Lankum - Go Dig My Grave (Official Video)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2023
- Our 4th album "False Lankum" is out now on Rough Trade Records. Listen/order here: lankum.ffm.to/falselankum
Director: Peadar Ó Goill
Art Director: Vicky Langan
Cinematography: Albert Hooi
Producer: Cian Lawless
AC: Laurent Murray
Editor: Peadar Ó Goill
Colourist: Peter Oppersdorff at The Mill
Colour Producer: Dan Hills
Gaffer: Padraig Conaty
Best Boy: Noel Greene
Grip: John Connon
Grip Assistants: Karl Roche, Christopher Connon
Costume and Styling: Liz Bennett
Production: Flora Dalton
Trainee: Gina Crighton
Extras: Alex Day, Sean Fitzgerald, Iona Zajac
Thank you Colin Burke, Paul Duane, Tom Travis
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Go dig my grave both wide and deep
Place a marble stone at my head and feet
And on my breast a snow white dove
To tell this world that I died for love
Oh Lordy Lord, Oh Lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord, Oh Lordy me
She went upstairs for to make her bed
And not one word to her mother said
Her mother, she went upstairs too
Saying “daughter oh daughter
What troubles you?”
“Oh Mama dear, I cannot tell,
That railroad boy that I loved so well
He courted me my life away
And now with me he will not stay”
Oh Lordy Lord, Oh Lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord, Oh Lordy me
Her father, he came home from work,
Saying “where’s my daughter?
She seemed so hurt”
He went upstairs for to give her hope
And he found her hanging by a rope
Oh Lordy Lord, Oh Lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord, Oh Lordy me
He got his knife for to cut her down
And in her bosom these words he found;
Go dig my grave both wide and deep
Place a marble stone at my head and feet
And on my breast a snow white dove
To tell this world that I died for love
Oh Lordy Lord, Oh Lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord, Oh Lordy me
If you're interested in learning more about this song, its background and recorded versions from Ireland, the UK and North America (including the one we learnt this from) then check out the Fire Draw Near podcast episode Go Dig My Grave / Died For Love / The Butcher Boy! Ian x soundcloud.com/firedrawnear/died-for-love-the-butcher-boy
Beautiful, I can hear all those things, even blondie, not taking the piss.
thank you for this! I will check it out.
Sár caoineadh, galánta dorcha. Maith sibh ar fad 🖤
@@theshanvans My D in pass Leaving cert Irish (1979) & Duolingo tells me that you mentioned ... ..., ... dark. Well done (plural) to you.
England Northern Ireland Scotland and Wales we are not the UK anymore any true celt will tell you any that won't can go to hell or London
Record exec; "The last album was class lads, you're getting very popular. Maybe lean into the accessible acoustic folk numbers and we can hit the mainstream"
Lankum; "9 minute funeral dirge from hell, yep"
Brilliant shtuff x
Bravo!
and that's what we love them for!
Oh, yeah!
@@ObrienXp Absolutely!
I'm here for the Dirges
When you cannot decide whether you are in the mood for traditional Irish tunes or doom metal, then you have but to turn to Lankum.
yes!
that observation is quite on point
If the world today had a soundtrack, this would be it.
Hi, I am an Asian who has never been to Western countries including Ireland. But I can feel the power and message in Lankum's songs. I was really impressed with this song. I don't understand the lyrics at once, but I'm excited to listen to them several times and understand lyrics gradually. I'll make sure to listen to the link that you shared. Thank you ❤
The song tells a story of a woman who falls in love with a railway worker. She gets her heart broken by him and her father finds that she hanged herself in the upstairs of there home. Her father cuts her down and finds a letter tucked into her shirt.
Maybe it's the defiant soul in her voice...the disjointed sounds too
Pain and longing transcend the trappings of language
Yes, as does music on occasion
Which country in Asia are you in. They say we can understand many languages intuitively. Music is a language we feel and live. You must visit if you’re heart is yearning.
Do you do children's birthday parties?
😂 🎉
🤣
😂
I’m having trouble understanding how anything could be this incredible
Amen!
This is basically a bad imitation of an entire genre of music - you're like someone discovering rap through Blondie's Rapture. You have such amazing things to discover, my child.
@@ChaunceyPendicott Think you’ll have to explain exactly what you mean, the Trad/Drone genre is very new
@@TheRedhenProductions it's a fusion of two genres that aren't new. The clue is in the name "trad" - see if you can work out what word that's short for. At any rate I was talking about noise music, which they're superficially imitating.
