lots of animal friends, including Idris a small red Dragon, Ivor kept Idris's egg in his fire until he hatched, now Idris lives in Smoke Mountain, a volcano, with his wife, Olwen and their two twin dragon children. Another of his friends is Bluebell the donkey, who loves nothing more than helping out Ivor and Jones and finally Alice the Elephant who lives at the local circus.
Ivor had lots of adventures
The Railway
This is where we fist learn all about Ivor but its not a very exciting episode, he picks up coal from the local coal mine before going to choir practice.
Mrs Porty's Foxes
Mrs Porty introduces Ivor to the fox family living in her garden and then tells him that she is expecting a hat delivery. Ivor sets off to station to collect the hat but on the way back to Mrs Porty's house he comes across a fox hunt ...
Advantages: Always entertaining, sometimes hilarious Disadvantages: No real disadvantages
Ivor Cutler's third album for Virgin, originally released on vinyl in 1976, continues his highly idiosyncratic trawl through life with the usual mixture of tall tales, some presented as unaccompanied prose speech, others sung (although the word is used advisedly) with piano or harmonium.
It's a long way from the hippie Virgin fare of that era - only his labelmate Robert Wyatt (with whom Cutler collaborated on "Rock Bottom") comes remotely close. Humorists like Spike Milligan and Vivian Stanshall are far more accurate reference points.
Ever the miniaturist, Cutler crams over thirty vignettes into the album. The perpetual "Life in a Scotch Sitting Room" has two more extracts included here, both of which are wonderfully bizarre evocations of a childhood of porridge, country walks and learning about the development of Glasgow ...
Advantages: inteligent varied original Disadvantages: their last record as a group
Some are born great,as the saying goes ,others have greatness
thrust upon them,and in the case of The Specials it seems not only did they achieve greatness with their debut album "Specials",but had even more greatness thrust upon them by an over expectant music press and ravenous fan base
all eager for more of their punk/ska riotous rapture ,however in
the spirit of true greatness and wanton defiance they delivered
"More Specials" in the autumn of 1980,and in direct conflict to its title could well have been called "Less Specials "
In the twelve months which had elapsed between their debut and this daring follow up the musical landscape had changed a great deal ,the fury of punk which gave rise to the groups foundations was now a fading memory as new sounds and movements splinterd into a varied buffet of sounds and movements ...
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