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the Laura Marling Fanlisting

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LAST UPDATED: 11 July 2010

Launched: 9 December 2009

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RUTH THE CELLIST

Ruth De Turberville

Ruth De Turberville started playing the cello and singing at a young age in the various orchestras and choirs of her home county of Berkshire, UK. She is classically trained.

Ruth's intelligent approach to music has been captured in numerous live and studio recordings with the Cambridge band "The Winter Kings", and Laura Marling, with whom she regularly performs.

LAURA MARLING PAGES last updated 29 July 2010

MARLING
WALLPAPER.

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LAURA MARLING: ETYMOLOGY
OF THE NAME

"Laura" is of course derived from the Latin Masculine name Laurus (meaning laurel). It is a popular name because of two people. The first is St. Laura, who was a 9th century Spanish woman who became a nun after the death of her husband. The Moors, after invading and occupying Grenada, tossed her into a cauldron of molten lead. This was fatal but it raises another question: was molten lead so cheap and readily available to the invading Moors that they used it as an execution device? Did they bring it along, or did they use local lead? The second Laura of note is the woman addressed in the poetry of Petrarch. Her actual identity has not been conclusively established. He met her in 1327 in Avignon and she died of plague in 1348.

"Marling" is literally a clay line. In nautical terms, a "small stuff of two fiber strands, sometimes tarred, laid up left-handed, or a finer kind of spun yarn". Although she does like to spin yarns, the more likely derivation of the name is from Merlin which in turn means a small bold falcon, Falco columbarius, of the Northern Hemisphere. All of these references can be traced back no farther than the last half of the 14th century.

The most Marlings in the United States are in New Mexico, Texas, and Ohio.

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1 February, 1990, Laura Beatrice Marling was raised in Eversley, a small town in Hampshire (population 829). Marling now lives in London. She has two sisters, one of them named Georgina (7 years older). Her dog, Skippy, died in 2008 at the age of 13. (Somewhere between living in Eversley and London, she lived in Reading, Berkshire.) Charles Dickens and Jane Austen were also from Hampshire, on the south coast of England. Her father, who was an amateur singer-songwriter, began teaching her the guitar when she was 3, and when she was 13 she wrote her first songs, inspired by The Libertines. Her father then insisted she listen to some good music, and played her lots of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. She plays the bass and piano as well, and owns (and possibly can play) a dulcimer.

Here are some photos from Eversley courtesy of Eversley Online Gallery

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Previously a member of Noah and the Whale, a good folky band that sounds a little bit Jamaican (they have a new album which is a bit of a downer and not at all Jamaican), Marling has also recorded with The Rakes and the Mystery Jets.


INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

For a description of Marling's performance at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, go to The Stu Reid Experience.    Then read a REVIEW by Greg Rose of the London show 2 November at Union Chapel. and a review of the 7 November concert by THE HIGHLAND NEWS.

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