can’t cheat karma (sometimes it snows in april)

...and sometimes it hails (nearly) in may...

horsemouth is back from walthamstow folk club. stick in the wheel were on good form (home turf so to speak for half of them, a mum and dad in the audience). they were relaxed there was even a forgot about dre joke and some discussion of karma (when you say your favourite song is the one your daughter doesn’t sing on).

but what about the other acts. there was a rendition of the twa corbies, and one of the musichall song the night I appeared as macbeth, a song about rolling freight up and down the river between southend and tillbury on TEUs (horsemouth hopes he’s got the terminology right - yes he has 20ft containers, 40ft containers -a song by jack forbes), another song re-imagined as musichall was the queen has the biggest council house I’ve ever seen. 

there was banjo (and only some discussion of deliverance), a song about drone strikes, a love song by (or was it for?) emma goldman, and a cover of prince’s sometimes it snows in april.



there’s footage of a prince gig from 2010 - it’s norway but they know all the words and they are singing along. it’s a catchy chorus - the people at the folk club picked it up almost immediately. today horsemouth works. tonight there is a meeting.