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Hooped petticoats in the 50s, when you sat down your dress went right up at the front and obscured your face, good for hiding your blushes.
I like Leonard Cohen.

I've just bought Neil Young's 'Americana' and it's my 'music for driving to' at the moment. I'd love to see him live [he was brilliant at Glastonbury a few years back]. Got an autobiography coming out soon which I shall buy. And [better late than never] I've just started to appreciate the Stones, especially Keith richard's guitar playing. If there's one cd I go back to playing on a regular basis it's Pink Floyd's 'Relics'..alas no chance of seeing them play with Syd and Rick both gone. Also [and there's going to be lots of their stuff on BBC4 soon; hurrah!] Fairport Convention. I did get to see Swarb play recently at a Sandy Denny tribute concert, along with Maddy Prior. I did go to see Steeleye Span the other year and have to admit to being rather disappointed, but that was mainly due to the choice of songs they played [they used music from an album that even they admitted wasn't very good; I didn't see the logic in that ]. I suppose folk bands go on forever, as do heavy metal ones......[can't believe Leonard Cohen is 77]. And, the good thing about seeing folk groups is that I'm often one of the youngest people there .

Thanks absent I'm sure we will all enjoy it & I'll have lots of time with my mother since she is very kindly putting all up. I like the tandem thread too

I have stayed faithful to the Rolling Stones for 50 years this year, through thick and thin. I often play Bob Dylan CDs from the 60s.

In the late 50s, early 60s, I remember sugar starching many layers of pink and white net petticoats, which smelled like candy floss when they were ironed under my mum's linen tea towels, which then became sticky! They attracted wasps when my friends and I went out in the summer.

crimson I'm a Dave Swarbrick/Martin Carthy fan too, even danced the Dorset fourhand reel to Swarb's music in my youth
Last heard him play about 3 years ago at the Sage in Gateshead, he didn't look at all well so glad he's still with us

One of my DSs loves Bob Dylon and John Lennon and he is 30!

...just dug out my Neil Young 'Best Of' cd; had a quick [and very LOUD] blast of Ohio [one of the best songs ever ever] and now on Cowgirl in the Sand....this quite often happens to me late at night [I'll just have a listen to..]. It's going to be a long night/evening [except the dog has just started howling to tell me, I think, that it's too loud].

Baubles there was a review in yesterdays Daily Telegraph of one of Leonard Cohens concerts on this tour, and it was brilliant!

crimson Neil Young is another of my favourites, his voice transports me instantly to a particularly balmy Sunday afternoon in the early 70s
phoenix I'll see if I can see it online, the reviews from all over Europe since the tour began have been terrific.

If I wasn't such a techno numpty I would post a link.

Neil Young's voice is so weird I don't know how it works..but it does [same with Dylan, I guess. phoenix; d'you think someone could do us an 'idiots guide to posting links'. I'm always ranting on about things but can't put a link in to show what I'm going on about .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/live-music-reviews/9528853/Leonard-Cohen-Wembley-Arena-review.html

Probably wont work, because it isn't blue, but I tried!