{"id":35,"date":"2015-08-06T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=35"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:13:29","slug":"the-weekend-millionaires-an-oral-history-of-the-thames-lightermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Millionaires: An Oral History of the Thames Lightermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006-220x300.jpg?resize=220%2C300\" alt=\"James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg?resize=752%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 752w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg?w=2024&amp;ssl=1 2024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg?w=1812&amp;ssl=1 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The weekend Millionaires&#8217; is a great\u00a0film about the lives of the Lightermen who lived and worked on the Thames. Anyone who loves the Thames, will love it for the the stories and film footage of a changing river.<\/p>\n<p>Researching for the film director Matthew Rosenberg found an anonymous poem which he asked me to set to music. After that I wrote a short instrumental piece to capture the sense of freedom kicking back on the boat after some hard physical work.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the film!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thameslightermen.org.uk\/film.html\">http:\/\/www.thameslightermen.org.uk\/film.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the same page Matthew has added a video of the song, and I&#8217;ve added the instrumental here too because I quite liked it:<a href=\"http:\/\/'The weekend Millionaires' is a wonderful film about the lives of the Lightermen who lived and worked on the Thames. Anyone who loves the Thames, will love it for the the stories and film footage of a changing river.  Researching for the film director Matthew Rosenberg found an anonymous poem which he asked me to set to music.  After that  I wrote a short instrumental piece to capture the sense of freedom kicking back on the boat after some hard physical work.  Enjoy the film!  http:\/\/www.thameslightermen.org.uk\/film.html  On the same page Matthew has added a video of the song, and I've added the instrumental here too because I quite liked it: https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/vincent-burke\/instrumental-from-the-weekend-millionaires\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F218056634&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=604&#038;maxheight=906\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;The weekend Millionaires&#8217; is a great\u00a0film about the lives of the Lightermen who lived and worked on the Thames. Anyone who loves the Thames, will love it for the the stories and film footage of a changing river. Researching for the film director Matthew Rosenberg found an anonymous poem which he asked me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Weekend Millionaires: An Oral History of the Thames Lightermen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":187,"url":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=187","url_meta":{"origin":35,"position":0},"title":"taxi!","author":"admin","date":"October 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Usually I inflict music on the world whether it's actually wanted or not... ...Occasionally someone asks for some. \u00a0Which is\u00a0interesting because I get sent off in a different direction musically. 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