This is a love song from my last album 'In My Life' LFM 006
Gina Le Faux vocals
Martin Simpson Electric Guitar & Dobro
Hugh Bradley Double Bass
Keith Angel Percussion

Now I'm in Limbo   words and music Gina Le Faux © Le Faux Music

Company I Keep

Cunnamula stockmans jig on a Geipel melodeon

The boys play this well known reel. James double tracks his mandolin part at the end using a Hathway Mandola.

St Anne's Reel - James and Steve Shorey

Traveller's Joy/Mrs Foster's Fudge

A reel written for me, played by the fantastic Benjamin Rowe...

Reel For Ella

** Best listened to through decent speakers or headphones **
Although it's layered up, all the sound on this track comes from one instrument, my Saltarelle melodeon.  It's a kind of experiment in to what range of sounds can be made other than the regular one.  My favourite effect is the pizzicato melodeon where I'm playing the reeds of the instrument in an unconventional way using plectrums ... sounds kind of spooky.  This can only be achieved once the instrument is disassembled.  In addition to that I also recorded the noise from the air button and the slightly xylophone type noise comes from knocking the bellows at different extentions to sound different notes.

Demo: pizzicato melodeon experiment (Bonny at Morn)

A multilayered recording using 5 string violin and cello.  A very old tune called Princess Royal, often used for morris dancing but it's probably originally from Ireland.

Randoms

Princess Royal

Christmas tunes from the guests of Bassoon Rambling and Friends

Bassoon Rambling Christmas

Adam talks with British comedian Bob Mortimer.

Hi. Adam Buxton here with some notes about Bob and this episode.

For nearly 30 years Bob and his comedy partner Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) have stuck doggedly to what makes them laugh whether mainstream audiences get it or not, with shows like ‘The Smell Of Reeves & Mortimer’, ‘Bang Bang It’s Reeves & Mortimer’, ‘Catterick’, and ‘House Of Fools’ as well as the occasional reboots of the massively popular panel show ‘Shooting Stars’ and the show that introduced them to the world in 1990, ‘Big Night Out’. 

Consistently and inexhaustibly joyful, energetic and absurd, their parade of characters, silly voices, home made props and a sensibility that is often close to avant garde performance art, has made them two of the best loved and most influential comedians the UK has ever produced. 

When not working with Jim, Bob enjoys watching football. He’s an avid supporter of Middlesbrough FC and is currently the co host along with comedy writer Andy Dawson of the vaguely football themed podcast, ‘Athletico Mince’. It’s up with the funniest stuff Bob’s ever done.

My conversation with Bob, took place in the London office of his agent and for a while we had to battle with some quite loud talkers in the corridor outside doing agent business (I was too weedy to ask them to be quiet), but that calmed down after a little while and we rambled about getting older, the TV shows that Bob enjoys, his new fishing show with old friend and fellow comedian Paul Whitehouse, music, petty crime and now and then we looked back over a few Vic & Bob moments from the last 30 years. 

It was a fun conversation that often revealed a softer and more gentle side to Bob than people might expect. It’s a good bet that he would feel quite deeply nauseated by that last sentence and perhaps a few before too.

Thanks to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing. Music & jingles by Adam Buxton	

RELATED LINKS

THE SMELL OF REEVES & MORTIMER (1995) ‘MASTERCHEF’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os82UYqssSc

SHOOTING STARS (2002) GEORGE DAWES (MATT LUCAS) ‘PEANUTS’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=lMPJZ4YZnqI

CATTERICK (2004) EPISODE 1 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrcNXm0z3Y

SHOOTING STARS (2010) ‘COLDLAND’  (ICELAND ADVERT SPOOF)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2FJITNSlCQ

VIC & BOB’S BIG NIGHT OUT (2017) ‘FIRST DATES’
https://youtu.be/fjGXqeD6W_w?list=PLdqTDdzCk1-bQaH66D9L4n2lYZpp2MSwe&t=438

ATHLETICO MINCE (2018) ‘THE FUN BUS’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBNysxaHXI

THE WEEKENDERS (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAR06SEQf8

Princess Royal

Will Allen

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