Any Scousers Living Here?
 

Are there any Scousers living here in the Villages. I'd love to chat with you sometime.

Not a scouser. but traveled frequently to Liverpool area on business

Katyk- Scouser
 

Hi. I lived in Anfield, Liverpool for a few years as a young teen. Wasn't born there but kind of call it home as I still have relatives living there and "over the water" in Wallasey. Where did you live?
Love Paul McCartney too.

I happen to have been living in England when the Beatles were becoming known. They happen to have lucked out. The filled a vacuum at the time, when their was a void.

The Beatles actually copied and recorded many songs that had already become hits in America by other recording artists.

If every song that the Beatles recorded were to be played one after the other it would take less than 24 hrs to play them all. Plain and simple they lucked out, and fell apart pretty quickly compared to many other groups.

The two main artists were McCartney/Lennon, the other two were marginal in particular
Ringo Starr who as a drummer is pretty basic.

The Beatles ?? Catchy name some pretty good tunes that's about it.

The history about the scousers was interesting this week. I just started reading The Beatles: The Biography and it was mentioned in the beginning of the book. Cool. For interest, I have a live cam on my iPad of the Abbey Road Studios famous crosswalk. I watch it often - people stopping in the middle of it taking pictures.

Can you post that Abbey Road link? I would love to have it! :MOJE_whot:

Sorry you feel that way. I started a Beatles club here in the Villages and I was looking for people from L:iverpool who might like to come in and speak and help us with some of the history of the most influential band in history.
You know, the band that had thirty #1 hits in six years, the band that held the five top spots in the Billboard top 100 for several months in 1964, ( a feat that has never ben repeated), the band who had every single except for two that they ever released go to #1, the band that changed society, music, and culture world wide, the band that was the #1 selling artists of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90, and the 00s, the band that has more of their songs covered by other artists, you know the band that still has a following in the millions 43 years after they broke up.
If you know any Scousers that are not in denial about these four lads from Liverpool and their massive accomplishments, and who might be interested in speaking to our group, I'd appreciate you referring them to me.

Here you go.

Abbey Road - Crossing Webcam

You should come to one of our meetings some time.

And in case you didn't already know. Sousers comes from a dish called lobscouse a traditional form of lamb stew, similar to Lancashire Hotpot.
The Scouse was mainly found in fishing ports and seaports like Liverpool, hence calling persons from Liverpool, Scousers

Yes, and it was a derivation os a Dutch strew called Labskause. I have several friends who are Scousers and am a bit familiar with the culture of Liverpool.

Scouse does not have to be made from lamb, by the way, any meat was used to make it, usually the cheapest cuts that could be found. Often a bone was used and the meat scraped from the bone once it had boiled for a few hours. A pot of scouse would often sit on the family stove for days with the family tossing in any left overs, including bits of bread.
Often Liverpudlians would be reduced to eating what was known as a blind scouse meaning that it had no meat in it. Liverpool of the 1940s, 50s and 60s was an extremely poor community. Thanks to the Beatles however, it is now a thriving tourist destination.

Oh yes, traditional recipes often determined the character of the people that consumed the food. The scouse was a rough and ready meal, much like the longshoremen that would have eaten it.

In the Highlands or Scotland, many farm houses had the "porridge drawer" where porridge oats made on the weekend were poured into and during the week, slabs of set, cold porridge cut off as meals for the farm hands.

I can think of my mother making "bubble and squeak" in which the main ingredients were potato and cabbage or brussels sprouts, but in the most part left overs. We were not that well off growing up and my mother always found ways of stretching out the leftovers over the next few days.

A small diversion, I didn't mean to hi-jack the thread lol

I have taken the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin on a few occasions and I think scouse may have been on the menu in the cafeteria on the ship.

And I bet you thought The Dave Clark 5 were better, right?

No need to dis the DC5. Mike Smith had a fantastic voice. jhrc probably more of a Monkees fan.

I love the Dave Clark Five, but any comparison between their accomplishments and those of the Beatles are absurd.

I liked the DC5 way back then, but today they seem a bit corny. Seemed like a lot of their songs were like military marching cadences/jodies, but that's maybe how they meant them to be.

Also liked Manfred Mann, especially The Mighty Quinn and Pretty Flamingo