Vocal Coach REACTS - Nathan Evans 'The Wellerman'

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Happy Robbie Burns Day! - no better way than to give a shout out to this delightful remix of Scottish Postman and Sea Shanty Titan Of TikTok Nathan Evans and his rendition of 'The Wellerman'

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[Thrnable]

This is one of those rare moments when the internet gets its sh*t together and produces something absolutley awsome!

[bond_]

That is EXACTLY how sea shanties should be sung, as a group, everyone throwing their voice in and just singing. This is amazing.

[DJScootagroov]

Gen Z singing 1800’s sea shanties is one of the weirdest things to come out of tiktok. But I love it.

[nonanon]

For those interested in the history of this shanty...
"The Wellerman" refers to a supply ship owned by the Weller Brothers Whaling Company, registered as a company in Sydney, Australia but operating out of Otago Harbour, New Zealand.
Company employees were also referred to as "Wellermen", and there is still a Weller Street in the old quarter of the harbour, on the road to Portobello.
In this context "the Wellerman" refers to the company supply ship.
The shanty was first sung in the 1830s when my home city of Dunedin, Otago was not yet important enough to have a name, and consisted of a whaling/sealing station and a collection of rough-hewn huts built by whalers and sealers living among the native Maori.
It was first recorded in a written record in the 1860s.
"Tounging" refers to the process of using pole-axes and lances to cut the skin and blubber into long strips called "tongues" for rendering to extract oil and tallow.
It can also refer to the removal of the oil-rich tongue from the mouth of a whale lashed to the side of a ship, but as there was a land based whaling/sealing station in Otago Harbour, the shanty likely refers to the landborne version, a job for lubbers, children, the old, and infirm, those unfit for duties at sea.
The full version of the shanty tells the tale of a Southern Right Whale bull which destroys one boat before they've even been lowered fully from the ship.
The captain, bound by a code of honour, orders the men to proceed, despite the inauspicious start to the hunt.
The whale is harpooned, and tows the linked boats far from the whaler, eventually sinking all but one boat of four men.
According to the shanty, they are never seen again, and are still being towed to this day, still locked in their timeless struggle of man, leviathan, and sea.
Company supply ships like the Wellerman were notorious for setting the prices of essentials like tea, sugar, rum and tobacco so high as to keep employees in permanent indentured servitude.
The whalers foresee no end to the slaughter of whales, the oil industry of the day, and they see no end, ever, to the need of tonguing.
Therefore, "One day when the tounging is done, we'll take our leave and go" is dark humour, an insider's joke acknowledging the men are stranded here at the bottom of the world in a harsh, cold landscape for the foreseeable future.
Shanties were sung by harsh men in harsh conditions to lift morale and prevent infighting.
They required no instruments, although simple tunes on simple instruments could and would accompany them, and the more people who joined in, the better they sounded and the more effective they were as a collaborative tool to lift spirits.
It shouldn't really come as any surprise then, that a Covid-ravaged world under lockdown, filled with housebound people with broadband and simple recording devices, has rediscovered the power of the shanty, if only for a brief moment.
It gladdens my heart, because I was born on the shores of Otago Harbour.
I sang shanties poorly to the waves and the gulls, as I sat on a pier with my back against one of the original stone Victorian buildings, the occasional whale cruising past.
All those years, and I had never heard the shanty tale of The Wellerman, while sitting in the place it was born, until an Irishman on TikTok went viral, a round voyage of 40, 000kms and 190 years.

[tonybodell]

Both basses I’m the one with the beard at the beginning 😁

[Lokitty]

So for anyone who doesn't know how big this blew up. The lead singer was a MAILMAN!! He is now a recording artist!
You never know what just trying can do

[joanmcgrath]

Nathan recorded himself singing the shanty then tiktok started to add their harmonies to it. Nathan didn’t know about it until someone told him. All of this is added later one by one. As a vocal coach how cool is that

[dienachfrager]

Amazing, just 3 weeks after uploading this on Tic Toc he quit his job as a postman and signed a contract...

[SuperGreensand]

History fact; sea shanties were used not only to pass the time at sea and raise morale, they also helped sailors synchronize and coordinate with each other while doing their various duties on the ship🤯🤯🤯

[gunnarhammerstead]

i have a theory on why shanty's suddenly surged in popularity towards the end of 2020, they were tunes of reunion to kill the time since the seas got lonely. and that's exactly what 2020 brought us, boredom and loneliness, and since these shanty's were designed to bring us together, thats exactly what they did, and may we never forget the men that partly pioneered the surge of shanty's, the longest john's. if they hadn't made it big then this may have never started.

[nightspicer]

Fun fact: the bass guy on red shirt is 19 years old

[LadyMephistopheles]

Things 2021 and 1700s have in common: shanties & sailing around Africa to get to India

[johnnysteele]

"No, i will not be playing my bagpipes today, nobody wants that."

I do now.

[johnnydiaz]

There’s now a new genre of music. Electro-Shanty😎😂

[london_lulu]

"Son of a rum puncher" well, I'm definitely using this in my daily vernacular from now on.

[pointless_lea]

if i went to a bar and all of a sudden people just started singing sea shanties, my life would be complete. i could die happy.

[lindsaydusi]

The best thing about this song is how catchy it is, how it infiltrates your brain, and how it sticks in your head for days. Please tell me I’m not the only one...

[somedingusdragonborn]

"SON OF A RUM-PUNCHER, THIS IS SO GOOD!" Is the best quote I've heard today.

[MiaRut]

I swear this EDM Sea Shanty has no business being that much of a bop... But HERE WE FUCKIN ARE 🤩😂

[ChrisBach]

The pure joy on this guys face echoes exactly how I feel about this. This ShantyTok movement is amazing. Music is coming from a much more wholesome place than it did when I was young.