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Most-Sport5264@reddit

The thing was, people said 'all the kids are into sea shanties now'.

But in reality they were not.

There was just ONE song that went viral.

Everyone knows what that one song was.

And all these 'kids into sea shanties', they only knew that one song. Its like in the mid 1990s when music mags were claiming 'all the kids are into Gregorian chants now' - again, its was just one song, this time Enigma's 'Return to Innocence' (ironically this wasnt even Enigmas biggest hit - Sadness Part 1 was released 4 years before and got into the top 10, but there was no talk of a Gregorian fad then). And of course, that one last year when 'all the kids are into 50 female vocalists' when Connie Francis's 'Pretty Little Baby' became popular. Again, one song.

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miskeeneh@reddit

It’s like in the early 00s when there was about a month of Gregorian monk chants? Does anyone remember that?

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jonrosling@reddit

The Greorian chant phase was in the early 90s. Started with Enigma's album MCMXC a.D

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

Like Enigma? 😂

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jonrosling@reddit

That was looong before the early 00s.

Well, ten years to be precise.

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gorroval@reddit

Enigma are still cool, right? Right??

(Era are putting out a new album next month, I'm genuinely thrilled.)

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Past-Obligation1930@reddit

Enigma is still cool in my house.

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ArmWildFrill@reddit

Tibetan throat-singing has been a thing in the past too

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Sad-Nectarine-7855@reddit

Where's all the pan pipes gone too?

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

And the hurdy gurdy

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JohnnyOneLung@reddit

Mongolian throat singing surely

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ArmWildFrill@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_singing

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Beginning-Annual-860@reddit

Thank you 🙏🏻

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Speshal__@reddit

Tuvan throat singing.

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herefromthere@reddit

40 horses in my herd.

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Scared-One9295@reddit

There can be more than one kind of throat singing, dad!

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hamstertoybox@reddit

OH MY GOD I thought it was just my friends who were into that!

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Logical_Bat_7244@reddit

Sounded like a butchered Sweet Caroline to me, but I'll take your word for it

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TaffWaffler@reddit

Thank you halo

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siriusthinking@reddit

That was a wild time

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Hot-Satisfaction19@reddit

best thing to come out of that time was Wellend: a glc shanty. video's hilarious.

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gorroval@reddit

Joke's on you, I was into sea shanties before they were cool.

(Please talk to me about folk music, I'm so lonely 🥲 Steeleye Span playing in the distance)

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Trebus@reddit

I see no-one has yet mentioned Lau.

Listen to Lau. Do it now.

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icklepeach@reddit

I love love LOVE their cover of Lord Yester. I grew up listening to The Corries so this is an extra layer of special to me.

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cuckoosong@reddit

Ooooh me me! Seth Lakeman, Bellowhead, Longest Johns, Grace Petrie, Skinny Lister

When Wellerman got big I was like why tf are the Longest Johns so popular suddenly??

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Complex-Piano-81@reddit

I love Seth Lakeman, I saw him in Bournemouth years ago when I was at uni there.

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icklepeach@reddit

I saw his gig in Manchester last month!

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Sad-Nectarine-7855@reddit

Ahhh Bournemouth uni, is Buffalo still the go to for a hangover breakfast when you were there?

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Complex-Piano-81@reddit

I've not heard of Buffalo. I was there 2008 to 2011

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Sad-Nectarine-7855@reddit

Ah this was a bit before then!

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Complex-Piano-81@reddit

I loved the nachos at Sixty million postcards

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cuckoosong@reddit

I have seen him live a borderline-unhealthy amount of times

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cuckoosong@reddit

I saw Fisherman's Friends live at Glastonbury. I am COMMITEDLY uncool

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gorroval@reddit

I'd love to see them! I've seen Span a few times, Fairport once, I saw The Full English somewhere but goodness knows where...

I'm also a member of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (they're rebranding to Folk England soon which is much less of a mouthful) and actually read their academic journal so if we're comparing uncoolness levels I feel like I must be winning (or losing, depending on one's perspective...)

