Meet the musical crew keeping old sea shanties alive - with the help of a stick made out lager bottle tops.
The Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew regularly entertain crowds with free open rehearsals, while also raising funds for the RNLI.
Here, the crew captain, Clive Marquis-Carr, explains why the events are so poignant in the seaside town, because of the historical Mexico Disaster where 27 volunteer lifeboatmen perished in a rescue attempt.
This short clip is taken from Episode 44 of Unconventional Brits. For the full video, including musical snippets watch https://www.shotstv.com/watch/vod/52925007
The Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew regularly entertain crowds with free open rehearsals, while also raising funds for the RNLI.
Here, the crew captain, Clive Marquis-Carr, explains why the events are so poignant in the seaside town, because of the historical Mexico Disaster where 27 volunteer lifeboatmen perished in a rescue attempt.
This short clip is taken from Episode 44 of Unconventional Brits. For the full video, including musical snippets watch https://www.shotstv.com/watch/vod/52925007
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00:00We sing sea shanties and people come and listen, they can bring the fish and chips and throw some
00:06money into the buckets to support the RNLI. We're by the sea, we just have one RNLI member,
00:14Tony Cox who is the mechanic and he's also the coxswain of the lifeboat crew and he's our one
00:22true RNLI crew member. We play this which is a traditional shanty instrument, it's a monkey stick
00:29or an ugly stick or a river rattler or a mendoza or a lager phone named after all the bottle tops
00:36that are on it. This is a traditional shanty instrument and the idea was that the shanty
00:40man, the shanties were all from the age of sail and when the shanty man was beating out the tune
00:44he needed something to beat the tune with. Here in Limson Sands is quite poignant because in 1886
00:51there was the greatest disaster that befell the RNLI when 27 lifeboat crewmen from Southport and
01:04St. Anne's crews, they lost their lives saving 12 of the crew of the Mexico. The Lytham crew saved
01:13them and it really sparked the public appeal for the RNLI.