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Cassette tapes - Sid has decided that it's no longer viable to stock and supply these. The storytelling album 'Spineless', previously only available on cassette, will be released on CD at an unspecified future date.
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June 2010
While Sid continues to celebrate
more than 25 years in folkbiz, he has noticed some unfinished business.
There are, he has realised, a considerable number of Kipper Family songs
which have never been released for the delectation of the public.
Classic Kipper ditties like All Around My Head, Bring Us In Hot Tea, Do
You Know Ken Peel? and The Landlady's Shoe lie largely neglected in Sid's head.
Something must be done, and rest assured that it will be.
Sid
will release two CDs in 2011. One,
entitled 'Gutless', will feature the man himself performing the cream of his
current repertoire - the likes of The Doggy Few, A For Sale Shanty, The Complete
Swine and All Things Dark And Dangerous. The
other, called 'Two-Faced' will consist of recordings of the Kipper Family,
reclaimed from old tapes (and if you happen to have any of these about your
person please get in touch at the merchandising address, as there are a couple
of titles we don't currently have recordings of).
These will be framed by Sid and Henry's performance of 'Henry Kipper,
That Was Your Life, That Was' from the pair's farewell tour of 1991.
These
CDs will be promoted in a brand new show, inevitably called Two-Faced And
Gutless, booking now. It will
feature material from both albums, along with the very latest news, stories and
gossip from the village of St Just-near-Trunch, and a unique chance to actually
see the fabled three-lobed walnut of Whissonsett.
"Not
many people have seen that and lived. Well,
strictly speaking not many people who've seen it are still alive.
That's because its been lost for 100 years, mainly because no-one was
looking for it. It was part of the
old walnut worship, that went along with songs like Take A Walnut On The Wild
Side, and I Am The Walnut. But I'll
explain it all in the show."
It
all promises to be most exciting.
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Recent additions to Sid's repertoire include
Three Points On My License and The Complete Swine. The
former, especially popular with members of Bigots Against Tolerance, starts:
Three
points on my license,
But
I'm still rolling along,
My
Cherokee was built for speed,
Beyond
control, the police patrol
Don't
understand, demand I hand
Them
sixty quid, so I did,
But
I'm singing a happy song.
I'm
singing Hickety hackety hockety hain -
Petrol
heads they haven't a brain;
Sons
of clerks, life's just for larks,
And
I'm singing a happy song.
Which
just goes to show that the Trunch Tradition is very much a living one.
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Following last year's triumph
Sid will once more be teaming up with Keith Skipper for a show on Cromer Pier.
The theme, on November 13th this year, will be 'Norfolk Nuggets' which,
frankly, could mean anything.
"Except
it'll be about Norfolk. For instants
I won't be doing Scottish songs like Sir Patrick Thistle.
Except I might , because that song actually starts in Norfolk:
Oh
the King sits in Hunstanton town,
Harkening
to Sir Harry Lauder;
Saying
"Who'll bring me a braw scotch whisky,
And
carry me north of the border?"
"And it ends up no-one knows where,
but probably not Hindringham:
The
King with all his Lords, betimes,
For
all that's prattled, never sank,
But
sail on in the vain, vain hope
Of
the safeguard of some Scottish bank.
"But
whatever nuggets we come up with you can bet your dollar bottom they'll be
typical and topical, but probably not tropical."
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Old sores from St Just - number 37
"It's
a long road that has no turnips."
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WHAT'S
NEW @ www.sidkipper.co.uk
Bigots
Against Tolerance energy policy, song lyrics, a story, and an epic poem
Go
to 'About this site' then 'What's New'.
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The Trunch Trumpet is produced and distributed three times a year, usually in February, June and October. It is written and edited by Chris Sugden. Distribution is handled by Ken Wood, for which many thanks. To receive the complete Trunch Trumpet and support your local postman write to:
10 Perseverance Road, Queensbury, Bradford, BD13 1LY.