{"id":98,"date":"2022-06-08T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/06\/08\/cardinal\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:26:00","slug":"cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/06\/08\/cardinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Cardinal<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Nigel Clark<\/b> (guitar\/vocals). (Maybe spelt Clarke – not sure). Duo from Harbury \/ Southam c 1969 \/ 72. Acoustic duo.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trev
\nTeasdel’s <\/span>recollections<\/b> –<\/span><\/p>\n

Played various types of venue including folk clubs, St Osburg’s,. Coventry Arts
\nUmbrella club for the HUMPOESIC HAPPENING July 12th 1972, which I organised.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to be
\nconfused with The Cardinals operating in Coventry in 1964<\/span><\/p>\n

Nigel was
\nfrom Harbury \/ Southam near Coventry. I first met him in a non musical setting at the Coventry Butts Tech College in 1967 \/ 8 – both apprentice electricians. Nigel
\nwas apprenticed to the Electricity<\/span> board and I to DF Gibbs (next to the General
\nWolf pub). We were both on a day release course.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 We became mates through music  – Nigel played guitar, Simon and Garfunkel and I wrote<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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song lyrics. Nigel had an interest in Psychology and in the lunch hour we’d go to the collage library and he’d get me to take out psychology books which I thought would be good for my writing. RD Laing, The Forgotten language Erich Fromm (<\/span><\/span>An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths)<\/span>, Psychology of Thinking, Fundamentals of Psychology and I started to buy a psychology magazine and wrote two songs from the case studies The Ups and Downs in the Life of Mr Toil and Strife which Nigel put to music later on and performed as far as I know at their gigs at St.Osberg’s<\/span>. The other was Mrs Stress and Strain – video below.<\/span><\/p>\n

Erich Fromm was useful as an introduction to symbolism and Paul Simon’s songs of the time were depictions of social forms of alienation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nigel left the Electricity Board and came to DF Gibbs as a TV engineer in 1969. Here he introduced
\nhe lent me Dylan and Beatles songbooks to encourage my lyric writing, <\/span><\/p>\n

In 1972, I bumped into Nigel again at the Lanch Polytech gigs and invited him to do a gig with Cardinal at the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

No idea what Nigel went on to do musically as we lost touch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Below is
\none of the songs Nigel put music too back in 1968 (although I never heard him
\nplay it.). Maybe influenced by Paul Simon’s Big Bright green Pleasure Machine a
\nbit.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>THE UPS AND
\nDOWNS IN THE LIFE OF MR TOIL AND STRIFE (Trev Teasdel 1968)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>He’s
\nsittin’ on his posterior,<\/span> <\/span>feeling
\nhe’s inferior<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>with a sudden
\nburst of hysteria, <\/span>he acts
\nupon an impulse.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>Chorus<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>One day
\nhe’s up and around<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>Next day
\nyou’ll find he’s fallen down.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>He cannot
\nkeep his feet on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>The Ups and
\nDowns in the life of Mr Toil and Strife<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>The Ups and
\nDowns in the life of Mr Toil and Strife<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>He’s
\nsittin’ on the railings, <\/span>contemplating
\nhis failings,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>Unable to
\nreach compromises<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>with the
\nproblems that he so despises.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>To him his
\nvirtues are inconspicuous<\/span><\/p>\n

He feels he
\nis ridiculous<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The grass
\nis greener over yonder<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of that he
\nlikes to ponder.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>(Chorus)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>On
\noccasions his gusto tends to ascend<\/span><\/p>\n

but on many
\nthings that does depend<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Company and
\nsuccess<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

inspire him
\nmore than words can express.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>The figures of authority <\/span>are the
\nroot of his inferiority<\/span><\/p>\n

His hurt he
\ntries to hide <\/span><\/span>as they
\ntread upon his pride.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An endless
\nlife of labour<\/span><\/p>\n

An
\nunsociable next door neighbour<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A life of
\nlittle variety, <\/span><\/span>A life
\nthat’s full of anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>……………<\/span><\/p>\n

A follow on
\nsong from this in Mrs Stress and Strain 1969 (re written in the mid 70’s)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Songs From the Coventry Underground by Trev Teasdel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Cardinal BAND INDEX Nigel Clark (guitar\/vocals). (Maybe spelt Clarke – not sure). Duo from Harbury \/ Southam c 1969 \/ 72. Acoustic duo. Trev Teasdel’s recollections – Played various types of venue including folk clubs, St Osburg’s,. Coventry Arts Umbrella club … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}