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cuckoosong@reddit

Woah, woah, I had no idea I was dealing with a professional 😂

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gorroval@reddit

God I wish I could be paid for this. I'm just autistic and into folk traditions. 🤣

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baskaat@reddit

Do you know anywhere I could go to hear this music live in the southern part of the UK? Especially around London.

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smileystarfish@reddit

Leigh Folk Festival later this year. Take the c2c line from Fenchurch Street to Leigh on Sea. It's free entry for the daytime events which are held outside in the Library Gardens and make up the bulk of the festival. Ticketed events in the evening.

https://www.leighfolkfestival.com/

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ice_planet_x@reddit

Really looking forward to the Leigh Folk Festival again, I will be morris dancing there this year 😊

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smileystarfish@reddit

How wonderful! I loved photographing the dancers as a volunteer. Gutted I haven't been able to volunteer lately (pregnant, baby then pregnant again) but I'm hoping the weather will be lovely so we can chill out.

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ice_planet_x@reddit

yes you'll be onto a winner there 😊

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ice_planet_x@reddit

In London, the Hog-Eye Men run a shanty singaround on the 3rd sunday each month at the Horseshoe Inn near Westminster. The event details will be on their social media for each session. They also sing on the Cutty Sark

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Hyperion2023@reddit

Not London but every year in Falmouth, the sea shanty festival is excellent. Pals of mine are involved so maybe I’m biased but it’s a brilliant weekend and all free - 12th to 14th June this year link here!

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RayaQueen@reddit

Broadstairs folk week. August.

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lizzward@reddit

Oh there’s loads of pubs that have a folk club or music night! Cecil Sharp House in Camden for the EFDSS, folkandhoney.co.uk lists some. And this has all reminded me I haven’t been to anything in yearssss

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bodelia@reddit

Cecil sharpe house in london is specially for folk music and has lots of events

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Commercial_Reward_78@reddit

I went to see a play about Cecil Sharpe at the Hampstead Theatre a couple of years ago. It was called Folk. He went round the U.K. in the early part of last century, transcribing songs that had been passed down only orally.

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Spencersmam1@reddit

Look at the half moon in Putney. Loads of folk going on there.

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cuckoosong@reddit

London you can probably find some pubs and so on but there are loads of folk music festivals around. Priddy is the one closest to mebut there are loads including some in London

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WayneCl@reddit

Fairport Convention are still going, and still popular. I was at a packed-out Fairport gig at the Manchester Folk Festival last month. The Folk community is still strong, both old folk and new folk.

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IAmLaureline@reddit

I saw them the other week. By choice!

Not my first time either. Saw them before the film but then I am old.

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no-user-names-@reddit

Grace Petrie! Yeah! (And look out for Merry Hell. Wow)

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Nellie-Bird@reddit

We snuck some Young 'Uns onto our wedding playlist. I need to get into listening to more folk music again.

Weirdly where I live now in Hampshire has a sea shanty group who perform at town events despite not being on the coast. I keep hoping to catch them perform at something.

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redqueensroses@reddit

Love Seth Lakeman, love Grace Petrie!

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cuckoosong@reddit

Grace Petrie is such a stunning lyricist. Adore.

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Smoose89@reddit

Same, Stan Rogers if my favourite.

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ice_planet_x@reddit

Me too! Favourite Stan song? 😊

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Lady-of-Shivershale@reddit

Same.

Bonnie Ship the Diamond is one of my favourites, and Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her.

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ice_planet_x@reddit

The Captain's Beard versions of those are also brilliant 😊

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Real_Palpitation_728@reddit

GAUDETE!

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

GOWDAYTAY

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Real_Palpitation_728@reddit

Ex Maria!

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Booboodelafalaise@reddit

It’s not Christmas in our house until we’ve all had a singalong to Gaudete. It’s like Alan Partridge, but worse :)

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Real_Palpitation_728@reddit

Yes it has to be shouted

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ice_planet_x@reddit

Come see The Captain's Beard! 😊

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

I watched this dumb Netflix adaptation of "Rebecca" and there's this fricken awesome tune in it, "Let no man steal your Thyme" and I thought for a moment it was Span so I tried to look it up and it's by a band called Pentangle. There's a sick ass instrumental bit after the song part. I love it.

