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Loch Maree (new version)
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Thundering exploration of Scottish history. VisitScotland.com go home to England. Class war, tourism, leaving home, lost hope, bad weather, wrong decisions... its all here. Meanwhile in the depths of a deep dark Scottish loch...
pop folk scottish rockabilly political perthshire
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Whats this pish about peace, love & understanding... when they're eating YOUR pan loaf, shiting on your living room carpet & wanking over yer granny's photo.
Scottish Acid Avant Rockabilly Folk Pop with an unforgiving political edge. 39 Dangerous Street formed in 1987, and signed to Splairgin' Glit the following year. William Pullar...Acoustic,electric guitar, vocals Kelvin Gilbert... electric guitar, backing vocals Samantha Baxter...Bass Marilyn MacFarlane...Drums, percussion Associate members Captain W... electric guitar, Fiona Kennedy... Piano, keyboards Marilyn completed an SVQ level 3 in Poultry Husbandry in 1998. She works with poultry in Errol. Samantha Baxter works at an animal science lab in nearby Bridge of Earn. William Pullar runs a small dry cleaning firm in Perth. Kelvin Gilbert's CV shows lengthy stays in Lennox Castle, Gogarburn, The Royal Edinburgh and Spinbinnie Hospitals between his musical forays... Captain W commutes between his home in the dark heart of Southern Scotland and the splendour of St John's Toun. Fiona Kennedy pops over from Comrie regularly. A small but committed bunch of fans keep us in beer and whisky at occasional Friday night gigs in Scone.
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World • Traditional Celtic
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Peak #154
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Pullar
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Splairgin' Glit Music
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September 26, 2006
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MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:49
Story behind the song
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL VERSION. The original idea for the song came out of a letter to the Daily Record one Saturday in 1990. It was one of those annoying requests from some old duffer wanting something. Usually they just want a ball of a particular type of blue wool to finish their niece's cardigan or something. On this occasion however, they were looking for a tape of the song "Loch Maree", sadly the band were in recording at Devilla Studios in Prestwick and the upshot for J Murray of Wishaw was the arrival in the post of a tape of a song called "Loch Maree" the following Monday. We had really wanted to help this person, but we'd never heard of the song they were asking for, so we made one up on the spot. Its rather good, I think you'll agree. Oh yeah and we pretended to be Kenneth Mackellar on the tape too... ABOUT THE NEW VERSION We have replaced the original crap quick demo with a full production version, recorded and mixed by Captain W and mastered by General S in 1998. Unusually slick, it is rather strange and beautiful. A wee gem from the vaults. Cheers guys.
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When winter winds come roaring round I know its time to wander down to Bonnie Loch Maree I love to bathe in Loch Maree with water swirling round my legs oh Bonnie Loch Maree When I was young I left the town and went to live somewhere else but nowhere had quite the appeal of that first place I lived in within the vicinity of Loch Maree Workers of the world unite the means of production is close at hand its there on the sand by the rocky shingle beach of Loch Maree It was a lover and his lass with a hey and a ho and a rondeley la they drowned on the shores of Loch Maree with a hey and a ho and a nonnie nonnie no Oh Loch Maree Loch Maree water hills and scenery Oh Loch Maree Loch Maree its the middle of January The ghost can be seen if you've got a wet suit of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his electric Fleur De Lys beneath the powerboat's spray and the windsurfer's Spandex neath the waves by the shores of Loch Maree Oh you know what I mean because he hasn't been seen since he wandered up high in the hills He got lost one day on the West Highland Way and I think that he's up there still Oh Loch Maree Loch Maree water hills and scenery Oh Loch Maree Loch Maree its the middle of January
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