@@TheRedhenProductions think he was just being pretentious mate. Using 'my child' to address someone after unnecessesarily critiquing their enjoyment of music and going full reddit lord is just cringe behaviour.
That sound evokes so exactly the sick feeling when something really terrible happens in your life and you feel like you’ve stepped in to a waking nightmare. Unreal. 🔥🔥
Just discovered both this band and song on r/listentothis under the genre of "Irish Doom Folk" and yeah...can confirm thats an appropriate category.
I know that feeling😢😢😱😰..
This song sounds like a story I know…. 😢🇨🇦
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
"Honey, what are you listening to?"
"Ritualistic Trad Anxiety"
Woah this is like if Swans were an Irish folk band. Wow absolutely love it.
I also thought of Swans and Michael Gira when I first heard this song. This is a brilliant song and False Lankum an amazing album.
Ah the one who remembers swan , good onya mate 🇦🇺
My first thought as well!
fearless bands are rare these days. fly lankum!
Stunning.
The lines between folk, drone, ambient, noise, and soundscape are melded so well, and naturally sounding, as if it was meant to be. As if this is the most authentic evolution of traditional music. The atmosphere, and emotion purveyed through the long form, harmonious, dissonance is sheer perfection.
What a beautiful piece.
💜
That was a beautiful and accurate description.
This song snuck up on me in an otherwise cheerful Spotify playlist as I drove down a foggy, wooded December road. I’d never heard the feeling of extreme dread so perfectly captured. Holy cow 😦
Oh, lordy lord... I do love me a 9 minute lead single
Vicky Langan and Peadar Ó Goill, take a bow for that video. Mighty
I love Lankum to bits: it's amazing how they not only take traditional songs (in this case "The Butcher Boy") and make them completely their own, but also how they totally redefine what it means for music to be HEAVY. This band would blow most metal bands off the stage any day of the week.
Helps that they are metal heads they, they get what it means to be heavy
@@damienslattery1718 gtf slattery
Isn't this also a take on Barbry Allan?
I've been grieving the end of a relationship lately. I drove out the backroads, blasting this song, wailing it out. To try and sing like Radie, I had to sing from my guts - which is where the grief is. It made me feel better. A lot better. I think I understand Keening now - the catharsis of it.
This sounds better than therapy!
I hope you're doing better every day.
Hugs, mate!
Fuck. This is exactly what we should all do. Go to the bottom and scream at the pain. Fuck all the tablets, shopping, and psychiatry. Beautiful.
Never heard of this band before. Feel like I might of just stumbled upon something pretty special.
Oh, you have. Go listen to their last album The Livelong Day immediately!
@@767wattsy Thanks for the recommendation. Just finished it there, amazing!
If you like this check out Swans The Seer album,similar vibes
Pure serotonin syndrome
@@damienslattery1718 The seer is shite.
Christ! I don’t know whether to cry or be sick
Chomh milis le mil agus chomh garbh le gaineamh - iontach lads!
OMG only discovered this incredible band today. Whatever is in Dublin water, the rest of the music world needs to be drinking many litres every day. Absolutely Brilliant ;-D
It feels like the first half of the song is a soldier preparing for war, and the second half is them fighting it.
That imagery, evoking mourning round a slain, bled out lamb, is so stark yet effective, a perfect compliment to the music. Simple ideas with nothing added but faith in their intrinsic power.
😂 cringe …
It's actually not all that far off of a read. "Lankum" is a take on "Lamkin", which is an old Anglo or Celtic ballad that's basically about the slaughter of a young mother and daughter by a much more powerful man of some profession or another (depends which version).
There certainly isn't an allegory in there for generational violence during and thru British colonial rule or systemic violence against women and feminine people.
Best album of 2023, thank you
Lyrics:
Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet
And on my breast
A snow white dove
To tell this world
That I died for love
Oh lordy lord
Oh lordy me
Oh lord oh lord
Oh lordy me
She went upstairs
For to make her bed
And not one word
To her mother said
Her mother
She went upstairs too
Saying "Daughter, oh daughter
What troubles you?"
"Oh mama dear
I cannot tell
That railroad boy
That I love so well
He courted my
My life away
And now with me
He will not stay."
Oh lordy lord
Oh lordy me
Oh lord oh lord
Oh lordy me
Her father
He came home from work
Saying, "Where's my daughter?
