I got a bit confused recently (errr...more than I usually am).
I always thought Richard Thompson wrote music & lyrics for
Wheely Down, which is on the
Henry the Human Fly album. However some website or other has credited the song to Ian Kearney and Ivor Cutler.
Presumably this has happened because Ivor and Ian performed the song on that RT tribute album whose name escapes me. But it did make me crack up because Richard don't half sound like Ivor on his original recording (with a bit of 1970's period M*rt*n C*rthy mixed in).
What the **** is the song about anyway? Had Richard been watching
The Wicker Man while drinking Adnams? I think Wheely Down is in Hampshire, but that's the extent of my knowledge. Can any of you erudite people shed light on all this?