It's not often in this life that you follow Toto. After a brief chunk of " Hold The Line" this is me talking to Jerry Scott on the morning show from Coast And County Radio in Scarborough about Seasoning and the extra-curricular R and D that me and Bill are doing at Olympia Leisure. Coast And County is a great station, coming loud and clear out of Scarborough and clearly much more leftfield than most regional radio and hosting some fantastic music shows including Mr Tooley's Fallout Shelter, which is required listening for anyone looking for a mix of soul, funk, 60's garage and Civil Defence warnings.
It was very nice to talk to Jerry, play some of our recordings and let people in town know what we are up to. We are looking for a school to partner up with, and we are also keen to plug Scarborough Museum's A New Olympia exhibition, which looks at the 1930's plans for Scarborough's Art Deco development, including the arcade building. The Museum will be hosting some of our sounds online as well.
Here's Coast And County, and below it some information from the Scarborough Museums Trust about A New Olympia, which opens on October 21st.
https://www.coastandcountyradio.co.uk/
http://www.scarboroughmuseumstrust.com/event/a-new-olympia-designs-on-scarborough/
And the clips from Jerry's show..Having lost my mobile at the time this was done on my iffy landline, and recorded onto cassette. Here we go...
https://soundcloud.com/user-628037322/coast-and-county-gerry-scott-sept-27-2017
Many thanks to Jerry for having us, to Steven, Lee and David at Coast And County, and to Chris Curtis and Mr Tooley for the introductions.
The shonky and conspicuously hand made masks worn by the Human Organs (right) have gone down well. Given the ease with which the rough music of the organs can be played, and the anonymity that the masks can provide, there's no reason why the organists need always be the same people. Wearing the masks correctly is probably as difficult as playing the music. There's a fine line between a mask and a hat.
..so, Charter weekend in Ulverston and a bit of basic onomastics: The town name is either from the Old Norse personal name Úlfarr, or the Old English Wulfhere; the ton, comes from old English meaning "farmstead" or "village". The personal names Úlfarr and Wulfhere both translate roughly as "wolf warrior" or "wolf army", which explains the presence of a wolf on the coat of arms and, if you want it to, could explain the gutters full of fake fur after our wolf pack mask session in the street on saturday afternoon. (left)
By the end of the session, the crowds on Market Street were seeded with small wolves, From what we heard, a lot of these masks will be turning up in the street again at hallowe'en, or at the lantern procession.
That would be nice. The wulfhere angle is a very pleasing rhyme and we'll happily go along with it but the pubtalk afterwards was of undercurrents, 'obby 'osses, equine skulls and the disruptive license bestowed by mask and costume; of the great pleasure in running these open air workshops, of watching kids make something with their folks and then walk away in it, into the crowd, snarling, slightly other; of a possible re-wilding.