She seems so hurt"
He went upstairs
For to give her hope
And he found her hanging
By a rope
Oh lordy lord
Oh lordy me
Oh lord oh lord
Oh lordy me
He got his knife
For to cut her down
And in her bosom
These words he found
Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet
And on my breast
A snow white dove
To tell this world
That I died for love
Oh lordy lord
Oh lordy me
Oh lord oh lord
Oh lordy me
Hug to hope 🙂
’a *snow white dove'
&yeah,
'for to give her *hope'
Edited
@@theohmanmusic beautiful
A friend of mine told me about Lankum and on the basis of this one song I bought the CD. Incredible! I've loved folk music ever since being a teenager back in the 1960s, and in particular I've always loved the darker side of folk. And it doesn't get much darker than songs like this and other songs on the album (can also recommend the Child ballad "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn", actually I can recommend the whole album). I adore what Lankum have done with this traditional song. And Radie Peat's voice is so atmospheric it sounds like an additional instrument. If the band tour Scotland anytime soon, I will be getting tickets. And I will be buying their back catalogue.
My word, that was astounding. Thoroughly unsettling with a dread that built until it was almost too much. Bra-bloody-vo.
Isn’t it just so amazing and refreshing that in this day and age of auto tuned, fake, AI generated vocals that one of the most original,real and recognisable voices in years is HERE at the same time? Just brilliant 👏👏👏🙌🇮🇪💚
I've no words. What a deep, textured experience! Easily the darkest Irish folk band of all time, and that's a very good thing.
Lost three musician friends in this same week..and found this song...Bless you guys!!
will never forget seeing them live in london, I just remember walking into this random courtyard and hearing them playing and just being like wow this is beautiful.
What I love about the artistry of Lankum is that they probably don't give a flying feck what I think, because they know they're bloody well outstanding.
Seriously…. This is just music at a different level…. Superb
time stops when Radie Peat starts singin
Lankum are unlike any other band I have ever heard. In the best possible way. Quite simply stunning. To say that I am looking forward to the LP is the biggest understatement of the year!
David in the nip
Lankum a Majestic band of sympathy for others...so I give it.
Great to hear fellow musicians who don't want to sing about hippy love . Darker the better. Lyrics are great
Absolutely lethal
Just listened to this for the first time, minding my own business and jamming out. Then came the outro.
Oh how I love Radie‘s voice
It's a thing of exquisite grace and beauty.
Wow wow wow. Absolutely haunting. Loved every second of this.
For a short while I forgot I am alive and present. What a blissful state.
Lovely strong lipstick on the wonderful and colossally talented Radie Peat - hope it's Lancôme!
Just envisioning Lankum and Dead Can Dance doing a joint concert and "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" leading into this and the entire audience just immediately dying. Good stuff
Actually how I’d like to go. ⚰️
with Swans too
We think alike. I had the exact same thought. Very strange.
This piece took a part of my soul I can never get back.
Ive never heard a voice this pretty and menacing at once
She reminds me of Nina Simone somewhat
You should get out more.
Came here expecting greatness, and got so much more than anticipated -- full on STUNNING
This is great. I recommend its grandparent, The Fall of Saigon by This Heat.
This is a song you listen to on your way to bloody vengeance
I haven't gotten that feeling from a song in a long long time. Absolutely fuckin incredible.
Try stepping out with lasses lad
@@cahillgreg dont be so mean, friend. this song made me feel emotions i havent felt in a long time too. has nothing to do with how often you get laid.
It brought me to tears before the first verse was over. Simply magic.
It brought me to tears as well.....I'm a musician😢
Its got the raw power of Sacred Harp or Hebridean Psalm Singing. Elemental sounds at the luminal.
This is next level - my favourite song released this year so far and if the rest of the album is as good - wow...
everything about this. radie's performamce & engagement with the camera. the movement / long track. the colour. bloody excellent.
My goodness. Excellent
What a fucking band. Absolute fire, Irish music is alive and well. LOVE LOVE LOVE X
The next level
Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet
And on my breast
A snow white dove
To tell this world
That I died for love
Oh lordy Lord
Oh lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Oh lordy me
She went upstairs
For to make her bed
And not one word
To her mother said
Her mother she
Went upstairs, too
Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter
What troubles you?"