Also when I was a kid this is how I found Rocky Road to Dublin (Dubliners obviously) and Golden Brown by the Stranglers.. I heard them in movies that were mediocre but so so worth it because I found great songs

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gorroval@reddit

Ah yes I love Pentagle too! That's a good song too, very old and with a long and storied history. I love that the oldest recording of it we have is on wax cylinder!

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

Wow, that is amazing!

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

Also when I was a kid I used to think it was Steel Ice Band

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ViperX91@reddit

Woooaah oh chicken on a raft

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Gingerpett@reddit

Come Morris dancing! You get to listen to folk music, and you get a work out, and you get drinking buddies!

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gorroval@reddit

I would love to! Unfortunately I am chronically awkward!!

(I'm also a teacher and therefore constantly tired during the week and never seem to have time at weekends. But I do love to watch Morris! And I have a couple of Cecil Sharpe's books about it.)

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

The only times I've seen Morris it was exclusively composed of chronically awkward people

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Gingerpett@reddit

Morris is a place for the chronically awkward!? It really is.

I hear you about being tired though. We rehearse one evening a week during the winter and then dance out to an audience about once a week during the summer. It's such a good work out and a great way of making friends.

I know you'd love it if you could force yourself to find the time!

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ArmWildFrill@reddit

I used to have a couple of Fairport Convention cassette tapes.

The Ballad of Matty Groves was good

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gorroval@reddit

I have a fine memory (and a dodgy video) of singing that at the Oxford Uni Tolkien Society's annual banquet 🙂

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vivelabagatelle@reddit

I don't know if we overlapped, but I have also fond if hazy memories of singing Matty Groves at Taruithorn banquets!

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gorroval@reddit

Ooo! It would have been... 2010 I think. The theme was Rivendell!

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vivelabagatelle@reddit

I don't think I was at that one, but my wife would have been! I was definitely at most of the early 2010s ones ... small world. :)

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gorroval@reddit

Amazing! I'm still a bit sad that I didn't go to meetings after first year, but I was very young, very autistic and very anxious and everyone else seemed way cooler than me* so it was all too much.

*Yes, I am aware of the irony 🤣

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vivelabagatelle@reddit

Ironically, I suspect Rivendell was the year I gave the Banquet a miss on pretty much those same grounds. :)

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thekitchenislife@reddit

Excuse me, have you seen Edwin? I can't find him anywhere.

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gorroval@reddit

The young sailor lad?

He's probably fine.

Don't worry about it.

I'm sure he'll turn up.

Maybe ask your father.

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hoverside@reddit

What's your favourite British folk-rock album? Mine is either Unhalfbricking or No Roses.

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gorroval@reddit

Omg that's such a hard choice. I suppose it depends where you draw the line between folk, rock and folk-rock. Like, Steeleye Span are definitely my favourite folk band, I've listened to every album. But each album has a handful of absolute bangers and the rest are just good. So if we're allowing Jethro Tull on the rock end then Songs from the Wood beats out every individual Span album, though collectively I probably like Span more. And at the modern folk end of the spectrum I think Nancy Kerr's Sweet Visitor changed me on a fundamental level. So... I don't know! Sorry! Super unhelpful.

I think my favourite Span song is probably The Bonny Black Hare, though. Deliciously filthy.

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JustHereForTheMechs@reddit

I think growing up on Fairport Convention probably predisposed me to folk music, but then Assassin's Creed:Black Flag and Fisherman's Friends definitely turned me onto shanties - I think that was before the Wellerman fad?

I still listen to them reasonably often too.

Colm McGuiness does some pretty decent ones on YouTube and Spotify. 😉

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gorroval@reddit

Man, I should finish Black Flag one day. The ship bits were great, there was just too much pissing about on land for me. I just wanted ~60 hours of Man o' War Simulator 1770.

~~I like big boats and I cannot lie.~~

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phoebsmon@reddit

The remake is being properly revealed this Thursday coming! They just announced the showcase for it, due out in July. If it's owt like the modern ones there'll be a lot of meandering on ships because it's a cheap and easy way to pad the hours.

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AutoGeneratedUser359@reddit

Steeleye Span are on tour at the moment

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Curious-Term9483@reddit

That's the story in my house too. Everyone else was just slow to catch up with us.

