Doubt this Deroy goes up for Auction very Often.

[amidar]

and furthermore is it any good, any clued in collectors know anything about it:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GILES-74-T...4AAOSwiYFXF4NW

[smashingcheesegromit]

I personally know the seller,and will find out the quality of music..my friend enzio from Italy will know this,and prob will win it,as he is a folk collector he bought my kloftans Deroy acetate

[Head Gardener]

yes, Enzio bought a w/l Deroy from me a couple of years ago too

[amidar]

You might be right could well be Folk. Does anyone rate 'The Moths' album on Deroy?

I personally know the seller,and will find out the quality of music..my friend enzio from Italy will know this,and prob will win it,as he is a folk collector he bought my kloftans Deroy acetate

[smashingcheesegromit]

Not sure on the moths lp,seen it on popsike tho...may bid for this,my friend Willie in Germany is a mad w/l collector

[amidar]

Sure you've seen it but one went for £206 in 2013: http://www.popsike.com/GILES-very-ra...115550626.html

Cover seemed less nicotine stained but it had a split.

Not sure on the moths lp,seen it on popsike tho...may bid for this,my friend Willie in Germany is a mad w/l collector

[amidar]

Cant edit but even more in 2014. Seems it was a school production, would love to hear it: http://www.popsike.com/GILES74-TOLKI...965377862.html

[amidar]

No one outbid the first digger and it went for 100 quid at one point I thought they had cancelled the auction as ebay showed it as so then I found it still in my watching so either an ebay glitch or it had been relisted at some point. It is a hit and hope kind of thing especially being a school production.

The reason I ask about 'The Moths' LP is there is a short run reissue of it on 'Guerrson'. Mixture of 'Bert Jansch' covers and their own tunes. Its given them a whole new lease of life and they've reformed, notice they have a Facebook page (Which I'm too lazy to find). The sound samples I liked, they made it on to the 'dust on the nettles' comp so I've given it a punt.

I'm out of date it came out the beginning of last year, still managed to snag a copy though.

https://www.facebook.com/The-Moths-1...15496/?fref=nf

I'd still like to hear school kids doing 'Tolkien' with 'Farmer Giles' though.

[moecurlythanu]

I have the Giles album, but haven't pulled it out of the backlog pile and spun it yet. I've heard it's not too promising, and there is a track on YouTube that doesn't inspire confidence.

The Moths is OK hippie Folk with bongos, acoustic guitars, etc, but there are far better examples of the style. Check out Dando Shaft for a much better take on it.

[amidar]

Cheers Moe will do. Whats the best album to start off with?

Ah, I remember someone posting the deserted fairground one on a recent finds thread.

I have the Giles album, but haven't pulled it out of the backlog pile and spun it yet. I've heard it's not too promising, and there is a track on YouTube that doesn't inspire confidence.

The Moths is OK hippie Folk with bongos, acoustic guitars, etc, but there are far better examples of the style. Check out Dando Shaft for a much better take on it.

[moecurlythanu]

Cheers Moe will do. Whats the best album to start off with?

Ah, I remember someone posting the deserted fairground one on a recent finds thread.

That's where I'd start, the s/t one. They're all good though.

[amidar]

Sweet the reissues all seem fairly easy to get hold of from various places. This site has got me into folk in a bigger way. Before I landed here it was John Martyn, John Renbourn, various members of Pentangle and Davey Graham, that was it.

I kind of liked the naivety of 'The Moths' tracks I heard, nowhere near the above mentioned in terms of skill but pretty workmanlike all the same.

[babycart]

I'm extremely glad my school never made me take part in a Tolkien-based musical extravaganza, even if I would have got a private press raer out of it.

[SirSlim]

I'm extremely glad my school never made me take part in a Tolkien-based musical extravaganza, even if I would have got a private press raer out of it.

Maybe if it had been an opera based on this I might have changed my mind...

[Sonovox]

I bet I would have been cast as the fish