Duncan Phillips & The Long Stand

[Ron McMillan]

New, debut album from Duncan Phillips, an exiled Shetlander living in Melbourne, Australia, is excellent, and has some mandolin content played by Duncan himself.

Phillips occupies the long-established singer-songwriter genre in the modern Americana mould, with echoes of Dylan, Steve Earle and early John Mellencamp in his delivery. All-original songs are of consistently high quality, and production values are top notch. Well worth a listen here.

Minor trivia point: 'The Long Stand' is named for pranks traditionally pulled on the new kid in the British factory, who would be sent to the storeroom to ask for 'a long stand' - and be left standing there until the penny finally dropped. I wonder if subsequent bands might be named The Left-Handed Screwdriver or The Bucket of Steam

[Ivan Kelsall]

Or, as in my own case, working in an aircraft factory, a length of ''wing chord line''. As a 15 year old office boy not yet familiar with anything to do with aircraft,i was sent to the general stores for a 10 ft length of it. I was given permission to look through the store for the bin containing it. As there were well over 5,000 of them,it took a while !,
Ivan

[Jess L.]

... pranks... Left-Handed Screwdriver...

Our fav here is a "metric Crescent wrench".