"Oh, mama dear
I cannot tell
That railroad boy
That I loved so well
He courted me
My life away
And now with me
He will not stay"
Her father he
Came home from work
Saying, "Where's my daughter?
She seemed so hurt"
He went upstairs
For to give her hope
And he found her hanging
By a rope
He got his knife
For to cut her down
And in her bosom
These words he found
Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet
And on my breast
A snow white dove
To tell this world
That I died for love
seen them at roadburn-a really good contrast and a great performance. i liked it a lot.
That’s how ye come back 🙏✊🏻
Obviously, this video and song is incredible… but MY GOD, this is the most articulate comments section I’ve ever seen.
Lankum comments tend towards stunned
Liam Clancy called and wants his jumper back Radie
Just got this in my feed out of the blue, I'm blown away. Some real nice dark folk vibes, I'm now a fan.
There are string sections, and then there's _that_ string section. That actor's left hand is incredible at displaying emotion.
STUNNING‼️ Awesome that the unique instrumental just keeps going and going (4 min ??) ..... I didn't want it to end. Despite the visceral pain. Most compelling musical sound since Bolero (15+ min), imo, but in an entirely new way. Almost needs a new word for its music. But yes, "music" encompasses a multiplicity of sensations. And this is certainly sensational. Thank you Lankum, and Global Rhythm Radio in Tucson AZ!
Feel so lucky to cast on to this yarn🧶
moved beyond words intense - I feel every word, every beat, and every crying note you make and express in this thank you thank you.
The "oh lordy lord" refrain is taken straight from a Jean Richie ballad.
How beautifully unnerving. Love it!
From Hares on The Mountain to this, blessed to hear. 🙏
A wonderful performance. I love your music , together and as individuel musicians. Thanks for enriching our lives.
I don't know the words for it...but this really is something 😮
Love those folk horror drones. Makes the Velvet Underground sound like The Smurfs.
the subbass on this one feels like the rotation of the earth on max volume
Lankum should do a Score for a Folk Horror...deep, scary, atmospheric stuff. Don't play before you go to bed!
I have a load of mushrooms for the gig in May.. 🍄
Can't wait for the new album!
Love every second.
I LOVE this song and your talented way of presenting it.
That's awesome, can't wait to hear the album 😍😍😍
Holy moly 😮. What a powerful piece of art. Cant wait to hear the new record.
hell yeah! another excellent track/video. can't wait for the new album
This is the breathing art alive and overwhelming us into being alive
🔥❤🏁
Glad to hear yall again
Amazing, simply amazing
haunting, alluring and nothing short of lovely
Wow, just wow. Incredible.
Art ❤
Awesome! I was hoping for a new album. Glad to see it is on the way.
Fantastic. Bravo all. So haunting. Director nailed it.
I so love it !!
I can't believe they're back!
It’s as beautiful as the non retractability of the talons of rapacious birds or as the uncertainty of muscular movements in wounds of the soft tissues of the posterior cervical region
Maldoror! ❤
Goosebumps.
Lankum is one of the overall most impressive and interesting projects of the last few years. I just now listened to this the first time from Tidal, and first I got the goosebumps, then kind of almost cried, and after that felt a bit breathless. It's like someone built a tractor out of pieces of meat and went logging. I like the previous output too, but this is completely stellar. The fine harmonic details from the dragged fiddle bow and the stereo image etc are so fine, that I encourage people to find a place to listen to a lossless version. The production was as immaculate as it was visceral. Drone-y layered stuff can easily sound grating with nasty frequency spikes, bumps, etc, but this was amazingly balanced without losing the grit. So much love for this right now from me.
'someone built a tractor out of pieces of meat and went logging ... I encourage people to find a place to listen to a lossless version'
Gobshite
@@cahillgreg true, it will be almost impossible for most people under normal circumstances to hear the difference between a high bitrate compresses and CD quality audio, but here the details are just so fine that I don't want to risk losing any of them :)
@@Lothar303 You speak of 'normal' as if it's something you know
@@cahillgreg Actually yes, I do, but I really have no interest in arguing about this. Look into the research and do some blind tests.
You are cringe …
Fkn brilliant, love it. Great vid too. Excellent band.
Pure tearjerker
You guys have no idea how badly you need to be featured in a Mike Flannagan series
Unbelievably good 🖤
There's a strong spiritual connection between this song and the music of The Black Heart Rebellion. It's a soul crushing masterpiece.
What with the current energy crisis my house is cold enough without this giving me goosebumps!