Good idea or not?

[Nick]

A mate of mine has just persuaded me to fork out £70 ( ) to go and see Bob Dylan in Nottingham in October. Bad move? 

[Just One More]

Go for it Nick, I believe Mark Knopfler and his band are with him on stage

[GROWLER]

A mate of mine has just persuaded me to fork out £70 ( ) to go and see Bob Dylan in Nottingham in October. Bad move? 

Not of you like Bob Dylan like, no.

What's yer problem? The 70 snotters is it you rusty 'inge?

Dpesn't particulary float me boat though tbh, so don't bother inviting me.

[Nick]

Go for it Nick, I believe Mark Knopfler and his band are with him on stage

Indeedy doo. And the mate is the one from North Wales who thought Growler looked familiar 

[GROWLER]

Go for it Nick, I believe Mark Knopfler and his band are with him on stage

Indeedy doo. And the mate is the one from North Wales who thought Growler looked familiar 

The 'istory teacher? What's 'is name again?
I liked him. Good an' earthy, sense of humour and didn't talk posh shitey nonsense.

Ask him when he's comin' up for that walk up 'me'ill' too will you?

[apc2010]

A mate of mine has just persuaded me to fork out £70 ( ) to go and see Bob Dylan in Nottingham in October. Bad move? 

Cycle there .........save some dosh on petrol and parking...........

[Nick]

Go for it Nick, I believe Mark Knopfler and his band are with him on stage

Indeedy doo. And the mate is the one from North Wales who thought Growler looked familiar 

The 'istory teacher? What's 'is name again?
I liked him. Good an' earthy, sense of humour and didn't talk posh shitey nonsense.

Ask him when he's comin' up for that walk up 'me'ill' too will you?

Nod is his name. ANd he reckons you are the dead spit of his cousin in  N Wales  You may be related 

[Darwins Selection]

Go for it Nick, I believe Mark Knopfler and his band are with him on stage

Indeedy doo. And the mate is the one from North Wales who thought Growler looked familiar 

The 'istory teacher? What's 'is name again?
I liked him. Good an' earthy, sense of humour and didn't talk posh shitey nonsense.

Ask him when he's comin' up for that walk up 'me'ill' too will you?

Nod is his name. ANd he reckons you are the dead spit of his cousin in  N Wales  You may be related 

Yr un dyn llaeth?

[GROWLER]

Didn't you read me comments earlier you turnip munching noggin'?

Far far far far too much posh talk willy waving goes on in 'ere, it really does.

Talk sense man, ffs!

[GROWLER]

Go for it Nick, I believe Mark Knopfler and his band are with him on stage

Indeedy doo. And the mate is the one from North Wales who thought Growler looked familiar 

The 'istory teacher? What's 'is name again?
I liked him. Good an' earthy, sense of humour and didn't talk posh shitey nonsense.

Ask him when he's comin' up for that walk up 'me'ill' too will you?

Nod is his name. ANd he reckons you are the dead spit of his cousin in  N Wales  You may be related 

Nod. How the hell did I forget ey?
What an absolutely STONKING name that really is.

[Nick]

I tend to disagree with Christopher Ricks in his evaluation of the old chap 

http://www.amazon.com/Dylans-Visions-Sin-Christopher-Ricks/dp/0060599235

Ricks, a professor of humanities at Boston University, allows his own musings about Bob Dylan to go "blowin' in the wind" in this love letter to the enigmatic bard. Focusing on the centrality of the seven deadly sins (pride, anger, lust, envy, sloth, greed, covetousness), the four virtues (justice, temperance, fortitude, prudence) and the three graces (faith, hope, love) in Dylan's writings, Ricks confirms Dylan's poetic genius and elevates the poet of the north country to canonical status alongside Tennyson, Shakespeare and Milton. Through a series of closely engaged readings of selected songs, Ricks demonstrates how each reflects a concern with sin, virtue or grace. Thus, "Lay, Lady, Lay" becomes an anthem of lust, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" a paean to fortitude and "If Not for You" a tribute to love. In every reading of the songs, he compares Dylan's poetry to the work of other poets, often finding either explicit correspondence or structural echoes of earlier works. For example, Ricks contends that the structure of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" mimics the structure of the early Scottish ballad "Lord Randal." Sometimes Ricks strives to be too hip and precious—as when he characterizes "Lay, Lady, Lay" as "erotolayladylaylia," and when he concludes that there are similarities between other poems and Dylan's by providing a list of one word correspondences, as he does with "Lay, Lady, Lay" and Donne's "To His Mistress Going to Bed." Nevertheless, Ricks's affectionate critical tour-de-force reminds readers why Dylan continues to encourage our "hearts always to be joyful" and our "songs always to be sung" as we remain "forever young."
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Product Description
Bob Dylan's ways with words are a wonder, matched as they are with his music and verified by those voices of his. In response to the whole range of Dylan early and late (his songs of social conscience, of earthly love, of divine love, and of contemplation), this critical appreciation listens to Dylan's attentive genius, alive in the very words and their rewards.
"Fools they made a mock of sin." Dylan's is an art in which sins are laid bare (and resisted), virtues are valued (and manifested), and the graces brought home. The seven deadly sins, the four cardinal virtues (harder to remember?), and the three heavenly graces: these make up everybody's world -- but Dylan's in particular. Or rather, his worlds, since human dealings of every kind are his for the artistic seizing. Pride is anatomized in "Like a Rolling Stone," Envy in "Positively 4th Street," Anger in "Only a Pawn in Their Game" ... But, hearteningly, Justice reclaims "Hattie Carroll," Fortitude "Blowin' in the Wind," Faith "Precious Angel," Hope "Forever Young," and Charity "Watered-Down Love."

In The New Yorker, Alex Ross wrote that "Ricks's writing on Dylan is the best there is. Unlike most rock critics -- 'forty-year-olds talking to ten-year-olds,' Dylan has called them -- he writes for adults." In the Times (London), Bryan Appleyard maintained that "Ricks, one of the most distinguished literary critics of our time, is almost the only writer to have applied serious literary intelligence to Dylan ... "

Dylan's countless listeners (and even the artist himself, who knows?) may agree with W.H. Auden that Ricks "is exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding."

[Pastis]

A mate of mine has just persuaded me to fork out £70 ( ) to go and see Bob Dylan in Nottingham in October. Bad move? 

I wouldn't, personally... but then he's just turned 70; perhaps the ticket price is following his age?  He might do a Tommy Cooper 

[Nick]

 

[bodiam]

Its worth the £70 just to see Mark Knopfler. Am going to the Bournemouth concert. 

[Nick]

Bournemouth eh??

Are you a keen photographer?