John Tams & Barry Coope "The Manchester Rambler"

For me John Tams and Barry Coope were the highlight of this year's (2007) Gosport and Fareham Easter Festival. This song, "The Manchester Rambler" in which Tams reconstructs Ewan McColl's original is delivered with such passion that it makes this grown man cry. Recorded by Darren Beech.

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[Fibbing01]

Tams is a reasonably good singer, but it's a shame he appears to be something of an intellectual anarchist too. No matter how you look at it, a landowner's land belongs to the landowner. Unless she or he decides to tenant it, of course.

[folkingdotcom]

@Fibbing01 - What a picture! The ramblers association portrayed as an anarchistic, anorak clad, binocular and walking stick wielding menace. It’s thanks to people that inspired the Ewan MacColl original and the Tams re-working of the song that with have public foot paths at all.

[Maksimfan]

@folkingdotcom well said!

[folkingdotcom]

@Maksimfan - It should have said... "What a picture! The ramblers association portrayed as an anarchistic, anorak clad, binocular and walking stick wielding menace. It’s thanks to people that inspired the Ewan MacColl original and the Tams re-working of the song that we have public foot paths at all".

[laurencemaher]

john tams = chosen man

[barefootwanderer]

i went for years loving his character in sharpe, having no idea he was a folk singer.

i should've guessed really with that voice - absolutely wonderful

[louosman]

@barefootwanderer nearly all those in sharpe were not actors as their first profession but experts in ttheir own field with a love of the period like patric harper was one of the wepons suppliers not an actor but was given the part becuse he fit in and could weild the guns better than everyone else

[Maksimfan]

For all those interested Mike Harding will be talking about the Kinder Mass Trespass and Ewan Maccoll's writing of this song on BBC radio 4 in April to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the event

[MrAndyJ19]

Fantastic.



[casperowls]

@Fibbing01 twat

[casperowls]

@Fibbing01 I gather from your comment that you are not quite an intellectual. I gather you do not like walking where nature intended, over mountain and hill. Why should the landed gentry (Ewan MacColl's time) control all the land for their hunting pursuits. Pursuits which are ethically wrong!

[jaybeefrommanchester]

@folkingdotcom i agree !

[jaybeefrommanchester]

@Fibbing01 get a life , no man has the right to own mountains u prick, ! theyre u go , i feel "much" better now ! hahaha, some people ay, just dont get it !