Cerys Matthews - We`ll Gather Lilacs ( Ivor Novello song )

[MrDurham55]

love cerys

[songsmith31a]

This shows that good song can stand any treatment!

[Conway79]

I don't understand. Cerys Matthews has a genuinely good voice. Did she do this deliberately so bad?

[lucyandethel22]

this is horrid! this is a beautiful song about a young women mourning her lover who has died at war and she is thinking about all the things that they promised each other about when he gets back but will now never happen!! talk about ripping something beautiful apart!!!!

[squirell1952]

Why have SOME Welsh singers recorded JERUSALEM??? The English consider it a "frightengly beautiful English song". It ISN'T!! It's from the English COLONY of Cornwall. You see, Jesus never, ever set foot on English soil - England did not even exist then. Jesus visited his mother's home country of CORNWALL. Just thought you'd all like to know a bit of accurate history. HOME RULE FOR CORNWALL.

[cliveandidan]

This is a great song and this is a good different version of it,Cerys is a very under rated singer,play it a few times,it will grow on you.

[lovemetu]

OMG ,this is awful !! What ever next, the sex pistols doing this, even they could do it more justice, bring back Johnny Rotten . Reminds me of a record in the mid 80s recorded in a holiday camp called.... ''Stars on 45 pints'' even they were a different class to this abomination ,as they used to say ....Kindly leave the Stage !!

[Sotoscj74]

Cerys Matthews, Sorry! but you cannot sing this "beautiful Music" you do not have any understanding of this music.... You may be a good singer for certain types of music ... but my dear not for this.. suggest you listen to the version "sang by Marion Grimaldi.... and others artist"

[MollyAngel]

i think this is mindblowingly fantastic..love it to bitz

[thesparklyfairy]

omg, she has MURDERED this song

[StuartLou]

not funny- not anything.

[JamesMorganLondon]

Hitherto one of the most melodic and gentle songs ever written. Ivor Novello must be spinning in his grave.

[jokitosh]

I like it - heard it in the film "Very Annie Mary". Let's not be too serious, the girl's just 'avin a bit of fun! And Novello was still alive when I was born.

[leonaofficial]

@dickdomino1 PS youre not that opera queen down my road who drives a Skoda are you Dickie boy ?

[leonaofficial]

@dickdomino1 Sorry to hear your piles are playing up . Will this affect your singing ?

[leonaofficial]

@dickdomino1 You may well be a `trained pro singer`( LOL ) but with respect Cerys`s successful career in music speaks for itself. Pray tell us something of your own highlights in the past 30 years so we can also pass comment.

[redhand010]

An awesome version and great to see someone with real talent putting her own spin on what was a very boring song..

[abortionrock]

this song scares the bejesus out of me!

[BadTeacake]

I love this version of this song. Sadly I can't seem to buy a copy via iTunes.

[BadTeacake]

I love this version of this song. Sadly I can't seem to buy a copy via iTunes.

[BadTeacake]

I love this version of this song. Sadly I can't seem to buy a copy via iTunes.

[bornagainheretic]

this is the musical equivalent of necrophilia...totally fucked up with absolutely no respect for the dead...ruin your own songs you silly welsh person.

[leonaofficial]

by `respect for the dead` you are I take it referring to the late Ivor Emanuel QC ?

( QC not being used in it`s legal context here )

[bornagainheretic]

@leonaofficial :) i was refering to mr novello :D

[accomm]

Poor Ivor must be turning in his grave. The woman needs shooting!

[MrsKlinky]

Simply FAB

[MrsKlinky]

I really love it :-)

[goldengreaser]

Thats supposed to be good?

[digitalghost89]

I LOVE it when her voice cracks!! on the "once more" parts xD

[yesthisisthename]

..the words are soft and lovely - unlike her voice

[janutd7]

oh Cerys Fab..... ha ha......luv it.....

[Conway79]

HDR photography is kind of cool. :-)

[laserboy75]

Right at the end it sounds like she says, "Murdered that song".

Actually, I quite like it

[45rpmSINGLES]

she did say that !

[priapus56]

unadulterated shit..

[leonaofficial]

someone said you were

[priapus56]

Just read your profile..."There hasn't been any recent activity." I think they were referring to your brain..

[leonaofficial]

With respect your musical tastes belong in a different generation. There was a comment left by a viewer on another youtube video which read" Today's music is mostly soulless garbage made by "musical" eunuchs" . Your comment in response was " Yes,you're dam ( sic ! ) right ! Couldn't have put it better myself " . So your "unadulterate shit" comment is just the rant of a musical fuddy-duddy old man !