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Sad-Nectarine-7855@reddit

Yes! The countrymen > Fishermen's friends, Jordan Jane, Will Keating, & the Oggymen

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BBDominoes@reddit

I like the song Heart on My Sleeve by Gallagher and Lyle that I always felt had a sea shanty feel to it

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Historical_Project86@reddit

Gone To Earth are about as folk as I'll go, in British terms anyway. I saw them in 1986, there's a good video up on YT of them doing Tippin' It Up To Nancy, which segues into one of their own tracks, Rose Of York.

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Super_Ground9690@reddit

I got an award on Spotify for being one of the Longest Johns’ biggest listeners 😂

But I also grew up on folk music, going to folk festivals throughout my whole childhood and now I take my own children. They are a joyful place for kids.

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Macrihanishautomatic@reddit

I’m in my 30s and I count Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention as two of my favourite bands. It’s wonderful to hear those old folk songs and drift away to another time and place.

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metal_maxine@reddit

Grew up listening to an awful lot of Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention because my Dad's a fan and now it ambushes me in ear-worm mode. Dad likes talking about the time he met Maddy Prior on a train and they then shared a taxi.

My one intersting Maddy Prior fact: the comic-book writer Chris Claremont (who basically wrote the entire X-Men line-up from the 70s to mid/late 80s) is such a fan that he named a character after her. Maddy Pryor (see what he did?) got to marry Cyclops as his "happily ever after" after Jean died only for it to eventually revealed that she was a clone, turned evil and died.

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Insertnameherebois@reddit

You can’t beat a bit of Eliza Carthy.

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kilgore_trout1@reddit

A mate of mine has a great folk band called Liam Vincent and the Odd Foxes- they’re great, if folk’s your thing check them out!

Also I live a few miles from Cropredy.

I’m afraid that’s all my folk chat spent but hope you’re having a lovely day!

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gorroval@reddit

How lovely! I went through Cropredy on the canal once, beautiful little place. I'd love to do the festival one day but circumstances haven't aligned yet.

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69gardengnomes@reddit

I've been to Fairport's Cropredy Convention a couple of times and always thought how lovely it is to see all the canal boats passing by. Its a great festival to go to if you get the chance.

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Good_Ad_1386@reddit

Reminds me...must book tickets for Wickham and Purbeck festivals.

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This_Rom_Bites@reddit

You are speaking my language! I grew up to Steeleye Span, and was listening to Below The Salt this afternoon 🥰

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gorroval@reddit

I get a lot of my folk music genes from my mum! (Dad likes it too but he's really more of a prog rock man.)

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KP0776@reddit

My folk orchestra play New York Girls at the end of our set and it’s always an absolute BLAST We also have a resident composer, who’s a huge fan of the sea shanty, who made us a Christmas sea shanty about our orchestra at Christmas time. I also have Steeleye Span amongst others playing in my car on my random folk mix

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gorroval@reddit

Nice! I'd love to play in a folk orchestra but my ability to play musical instruments is very much quantity over quality, i.e. I can play like 8 different ones including some very folky things like accordion and English concertina, but only for a given value of "play". A very small value. Some would argue, infinitesimally so.

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borisdidnothingwrong@reddit

r/seashanties

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Bearded_monster_80@reddit

God I love Steeleye (I'm 46 and completely alone in this).

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This-Disk1212@reddit

No you’re not. I’m 46 and I also love them. I grew up listening to them and have seen them a number of times (or at least before they got the other woman singing in it).

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SnailFancier2CV@reddit

Constant Cropredy-goer here. Folk music is ace.

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PiercedGeek@reddit

I got to see The Poxy Boggards live in 2009ish. Helluva show. They describe themselves as "A drinking group with a singing problem."

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gorroval@reddit

Sounds like every shanty band I've ever seen! 🤣

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Southernbeekeeper@reddit

A few of my friends and I had this conversation around hipsters and folk music etc. How all the stuff we like which was initially really dorky became popular and attracted loads of hipsters.

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gorroval@reddit

Based on some of the nastier comments on this post, it looks like all my music tastes are back to being uncool again. Phew, I was worried for a minute there!

