St Kilda................ here we come with Monty

[Bernard Shakey]

see if anyone else can spot the diff
im f****** stumped

It all makes as much sense as:

According to Jack Newton it was by Joan Tradeanarmin.

[Sainternist]

cum TV presenter.

Is it X rated?

[saintbrat]

we'll find out tonight what it now looks like.

[loris]

we'll find out tonight what it now looks like.

We Sainters know it's very challenging to be a St Kilda supporter over the years, do we not?

Likewise the inhabitants of St Kilda must have also faced a very challenging time. Here is a snippet of a preview of tonight's program in The Oz..........................

"Also tonight, the small five island group known as St Kilda 65 km off the coast of Uist, where 2000 years of human habitation ended following the appalling winter of 1929. Old footage shows the actual evacuation".

Sounds a little bit familiar folks?

After a year of valiant striving in 2010 to a drawn Grand Final.
Then the appalling recapitulation in the Grand Final Replay of 2010. And sadly footage shows that actual recapitulation.

I will watch Monty Halls program of St Kilda tonight............... don't think I can ever bring myself to watch the footage of the Replay Grand Final of 2010

[saintbrat]

was only a small section of the program
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/13 ... Escape-Ep2

approx the last 10 minutes- drag to 3rd yellow dot approx 40 minute mark

Monty Halls' Island Escape Ep2

Aired - 4 January 2013 Expires in 14 Days

[plugger66]

Amazing stuff. Rate it with death.

[loris]

I'm off to live in Scotland early next year and a trip to the island of St Kilda is a must.
Will wear the scarf and post a pic.

Gershwin............After watching last night's program, think you might need to pack your sea sickness tablets if you can get a boat trip out to the islands that make up St Kilda.

And maybe you will need to play your signature compositions Rhaposody in Blue to take your mind off The Dance of the Waves your boat will be doing

[saintbrat]

found this recent upload of the St kilda mailboat song

and differant visuals

[philtee]

Amusing quotes from the "Visiting St Kilda" brochure - http://www.kilda.org.uk/St%20Kilda%20Gu ... access.pdf

‘… the future observer of St Kilda will be haunted the rest of his life by the place,
and tantalised by the impossibility of describing it, to those who have not seen it.’
James Fisher 1947

"St Kilda’s isolated, fragile ecosystem is extremely vulnerable to the
introduction of new species."

"Much of the cultural heritage of St Kilda is protected as it is of international importance."

And there's this pic -

"Watters and Pelchen out searching for full-back"

[Gershwin]

I'm off to live in Scotland early next year and a trip to the island of St Kilda is a must.
Will wear the scarf and post a pic.

Gershwin............After watching last night's program, think you might need to pack your sea sickness tablets if you can get a boat trip out to the islands that make up St Kilda.

And maybe you will need to play your signature compositions Rhaposody in Blue to take your mind off The Dance of the Waves your boat will be doing

Hmmm, did look a bit choppy didn't it.

In 2011 I did a boat trip off the west coast of Scotland to the island of Staffa and Fingal's Cave which inspired Felix Mendelssohn to write "the Hebrides (Fingal's'Cave) Overture" and I managed to keep my lunch down. This is a link if you want to listen to it:


Will take your suggestion of sea sickness tablets and maybe I'll just hum "the St Kildans Song"

[White Winmar]

I was all set to go in 1991, but the boat trip was cancelled at the last minute because of the shocking weather and conditions. If what I experienced was typical of the sort of weather that place gets, then the locals must have been a very hardy bunch indeed. That, or they were trapped on the place and had nowhere else to go.

[loris]

Thanks Gershwin for the link to the Mendelssohn Overture............. what an appropriate score. Magnificient video clip too.

Do you think the Saints Cheer Squad could do a version of the St Kildan's Song after Saints score a goal? Or it may be more appropriate for members on the Moorabbin Wing to burst forth, they seem to have more bass and baritone in their midst.

[saintbrat]

I picked up this CD several years ago- could have bought online from Scotish website But got a Friend of a Friend in Scotland to purchase and send to me
http://www.musicinscotland.com/acatalog ... da_CD.html

some of the songs are quite catchy- I must re listen to see which one would be the St Kildans song
Note they included Paul Kelly's ' From St Kilda to Kings cross.

http://www.musicscotland.com/cd/BR003.html

more on the CD
http://www.musicweb-international.com/c ... _Kilda.htm

[kosifantutti]

I picked up this CD several years ago- could have bought online from Scotish website But got a Friend of a Friend in Scotland to purchase and send to me
http://www.musicinscotland.com/acatalog ... da_CD.html

some of the songs are quite catchy- I must re listen to see which one would be the St Kildans song
Note they included Paul Kelly's ' From St Kilda to Kings cross.

http://www.musicscotland.com/cd/BR003.html

more on the CD
http://www.musicweb-international.com/c ... _Kilda.htm

Anne Lorne Gillies, Rhona MacKay & Eddie McGuire have pooled their expertise in Gaelic music and culture to bring back to life the songs & music of the people of St. Kilda, evacuated in 1930. Puirt-a-beul, lullabies, death, love and sea-edge life

He really is Eddie Everywhere

[saintbrat]

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/its-st ... shu96.html

Two months ago, a CD called The Lost Songs of St Kilda hit the top of the classical charts in Britain. The story is that the songs are based on a collection of piano tunes played by an old man in an Edinburgh nursing home. When asked, he said he had been taught the tunes as a boy on the Outer Hebridean island of Uist by a St Kilda exile. Various Scottish composers have arranged them but, for me, the less arrangement the better. I love the space between the notes in the original tunes, the sense of wind and sky and the odd human below.

