titch juicy Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I seem to remember that there's some fans on here. Tickets on sale on the RFH website right now.Joanna Newsom Tickets Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Hey! Joanna Newsom!I actually agree with the critic who said she sounded like a duck, but I'm up for seeing Roy Harper, there's a blast from the past :))And I'm sure FlapJackDavey will be keen to see JN again.Thanks for the heads up titch.Edited to add: Erm, no, won't be going, just seen the prices - she's upped her game a bit then :-SEdited again to add: We should have got her down to the Goose before, looks like it's too late now, God knows what her fee is if they're charging that much for tix :-S Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-298518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch juicy Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 She's worth every penny and more. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-298574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I'm sure you're right, but depends how many pennies you have.Sometimes they have to be spent on, er, things like food :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-298826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapjackdavey Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 she's brilliant , not sure I'd pay that money to see her though , mind you , you are getting Roy Harper for that too so I suppose its ok . still a bit steep . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-298845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch juicy Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 i'm sure many would disagree, but i think she's as close to a musical genius (not a word i like) that the 21st century's given us thus fara prodigious talentthe new album is stunning Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-300332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapjackdavey Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 sawdust and diamondsgenius is a word thats used too often ,but anyone that can come up with a line such as " I wasnt born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twighlight " has got to come pretty close . :-)even if she does sound like a duck .... :))spooky and brilliant Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-300350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch juicy Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 one of the comments underneath that video sums her up better than i ever could"untamed emotional force, unique songwriting, sophisticated lyrics, breathtaking singing and virtuous harp-playing all combined in one delicate woman..." Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-300353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch juicy Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 i think it's worth posting all the lyrics to sawdust and diamonds, so i shallFrom the top of the flightOf the wide white stairsThrough the rest of my lifeDo you wait for me there?There's a bell in my earsThere's a wide white rowDrop a bell down the stairsHear it fall forever moreHear it fall forever moreDrop a bell off of the dockBlot it out in the seaDrowning mute as a rockSounding mutinyThere's a light in the wingsHits this system of stringsFrom the side while they swing;See the wires, the wires, the wiresAnd the articulationIn our elbows and knees[makes them jerk in the breeze]Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increaseAs the audience admires milkymoonAnd the little white doveMade with love, made with loveMade with glue and a glove and some pliersSwings a low sickle arcFrom its perch in the darkSettle downSettle downSettle down my desireAnd the moment i sleptI was swept up in a terrible tremorThough no longer bereft, how i shookAnd i couldn't rememberAnd then the furthermost shakeDrove a murdering stake inAnd cleft me right down through my centerAnd i shouldn't say soBut i know that it was then or neverPush me back into a treeBind my buttons with saltFill my long ears with beesBraying 'please, please, please,Oh you ought not!No you ought not!'And then this system of stringsTugs on the tip of my wingsCut from cardboard and old magazinesMakes me warble and rise like a sparrowAnd in the place where i stoodIs a circle of woodA quarter to which you chop and you stack in your barrowAnd it is terribly goodTo carry water and chop woodStreaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyedAs i crash through the raftersAnd the ropes and the pulleys trail afterAnd the holiest, holiest belfry burns sky highAnd then a slow lip of fireMoves across the prairie with precisionWhile somewhere with your pliers and glueYou make your first incisionAnd in a moment of almost unbearable visionDoubled over with the hunger of lions'Hold me close', cooed the doveWho was stuffed now with sawdust and diamondsI wanted to say 'why the long face?'[slowly slip away with your long face]Sparrow perch and play songs of long faceBurro buck and bray songs of long faceSings 'i will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clayJust to lift your long faceAnd though it may be madness, i will take to the graveYour precious long face& though our bones they may break & our souls separateWhy the long face? MilkymoonAnd though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soilWhy the long face?'[it was not my mistake,It was not your miskate;There is a bell beneath the lakeAnd verily the spell begins to breakAnd verily the spell begins to break]In the trough of the wavesWhich are pawing like dogsBetween pale-faced and graveAs i write in my logAnd then i hear a noise from the hullSeven days out to seaAnd it is the damnable bellAnd it tolls, i believe, that it tollsIt tolls for me!And it tolls for me!And though my wrists and my waistSeem so easy to breakStill my dear i would have walked you to the edge of the waterAnd they will recogniseAll the lines of your faceIn the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughterAnd darling we will be fineBut what was yours and mineAppears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takesBut if it's all just the sameThen say my name, say my name,Say my name in the morning so that i know when the wave breaksI wasn't born of a whistleOr milked from a thistle at twilightNo, i was all horns and thornsSprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and uprightSo enough of this terror we deserve to know lightAnd grow evermore lighter and lighterYou would have seen me throughBut i could not undo that desireOh-oh, oh-oh-oh desireOh-oh, oh-oh-oh desireOh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire milkymoonFrom the top of the flightOf the wide white stairsThrough the rest of my lifeDo you wait for me there? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10069-joanna-newsom-rfh-11th12th-may/#findComment-300356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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