GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS – The Vampire's Wife

GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS My husband and I love this version of Handel’s exquisite ‘How beautiful are the feet’ sung by the boy soprano Aksel Rykkvin with organ by Vegar Sandholt. And we adore this beautiful painting by Stefan Lochner of the Adoration of the Child. And we would like to wish a joyful holiday season to all and for a cessation of the trouble and tears and heartache and weariness and affliction across the world, and for life to be full of true kindness and warmth and forgiveness and the love of others. See you next year. Love Susie. x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGW0JXzV9fo

How Beautiful are the Feet

How beautiful are the feet

Of them that preach

The gospel of peace

How beautiful are the feet

Of them that preach

The gospel of peace

How beautiful are the feet

Of them that preach

The gospel of peace

And bring glad tidings

Glad tidings of good things

And bring glad tidings

Glad tidings of good things

And bring glad tidings

Glad tidings of good things

THE CARNIVAL IS OVER

I have just a simple song for you all from 1967, all the way from Australia (where my husband is), by The Seekers. I love this song, melancholy but so stirring, and Judith Durham, dressed in what looks like something from the archives of The Vampire’s Wife, is so touching. It is a song full of tears about the end of things and love’s enduring presence. We adore this song here at The Vampire’s Wife.

TIME AFTER TIME, LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT

Look at this heart-breaking piece of film of Little Jimmy Scott singing Time After Time and giving his thoughts on what a song is meant to be. He is a vast talent and a beautiful man; we met him at my husband’s Meltdown Festival in London in 1999.

TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE

I heard this wonderful version of The Smiths classic song "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the brilliantly ebullient Dum Dum Girls on the DJ Lonny’s amazing Cover to Cover on Radio Lewes this week. What a great show! What a superb song! What a joyful cover! ‘To die by your side is pleasure and a privilege’ indeed!