Gathered in Amber

We got spoilt with a second visit to East Dulwich inside ten months (thanks to a cancellation by, I think, Dick Gaughan). Ali this time accompanied by Elle Osborne on fiddle for some tunes. If anything, this was even better than the first.

Disclaimer: I may have the wrong titles for songs that have not yet been released in recorded versions.

First Set:

1. Green Wood Waxes Early
2. Bonnie Mill Dams O’ Binnorie/Two Sisters
3. Long Lankin
4. The Golden Vanity
5. The Cruel War
6. The Daemon Lover
7. The Lover’s Ghost (from the singing of Alison McMorland)
8. Edward/The Two Brothers (from the singing of Paddy Tunney)
9. The Burning of Auchindoun

Second Set:

1. What Cares the Crow for the Plaint of Lapwing?
2. The Haruspex of Paradox
3. The Loudness Wars
4. Scandal and Trance
5. Young Emily
6. Ned Ludd’s Rant (For a World Rebarbarised)
7. The Untrue Womb
8. Riddle Me This
9. So Bored Was I (Dark Triad)
10. Waxwing
11. The Book of Doves
12. Sir Hugh/The Jew’s Daughter (from the singing of  Ian Campbell)

Encore:

1. Come, My Darling Polly
2. The Wife of Usher’s Well (from the singing of  Alex Campbell)