Bellowhead - a pome

And now for something completely different.. a short poem what i wrote after seeing Bellowhead's Farewell Tour at the O2 ABC.

In Memoriam

So farewell then...

Bellowhead. 

 

There was a lot of you

And it must have been difficult

Getting all 11 of you together for a tour.

 

Like herding cats.

 

But your music was unique.

Not so much folk-rock,

As funk-folk,

 

You even introduced one set as, disco-seashanties.

 

It was a very English night,

But I think you got through to a Glasgow audience.

 

I didn't hear anyone say "Oh shite, there's eleven of them!"

So you beat Mike and Bernie Winters, and...

 

I've never seen a Glasgow crowd doing Morris dancing complete with handkerchiefs, before.

 

While you'll have musical careers as individuals

 

I can't help feeling - we won't see the likes of your music again.

C J Trab (aged 171/2)