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Loose-Map-5947@reddit

Folk music nerd here. You are alone no more!

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Sophyska@reddit

The Wellerman has come and gone

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ice_planet_x@reddit

still plagues pirate festivals lol it's like being a massive beatles fan and hearing the same songs over and over at times 😅

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iamthefirebird@reddit

The Wellermen (the group that was inspired and came together by that phenomenon) are still going strong, though!

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blamordeganis@reddit

I guess the tonguing’s done.

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borisdidnothingwrong@reddit

I'll take my things and go.

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Aromatic_Pea_4249@reddit

Loaded to the gunnels with sugar, tea and Rum! 🥃

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

It's just such an odd thing. Especially when you see a load of Chavs bopping down the street to nautical nonsense

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ChrisChros87@reddit

Everyone?

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Blackstrider@reddit

As a Canadian Maritimer, sea shanties have never gone out of style...

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Smoose89@reddit

Stan Rogers rip, Canadian legend.

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HydrostaticToad@reddit

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

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floofienewfie@reddit

Heard The Wellerman just the other day.

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Whyunhappyme@reddit

I’ve always been into Sea Shanties….

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BrexitVoter@reddit

Yeah, that's why he put it. He doesn't need you to tell him what to do. Fucking nerd.

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criminalsunrise@reddit

Cruise ships (that I enjoy a holiday on) were falling over themselves to get get sea shanty acts on board. You couldn’t move for Cornish men in waders for a time.

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TaylorKatana@reddit

I had managed to wipe that from my memory but now it’s back in all the horror….t h a n k s

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Captaingregor@reddit

They weren't even sea shanties. They were sea songs. A sea shanty is specifically a working song with call and response sections that enables the coordination of manual tasks like hauling lines.

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arioandy@reddit

Nope to busy banging pots and pans for Boris lol

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

Another really odd thing people all did. Imagine explaining that to aliens...

Well... On Thursdays we all went outside and clapped for a health service called the NHS for 10 minutes.

Fucking mental when you look back.

(I actually was an arsehole and refused to clap)

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arioandy@reddit

We did the second time

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LordJebusVII@reddit

Covid gave me time to finally watch through Critical Role and once lockdown ended I started DMing DnD for my friends and family and became more confident and sociable as a result. Plus it was a new creative outlet I had been needing but hadn't had the energy for before.

I enjoyed my job, being able to get things done without the constant interruptions of the office and not having a 1.5-2 hour commute each way, waking up with the sun instead of before it every day. I was actually working longer hours and making better use of them.

I started cooking more actually having time to do so for a change. Went a whole year without a single takeaway when I used to struggle to go a week without one.

It was a scary time, I'm asthmatic and overweight so I was a high risk individual before the first vaccine and I lost family to the virus and during lockdown to other things that may have been more manageable had hospitals had the capacity. But it was also a time when I thrived, already preferring to be at home than out all day. It demonstrated the callousness and cruelty of a large portion of the population but also our capability to adapt and willingness to put our lives at risk to help others. For myself, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, I miss it, but I never want it to happen again.

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

I hear that. I was able to watch my son grow up, do his first steps and hear his first words. It was a bittersweet time. Sad for the madness of it all, but grateful I had so much freedom. Changed my life. Decided to fuck the 9-5 off and do my own thing.

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downandoutitis@reddit

Good times. Does anyone remember that time after COVID when it all changed and everyone became massive cunts?

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No_Art_1977@reddit

That was still way better than quizzes!!! Had to spend more time with my inlaws “virtually” then we ever did before

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MillyMcMophead@reddit

Oh god, the Zoom quizzes! Urgh.

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No_Art_1977@reddit

Got worse when everyone would put “socially distancing quiz” as if being on Zoom wasn’t obviously distanced and then their mates would pop round in the background!! Jokes

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MillyMcMophead@reddit

Yes, stating the bleeding obvious! I hate talking to anyone via a screen so having to play against a bunch of random friends of a friend was too much. I still get shudders thinking of them.

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CarelessHighway656@reddit

I went to uni in Falmouth and religiously went to the Sea Shanty Festival there every year. I was so confused when suddenly in 2022 the festival was ram packed with 20 year olds! My friends and I used to be the youngest there by easily 40 years. Actually lush to see the music respected by the youth though!

