Andre Wards amatuer record

Yeah I like a bunch of their songs. I don't own any of their albums (I did own one once though) but I love Who Knows Where The Time Goes, She Moves Through The Fair, Crazy Man Michael, Matty Groves, A Sailor's Life, Tam Lin, Come All Ye and I'm sure there's a couple more I'm forgetting. Who Knows Where The Times Goes is such a beautiful song. Sandy Denny has the voice of an angel.

 

I used to work in a shop and there was this old crazy guy who used to come in. He was small in stature and rather fail looking. He was Irish and very religious and of course he loved his booze. Sometimes he'd drop by or walk past the shop window and wave and he was as nice as pie, very polite and softly spoken albeit. still crazy, and other times he come by when he'd been drinking or was having one of his turns and he was effing and blinding and shouting at people, including us, and being loud, confrontational and aggressive. He was Jekyll and Hyde and you never knew which one was going to turn up.

One time I was standing behind the shop door chatting to someone and he pushed the door open violently as he was walking by (and it was a large heavy door with a large window) and shouted obscenities at us. It was totally out of the blue and I had no idea he was there. Luckily I saw it coming towards me out of the corner of my eye (and it would've hit me hard in the face and done some nasty damage such was the force he pushed it with) and I just managed to jump out of the way in the nick of time.

One time he walked past the shop dressed in a monk's robe. It was very surreal to see

He used to bring us holy water too.

Anyway, his name was Michael aka Mad Michael. So that's who I think of whenever I hear that song. He had a proper mad face too.

 

Great story.

Yeah I know their gigs are mental. Lots of drunk people jumping around, arms and elbows flailing. They came up from the punk scene (well at least MacGowan did) so that partially explains that.

 

Reynardine is great too. I forgot that one. I like virtually everything I've heard of theirs and Sandy Denny's. It's my kind of music.

 

He's an amazing writer. I love his lyrics. He's a great character too.

Did the song inspire your user name?

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Can't believe we're having this conversation on an Andre Ward thread. Ward and his repulsive fans make me puke. I genuinely despise them. Like I would sign up to go to war against them. I really mean that. No joke.