HANTERHIR
THE SAVING OF CADAN (Easy Action, 2018)
Of all the
great triple vinyl concept albums sung partly in Cornish about a boy who tries to drown himself but is rescued by Morwenna, the Lady of the Lake, The Saving Of
Cadan is surely the only one by a band whose name is a loose translation of “Semilong”.
The story goes that the Cornish band’s frontman Ben Harris used to live in Northampton. Semilong is a district there that’s particularly notorious for one of its thoroughfares, Quorn Way, which at one time attracted sex workers from throughout the Midlands. It was, apparently, extremely busy.