[leonaofficial]

Also , wouldnt your time on youtube be better spend watching videos you like rather than leaving negative comments about ones you dont ! But I guess it`s a Victor Meldrew occupation for the older generation. Whatever makes you happy !

[priapus56]

Kizz a kiss..x

[gardenofsimple]

Epic

[dickdomino]

What a load of crap. She'd have been 'paid off' after the first thirty seconds in the Northern Clubs twenty years ago. How standards have disappeared down the sewer. Nothing to do with age...she's just crap - at any age.

[leonaofficial]

get back to licking nick griffin`s ass twat

[leonaofficial]

What`s a Northern Club grandad ?

[lolomouse]

beautiful cerys, what a glorious punk version of this amazing song!!! xxx

[hawkmoon03111951]

I love the original and this is certainly very different. Don't dislike it though.

[Conway79]

Not being familiar with the original version, I rather like this cover. I seriously doubt she was trying to sing perfectly in tune. She can when she wants to.

[swiftsboy]

I don't know who this "person" is,but she needs to be taken out and shot!

For the murder of a beautiful song.

She may be great in her own sphere,but as far as singing Ivor Novello,she is as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Why do they do it,she needs her head examing,but you wouldn't find much as she obviously has no brain!

Just what do they get out of making such a noise?

[leonaofficial]

I dont think her target audience was old age pensioners ! You are unlikely to have looked up Cerys Matthews but rather the song or the writer I presume.

Your comments generally support the view that when someone considers pop music to be noise rather than music then you are officially old.

[swiftsboy]

I am NOT crticising her as a performer(in her own sphere) but rather what she has done to this song,and why she would bother to perform it at all,given that it is over 70 years old!

I only consider what she has done to THIS song as noise,not her repertoire in general.over 70 odd years old.

I may be 62,but I am a big fan of Coldplay!

[leonaofficial]

The song was specifically recorded for and featured in the film Very Annie Mary. It`s on the soundtrack album.

[nodamnuse]

What an awful noise.

[leonaofficial]

What an awful comment.

[icepopstest]

I get it .

I love Cerys Matthews. Cracking photos canogymru.

England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales are the best lands on the planet.

[secondwindrecords]

it cracks me up when people get upset and say she can't sing in tune.... you so don't get it!

[secondwindrecords]

I LOVE THIS, so funny and ROCKIN

[dickerkata]

c´mon guys,can´t you really see the clue?you really think,she cannot sing?this is her artificial interpretation of the song,and the way she sings it is absolutely planned,and it is genius.thousands of singers could sing it in the traditional,boring way.but who else can sing it that way?believe me.she would hit every single note perfectly,if she wanted to.but what would be the clou?why should she?

[peaceric]

it's not like singing badly is revolutionary

[constanzavictrix]

Ive stumbled across this woman - and it's been a painful experience i can tell you - dear god that voice of hers is agonising, as are the instrumentals and drum....my god...make it stop...

[pianolasociety]

Les Dawson sang better than this. And Spike Jones.

[simikess]

It's not so much the "jazzing-up" of the song that bothers me, as much as the fact that ms Matthews (of whom, I am thankful to say, I have never heard before) cannot sing in tune and has a terrible voice.

The pictures of Wales were very pretty though.

[paxguns]

Ivor Novello must be turning in his grave

[leonaofficial]

If he is turning in his grave I can only assume his boyfriend`s turned up ! More people in the World would find his practicing of unnatural sexual acts ie buggery to more distasteful than this recording

[simikess]

What a totally irrelevant remark.

[Lamirroirmagique]

And most people would find you an intolerant twat.

[Conway79]

Nice HDRs. :)

[ricmalbex]

Sorry, got to say something. I like Cerys matthews but this is bloody awful. I agree with laserboy....I liked that comment.

Was she smashed?

[gblue88]

she is the most talented singer to has ever sung this song,

stuff bloody leslie garret!

[gblue88]

stop using my account! Good song though

[dissnorfolk]

Kitch 47, nice to see youy writing poetry again.

Kitch 57

[kitch47]

works for me, can all the negatives go back to their processed cheese,and listen to things like this when they develope a soul a backbone and some bollocks.

[45rpmsingle]

This recording is from the soundtrack album of the film Very Annie Mary

[TheDivaSharon]

I'm laughing so hard I think I pulled something....OMG. I'm learning this right now to sing in a concert....and this puts a whole new light on it.

Now I have heard everything, I am quite sure.

