Re: (OT?) Novels

Tis indeed a fine thriller: our busker, a folk player, is caught up in plot
involving old Nazi money, many authentic (I can attest) scenarios in
Holland, Germany...

JG

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bogus address)
> Organization: The Biggest Fluff Mine in Midlothian
> Newsgroups: uk.music.folk
> Date: 26 Nov 2003 23:01:46 GMT
> Subject: Re: (OT?) Novels
> 
> 
>> Recently I've read two novels ("Rotter's club" and "High fidelity")
>> in which music is a protagonist; but not folk music. I wonder if
>> there are novels talking about young people who love Martin Carthy,
>> or about people who hitch-hike to go to a concert of Ray Fisher or
>> don't sleep because they don't understand why Bandoggs made only
>> one album (Why Bandoggs made only one album???) or about a McDonald's
>> waiter  who works hard only to buy Peter Bellamy's "Oak, ash and
>> thorn".  Who knows if it exists, it might even be that it has been
>> translated in Italian....
> 
> Brian McNeill's "The Busker" is by a very fine folk musician and the
> title suggests it might be about what he knows best - I haven't got
> round to reading it yet.
> 
> Further back in time, the relationship between Peter Milne and James
> Scott Skinner might make a novel.  Sorta "Confessions of an English
> Opium Eater" meets "Don Quixote".  Hmm.  Maybe I ought to write it.
> 
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