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Bennjoon@reddit

YOOOOO HOOOO AAALLLL HAAAAANDS footage of the north sea

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Apprehensive-List794@reddit

Ugh yes. My ex from America had his friend in the car while we were on video call and he wanted me to sing sea shanties. I’m Scottish so apparently that’s why.

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sorE_doG@reddit

Except that the Iranians have kinda resurrected the sea shanty just for Pete Hegseth.. (catchy tune starts around 3:30 here)

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the_speeding_train@reddit

No but I did read people trying to push the idea they were. I didn’t personally experience this first hand with anyone I knew.

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Antique_Alfalfa_2900@reddit

No,I don’t remember that at all 😢 did I miss something important there?

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Great-Activity-5420@reddit

It was just the popularity of that one song. I've liked sea shanties for a while and I don't follow the trends really

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NooOfTheNah@reddit

Our town has an annual "Channel Swim" every August. Where folks get dressed up in sea themed costumes and pretend to swim through the alleyways of the old part of town whilst sea shanties are playing. It tends to involve a fair bit of alcohol and it is mostly pirates. Although last year a guy dressed up as Pamela Anderson in the Baywatch costume. But his blow up boobs kept deflating. Sad when your boobs won't stay inflated.

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County-Thos@reddit

Check out the GLC one - Well End.

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Legitimate_Fudge6271@reddit

Online chess was my thing during covid (after watching the Queen's Gambit). I got quite good. Didn't get much work done though. Can hardly remember how to play now though

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Brave_Nerve_6871@reddit

I got heavily into Gran Turismo with a friend of mine. We'd pick a track and car class and start pounding away, constantly bettering each other's times. There were a few trackd where we made it to top 1%, for that track and class.

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Sad-Nectarine-7855@reddit

I had a world record lap time on wreckfest for a while until the slingshot glitches and the hammerhead RS came along, good times 😌

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Mental_Body_5496@reddit

Rubik's cube here !

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Legitimate_Fudge6271@reddit

That's what I've been into since about November haha. Adhd (possibly Autistic) brain means I like a new hobby to get really into.

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Mental_Body_5496@reddit

I have so many i rotate through - currently into going to the gym but 3 months in im getting bored - also ADHD !

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Sad-Nectarine-7855@reddit

Yes, along with dressing up like a peaky blinder

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CapnSeabass@reddit

No because my brother had been regaling us with sea shanties for actual years before then

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Hephaestus1816@reddit

Thank you for reviving that earworm. Can a Wellerman earworm compete with a Men Of Harlech earworm (I watched Zulu recently). I guess I'll find out.

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Jack-Rabbit-002@reddit

I was already into sea shanties a lot were sung around the camp fire when I was a kid alongside Irish music and folk (I had quirky parents who did living history/reenactment)

Also Assassin's Creed Black Flag was one of my favourite games growing up Lol

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da-happy-cyclops@reddit

DO ME JOHNNY BOKER, DO

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Jimmy_Severe@reddit

Collective psychosis is best avoided

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Different-Employ9651@reddit

The jukebox at work still throws them out now and again. The people who know the words join in.

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mussywill@reddit

It was just one sea shanty actually.

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E420CDI@reddit

THE GREATER GOOD

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MeetingGunner7330@reddit

SEA MINE! NAHHHH JUS A LOAD OF OL JUNK💥

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FuzzyBreak5678@reddit

Which the sea shanty cognoscenti don't consider to be a sea shanty

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

It wasn't. It gave birth to this awful online sea shanty phase.

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I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit

Imagine other people liking things that you don't. Spend less time online if trends bother you this much.

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BBDominoes@reddit

I took up showing my thanks and gratitude for people by banging a wooden spoon on an old pan. Good times. Simpler times.

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ASpookyBitch@reddit

There once was a ship that went to sea And the name of the ship was the billy o tea

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bodelia@reddit

Also check out green note - have a great tiny venue in camden parkway plus do shows in other venues

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stereoworld@reddit

Being optimistic that everything would be better again.

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Historical_Project86@reddit

I remember the lads who skipped leg day, but that's about it.

