May Day,May Day May Day............Morris Men etc

Dominic · May 2017

VimFuego said:

Dominic said:

There is a profound connection and it's very ancient

absolutely, may day celebrations were much more earthy, lots of fertility things going on, and a fair bit of fertlising by the young folk. As I said, these continued well into the victorian era, when they tried to clean it up.

Victorian spoil - sports ..........I was hoping to get my Mojo working on the village green later today amidst young fair maidens

Dominic · May 2017

Blackmore's Knight kind of thing

Foster · May 2017

Hopefully there wasn't a rendition of the stick and bucket dance

VimFuego · May 2017

coincidently (or not I guess) this popped up in my FB feed earlier: https://thecompanyofthegreenman.wordpress.com/ lots of good stuff on there.

rlw · May 2017

I thought that Morris dancing was rooted in music brought over by the hippies from Mali and Mauretania at the time of the Moors' occupation of southern Europe, which hardly qualifies as pagan.

May Day certainly goes back a long way, predates Morris dancing, and could qualify as pagan, although what we see now is mainly Victorian twaddle.

VimFuego · May 2017

there were hippies around in the 14th C?

starwarsnosebleed · May 2017

There are a freaky troupe of Morris dancers that i saw a few years back. About 20 of them, mostly dressed like 'Papa Lazaru' from the League of Gentlemen. Fully blacked- up make up, and looked well freaky.
They were drinking beer outside a small village pub in the sticks.

Its probably mostly died out now, but this is Devon im talking about. People still wear corded flares and use payphones here.

VimFuego · May 2017

them's border morris, which is quite a bit different from the cotswold style (which is the hanky and bells brigade), much more fun.

EDIT: and I don't like the perjoratve tone used about corded flares there either. They will make a comeback.

starwarsnosebleed · May 2017

VimFuego said:

them's border morris, which is quite a bit different from the cotswold style (which is the hanky and bells brigade), much more fun.

EDIT: and I don't like the perjoratve tone used about corded flares there either. They will make a comeback.

You seem to know alot about types of Morris dancers. Are you 'Border' or 'Cotswold'?

..and sorry to disrespect your wardrobe like that pops.

Emp_Fab · May 2017

Twas darkest nigh on Corneleve when knurlest morn and fermbly twee
Dids't whisper verse of sarn and t'wain
Forsoon the wenches blood we sup
and rod the frusslings' trooe.

VimFuego · May 2017

heh, don't really know much, I know a few morris types is all. Don't really have time to do it myself, though I'd like to.

starwarsnosebleed · May 2017

Honestly. You can tell us in confidence.
were all friends here.

TheBlueWolf · May 2017

'Fess up Vim lol

VimFuego · May 2017

I may, in the wee small hours, when all is dark and quiet, get out my hankies and have a small foldolrolololol, but I never inhale.

pintspiller · May 2017

Some people call me "Maurice".

< Wolf-whistles >

thecolourbox · May 2017

TheBlueWolf said:

So not only is she Prime minister she gets her own bank holiday

I thought it was Corbyn who was proposing more bank holidays, or maybe he wants one of his own?

richh said:

Coincidentally, a few doors down from where I live, is a house with a blue plaque commemorating William Kimber, who revived morris dancing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kimber

and he is buried round the corner - in the same church as CS Lewis

Wasn't he the shoot em up bookie in Peaky Blinders as well? Busy man

boogieman · May 2017

My old mate Giz from work (so called because he looked like Kenny Everett's Gizzard Puke) was in a heavy metal morris dancing team. They wore tartan bondage trousers and leather jackets and did routines to classic metal songs.

starwarsnosebleed · May 2017

Snap · May 2017

I think its all bleeding great stuff. Should be our national religion, got to be more fun than the chuffing church of england

Evilmags · May 2017

The May Fayre in London was held around shepherds market, which still hosts brothels to this day. It is why that part of London is called Mayfair

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