Meet Brandan Hawthorne, a singer songwriter and Poet, and also a Dialect award winner. We catch up with him to find out more about his monthly 'Ere we bin', acoustic music and poetry events, held at the Orchard cafe in Wednesbury.
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00:00 It was all a dream. Brendan Hawthorne, take it away.
00:07 Quote me when I'm gone Quote me when I'm gone
00:29 Make no bones about it Quote me when I'm gone
00:36 Put me out to grass Say I've gone to sea
00:44 Tell me that I'm past my best Now that I'm not me
00:54 Quote me when I'm gone Quote me when I'm gone
01:01 Make no bones about it Quote me when I'm gone
01:09 Ba ba doo da dee Ba ba doo da dee
01:19 Ba ba doo da dee Quote me when I'm gone
01:26 Quote me when I'm gone Make no bones about it
01:38 Quote me when I'm gone Say I eat like a pig
01:48 Say I drink like a fish Shovel like a greatest bug
01:55 Please make good my wish Quote me when I'm gone
02:03 Quote me when I'm gone Make no bones about it
02:14 Quote me when I'm gone
02:21 Fantastic Brendan, how are you sir? I'm very well thank you.
02:25 Good man, so let's just get a bit closer. We're here at the Orchard Coffee Lounge in
02:29 Wensbury. It's beautiful in here isn't it? It's lovely isn't it? All these little amber
02:33 lights. So this is a regular monthly spot for yourself, is that right? It is.
02:40 We set up a thing called Poetry Wensbury nearly 25 years ago and it sort of toured around
02:46 Wensbury and now it's in its last or latest incarnation I should say as Here We've Been.
02:53 Obviously in black country, here we are. And it's an evening where people can come along
03:00 and share their poetry and spoken word, acoustic music and we get audiences coming in here
03:07 and they can order their coffees and their cakes and all that sort of stuff.
03:11 Is it last Tuesday of the...? It's the last Tuesday, yeah. We start about 7.15, finish
03:17 around 9.15, 9.30 and it's a really friendly crowd. Awesome, so people if they've got something
03:24 written down, they want to come, they can come along and perform? Yeah, what I tend
03:28 to do is ask them to look us up on Facebook and join the Facebook page which is Here We've
03:35 Been, a tum again if you want the full title and just ask to join it and they'll get all
03:43 the details and if they want a slot they can book it through that. Now we should say it's
03:49 the award winning Brendan O'Thorne. That's not just a large shiny coffee cup is it Brendan?
03:55 No, it's not. Go on, what's all that about mate? This is the Bill O'Boe's trophy which
04:01 I won late last year for the best written dialect up in Bridlington. It's a national
04:07 award. I was representing obviously the black country with a poetry about being black country
04:16 and it's the third time I've actually brought this trophy back here. So did they understand
04:21 what you were saying in Bridlington? I always give a translation if they don't but we're
04:26 all sort of very similar in that we ask each other and share the wonderful diversity of
04:32 dialect. Yeah true, which you know, I mean you get to London now and you'd struggle to
04:37 hear a Cockney accent a lot of the time wouldn't you? I think this is it and the beauty of
04:41 it is we're not sort of pickling the dialect or the accent in Aspic, we're actually using
04:47 the dialect in modern applications if you like you know. We don't worry about talking
04:54 about mobile phones in dialect. Yeah, yeah. And in terms of the black country dialect,
05:01 you know, we get to other parts of the world and sometimes we get a bit of stick for it.
05:05 What do you think about this whole Peaky Blinders thing? Do you think it's made us cool? Well
05:11 the thing is as well, I'm not really a purist but as a purist I like the black country to
05:17 be the black country and Birmingham to be Birmingham because we're almost getting two
05:21 bites of the cherry with you know, Brummie dialect and black country dialect. Yeah. I
05:27 actually, because I've been brought up in the black country, the black country dialect
05:31 for me is very important in that you know, it reflects our industrial background and
05:37 obviously the fact that we have a dialect and an accent which is linked to old German
05:44 and you know, the Anglo-Saxon and Mercia. Yeah, we have got a fantastic history to it.
05:51 So word on the street is get yourself down to the Orchard Caff Tuesdays. Last Tuesday.