Singer Jude Cowan kindly sent me a copy of her album and very good it is too - lots of uke-accompanied theatrical/melodramatic melodies. Jude played at Transpontine's legendary South London Songs day at the Telegraph Hill Centre a couple of years ago, where she performed her song Doodlebug Alley -named after the area of southern England/South London most vulnerable to Nazi rocket attacks during World War Two. This song is now the title track of the album, and here she is singing it:
More details at Jude's myspace site. You can catch her at the Montague Arms on 9th September.
From Bob's archive: A land without people for a people without land?
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*Continuing my monthly post from the archive. This is from November 2008.
Since then, the Maldives have not succeeded in finding a new location, and
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2 days ago
2 comments:
Umm ...
Doodlebugs were in World War Two, not WW1.
Yes, now corrected, just a typo honest!
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