Somebody please help me. I've fallen and I can't get up....!

[bombshelly02]

When I was little I bought my dad a record from a jumble sale (His Masters Voice haha) and he loved it. It cost me a penny. Who sang the original?

[higginbottomd]

Help. My brain hurts!

[Mojosbigstick]

If you listen carefully she hit all the right notes. She's got genuine talent - and an interesting way of delivering a song.

Whether you like it or not is up to you.

[laserboy75]

Yes Mojo, she is singing all the right notes ...... but not neccesserily in the right order.

Actually, I quite like it.

[Mojosbigstick]

Ah, the old ones are still the best!

[promiseIsaih60]

God!! How Horrible!!! God she just KILLED that song!!!! I think I'd rather listen to my dog howling in pain than listen to that!

[janutd7]

Don't you get it??????????????

[promiseIsaih60]

Um, I geuss not. She just sounds Horribly Painful to the ears, though the scenes from the countryside are nice. I think chicken bones in blender would sound better though. :)

[07774594470]

whats the song she sung when she was in " im a celebrity get me out of her " ??

x

[reltub303]

think it was chardonnay..

[Paulmanorbier]

"Chardonnay" of the album Cockahoop

[janutd7]

Can't help it ...just gotta say....i just LOVE this.....so so gutted i can't see her in concert (all tickets sold out) if anyone on here goes plz came back and tell us about it!!!!!!!!!!! Can imagine Cerys at end of night in the pub singing this....!!!!!

[Conway79]

Her voice definitely sounds harsher than normal, but I love this song anyway, and her rendition of it. It has feeling. Like Kelly Jones in Stereophonics, his voice always sounds rough, but singers like this are unique and distinguished.

Great photography too btw.

[iolomultnomah]

Judging by the comments below irony is beyond the comprehension of the average YouTube wallah...Cerys intentionally murders the old sentimental WWII classic and makes it sound like a late night drunken karaoke bar rendition....soooo poignant...brilliant!!!

[HypocriticalBigot]

"irony is beyond the comprehension of the average YouTube wallah"

So speaks a brain washed die hard fan!

Face reality she is washed up and soaked through....Please!!!

[iolomultnomah]

You missed my point...I like THIS track. You dont. OK? I have no strong feelings about Cerys Matthews one way or the other. Never have had.

[HypocriticalBigot]

Quite why you are lowering your superior American self to the level of the "average" YouTuber" is one opinion you haven't graced us with.

I like this SONG but I don't like the way it has been murdered here and regardless of your pseudo intellectual analysis of the performance you have no idea what you are talking about, but as you're American you will be unwilling to acknowledge that.

[Seventiesteenager]

soooo poignant...brilliant!!!

Oh yeah!...and when I take a shit its a poignant expression of my art form.

And if you want irony go to IdleShitStirrers comment below, now thats irony.

[iolomultnomah]

Unable to comment on your bowel movements. IdleShitStirrers comment is ironic???..really...there we are then.

[Seventiesteenager]

The difference being that the British sense of humour extends beyond throwing custard pies, but I am not really expecting you to comprehend that either buddy.

[FreeFries4AMERICA]

Fuckin hell, she sounds awful.

Has she been on the fucking moonshine or what?

[janutd7]

4got to say i loved the Video to go with the song ..........jan x

[janutd7]

Ha. Ha. Ha. enjoyed that! Talk about letting yourself go!! Just listened to 'Some kind of wonderful' and Cerys like a angel....then played 'We'll gather lilacs' and Cerys sounded like a devil!!!!!! Good though! I'm gutted Cerys coming to perform near me in Feb and i can't get tickets...all sold out! GUTTED. Jan x

[handyhelen]

what a load of crap

[TALIBANBOYOreturns]

Fuckin hell, she sounds awful.

I liked her til she went on that jungle shit. She is just a soppy cow that aint what she makes out to be.

[IdleShitStirrer]

FUCKING JESUS you would have to be pissed to shag her!

In fact you would have to be even more fucking pissed than she is.

And then I would think you would be too pissed to shag her anyway.

FUCKING HELL!!!

[ricmalbex]

I have always admired Cerys , but....God , doesn't this sound awful!!!!!!

Too much Chardonnay !!!!!!!!!!!

[steph31111]

good pictures of wales,beautiful country.I think Cerys needs to give up smoking though!!

[Paulmanorbier]

Cerys is a classic and I did like the picture tour - Da Iawn

[diiiiiiiinamite]

She sounds half cut.....wahayyyyyyy