

Lyrics - Mad About a Boy
To love Tommy Shelby. A tragic love song. Like so many old stories and songs [example] -Sweet William/Lovely Willie- 'It happened one...


Gypsies, Tinkers and travellers, researching their history
In starting my research of gypsy culture and music, I found that most avenues I took lead me to the Romany gypsy community. Most...


Performance practice - Mad About a Boy
The importance of delivery 'There is a difference in the songs Gypsies sing...this latency – the power within to express these things,...


In the Bleakmidwinter - War and religion
Twice in the show, in the first episode and in the last (of the second season), Tommy speaks this one line from a famous Christmas poem...


Lyrics - King in Town
There's a boy in town with a price on his head There's a man behind him who won't stop 'till he's dead. ... And his hand's a little red....


Inspired in the present
A huge number of artists influenced by traveller folk music. In more recent years, British folk revivalists, such as Laura Marling and...


From the heart of the tradition
'How do we engage with music that exists as written and yet seems more essential in its unwritten, performative form' - The Gypsy Canavan...


A quote - May you be in heaven a full half hour
before the devil knows you're dead. An Irish toast. #quotes


A quote - Wake up in hell tomorrow
'This I know, ahead of you is damnation. But I have the love of God, and the certainty of salvation' I know what you did to Polly, and I...