What Happened To All The Klezmer and Electro-Swing?

[CaledonianGonzo]

As per thread title.

It's gone, hasn't it?

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

We hardly knew ye

[Crazyfool01]

is this thread anything to do with this ? if not im clueless 

[Skip997]

5 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

is this thread anything to do with this ? if not im clueless 

 

No idea what Klezmer is

Electro swing was an annoyingly pretentious genre that was over popular once upon a time

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Skip997 said:

No idea what Klezmer is

Electro swing was an annoyingly pretentious genre that was over popular once upon a time

so you like it then .. 

[Neil]

9 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

so you like it then .. 

popular in laybuys along with brew and horse.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Let me guess. The Woke Mob have done away with it.

[Avalon_Fields]

I love Klezmer (& Balkan) music, Glastonbury helped as I saw Oi Va Voi there twice and the Bath band Ninotchka several times, they remain some of my favourite festival memories, also the Scottish band Moishe’s Bagel elsewhere. Off to see Paprika in London soon. I’d describe them as Electro-Swing, the great Argentinian band Gotan Project, sadly long since gone:
 

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

A little bit of what takes your fancy, can be a good thing. 

I have only been in a happy place when 'exposed' to Electro-Swing. And, yes, the music helped assist that happiness. 

[faymondo]

Used to love seeing The Destroyers on Avalon. Haven't played for a good few years now.

 

 

[faymondo]

Electric Swing Circus used to play as well

 

 

 

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, faymondo said:

Used to love seeing The Destroyers on Avalon. Haven't played for a good few years now.

 

 

Saw them in club dada I think many many years ago …. Bloody loads of them 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, faymondo said:

Used to love seeing The Destroyers on Avalon. Haven't played for a good few years now.

 

 

I knew Pete Murphy. He was a friend of the family's. I don't think (and I am 58 years old) I've ever met a more genuine, lovely person, and nicer soul. There were tragedies in his life and he battled against them valiantly. He was, without doubt, a beacon of light.

[paulshane]

Even by eFests standards, this is the maddest thread in a while surely ? 🙂

[CaledonianGonzo]

4 hours ago, paulshane said:

Even by eFests standards, this is the maddest thread in a while surely ? 🙂

I guess? It's a little daft, admittedly, but also a genuine question. Cos it used to be everywhere, particularly late at night. And now it's not.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

8 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I knew Pete Murphy. He was a friend of the family's. I don't think (and I am 58 years old) I've ever met a more genuine, lovely person, and nicer soul. There were tragedies in his life and he battled against them valiantly. He was, without doubt, a beacon of light.

Was a bit out of it when I posted this. It's Paul, not Pete. I have no idea where the Pete came from. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Were you listening to Bauhaus at the time?

[GrumpyRaver]

Good riddance. Can’t stand that twee sh*t

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Were you listening to Bauhaus at the time?

No.

[CaledonianGonzo]

15 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

I love Klezmer (& Balkan) music, Glastonbury helped as I saw Oi Va Voi there twice and the Bath band Ninotchka several times, they remain some of my favourite festival memories, also the Scottish band Moishe’s Bagel elsewhere. Off to see Paprika in London soon. I’d describe them as Electro-Swing, the great Argentinian band Gotan Project, sadly long since gone:
 

 

Gotan Project were actually French, I think - albeit obviously dabbling in Argie music.

On klezmer fading away I wonder if it's the old 'not enough tickets for all the band members' conundrum. 

Or maybe Covid and Brexit also helped do away with it as well, with lots of Eastern Europeans heading homewards after the pound plummeted 

e.g. Edinburgh's Orkestra del Sol used to be a common site in the farm but seemed to go belly up in 2017, which seems suspicious timing

http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/

[Chas]

Nana Obscuri and the Baghdaddies anyone? Admittedly more Balkan, but they used to pop up everywhere in the Green Fields and Avalon during my time at Glastonbury.

[Madyaker]

We got Caravan Palace in Shangri La a few years ago, that was fun.

[Sawdusty surfer]

Tragic Roundabout used to play everywhere all the time. If not on a stage they would play on the drag or by a fire. Don't think that they ever slept.