May 15, 2003
Farewell to Stromness
A nice song to play at a wedding or funeral.
Composer's Note
The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are determined to fight, down to the last person.
Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney (pop. 1500), would be two miles from the uranium mine's core, and the centre most threatened by pollution. Yesnaby is the nearby clifftop beauty spot under whose soil the uranium is known to lie. -- Max Davies
Posted by Jeb at May 15, 2003 11:16 AMhttp://www.menyawolfe.com/memorial.html
Posted by: Memorial To Menya Wolfe at May 16, 2003 02:29 PMVisitOrkney.com
Posted by: Visit Orkney at May 16, 2003 10:54 PMThere are few pieces which bring tears to my eyes, but "Farewell to Stromness" is certainly one of them. Thank you, Mr. Davies, for expressing so poignantly the helplessness of ordinary people in the face of the military/industrial complex.
If there is anything I can do to assist with the campaign, please let me know
Walter Cairns
Manchester