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I have a germ of an idea for something to do along lines like this. Not EXACTLY like RH (who is a genius), but a band who combine music and thesp.
I've been thinking about the people I love who do this. Playing to acclaim lol over handed-out trifles locally as on NYE is close enough to insanity so why not make an act of it? I mean a GROUP, not a solo thing.
Alongside the day job, as ever. But that's better than dying by watching too much BT Vision.
I was scribbling ideas down in your style about this all day yesterday and have drafted an advert for others interested.
"Can we book you for next year's New Year's Eve?". So funny. It wasn't even my own band. I was on BAGPIPE for 20 odd minutes and loved it.
Folkestone - Je t'adore! xxxxx
Did you see the doc about Sting launching his folk-y Winter Songs in Durham Cathedral? It is essential viewing for any player. It is delicious and made me go all Spinal Tap in a posh way. Sting made me think of going parody. Catch it on iPlayer. Lordee he is not Mr Chuckles. It really is a doc to die for.
I'm thinking about an aspirational Covers band that seeks gravitas by writing its own material and making speeches. They THINK they can play well. They launch their self-penned stuff (in every genre possible as they are desperate - always a "new single") at people's weddings and stuff alongside the usual trite n bland covers set list. They will play well. They will play shockingly badly. It would have to work within 50 miles before taking the Edinburgh fringe. I know every venue within 50 miles and reckon savvy wedding people might DELIBERATELY book a bad band rather than booking a band for their wedding that turned out to be bad and unfunny anyway.
It's a very derivative idea - and it's not like a camp ABBA tribute. Or Pink Floyd.
I've said too much. I have realised I can't knock out po-faced cold turkey in a basket stuff any more. It is quietly insane. So I'm thinking about going deliberately insane. PLUS I have an urge to act a bit again without it being Gilbert and Sullivan in the local am dram shack.
I'm going to drop out an anonymous advert locally and see who responds. I can't ask one or two local people who might play drum or guitar or sing and fit the bill because they post things online about how they've had a year of "high profile" gigs with jam-packed diaries and it would be wrong to disabuse them. It means another year of playing crap in shitholes, but they can't see it and are only in it for the local bung anyway.
Sorry to go on.
"Can we book you again for next New Year, Mr Shuttleworth?".
PS You, Lasc, Wing or anyone else. Which other parody groups do you know, please?
D minor is the most sensitive of keys.
I started writing the names of musos, comedians, shows, scenes that amuse me and which might be style indicators for this sort of thing and have got to about 50 sources so far. Just in case I had to "persuade" anyone about what I was thinking about in case they'e too straight and find me/it too odd.
Thom Yorke performing a sweet version of Analyse from his album The Eraser at the Mercury Music Awards earlier in 2006. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7WY0VEQ...
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