Saturday 4 November 2006

What a busy day. I spent this morning at the Beacon Bonanza: the huge local jumble sale sort-of-thing where I bought my beloved £20 bike last year, and then this afternoon Susie and I set off on the train into town for some musical adventures. First, we dropped in on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's rehearsal with John Oswald, Chris Cutler, Zeena Parkins and co., then we wandered across the road to the guitar band extravaganza that was the Get While the Getting's Good launch party.  St Deluxe were acting as Future Pilot AKA's backing band, with a bit of help from 6 year old Anurudh Dade (who also made the cover painting for the CD) doing some funky drumming. Have melodica, will play, so I busked my way through a fun version of Orange Juice's 'Moscow' - I even worked out when to shout 'MOSCOW!' by the third chorus - before we were joined by Duglas Stewart out of the BMX Bandits for a suitably deviant version of Cher's 'Believe'. Susie was not going to be upstaged by someone younger than she, so she climbed onto my shoulders to witness Duglas's unexpected kazoo solo from above, and establish her rock chick credentials.  There were a few video cameras around documenting this, so I wonder if youtube will be graced with the evidence soon. 

Earlier in the day, entertaining listening included the Kendal Mintcake remix of S-E-X-X-Y which appears in the current TMBG podcast: a brilliant mash-up that incorporates amongst others The La's, Herbie Hancock, the Beatles, Raymond Scott, and, gloriously, Andy Partridge.  When you make music that of legal necessity has to remain outside the music business, the music has to be its own reward.