Wild Willy Barrett - Please Don't Throw Me To The Christians / Eddie Stanton - Please Don't Throw Me
I heard a rumour the other day that Wild Willy Barrett was a folk singer. You know, there may actually be some truth in that. After all, folk music is all about authentic instruments, and you can't get more authentic than the home made driftwood guitar that Barrett played on his 1985 album Organic Bondage. Or the drums played with a pair of wooden spoons by his collaborator Stephen Two-Names. Or the rulers-on-the-edge-of-the-desk lamellophone they used. Or the fake scratching. Or the live performance of dub production tricks. Nope, you don't get much more folky than that.

Here's his extraordinary take on Please Don't Throw Me To The Christians, a song surely in need of a modern sceptical revival. And as a bonus treat, here's the frighteningly obscure original by Eddie Stanton, one of the great unheralded post-punk songwriters.

Also, go look at jewellery and read about how it is made. Go! Go now! Then give Sarah all of your money. You can do this at the Coventry Women's Festival craft fair at Coventry Transport Museum tomorrow (Saturday) between 10 and 4.

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Wild Willy Barrett - Please Don't Throw Me To The Christians
(alternate download)
Eddie Stanton - Please Don't Throw Me To The Christians
(alternate download)