TOM THUM – BEATING THE HABIT, UDDERBELLY PAIN OF DESIRE, SUMMERHALL
There's a challenge at the heart of the New Rope String Band's late-afternoon show where our three heroes perform a previously little-known morris dance and order the audience not to laugh because it's rude to make fun of other people's culture.
There's a challenge at the heart of the New Rope String Band's late-afternoon show where our three heroes perform a previously little-known morris dance and order the audience not to laugh because it's rude to make fun of other people's culture.
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Reader, I failed. Even the most avid morris dance advocate would, I suspect, fail too.
As the folk scene has known for some time, these guys are nuts. In the nicest possible way. From morris dancing to break dancing, via the Bee Gees, and from world music – in the guise of a Malaysian song, allegedly – to Mars (the Holst one, played on a theremin), they get around their many cultural references with prodigious musicianship laced with their very own brand of slapstick, mirthful mock self-reverence, pints both of dodgy provenance and an explosive nature, and much sheer badness towards their hapless, kilted accordionist.
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