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Flook (comic strip)
Flook was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the Daily Mail newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as "Trog".
It was the first newspaper comic strip to be published by the New Zealand newspaper Otago Daily Times, where it ran from 1952 to 1979.
Characters and story
The central characters were a young boy called Rufus and his magical animal friend, Flook. According to the strip 'The Coming of Flook', which forms part of the cartoon book Rufus and Flook v. Moses Maggot, we learn that Flook, who vaguely resembled a furry pig walking on his hind legs, was a creature from the age of the dinosaurs whom Rufus, in a dream, rescued from cavemen and who then came back to waking reality with him. Flook was able to talk (in six languages) and was blessed with a fine sense of irony with which to temper Rufus' innocence and enthusiasm. He was also able to change shape into all manner of objects, though not much was made of this power after the first couple of years of the strip. They inhabited a satirical and socially-perceptive fantasy world not unrelated to contemporary Great Britain, populated by larger-than-life characters, mostly bearing a striking resemblance to leading politicians and celebrities. Many of their adventures starred their principal adversaries, the villainous Moses Maggot and his sidekick the gaolbird Bodger, whose sister - the overweight teenage witch Lucretia Bodger (a play on Lucretia Borgia), with her cat, Gobstopper - also appeared quite frequently, as did a mad retired colonel.
Flook (band)
Flook is an Anglo-Irish band playing traditional-style instrumental music, much of it penned by the band themselves. Their music is typified by extremely fast, sometimes percussive, flute and whistle atop complex guitar and bodhrán rhythms. Flook is made up of Brian Finnegan, Sarah Allen, Ed Boyd and John Joe Kelly
History
The band was formed in 1995, originally by Becky Morris, with three flute-playing friends Sarah Allen, Brian Finnegan and Michael McGoldrick, (who left in 1997 to join Capercaillie). The band was briefly known as Three Nations Flutes.
Flook's 10th anniversary tour for Folkworks, included a concert at the Purcell Room (on 7 November 2005) as part of a week of "Folk in the Fall" on London's South Bank and another at the new Sage Gateshead concert hall on the south bank of the River Tyne on 10 November 2005. Their third studio album, Haven, was released in October 2005.
At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2006, Flook were awarded the award for Best Group. They also gave a short performance during the ceremony.
Podcasts:
Flook
ALBUMS
- Haven released: 2005
- Rubai released: 2002
- Flatfish released: 1999
- The Four Of Us released: 1999
- Flook! - Live! released: 1997
Haven
Released 2005- The Tortoise and the Hare: Sleeping Tortoise / The Girls in Boisdale
- Gone Fishing: Gone Fishing / Shuffle
- Mouse Jigs: Son Ar Rost / Jig for John #1 / The Mouse in the Kitchen
- Souter Creek: The House of Little Lights / Souter Creek
- Asturian Way: Peter Street / The Drunken Acrobat / The Asturian Way
- Wrong Foot Forward: Wrong Foot Forward / Apollo Bay Reel / The Cats of Camazen
- Padraig's: Thank You Sean / Fechin Inn
- Road to Errogie: Tír Rafartaigh / The Road to Errogie
- On One Beautiful Day (Eräänä Kauniina Päivänä)
Rubai
Released 2002- Pod: Baldy Hollow
- Pod: The Empty Pod
- Ballybrolly Jigs: The North Star / The Ghost of Ballybrolly / Mulineira de Santalla d'Ozcos
- Beehive: The Beehive / Poon Hill / Vladimir's Steamboat
- Glass: Glass Polska
- G.D.'s: Hooper's Loop
- G.D.'s: Pressed for Time
- Granny: Granny in the Attic
- Granny: Blue Ball / The False Proof
- Rosbeg: Suaimhneas Intinne
- Rosbeg: Rosbeg
- Larry: Kalamantinos
- Larry: Larry Get Out of the Bin / Elzic's Farewell
- Natterjack: Ramnee Ceilidh / Natterjack's Reel / Conlágh's Big Day
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Auf der Flucht
by: FalcoAuf Der Flucht
I say what ¨C what ya say?
Westberlin,
Neunzehnhundertsechzig sieben
Erster Eindruck: Gr¨¹ne Minna,
Strassensperre gegen Spinner
Habt Ihr Bock auf 'ne Tracht Pr¨¹gel,
Wir bedienen Euch nicht ¨¹bel, aha
Ecke Joachimstaler Kuhdamm
Ein Exzess,
Wer das Gas als letzter riecht,
Hat als erster den Prozess;
Ganz Berlin ist eine Wolke,
Und man sieht sich wieder'mal
Auf der Flucht
Z¨¹rich, Limmatquai,
Neunzehnhundertachtzig zwei,
Alles ist in Ordnung,
Nichts an Platz,
Ein Ende hat's mit dem Rabatz
Gewonnen hat die Steuer,
Und am Seeufer kein Feuer, aha
Das Fazit aus f¨¹nfzehn Jahren
Die Kontrolle zu bewahren,
Edle Werte zu geniessen,
Sieht man wohin Gelder fliessen
Schmeisst die Rock-Rabauken raus
Und renoviert das Opernhaus, aha
Was die Ordnung anbelangt,
Hat sich alles Gott sei Dank,
Fast wie ganz von Selbst ergeben,
Denn die starke Hand siegt eben
Haelt die Maerchenwelt beisammen
Und die Raeuber sind gefangen, aha
Und f¨¹r die Zukunft sei gesagt,
Sicher kommt 'mal wer und fragt,
Was die Jungwaehler so denken
ueber Kraefte, die sie lenken,
Schwere Wolken, Donnerschlag
Und wer sieht sich da jetzt
Auf der Flucht,
Auf der Flucht!