| Description | Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Frank West, George Stevens, Jim West, and William Watt, fishermen from Scotland while sailing on a fishing trip on 'The Honeydew', working out of Gardenstown. It has not always been possible to tell which fisherman is speaking.
Tracks 1-2: Charles Parker asks George Stevens to recite fishermen's weather sayings and rhymes about herring, talks about fishermen not making up rhymes today as they did in the sailboat days
Track 3: George Stevens talks about a skipper he knew who used to sing to his crew, Ewan MacColl asks him whether he knows any children's rhymes and recites a Geordie children's rhyme, 1.49 mins
Track 4: Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl sing 'Windy Old Weather', 0.36 mins
Track 5: Charles Parker asks them why they think the old songs have died out, the men say that fishermen don't congregate as they did in the old days, 2.08 mins
Track 6: continues Track 5, 1.47 mins
Track 7: they talk about activities for young people in the village, the billiard hall in the village was burned recently, young people don't play games like they used to, talks about the old games, 2.16 mins
Track 8: (speed too fast), a man talks about people staying in their houses to watch television, 2.15 mins
Track 9: A fisherman says that sometimes you can tell where the herring are when you're fishing by the smell of the sea, talks about anchoring nets compared with drift fishing, 3.05 mins
Track 10: a fisherman talks about locating shoals of herring - if they see a whale, there is herring nearby, using the echometer to find them, fishing using sea nets, 2.41 mins
Track 11: a fisherman talks about fishing using sea nets, you have to attend to the winch all the time, older men find the work tiring, 2.47 mins
Track 12: a fisherman talks about getting two hours sleep in twenty-four, they talk about getting Sundays as a holiday, unlike English fishermen, who work weekends, 2.55 mins
Track 13: (speed occasionally too fast) they talk about travelling back home using up most of the weekend, 3.25 mins
Track 14: Silence, 2.21 mins
Track 15: a fisherman talks about a net of fish bursting and line fishing from the boat, 1.44 mins
Track 16: a fisherman talks about going home at the weekends, 1.37 mins
Track 17: fishermen talk about enjoying home comforts and family life, 2.19 mins
Track 18: a fisherman talks about the pressure of working on the fishing all the year round, 2.37 mins
Track 19: a fisherman talks about the reasons for lack of social life: lack of sleep while working, herring fishing is a job for the strong financially, 2.46 mins
Track 20: a fisherman talks about the new machinery for fishing making them have to work harder than their grandfathers did, the advantages of working on a independent boat as opposed to a company boat, government subsidies, 3.07 mins
Track 21: a fisherman talks about subsidies for white fishing and herring fishing, (speed slightly too fast occasionally), 3.38 mins
Total: 51.12 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D1041180 |