![]() ![]() The first announced headliner is Turisas: taking their name from an ancient Finnish god of war, this band has been described as “Finland’s finest metal export” and will be bringing their rousing battle metal to HRH Vikings. ![]() The initially-announced line-up is impressive. HRH Viking Hotels will be on the doorstep, ensuring that our mighty tribe will be housed in quality, Hell, were even serving up our very own HRH Viking Ale! HRH Vikings will be a 2 day, 2 Arena Adventure, taking place at the O2 Academy in Sheffield on 1st & 2nd December 2018. Expect the unexpected as we go all out to create a Metal Viking Saga to shake the very foundations upon which it will be staged and be heard in the halls of Valhalla itself. HRH Vikings is a heady genre-mixing brew, which will feature 5 mind-blowing sub-genres of metal: Battle, Nordic, Pagan, Black & Death. “We’ve been threatening to do this for some time now,” says HRH Jonni Davis, “We just needed the right bands in Cycle, and by all the Gods in Asgard we’ve nailed them high!” Heed the call: the HRH Vikings are bringing the celebration of fierce song, fellowship and carousing like no other to Sheffield, the City of Steel. What’s that circling in the stormy skies? Hugin and Munin: Odin’s own ravens and what surges through the wind, waves and tempest below them at the horizon, lit by flashes of lightning? Dragon prows, longboats and warriors bold, rowing into land to bear sword, metal, and song? Such Nordic portents can only herald the coming of a brand new event from HRH: HRH Vikings Dedicated to Granny Gert and dear Maddy, who told us stories and put vanilla behind her ears.Ī medley of tunes dedicated to the memory of the late, great fiddler Dave Swarbrick (1941-2016) The Brilliance Medley (Trad.) Swarb (Sorbye) Villafjord (Trad.HRH Vikings launch a new 2 Day 2 Arena Valhalla Adventure in the City of Steel…Įarly Bird Offer 25 GBP, No Booking Fee, 5 days Only Some fond memories of Patricia’s childhood visits with family in the faraway and fabled land of Mississippi. (1618-1648) The lovely tune at the end is the Brambleberry Reel written by Kathy. This song refers to the ‘The Thirty Years War’,' a deadly collection of wars fought in Central Europe for reasons including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Josh and Ab penned the fugue intro and outro. Lief wrote the music to Patricia’s haunting lyric, inspired by Viking lore and legend. Three recently written Reels The Lahard Chase and In Walked Dalai by Patrick Caryannis and Harny’s Reel by Paul Meehan.Ī TOAST (Sorbye/Reynolds/Fossgreen/Menon) We thought this old Beatles chestnut cried out for a jig or two, so we added ‘Tripping Up The Stairs’ (Trad.) NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN) (Lennon/McCartney) The decisive battle fought between the Jacobite Army and the forces of William III near the village of Aughrim in County Galway, Ireland.Ī zippy little Norwegian folk song celebrating the Summer Solstice. With special guest and honorary band member:Ī Scottish song from the Jacobite Rebellion (1745) Johnny Cope was a commander of the government troops defeated in a dawn attack by the Jacobites.Ī song celebrating some of the joys and good fortune of being Tempest, thirty years on. LIEF SORBYE – lead vocals, mandoguitar, electric and acoustic mandolins, octave mandolas, flute, pennywhistle, and bodhran Purple martins lace the sky above the Williamson place I saw him decades later when they laid her down to restĭark eyes turned to opal and looking to the west Shadow in the shotgun house is always cool and dark I lose my place and you just think I'm oddĭrove out by the river where the homestead used to beĪll the roads were named for them the seven kids and me Ott is selling cans around the bend from God The sound of a train so lonesome another life it seems Now from a weary distance I see you in my dreams You planted in those seed trees to cheer a somber childįor all I know they grow there still and wild Stories through the iron steam the cotton smooth and white Girl in a stone cold basement shining in the light The shady woods, I’m with you where you drove The voices raise up in the air beyond the Hopewell grove Love of a big-heart woman that dying doesn’t end The clean, dark hope of cotton left drying in the wind ![]()
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