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Hi All : the chart is about music featuring manx artists : the Varrick Frost track is sung by  Alanna Lyes of Peel, and Ivan Ivanovich is the track title of a Jules Verne Theory record, which Is me currently sunning it up in Onchan. :)

The list is inclusive of all genres, traditional, dance, electronic, folk etc. 

I dont know that many of the tracks are sponsored by the Arts council : the majority of the are payed for commercial by the Record labels that released them.

Id forgotten to check back on this until I was listening to all the local music on Manx radio today (Tynwald Day) : I'll check back and answer any questions :) 

Best : Arron

 

 

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52 minutes ago, La Colombe said:

I wonder if this might help?  There's Manx blues, Manx jazz, Manx brass, it's nearly all encompassing. I'm surprised there's no Manx gamelan. Or a Manx Aborigine blowing down a didgeridoo. 

I think there was someone blowing a didgeridoo at Dark Horse last year. 

I’m surprised you haven’t encountered Manx Blues before, it’s practically mandatory. 

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3 hours ago, La Colombe said:

Hey, nobody knows the trouble they've seen. 

Always Stay Strong, La Colombe

A Country Song

I grew up overshadowed by damp quay
Couldn't catch the eye of no city girl

Here I am devoted to La Colombe
How I love the way you look in your red jeans
Can't believe I let the smog cloud my eye

Where the damp quay stand
And the fresh seaside surround
I'll ride my broken truck with you by my side

There's a whisper in the Peel breeze
Reminding me of nan
That whisper builds
That whisper cries
Nan in the morning skies

You appear on the horizon
Brushing that curly hair from your eyes

The city folk with their fancy gadgets
Cement quay like grey tombs
Don't have nothin' on our way of life
Just listen to the seagulls

Don't live your life like a fool
Today might feel a time to be like a fool
But that ain't no way to lead a life

You know, there's a lot I drive by in my broken truck
Folk who is messing up
Always stay Strong, La Colombe
Always stay Strong

In Peel, when I was a child
I met a Strong man
"How can you be so Strong?" asked I
Here was his wise reply

Don't live your life like a fool
Today might feel a time to be like a fool
But that ain't no way to lead a life

Met an old lady who lived like a fool
"What happened to her?" asked I
Here was his wise reprise

Don't live your life like a fool
Today might feel a time to be like a fool
But that ain't no way to lead a life

That lady's gone now
It's sad really
Word is, she had curly hair once

Little La Colombe, keep your jeans red
Always stay Strong, La Colombe
Always stay Strong

Seagulls, seagulls, seagulls
Seagulls, seagulls, seagulls...

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But anyway, 

9 hours ago, Declan said:

Course it is. It's a style of music in which grumpy white men joylessly pretend they're from Mississippi. 

People play the blues because it's easy to play. Or rather, more accurately, it's easy to get away with playing badly. I'm thinking Clapton, The Stones etc, and of course any number of grumpy white men in a number of pubs all around the country and beyond. Including the Isle of Man. But that doesn't make it Manx. 

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