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Billy Wobbledagger

New Settings of Songs of Shakespeare

About Me

Billy Wobbledagger & His Two Noble Kinsmen have just recorded an album of their Shakespeare songs. An inspired blend of the sublime and the ridiculous, the record ranges from harmonytastic balladry to knockabout comedy and was recorded by Dan Lea at Golden Hum .

The original version of 'Let me the canakin clink' appeared on the Brockley Max Trax II compact disc showcasing Brockley musicians.

The Kinsmen appeared at the Blakespeare events, as well as the Hundred Handed 's final show, the Cross Bones Graveyard, the Comedy in Leicester Square and many pavements, pub gardens and parks besides.

Are you a man?
Aye, and a bald one.

Is there an art to find the mind's construction in a face?
Yes. Yes there is.

Shakespeare in the original Klingon

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/2/2006
Band Website: rainboy.co.uk/w3-ws.html
Band Members: Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, Kit Marlowe, Anne Hathaway
Influences: Kit Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Daniel, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson (not), Latin dramatugy (small), Greek (less), Kit Marlowe
Sounds Like: Billy Wobbledagger & His Two Noble Kinsmen Words by William Shakespeare Music by Andrew Dehany Additional words by Andrew Dehany (Canakin & Raging rocks) Arrangements by Gerv Gordon, Russ Parton & Andrew Dehany Performed by Gerv Gordon, Russ Parton & Andrew Dehany Recorded by Dan Lea at Golden Hum on 16 & 23 June 2007Sigh No More [Much ado about nothing] For the rain it raineth ev’ry day [Twelfth night] Let me the canakin clink [Othello] Sylvia [The Two Gentlemen of Verona] The Ousel Cock [A midsummer night’s dream] The raging rocks [A midsummer night’s dream] Take o take [Measure for measure] The George Alow [The two noble kinsmen] Samingo! [Henry IV part 2] Come away death [Twelfth night] O mistress mine [Twelfth night] Over hill, over dale [A midsummer night’s dream] Lullaby [A midsummer night’s dream]
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My Blog

Kinsmen album recorded

The Billy Wobbledagger & His Two Noble Kinsmen album has been recorded.  A baker's dozen of bard song, it's by turns sublime and ridiculous. You can listen to songs on this MySpace; I'll be a...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:26:00 PST

Recording Soon

Billy Wobbledagger and The Kinsmen are going to record the Shakespeare songs on June 17th. This will form an album, which will then be released into the world.Russell Parton will be leaving for China ...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Sat, 26 May 2007 12:41:00 PST

The fool delivers the madman

Clown Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers the madman. TwN5.1And the madmen deliver the fool, play and pity the fool. With drooling gurn, the eternal worm creeps i'the skeleton. I prit...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:01:00 PST

Dramatist's droop

It has been long accepted that Shakespeare's writing has doggrel, nonsense and longeurs in't. It's no real surprise given it was clearly written at speed, hung over and to a deadline. The white-heat o...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:30:00 PST

Blakespeare

Are you Blakespearienced?I've been to a number of Blake-influenced art shows and shows featuring Blake recently, a man of Resonance FM reads Blake to a music audience, Jerusalem is practically the nat...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:30:00 PST

Recordings from Limerick

i've put up a new version of Sigh no more. this was recorded with one mike in one take as it's heard, in Viva Studios, Limerick Ireland. We flew over for the day, recorded 2 weather underground songs ...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:15:00 PST

The Tempest

"the isle is full of noises" music and song in the tempest (there's a heck of a lot - sprighty songs, drinking songs, gods singing, and several instances of incidental music) [plus it's irresisti...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:24:00 PST

Nay, stand and unfold yourself.

Well hailed, well hailed, you jolly gallants! This is a myspace devoted to the creation of new settings for all of Shakespeare's songs. Why? Because they're there. So far there are some off-the-cuff r...
Posted by Billy Wobbledagger on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:02:00 PST