Blue Horyzon sow intergenerational confusion at Shrewsbury

Blue Horyzon were busking in between cloud bursts at the Shrewsbury festival yesterday and made quite an impression.

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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Get the Shrewsbury festival live webcast here

It's the four-day Shrewsbury festival this bank holiday weekend, which sold out back in April and where KT Tunstall (below) is headlining on Monday night.

But never fear... If you didn't manage to get a ticket you can still get a flavour of it because - glory hallelujah! - it will be webcast live in high definition and available to watch by clicking on

this link

Here's a schedule

Friday
19.35 Session A9
20.50 Madison Violet
22.10 Anxo Lorenzo

Saturday
13.00 Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson
14.15 Jackie Oates Band
15.30 Global Dance Project

19.00 Jim Moray
20.15 Kate Rusby
21.35 Show of Hands

Sunday
12.00 The Wilsons
13.00 Fay Hield and the Hurricane Party
14.10 Baskery
15.30 Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings

19.30 Karine Polwart
20.45 Plainsong
22.00 Richard Thompson

Monday
13.00 Old Man Luedecke
14.05 Caroline Herring and Kathryn Roberts
15.30 The Sweetback Sisters
17.00 KT Tunstall

It's all in British Summer Time, for those reading this outside the UK.

This will be the third year that Shrewsbury has been webcast and I invite you to consider whether there may be a connection between this and the fact that it's sold out. Here's my earlier post on the subject.

For the first time this year the live music webcasting will be augmented by interviews with bands and other bits and pieces, brought to you by the team from Spiral Earth.

Enjoy!

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