Back in 2020, like billions around the world I had plenty of time to pass with my 'business' hands tied firmly behind my back. And yet I felt fortunate that we didn't live in suburbia, or urbia. Not sure if anybody refers to it that way, do they? I mean, suburban / urban, suburbia / [...]
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A long distance wedding performance.
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… or Pandemic Schmandemic#2 This post follows Pandemic Schmandemic#1 (check the link if you want to know what happened before). Once upon a time several decades ago, my sister told me of an early childhood memory of me playing the theme tune to a children’s television show on my brother’s guitar (Pat had set it [...]
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 [...]
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