Diviiiiiine geminy cricket comedyVoilà un fabuleux concept album sur le cricket.
En bref, c'est ce que je lis de ci de là chez les scripteurs anglophones.
Pépins pour moi : une connaissance moyenne de l'anglais sportif et un gouffre culturel en ce qui concerne l'histoire et les règles du cricket.
J'en bave d'ailleurs, car c'est clairement délectable dans la culture anglophone. L'article du Times sur l'album est une démonstration de second degré et de la capacité de nos amis brittons à se foutre de leur gueule (y a que les Belges pour faire mieux!) : The Duckworth Lewis Method was devised to answer the most important question in cricket (more important even than what filling to put in the sandwiches for tea), which is how to find a fair way of settling matches that have been affected by rain. England being the world leader in rain, it is unsurprising that the solution was devised by two English statisticians: Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
Bon, soyons sérieux. ceci est donc un concept album de Neil Hannon (oui, oui celui de Divine Comedy, qui vient déjà de collaborer à l'album de God Help The Girl) et de Thomas Walsh, du groupe irlandais inconnu (pour moi) Pugwash. C'est de la pop tout-à-fait délectable, cross-over entre les Beatles et la bande originale de Mary Poppins. En plus, le divin chanteur est moins grandiloquent que d'habitude...
Links
L'article du Times
Myspace
Band site
Website explaining the rules of The Duckworth Lewis Method
BBC
The Guardian : A concept album about cricket from Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy has the potential to be so arch as to be unlistenable. Credit, then, to Hannon and his partner on this project, Thomas Walsh, for making one of the summer's most delightful albums. Those with no interest in the game will be largely baffled by the lyrics - "'Twas the first Test of the Ashes series 1993/ Australia had only managed 289 and we ... " is as offputting an opening couplet as a cricket-hater could encounter - but Hannon and Walsh have made sure to anchor their musings to a startlingly wonderful set of tunes. From the faux music-hall of Jiggery Pokery, the sophisticated pop of Mason on the Boundary and The Nightwatchman, the glam stomp of The Sweet Spot, to the gorgeous Zombiesesque baroque psychedelia of Gentlemen and Players, it's a record of beautifully constructed songs - pastiches, yes, but so perfectly rendered as to be melt-in-your-mouth lovely.
Neil Hannon d'habitude :
Neil Hannon, quand il joue au cricket :
