Tentangle
Kelly Vivanco has done the cover for the upcoming Clotted Crime part 3, but that is not all. She has also submitted some archival pictures of Tredregyn’s sole all-merman folk outfit of the 1960s, TENTANGLE.
Kelly notes that “they really did a lot for sea creature outreach. Horribly strumming their guitars in unison, damply singing their briny hymns.” It was a different era and we can only imagine exactly how it was to visit the Victoria in 1962 and see these brave boys telling stories as old as the waves to a truly receptive audience. But as we all know, folk music travelled a long way through the 1960s, and things inevitably got freaky on the Lizard Peninsula…
She adds, “they lost two of their original members when touring Cornwall in 1967. Benny never picked up a guitar again.”
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I love this more than words.
Pefect.
We do not need your “Yellow Submarine”.
But we do love the Octopus’s Garden.
This is phenomenal.
“Undinal songs urge the sailors on, ’till lured by the sirens cry.”
They had many upbeat songs about shipwrecks.
This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read. I can’t stop laughing!!!! (The bongos……)
I need to hear that second album… think The Incredible String Band but it makes you lose your mind over time
Best. Thing. Ever.
Jeez. Not a word about these guys in Richard Thompson’s memoir! I thought he knew EVERYone on the circuit back then?
“…they lost two of their original members when touring Cornwall in 1967. Benny never picked up a guitar again.””
Was this the year Penrose was assigned to Tredregyn Parish?
Doubtful. If he were 25 when he graduated from seminary school and then went straight there, he would be just shy of 80 years old at the time of the current Steeple story.
Assuming the current storyline takes place in 2021.
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