HW: Ron

[David Jones]

After the story we had the other day about Ron's band Bastard the following
is in todays Observer at the start of a book review of the gospels in
Yorkshire dialect, review by Jay Rayner.  A fine example of synch
ronicity.

"Ten years ago, when I lived in Leeds, there was a sometime Goth band that
had mastered the art of free self promotion.  Their name was painted thick
and black on every garden wall about the student quarter and was,
accordingly, on our lips most of the time.  But then, as the band was
called 'Bastard", that isn't a massive surprise; students have always been
rather partial to expletives.

And yet the name would not have had the impact just anywhere.  Bastard is a
brilliant Yorkshire word, all shrunken vowels and sharpened consonants.  To
work it needed to be spoken by a local.  A band with the same name in, say,
Winchester would have been a total failure.  'Baaarrrstaard' is something
you shout a the retreating flanks of a horse ridden by the master of
hounds; it could never be rock'n'roll."