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johnny9fingersYesterday was the Tin Pan Alley Festival.
I'd forgotten about it until Steve rang me on Sunday at noon.
I was due to songwrite/play elsewhere with an old singer/songwriter friend of mine.
Panic.
I called her and explained the situation, and it ended up that the two of us pootled across town to enjoy the rain and music in the great outdoors.
At the TPA festival, they close all of Denmark Street and erect a large stage & PA at the St Giles' end. Since its inception it has been run by Kate Greenslade (god bless her) .
However, I'm getting too old for all of this sort of stuff. I did all the free festivals in the late seventies. From Stonehenge to the Strawberry fair, I must have done them all, in the rain, mud, and knee deep in raw sewage. And though the soundsytems were often worse, the music was....to me more engaging, though sometimes the most dire crock of shit.
Ergo, spent a lot of the afternoon in the studio talking to Steve's family. Kat almost pulled some chap, but failed a final test of nerve and didn't give him her number: silly woman. Never mind.
The Street was overrun with folk who seemed barely out of kindergarden. The young are scary. Apart from putting metalwork into any projecting bit of their anatomy, and their loudness and brutishness, what is this fashion for tiny shorts (aka hot pants) over tights?
That Moss girl has a lot to answer for.
I'd forgotten about it until Steve rang me on Sunday at noon.
I was due to songwrite/play elsewhere with an old singer/songwriter friend of mine.
Panic.
I called her and explained the situation, and it ended up that the two of us pootled across town to enjoy the rain and music in the great outdoors.
At the TPA festival, they close all of Denmark Street and erect a large stage & PA at the St Giles' end. Since its inception it has been run by Kate Greenslade (god bless her) .
However, I'm getting too old for all of this sort of stuff. I did all the free festivals in the late seventies. From Stonehenge to the Strawberry fair, I must have done them all, in the rain, mud, and knee deep in raw sewage. And though the soundsytems were often worse, the music was....to me more engaging, though sometimes the most dire crock of shit.
Ergo, spent a lot of the afternoon in the studio talking to Steve's family. Kat almost pulled some chap, but failed a final test of nerve and didn't give him her number: silly woman. Never mind.
The Street was overrun with folk who seemed barely out of kindergarden. The young are scary. Apart from putting metalwork into any projecting bit of their anatomy, and their loudness and brutishness, what is this fashion for tiny shorts (aka hot pants) over tights?
That Moss girl has a lot to answer for.
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Date: 2007-07-16 02:33 pm (UTC)Or, the audience watching you as you sit on stage and compose out loud?
Actually, I do get it. But the possibilities are amusing to imagine.
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Date: 2007-07-16 02:35 pm (UTC)