I took up daily drinking, and I'm now thankfully teetotal.

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blazej84@reddit

My 17 yr old never came back out of it ! Her daily alarms are sea shanties !.

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YupItWasMeMate@reddit

We had all gone a bit mad.

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designerwookie@reddit

Some of us still arrrrr....

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jampman31@reddit

This + whipped coffee was my jam

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Summxns@reddit

The ancient texts!

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MJLDat@reddit

Who summoned the legacy bot?

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9human-being@reddit

I have always liked them

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themightychew@reddit

Every time someone mentions sea shanty I think:

🎶 Oh come with me to the rolling sea while the weather's calm and still, we'll have some fun and laughter with the adventures [pause] of Portland Bill 🎶

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

Sea Shanty TikTok (or "Pirate TikTok", as some users have dubbed it) is now a genuine online phenomenon, with millions of people viewing and sharing videos tagged #seashanty across social media. Hundreds of users have extended the trend further still by posting their own original folk song covers and inviting other users to duet along.

Dear god.

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Tay74@reddit

I'm slightly amused by how horrified you seem about it. Worst things in the world surely than a brief interest in sea shanties and folk songs, there's a million worse things on tiktok alone

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

It's more the really odd phases that we go through collectively. When I was a kid, some yo-yo guys turned up at my school (Mid 90s) and the next day everybody had a yo-yo haha. It was the most played thing at my school for like a month... Then it just disappeared. The whole sea shanty thing made me laugh because it felt like the same thing. I just didn't have it on my bingo list for trends 😂

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_Cridders_@reddit

You also couldn't move for sourdough

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IranianAlan@reddit

It was during Covid no?

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Positive-Peace-3270@reddit

Nathan Evans. I love his music and was listening to his newest number today. Maybe its a Scottish thing!

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Overthinker-dreamer@reddit

I love Nathan Evans music as well. (I'm not Scottish but my partner is)

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Positive-Peace-3270@reddit

Thank God, thought it was just me

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Good_Ad_1386@reddit

Yarrrr!

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LeTrolleur@reddit

I did enjoy the AI video of the four lads on a night out singing it.

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Ill_Tonight_2069@reddit

I have been in a weird COVID mood this weekend. I’m not sure what’s going on in my brain but I hark back to that first proper lockdown summer when it was blistering sun. I absolutely despised it, bur strangely when its hot and sunny and I am alone I wish for it to be the same again.

It’s some kind of weird stockholm syndrome that only happens every now and then but the nostalgia is hard to fight and I get really emotional.

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KeyHuckleberry2560@reddit

(Verse 1) The trends they come and the trends they go, Like a shifting tide or a gale to blow. The world moved on and the crowds grew still, But we’re on the deck with a heavy will! (Chorus) For some of us, the craze ne’er left, Of every other joy bereft! We spend our days, both night and noon, A-perfecting of the shanty tune! (Verse 2) Let the landlubber mock or the critic sneer, There’s a rhythmic pulse that we hold dear. From the break of dawn 'til the sun dips low, We’re refining how the verses flow! (Chorus) For some of us, the craze ne’er left, Of every other joy bereft! We spend our days, both night and noon, A-perfecting of the shanty tune! (Outro) Heave away, me hearties, heave away! The song’s getting better every day!

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GroundbreakingRing42@reddit

There once was a virus called COVID-19 It turned us all a little crazy The loo rolls and the pasta had gone The shelves were all empty

Soon then the lockdowns came Drove us even more insane Even when then lockdowns went Nothings been the same

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Opening-Fortune4@reddit

I heard about shanties on TikTok but it was still just that one song

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Drunktrucker@reddit

I think it was only drunken sailors early in the morning…

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Holli303@reddit

Working as a security guard on covid testing sites, A&E (ER if you're USA based) and morgues. That shit got BUSY.

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KinManana@reddit

I didn't notice because the sea shanty festival was on locally at a similar time

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davepage_mcr@reddit

During Covid, I have taken up waiting for "after Covid". I am starting to lose hope it'll ever come.

