Flossie malavialle biography

Venue Folk. As ever you gave it your all and the songs were a revelation. Played the new CD all the way home and loved it all. Richard Forster. Please visit my Publicity page to download documents to help advertise your event. Upcoming Gigs. There are no upcoming events. Full details. All Videos. With perhaps the longest introduction so far she eventually got around to On The Road Again, a song which many now associate with Donkey from the Shrek films.

Malavialle's version was sound enough but was a fairly ordinary rendition of the song. Donkey from Shrek It is obviously a club tradition at the Woodman where people have maracas and shakers of various types to join in with certain songs but bizarrely Malavialle appeared to lose control of her faculties because someone was using a tambourine with flashing lights on.

Unfortunately Malavialle's version had neither the power, passion or conviction of Cassidy's offering. She then did, as a request, an upbeat country number called World Of Hurt which was followed by one from her latest album simply called X. From Fawney Cross is a story set to music of the youngest Irish soldier killed in World War One and the journey of one of his ancestors to honour him.

Photo by John Fuller. How did it all start? Please indicate your acceptance of this by clicking the "Accept" button. Accept Read More. Willie Nelson is a living legend but it would be interesting to know how many people know this song because of a donkey companion to a green ogre. Malavialle's version has the flossie malavialle biography energy of Nelson's rendition but she does struggle with some of the high notes which tend to drop flat because there isn't enough vocal energy to keep them up there.

Her voice finds a much more comfortable level with this ballad. Perhaps the bravest song to tackle is Suzanne Vega's Luka which was a massive hit in the 80s and it's just one of those songs where almost everyone knows at least the chorus.

Flossie malavialle biography

However, few realise the song, light as it may sound, is about abuse and domestic violence which was pretty groundbreaking in its day. It's obviously lodged in Malavialle's pysche and she neither adds nor takes away from the original but plays it straight giving it a kind of matter of fact feeling with her singing. She goes local for Tin Soldier from John Wrightson "The Tin Soldier" inspired by a Ray Lonsdale sculpture called which represents shellshock, now called traumatic stress disorder.

It's a very emotive song about a very emotive figure slowly rusting away in Seaham, Durham.