HANTERHIR

THE SAVING OF CADAN

FRASER LEWRY

(Easy Action, 2018) Of all the great triple vinyl concept albums sung partly in Cornish about a boy who tries to drown himself but is rescued by Morwenna, the Lady of the Lake, The Saving Of Cadan is surely the only one by a band whose name is a loose translation of “Semilong”. The story goes that the Cornish band’s frontman Ben Harris used to live in Northampton. Semilong is a district there that’s particularly notorious for one of its thoroughfares, Quorn Way, which at one time attracted sex workers from throughout the Midlands. It was, apparently, extremely busy. Semilong. Semi-long. Hanter-hir. Hanterhir. The band have been entertaining progressively minded citizens in Redruth for nigh on 15 years, and their third album The Saving Of Cadan arrived in 2018. There’s…

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