Part One: Maths was never one of my strongest points, so a bit of artistic licence is required to provide clarity. Two of our favourite young people had their first child a bit under a year ago. When they told us the child's name, I felt the urge to write a song. I continue to [...]
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The soundtrack to Barbara’s walk down the aisle
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… a long distance wedding performance, continued #5 … OR PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC#7 Another song I'd never heard of. The bride-to-be asked for me to perform 'A Thousand Years' while she made her way from the back of the room to the groom and celebrant. My quip about The Proclaimers's 'I'm Gonna Be' (500 Miles) morphed [...]
Foo who?
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… a long distance wedding performance, continued #4 … OR PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC#6 'Of course,' I responded. 'Everyone's heard of the Foo Fighters.' However, naming one of their songs with any confidence was doubtful, although the name Dave Grohl has cropped up periodically over the years. Being the multi-instrumentalist past-member of Nirvana (and a rather charismatic [...]
A long distance wedding performance, continued #3
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… OR PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC#5 Coldplay are a polarising musical unit. People seem to love or loathe them and their work, their casual live approach, Chris Martin's falsetto and expansive, regular grin. I do have a couple of Coldplay albums in my collection — and indeed perform 'The Scientist' as part of my acoustic setlist which [...]
Pandemic Schmandemic Pt.1
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Narratives resulting from Covid-19 would have to amount to billions. Some tragic or at the least situation-changing but, mostly count as mere inconvenience in the scheme of things. Such as being coerced home halfway through our well-planned and half-enjoyed trip to New Zealand (all we experienced was amazing, but we only experienced half on the [...]
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