Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
"Ostensibly from Harringay": The Budapest Café Orchestra
With one member who is an ex-resident and was born & bred in and around Harringay, The Budapest Café Orchestra describe themselves as being "ostensibly from Harringay". Band member, Chris Garrick, told me "We're a UK band that is musically and not culturally connected to its stock in trade. So to distinguish ourselves from the competition, we describe ourselevs as being ostensibly from Harringay!"
I love their music. So they're more than welcome to associate themselves with our hood as far as I'm concerned. In fact I'd love to see them play here. Chris said, "It's about time we made a performance in our adopted enclave!" So there's hope!
Time for a word with Dave at The Salisbury perhaps or the Harringay Festival 2013?
Here's the video that led me to rediscover them last week:
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Fantastic!
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Just found their website and the links to the Squeezebox Concerto on You Tube. Have a look and your ears will never be the same again. These guys are incredible musicians. They claim to hail "from the paprika fields of Harringay"
The videos are like something David Lynch would make in someone's front room in Pemberton Road.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Damn - 'From the Paprika Fields of Harringay' - that has the makings of a much better headline!
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Permalink Reply by Geraldine B on
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how 'bout 'Haringey Chutzpah' (remember, this word is pronounced with an H i.e. like Hoots-pah
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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One of those interesting loanwords becoming part of world-wide vocabulary.
Try this. (U.S.) Or in Modern Hebrew. Or advice from The Hindu Online.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Always fought it was Charringay myself.
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Sing it in Sean Nós for us, Eddie.
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