Re: (OT?) Novels

On 26 Nov 2003 23:01:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bogus address)
wrote:

<Well someone else first wrote but twas snipped and I haven't got the
original>

>
>> 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....
>
<Then jack wrote>

>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.

There is an Ellis Peters (non Cadfael) novel called "Black is the
colour of my true love's heart" which is set at a folk "festival" come
"seminar" and the plot is linked to the ballad Child Maurice ("Bill
Norrie" for the Carthy connection).

Kevin Sheils