some women singers (and kerfuffles in the tory party)

horsemouth has been asked to recommend some women singers - what do you reckon? 

alice coltrane (the devotional music), karen dalton, judee sill, anne briggs, alison o'donnell and clodagh simonds(mellow candle), lankum (radie peat), belinda kempster and fran foote, lena platonos, linda perhacs, le mystere des voix bulgares, trio bulgarka, chaba fadela, chaba zahouania, the women of wassoulou (oumou sangaré in particular), norma waterson, fontella bass, om kalsoum, fiaruz, ofra haza, nicolette (no government), gribouille, vi subversa (poison girls), lucille bogan, whoever sings with leven signs.

chiwonisu and stella chiweshe obviously. emmylou harris for her backing vocals. 

and (perhaps controversially) katy red.

who has he missed? 

in general horsemouth doesn't do 'oh what a pretty voice you have'  singers. joni mitchell is the name that is missing. 

later today he travels back to the wen. the meeting he was due to go to has been cancelled (this means it will have to be rescheduled to a different date necessitating a further journey).

meanwhile interesting kerfuffles in the tory party

currently 42 tory MPs have announced they will leave parliament at the next poll (rather than subject themselves to the judgement of the electorate). this is on top of the 16 who left when may called the 2017 election and the 41 who left before the 2019 poll

and then there's chris pincher MP - could he be the fifth by-election?(mwa-ah-ah-ah)

out of roughly 350 tory MPs that's nearly 100 gone. that's a bit of a culling (that's beyond decimation). they are heading for a massacre at the polls and opposition, after that there will be no trough to stick their noses in, no patronage, no honours lists and elevations to the lords for a decade. it is almost like £82k a year was not enough money to compensate them for the pain, suffering and emotional distress. to quote one.

'there must be more to life than this. I suppose I suppose I am disillusioned...' 

the hope, of course, is that the tory party splits, into populists and the deadly dull. given the nature of british politics all they have to do is wait for starmer to fuck it up.