Pretty much what it says above
Got on this train last week and as soon as I sat down I noticed a strange almost throat singing-esque hum which I took to be a rather pleasant sounding mechanical fault, so I decided to record it on my phone.
After a moment or two I realized that it was actually a guy sat near the front of the carriage intermittently humming to himself. Which was a little odd.
Sorry about the shite sound quality and the fact you can barely hear him.
Download from the archive.org
The Happiness Patrol.
Experimental Bollocks, Godawful Noise Music and Intermittent Waffle.
From High Peak, Derbyshire, England.
Remarkable: both for the strange performance of the humming loon AND the boisterousness of the passengers. Surprised only you paid him attention (should I be?)
ReplyDeleteI need to properly master this and the other field recordings to give them a bit of needed volume. He's there all right from about 58 seconds on but you can barely hear him on my laptop speakers. I do wish I'd got a better recording of him as he's crying out to be sampled on one of my tracks.
ReplyDeleteThis train journey is always hellish. With the Woodhead line long since truncated there is now only one railway line between Sheffield and Manchester (two of the biggest cities in the North of England incase you don't know) and only one train either way every two hours for most of Sunday.
As you can imagine, it's pretty busy so what type of train do Northern Rail always use? A fucking Class 142 (essentially two late-80's Leyland National mark 2 buses chained together), so basically if you don't get a seat at Manchester Piccadilly you're standing until you reach New Mill Central (30 odd minutes into a 1 hour 50 minute journey)
It's always boisterous as it tends to be full of students and ramblers (the line goes right through the Peak District)
Yes, Beeching and his acolytes need...something. I know the line you're describing, used to use it a lot meself. Pacer trains?!
ReplyDeleteReading on in your comments I noticed you used to live in Marple, so I needn't have ranted on.
DeleteYeah, bloody Leyland Pacers. Just read they're going to be withdrawn in 2019 so only 7 more years of the damn things.
Fancy speeding the process up a little? Flaming torches at Longsite depot (or where ever they're based) 12 midnight on Sunday?
(Note to police:
The last paragraph is a joke. Obviously it would be more fun and safer for us if we derailed them at random points around the network)