An evening of story and song, looking at the long history and tradition of climbing songs, starting with Geoffrey Winthrop Young's Pen-y-Pass parties at the beginning of the last century, the work of lyricists like George Basterfield, and John Hirst of the Rucksack Club who wrote over 200 parodies. After the war there was a tradition of singing and writing songs among many clubs, like the Creagh Dhu, the Rock and Ice, the Bradford Lads and the Mynydd Club. There were also many individual singer/song-writing climbers, the most outstanding of whom was Tom Patey. His witty lyrics are now the stuff of legend: 'Onward Christian Boningtonš; 'The Legend of Joe Brown'; 'The Peter Crew' song and many more. Song performances by Paul Cherry and Dennis Gray, and recordings of Tom Patey re-mastered from a 40-year-old tape by Paul at his Cotswold Studio.
Damn them for not ensuring I heard about this!QuoteAn evening of story and song, looking at the long history and tradition of climbing songs, starting with Geoffrey Winthrop Young's Pen-y-Pass parties at the beginning of the last century, the work of lyricists like George Basterfield, and John Hirst of the Rucksack Club who wrote over 200 parodies. After the war there was a tradition of singing and writing songs among many clubs, like the Creagh Dhu, the Rock and Ice, the Bradford Lads and the Mynydd Club. There were also many individual singer/song-writing climbers, the most outstanding of whom was Tom Patey. His witty lyrics are now the stuff of legend: 'Onward Christian Boningtonš; 'The Legend of Joe Brown'; 'The Peter Crew' song and many more. Song performances by Paul Cherry and Dennis Gray, and recordings of Tom Patey re-mastered from a 40-year-old tape by Paul at his Cotswold Studio.
I have a briefcase full of used fifties handcuffed to my wrist that I was waiting to bring along to a lecture, but I guess it'll just have to go towards buying joe cornish another ebony backscratcher.
