Previously Appearing at Wickham was...
Reg Meuross
Reg’s clever and imaginative lyrics have earned him the title of “Master Storyteller” (PennyBlack Music) and led Mike Harding (Mike Harding Folk Show) to introduce him onto the stage of The Royal Albert Hall as “one of the finest singer-songwriters this country has produced”. Whether it’s a village hall or the Albert Hall, Reg brings to the stage a collection of extremely beautiful songs, performed with humour and depth, and sung with the voice of an angel. Reg has that rare gift of being able to touch people, through his songs and performance, on a really human level. His words and music paint pictures that remain with the listener long after the song has been sung.
Reg Meuross appeared in 2018
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My boy Joey lives in Japan and he released his first album today under the name Diff Rokka. Have a listen in the link below. WARNING HE’S NOT QUIET LIKE HIS DAD! Turn it up LOUD!!!! Xx
Diff Rokka - Hurts Less When I Speed - YouTube
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Hurts Less When I Speed: The debut album from Diff Rokka. Released June 6th 2020.Not my cup of tea, but wow, what a talented young man. God I feel old! 😄
Definitely will stick with Reg's storytelling music and guitar playing
Chip off the old block then.
You could open for him
I'll stick with you Reg Meuross!
It's time for REQUESTS for this weekends's Reg's Sunday Best Lockdown Jukebox please. And to save you scrolling, Katie's put all the songs I've already sung in one place. Please request songs I haven't sung! Also let me know why you've picked them. See you in the comments.
Reg x
photo in the list is by Sue Foll, taken a while back at a beautiful album launch at Green Note
Let Me Forget 🙏
Reg, could I request We Looked Away, From Now On or Crossbones Graveyard please. Reason: because I like them!
I quite like Shadows on the Wall or Refugee. Both excellent songs.
What would William Morris say please, because it's a great song and hasn't been part of Sunday jukebox yet x
Any chance of My Nirvana this week Reg? (And What Would William Morris Say if he knew you haven’t sung his song after all these weeks??? lol)
I'd like to request The Lonesome Death of Michael Brown please Mr Reg, because #blacklivesmatter, and because it's a powerful and (sadly) timely song.
Letting Go please Reg Meuross - no particular reason, it's just such as great break up song.
Got to be ‘Tony Benn’s Tribute to Emily Davison’ what with last week’s anniversary? See you on Sunday.
Any, I'm just getting to know them and the historical stories behind them x
A Redcliffe Boy for a Bristol girl please Reg
Weary Jane and Emily’s Pages 😍
I was also going to ask for ‘Tony Benn’s Tribute to Emily Davison’. As others have already requested this can you please consider 'William Brewster Dreams Of America' as it is such a great story and such a great song.
The Lonesome Death of Michael Brown will feature on my Sunday morning radio show too. 11am here. www.sinefm.com/category/roots-and-acoustic-music-show/
TONY BENN'S TRIBUTE TO EMILY DAVISON
Moody footage from The Priston Music Festival 2018.
On June 4th 1913 suffragette Emily Davison ran onto the track in front of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby and tragically died. She was attempting to place a ribbon on the King’s horse. Without any doubt she paid the ultimate price in pursuit of her cause.
100 years later, Tony Benn (with Jeremy Corbyn) secretly placed a plaque in a broom cupboard in The House of Commons to commemorate the night Emily spent hidden there on the eve of the 1911 census, so she could give that as her address and further the rights of votes for women.
"In this broom cupboard Emily Wilding Davison hid herself, during the night of the 1911 census. She was a brave suffragette campaigning for votes for women at a time when parliament denied them that right. In this way she was able to record her address on the night of that census as being 'The House of Commons', thus making her claim to the same political rights as men. Emily Wilding Davison died in June 1913 from injuries sustained when she threw herself under the king's horse at The Derby to draw attention to the injustice suffered by women. By such means was democracy won for the people of Britain" Tony Benn MP
TONY & EMILY
She slips through the doorway
Away from the crowds down the stairs - she steals through the night
Just a plain looking woman
Concealed in her coat and her cares - pursuing her right
In a tangle of corridors
Furtively turning the locks - the day growing dim
Footsteps in the distance
She hears the men coming her way - the last door gives in
There in the dark with the mops and the brooms
She opens her handkerchief makes herself room
A small piece of bread and a small piece of cheese
And a jar filled with water between her knees
By the light of a candle she reads a small book
And she waits – and she waits
On the third day of April
Nineteen eleven she woke - and she gave her address
‘These houses of commons
houses of men and now me’ - she smoothed down her dress
‘I’m not asking for favours
Just claiming what’s rightfully mine’ - she cried to the world
‘To rebel against tyrants
Is to show your allegiance to god’ - she cried as she fell
A hundred years later he slips down the stairs
And he senses her purpose he breathes in her air
He’s made her a sign which he nails to the door
He knows the equality Emily gave her life for
He lights a small candle to honour her name
And he waits – and he waits
Reg x
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