRoots review sounds interesting (to me anyway) - lots of beats and samples of classic tracks in a generally dreamy - or dirge-like Andy T :) - style.

The more I think about this the more I like it.

Not much of a publicity stunt with 194 viewings on YouTube.  Thought it was an outtake from an old Reeves and Mortimer show..

Stupid cows.

What a load of bull.....
Pull the udder one.....
Herd it on the bovine....
Curiosity killed the cattle....
It's friesian out here....
etc....

Makes me think of that bit in The Rutles film - "Many fans burnt their Rutles albums. Many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Rutles album sales sky rocketed - people were buying them just to burn them."

 :)

I'm pretty sure George Harrison said something similar about the actual Beatles album burnings - 'They've got to buy them to burn them' - or something like that.Of course he was in the Rutles movie, happy to have a dig at his former band.

Managed 1 minute 30 seconds of the first video, and then lost interest I'm afraid... :(

Yawn...Time for bed. ::)

I hadn't heard (herd) of FLK....not much to get excited about as far as I can see.

If I want to see band dressed up in some sort of animal outfit - I prefer the Wombles

What a load of bullocks

If they bought that many copies, expect L&L to make a chart re-entry this week.

Not B****cks, even worse, dull.

And they owe me for 5 mins I will never get back.

cutting edge stuff - copying a 20 year old publicity stunt and burning a 40 year old album.

Well, one of the comments on YouTube says something to the effect of never having heard of the LP and now wanting to check it out! So it could be a kind of publicity stunt using reverse psychology: which two members of Fairport are actually in those cow costumes?

On second thoughts, they would know how to spell "sacrilege" in the caption (unless it is an intentional reference to meeting on the sacriledge...

That's what occurred to me, as well as the fervent hope that the copies burned were dummies. It's a pretty uncomfortable thing to watch, with all the echoes of book-burning. The problem with anything like this is that the more anybody talks about it the more valid it becomes as a publicity stunt.

Yep! Me too. :)

And at least they tidy up after themselves. ;)

I found it amooooosing.

I think they will soon be rich, able to afford a stretch limousin.

On first reading the subject of this thread, I thought it meant "burn" in the sense of burning a copy of a CD. Yep, I know, I don't get out much.

Seriously though, what a load of cowpats!

There is hope for folk inspired electronica, though. Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle don't use many direct folk quotes and samples, but somehow they do manage to create and excellent folkish vibe with their space age pastoralism...

http://www.myspace.com/belburypoly

http://www.myspace.com/theadvisorycircle

Why would they want to burn albums when (to misquote Viz) they could simply download and delete them?  ;)

Ah, Belbury Poly and The Focus Group... Great stuff. There's a lot of good music on Ghostbox.

I listen to a lot of this sort of electronic minimalist stuff (Seefeel at the moment), and thought this was OK, although I did start skipping forward to see the L&L reference as it was getting a bit dull.

I found a good antidote for watching this silly clip-went home and played Liege and Lief in its entirety!

Hi - am trying to find out who might have made this - looks like someone objected to the FLK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7rsz3CxPM

I imagine the same people who made the original video.  I also imagine that whoever did it they'd want to "promote" the new video here.  Now, how could they do that?  Hmm...

You mean by signing up as a newbie on music boards and making their first post look as if they're intetested in it themselves? :-)

I watched/listened for 3 minutes waiting for something to happen, then gave up.  I like a bit of ambient dub, but that was seemingly pointless.  Maybe THAT'S the point!