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Ivor Cutler:
🎵 Lemon Flower
https://scottmillermusic.bandcamp.com/track/lemon-flower-ivor-cutler
#IvorCutler
Per the band's video description: “A specially recorded version of the Ivor Cutler song Women Of The World for #InternationalWomensDay. Originally released by #IvorCutler and #LindaHirst on #RoughTrade in the early eighties, the song is a feminist plea for women to assume power in an attempt to undo the damage done by patriarchal society before it's too late.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Cutler
In praise of #ivorcutler
I was recently made aware of the wonder poet, raconeteur, eccentric, and otherwise brilliant individual, Ivor Culter.
He knocked around with the likes of the Beatles, back in his heyday.
The song ("song", in the sense of most of his work involved a harmonium) which I like is called #shoplifters which is about people who lifted up a shop, rather than robbed from it. See:
https://youtu.be/wuAM5IRgxm0?si=kZd0ijF8HEbjreTe
Note that this comes from the "Ivor Cutler Trio" -- a mono-version (i.e., just Ivor), can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/bVNvC2sNxio?si=By_koTzKDxIE-GL1
I wish I had known of him sooner.
For more general information, see:
We had a lot of Burns last night, but my favourite turn was my friend Graeme singing Ivor Cutler’s Lemon Flower :) https://youtu.be/tLyAicbCzhg
#BurnsNight #IvorCutler #Scotland
“When strangers call me Ivor it’s like getting a French kiss from a public relations consultant”
Ivor should get the last word: in this TV special from 1998, directed by Ewan Morrison for STV’s weekly arts programme Don’t Look Down, Ivor Cutler interviews himself…
7/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6gzzoiQbE
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“You don’t look like a newspaperman. You have fighter pilot eyes.”
—Alastair McKay takes “a hirple through the poetic humour of Mr Ivor Cutler, humorist, teacher, cloud-fancier, opsimath”
6/7
https://alastairmckay.substack.com/p/poetry-full-stop
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“We set off in a straggly line, hugging the wall to escape the worst of the effects of the fresh air …”
Episode 11 of Ivor Cutler’s LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, Vol. II, recorded on his 1976 LP “Jammy Smears”
5/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNcxd9Jf9I
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“Cutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.”
—Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler
4/7
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“Cutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatles’ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.”
—Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on his biography of Ivor Cutler
3/7
https://theartsdesk.com/books/10-questions-bruce-lindsay-biographer-ivor-cutler
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler #biography
“Jungle Tip: Lion”
by Ivor Cutler
A poem/useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)
2/7
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”
Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, humorist, absurdist, musician – was born #OTD, 15 Jan. A 🎂 🧵 …
In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:
1/7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
It's Ivor Cutler's Birthday! He was born on this day in 1923. Here's my favourite Ivor spoken word piece, "Gruts for tea", as broadcast on the BBC John Peel show 1979-02-20
https://archive.org/details/cutler7986/10-gruts_for_tea_20_02_1979.mp3
#IvorCutler #SpokenWord #JohnPeel #gruts #mp3 #InternetArchive
That was odd. Catherine just took the car to work, and I'm up in my home office. The second the car started, my phone started playing music. I guess it still thought it was paired.
Anyway, it's always a joy to get an Ivor Cutler track played at you, especially when you least expect it
(it was "Jelly Mountain", btw)
A bonus #StupidAccordionTrick for goofy April, here's a not-especially-funny ditty with a funny name, #ADoughnutInMyHand, by the extremely offbeat #IvorCutler, whose comedic works run more along the surrealist stream-of-thought vein
Possibly related to my previous #running related toot.
The late great Ivor Cutler... #ivorcutler
https://youtu.be/TQX8FEUgcKM?si=pRyzKrfMwQyI77Kn
New upload:
Ivor Cutler - Lemon Flower (Peel Session)
Lemon Flower by Ivor Cutler, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 17 August 1976.
As it's Burns Night and Nicola Sturgeon has captured the zeitgeist of this isle today, cranking out some Scots culture. 🏴
(h/t to the radio)
A lovely cover of an Ivor Cutler song: John E. Flamingeaux — https://flamingeaux.bandcamp.com/track/im-going-in-a-field
(free download). The original was meant to be in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, but was cut before broadcast.
This cover is by a bunch of Hamburg bluegrass musicians, and is clearly influenced by Nic Jones' wonderful live cover.
Ivor would have been 101 today ...
#IvorCutler #bluegrass #hamburg #beatles #MagicalMysteryTour #NicJones
Goodness, thought these were lost forever but they turned up safe in a box of ephemera that I seem to move house with. #IvorCutler stickers from meeting him (I think it was the National theatre foyer but could have been the Barbican!)
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