Ye Olde Medieval Rave
According to The Guardian, a new phenomenon is sweeping the interwebs, thanks to some very cool kids - "Bardcore"!
This witty epithet was applied to the trend, after one clever bastard out there decided to take
One proper musician even used real instruments rather than a synthesiser on his reinterpretation of (another song I'd never heard before) a heavy metal hit:
Stepping into more familiar territory, however, I was rather taken by this one...
Verily, a merrie gaudeamus!
So, who's going to be the first to whop their lute out and have a go..?
The capering cod-pieced chaps and flirty-skirt girls in the painting certainly seem to getting into the swing of things.
ReplyDeleteOf the music the only one that appealed was the mediaeval Toxic Down.But not for very long.
Yon troubadors doth be troublesome to thine ear?
DeleteJx
PS Not sure I could cope with prolonged listens myself, truth be told...
Wow, talk about playing "unplugged".
ReplyDeleteVerily, 'tis magick... Jx
DeleteGah! What is with this modern music. That Britannia Speares is little more than a strumpet, and her teeth aren't even really wood!
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with good old fashioned rocks being hit with sticks, I ask you?!?
"The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
DeleteIs hushed within the hollow mine of earth
And will not hear ’t. What committed!
Impudent strumpet!"
Indeed.
Jx
PS You just reminded me of "Raw Sex" from French & Saunders and "The Conch and the Shell"...
Ah, "The Conch and the Shell" - I think a French & Saunders marathon may be in order...
DeleteFrench and Saunders are always in order! Jx
DeleteVerily and forsooth my liege, Who believed that the heavenly spheres could produce such music?
ReplyDelete"O brave new world,
DeleteThat has such people in ’t!"
Jx