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aesemon@reddit

Been into them since hearing Rogues Gallery(avoid the second album). Then reinforced by Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

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Federal-Demand-2968@reddit

I love Wellerman and still sing it sometimes ☺️

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djjudas21@reddit

Lockdown was hard and everyone had to queue up at Tesco for their sugar and tea and rum

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Dear_Tangerine444@reddit

"Everybody" doing a lot of work there.

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Xenozip3371Alpha@reddit

Yeah, what the fuck is he on about?

No-one in Morecambe did that, and Morecambe's a seaside town.

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Pyjama365@reddit

There was one that became really big on TikTok and filtered through to wider consciousness a bit, but I don't think it was particularly noticed if you were over 25-30 and not on TikTok. I would have been 31 and only very peripherally aware.

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illiriam@reddit

My kid is still obsessed with the Wellerman, so sea shanties never left for us 🤣

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Suspicious_Tax8577@reddit

YES. Not that I can remember exactly when this was.

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SelfSufficientHub@reddit

It was just after sourdough

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SnailFancier2CV@reddit

It wasn't sea shanties that got up my nose but the weird "dances" on Tik-Tok that became a perplexing obsession. It's as if people became famous for 30 second weird moves.

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Critical_Wasabi5218@reddit

Wasnt a braindead sheep i did my own thing and didnt give in to the stupidity of being told what i can and cant do as an adult 🫡

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Jo-Wolfe@reddit

Yes, it was awful.

I used to Pirate, Whitby Pirate weekend is amazing and shanties sung on the Whitby Endeavour with hundreds of people dressed as pirates is a legit exception. The new Pirate King]

At the wheel

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outoftheboxgunpla@reddit

Still into them

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Reesno33@reddit

Yeah and now its county music, sadly a lot of people will just follow fads rather than find good music they actually like.

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Green_Sprout@reddit

AC4 Black Flag got me into sea shanties and it's never left me, so I may not've noticed because I was still deep in my own obsession.

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ximina3@reddit

Me and a group of my friends got really into the game Sea of Thieves during lockdown, so sea shanties were already a thing for us when Wellerman came out and it felt like a kind of natural transition for us. I never really considered how random that must have been for everyone else though 😂

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StillJustJones@reddit

The Harwich Sea Shanty festival got quite a lift in attendances after that wee blip in interest. I’m told it bought much needed interest from a younger crowd* and many of them stuck with it.

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younger crowd = people in their 40’s

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No_Medium_648@reddit

TIL that it was not, in fact, the weatherman bringing the tea and the rum.......

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ashley-jay-vids@reddit

yes!! Raving in outdoor marquees.

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FancyAd3942@reddit

No I don’t😂 all the long lasting effects I got where obsessive hand washing when I come home and a dislike of new people 😂

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Roanmor@reddit

Same. I live in a seaside town and we are already done with the sea thanks. I remember looking on social media thinking "what is this crap?". That, and I just hated everyone.

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Potential-Bird-5826@reddit

I'm still into sea shanties. Home Free's sea shanty medley is a delight

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Potential_Bat8605@reddit

U.S. show Late Night with Seth Meyers definitely had a sea shanty phase during covid (sea captain in the attic).

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RanaMisteria@reddit

That was still during Covid, it was just after the main period of lockdowns.

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ans-myonul@reddit

I got addicted to cold-brew coffee during COVID

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Sea-Check-9062@reddit

I don't remember that at all, It must have been terrible, To have such songs, In your head, , The very thought Fills me with dread

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SeaworthinessNeat516@reddit

There are various sea shanty festivals this year it seems, for some reasons.

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Asleep_Cricket5816@reddit

Yeah some song about tea and sugar and rum all over TikTok lol

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DustInTheMachine@reddit

I painted rocks and entered into a pretty epic, and at times brutal, daily Ludo game with my 7 year old . He was mean!

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space_coyote_86@reddit

Wasn't it just one sea shanty?

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

Sadly not...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1rGtgCWQQ3JFG900Jtfhq8f/why-are-sea-shanties-trending-on-social-media

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Decard_Pain@reddit

What the hell? I do not remember this at all.

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Moist_Scheme8194@reddit (OP)

It was some guy who sang some sea shantie, and ended up number 1, and it sort of spiralled a bit and some other people tried to jump on the bandwagon... Or boat I guess.

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