07.08.07

It’s not for the cock, it’s for when the folk band playing outside H+M get a recording contract

Posted in Artists, Captain Lovebead, Retro Sunday at 5:17 pm by Captain Lovebead

Lindisfarne isn’t a band concerned with reality. Songs about actual events are far too obvious and cliche. No, the band whose first album was titled Nicely Out of Tune, reminisce about times that never were and yearn to go home to somewhere you’ve never been.

After a bumptious instrumental the lyrics kick in with “Hey Mr Dream-Seller, where have you been? Tell me, have you dreams I can see?“. The song is called Meet Me On the Corner, and it doesn’t really have any meaning. No concrete meaning that is. Instead it hosts a myriad of emotions and a spectrum of memories.

The first time you hear it, you will enjoy the cheerfulness of the tune and smile at the concept of a dream-seller (”Well I’ve got time, if you deal in rhyme“). The second time you’ll grow more attached to. The third, more so. And onwards until you’re on your way to the corner “to fix a rendezvous, because your dreams are all I believe“.

There is no showbiz attitude to Lindisfarne. They don’t write songs about taking cocaine, or about looking good on the dance floor. They make the type of music to play whilst drinking ale with your friends. They are not from this century, and it’s only by a stroke of bad luck that they were born so late into the last.

So, get yourself some mead, settle yourself down, and have a listen. You will love it. And then “Down the empty streets we’ll disappear until the dawn, if you have dreams enough to share.”

Lindisfarne - Meet Me On the Corner

If you fancy buying their best of album (which you do), then click here.

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