[saintbrat]

article in todays Sat Age- along with the story above by Martin Flanagan

Just 20,000 visitors a year manage to land on St Kilda. Some come as day trippers, enduring the often tortuous journey by speed boat from another Hebridean destination. Increasingly, more of us are arriving by cruise ships like Silversea's Silver Explorer, small enough to anchor in St Kilda's only harbour.

Read more: http://www.traveller.com.au/the-hebride ... z4P66tXcE3
Follow us: @TravellerAU on Twitter | TravellerAU on Facebook

[freely]

I'm another who's tried to get there. I sailed all around Scotland and to the Hebrides in 2005 - but the weather and tides need to be just so to get all the way to St Kilda. The story of the islanders is a very sad one. There are a couple of other books I have Loris - don't know if they're available here but they may be - "Island on the Edge of the World" by Charles Maclean and "A Journey to the End of the World" by Compbell McCutcheon - which is full of photographs. One of the things about the story that fascinated me was that the feet of the men that were born there were a different shape, had longer toes than normal - that is, they 'evolved' feet that would grip the rocks better (they used to climb up to get the bird eggs).

A little something for the coaches to consider as they contemplate the father-son/daughter rule!

I don't recall anything about those islanders ever coming to Australia - it was major for them to move from St Kilda to the Scottish mainland, so it's hard to imagine. I think the origin of our St Kilda is just to do with the name of a boat.

[saintbrat]

I don't recall anything about those islanders ever coming to Australia - it was major for them to move from St Kilda to the Scottish mainland, so it's hard to imagine. I think the origin of our St Kilda is just to do with the name of a boat.

In the 1850s, 42 of the islanders emigrated to Australia, half of them dying on the way.
Eric Richards, professor of history at Flinders University in Adelaide, believes the deaths and the survivors' first experiences of Australia deterred potential emigrants.
The survivors were quarantined on arrival in Port Phillip and were also treated less well because they spoke Gaelic and not English. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Several lived in Kew and returned to visit St Kilda in the1920's and took an Australian flag from the Mayor oF St Kilda Melbourne

from the book- "Life and Death of St Kilda" by Tom Steele

[saintbrat]

this is some of the music that has surfaced about st Kilda - With vision
http://lostsongsofstkilda.com/

although the timeline scroll , of the history of St Kilda's people gives varying info on the Suburb naming.-

[freely]

I don't recall anything about those islanders ever coming to Australia - it was major for them to move from St Kilda to the Scottish mainland, so it's hard to imagine. I think the origin of our St Kilda is just to do with the name of a boat.

In the 1850s, 42 of the islanders emigrated to Australia, half of them dying on the way.
Eric Richards, professor of history at Flinders University in Adelaide, believes the deaths and the survivors' first experiences of Australia deterred potential emigrants.
The survivors were quarantined on arrival in Port Phillip and were also treated less well because they spoke Gaelic and not English. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Several lived in Kew and returned to visit St Kilda in the1920's and took an Australian flag from the Mayor oF St Kilda Melbourne

from the book- "Life and Death of St Kilda" by Tom Steele

Hi st brat - that's really interesting! This is long before the island was evaculated (and now I think of it of course those St Kildeans couldn't have had anything to do with the naming of St Kilda cos the island wasn't evacuated till 1930 and our St Kilda must've been named long before that!)... I've just looked out the book and it says that, in fact, descendants of these emigrees you've just mentioned - who went to Australia in the 1850s and I hadn't remembered anything about - went to visit the island just before it was evaculated (in 1920-something) and tried to persuade the few young people who were still there to come back to Australia with them but they stayed to look after the others.

The history is just so rich! It only mentions there being 5 emigrees here from St Kilda (although I don't think they count wives and children!) travelling with a lot of other Scots. They got measles 20 days in and then just after they got to Port Philip they all got scarlet fever. One of them went back and forth a couple of times though, plus coming up to the Goldfields and going across to California - and then back to the island again. What an amazing time it must have been - and imagine going from that rock right around the world to search for gold. It's hard to get your head around.

[saintspremiers]

Does that stupid bitch have any connections to St Kilda or pokies?

[damienc]

St kilda is a barren windswept place , much like our trophy cabinet !

Lots of birds there and rodents , much like the suburb !

Most islanders left the place years ago , much like our supporters , Hungry !

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