Genevieve Tudor interviewed them about a terrible train journey they made recently, for use on her show today - Sunday - on BBC Radio Shropshire. And I believe Spiral Earth also interviewed them for one of the talky bits on the somewhat amazing Shrewsbury festival webcast.
So not to be left out...
They've got a banjo, which is fine by me. And before too long they had launched into Mumford & Sons' Little Lion Man. The thing that marked it out, though, more than anything else was that they had altered the lyrics, removing the most memorable line - which goes I really fucked it up this time, didn't I my dear? - so that it ran I really messed it up this time... instead.
As you can probably tell, from the picture and also from a close textual analysis of the way they spell their band name, Blue Horyzon are young, both in absolute terms but also by comparison with many people at Shrewsbury this weekend. I would go as far as to say that they were among the youngest people in sight when they were busking.
So when I asked Lyndon, their drummer, "Why change the lyrics?" and he nodded towards the audience and said, apparently seriously, "the children" I was momentarily bewildered.
Lyndon, I should explain is the old man of the band at the age of 29.
Young people today.
Cuh.
Here's them playing something completely different.
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That's a song by The Old Crow Medicine Show, great song!
ReplyDeleteThey seem a very nice bunch of young people to whom I would have gladly dropped a couple of quid, had I been there.
ReplyDeleteAnd while their website doesn't seem to have cd's yet, apparently they'll fix you up if you drop them a mail at bluehoryzon@gmail.com
they have a new website now with cd's and downloads available
Deletehttp://www.bluehoryzon.com/#Home
Hei Guys, if you would like to hear more from Blue Horyzon, here's a video of them playing on Monday afternoon at Shrewsbury this year. They very kindly invited me to guest with them on fiddle. May I point out they weren't busking as you suggest but having a jam for fun and to entertain. Hope you enjoy watching :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPlmV0ZGqE