Twydale’s Lament is a three-parter with a shouty rant, some spoken cynicism and a chant to fade out with. What more can you ask for? Thanks to Paul and EskimoEric
See lyrics to Twydale’s Lament
Twydale’s Lament is a three-parter with a shouty rant, some spoken cynicism and a chant to fade out with. What more can you ask for? Thanks to Paul and EskimoEric
See lyrics to Twydale’s Lament
Peter Gandy
I had always heard it as Warwick Arts Centre. I’ll have to listen again.
14 July 2008
chris
Do you know Peter? You’re absolutely right. And it makes so much more sense.
14 July 2008
Peter
Pretty sure it’s “you shall be cast away into the fiery pit” as opposed to “you should be…”
Also it must be “And whenever he tries to light up a cigarette” rather than “tried”.
8 April 2009
Neil G
I’ll go along with both of those, Peter. Also, it should be ‘and in the fiery pit’, rather than ‘that fiery pit’, in my very, very humble opinion.
8 April 2009
gray mccavish
Wias the gouranga bollocks a national thing or just Bhead? Does everyone get it?
10 May 2012
John Burscough
According to Wikipedia they appeared on bridges all over the North of England, Scotland and Wales from the mid-90s onwards (though I’m fairly sure I’ve been seeing them since the 80s). I spotted one round the corner from the Manchester Ritz gig last Christmas.
(Incidentally, for the record Marianne Faithfull did once play the Warwick Arts Centre: 23rd Jan 2002 to be precise.)
10 May 2012
Mr Larrington
There’s one on a bridge across the M1 somewhere near Luton.
10 May 2012
SIMON P
And a huge one on the Northbound M1 near Barnsley which has been there for decades
12 May 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
No lyrical references that I can see, but could Tess’s Lament have inspired the title?
27 July 2012
John Burscough
Another G(o/a)uranga reference: from the first album by, well, Quintessence, actually.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi85BW-Oivo
(Moses battling the octopus at 4:24 is particularly fine.)
27 July 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
@John … I’m not completely convinced that this album would have formed part of NB’s musical upbringing … but if anyone uncovers any Whistle Test footage of Moses v. the octopus (two falls, two submissions or a knockout I presume) I might be persuaded otherwise.
Try it on Stuart Maconie, he plays this sort of stuff all the time on The Freak/ier Zone.
Of course, the fact that I am several beers in and am watching the Thin Lizzy doccy rather then the Olympics Opening Ceremony may be distorting my judgment.
27 July 2012
RastusFB
This is one of those songs that makes being an Ignorant American HMHB fan so wonderful. The first dozen or so times that I listened to it, I heard “Durango, Durango, yes I’ll be happy…” and thought nothing of it – I figured it was just typical HMHB randomness. Then I discovered this site, and learned it was “Gouranga” and then I googled gouranga, and discovered the whole Hare Krishna meaning and the signs-on-overpass business – at which point I have an “Aha!” moment with the lyrics and I appreciate them in a whole new (wonderfully sarcastic) light.
16 November 2013
bobbybottler
The “splendid” is clearly delivered in the style of Rimmer from Red Dwarf.
But surely Red Dwarf is all my arse.
Confusion.
1 March 2015
Keir Hardie
People, in Manchester anyway, would be walking along the street minding their own business and a stranger would ask them to say gouranga. The schtick was that that was all they wanted, but they would occasionally try to ‘give’ (donation very emphatically welcome) a shitty tape of ‘beautiful’ mellow dull music or some Krishna books (oh, what a giveaway – they were sort of pretending not to be Krishnas, but not very hard, like the Jehovah’s Witnesses who nowadays adopt the brilliant disguise of ‘JW’)
20 July 2015
cream cheese and chives
I think this should just about cover the gouranga angle. I wonder if it were ever sprayed on a More O’Ferrall hoarding.
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-21228,00.html
13 January 2019