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About Me
- Ellen Loudon
- I have lived in Liverpool since I was 18years old. I came here to study drama, pop music and be an actor. I spent a couple of years in a theatre company in Leeds during the mid 1990's returning to start an academic career at Edge Hill University in 1998. In 2001 I started to explore the possibility of full time ministry in the church of England. After a long period of discernment I started at Trinity College, Bristol in 2006 and trained be a vicar. I was ordained as a Deacon in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral in June 2008 and ordained priest in June 2009. I am serving as the assistant curate at St John Chrysostom and St Peter's churches, Everton.
5 comments:
Classic stuff. And yes, what a contrast to L'il Chris (I'd never heard of him before today).
It was ever thus, and bubblegum there will always be. What's interesting is how some performers get real big and make huge careers and money - Madonna, Michael Jackson - while remaining only a footnote to the story of rock and roll.
In Jackson's case, maybe people in 100 years' time will remember "ABC" and "I Want You Back" - but probably not much more, as the artistic interest ends thereafter. In Madonna's... I dunno. Something about the 80s pop video?
But they'll definitely remember Strummer, Jones, Headon and Simenon belting out "White Riot".
you raise some very interesting issues about how the popular music canon gets formed. We should perhaps have a series of foundation seminars on 'the popular' and discuss such things?
Yeah, great idea. Popdation.
Shurely you mean Rockdation mate? Not 'arf... ;)
I think we may have our first foundation schism. Who will join which group? We could even split further and have a punkdation!
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