Comes in a gorgeous deluxe hardback book-format packaging, including approximately 100 pages featuring lyrics to all 50 tracks, additional interlinking text, a host of beautiful pictures and illustrations throughout, as well as a comprehensive list of credits and acknowledgements. This wonderful and unique presentation, designed by Helen Temperley at helentemperley.myportfolio.com has been a true 'labour of love' and is a fascinating and real work of art in its own right.
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On December 26th, 1828, having left his son Richard at school in Lincoln, Jonathan arrived in York with his second wife Maria, where they lodged for four and a half weeks at the home of a shoemaker, one William Lawn. It was now that he saw his destiny calling…
“I dreamt that a wonderful thick cloud came from heaven and rested upon the Minster, and it rolled towards me at my lodgings - it awoke me out of sleep, and I asked the Lord what it meant - and he told me it was to warn these Clergymen of England, who were going to plays, and cards, and such like - and the Lord told me he had chosen me to warn them - and reminded me of the prophecies that there should in the latter days be signs in the heavens… I felt a voice inwardly speak, that the Lord had chosen me to destroy the Cathedral.”
He sent warnings of dire retributions, in the form of various letters, which he either pinned to the door of York Minster, or fastened to the choir gates, or wrapped around stones that he flung through the windows of the Minster…
lyrics
A SPECIAL INSTRUMENT
(Charles Dickens on Jonathan Martin, Part 1)
His mode of expression was vehement, his language rude and unpolished -
I think it had the Northumbrian twang - he was dogmatical and peremptory,
as if he spoke with authority; indeed, if there were anything of which he was truly convinced, it was that he was a special instrument appointed by God to do great works - works too great to be committed to any but the most highly privileged exponents of the Divine will.
He once said to me in prison, "Is there any one, from the king on his throne
to the lowest of the people, who is not thinking of and speaking of Jonathan Martin; and would this be so, unless Jonathan Martin had to do what can be done by nobody but myself?”
No apprehension of consequences, no fear of punishment, ever entered into his mind except as an encouragement to carry out his designs.
"What can they do" he said, "if they do their worst? They can do nothing except to accomplish the purpose of God".
(Words: Charles Dickens / Tune: ‘La Melodie Sans Nom’ - Trad. arr. Richard Doran & Mick Tyas)
credits
from Mad Martins,
released April 30, 2017
Keith Armstrong - Spoken Word
Mick Tyas - Mandolin
Richard Doran - Dulcimer
Gary Miller first rose to international prominence with folk-punk/rock pioneers The Whisky Priests (1985-2002), founded with
his twin brother Glenn - “the Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of Folk Music". He now performs as a solo artist and with his new band 'Gary Miller's Big Picture' whose debut album is coming soon....more
Internationally acclaimed live double album by Mad Martins singer/songwriter Gary Miller's original band The Whisky Priests recorded at Markthalle, Hamburg on New Years Eve 1992. 23 glorious tracks! Gary Miller
