Thursday 13 May 2010

Still in management mode here, but today I should also get down to making some repertoire decisions about which Mackintosh tunes we might play and record in a couple of weeks' time. DG has sent me his wish list, so if I collate that with mine, we might have a record's worth of tunes.

You can Mark Steel entertaining the Pickie Centre here: despite him saying 'the Orkneys' to the audience at one point to hear the ensuing hiss (it's Orkney or the Orkney Isles), the press billings for the programme mentioned 'the Orkneys', and the Radio 4 announcer even introduced it as being from 'the island of Orkney'. Did the producer not listen to her own programme before writing the presentation notes? England is just a county isn't it?

Now that the election is over, I finally figured out why Labour were using the phrase 'hard-working families' throughout the campaign, which given the ever-increasing number of people living on their own, seemed a bit counterproductive to me. Jack Straw let the cat out of the bag this morning by mentioning 'C2s' in the same breath: it's NewLabourspeak for 'the working class'. Someone told them they never live on their own, don't you know.

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New Flipron video - yay! I want to be able to play like Joe.

Mackintosh repertoire is cooking up nicely: it is indeed a record's worth of tunes - whew. And Allan Wright came over for a lunchtime curry in his splendid rusty Jag and together we plotted the downfall of music theory as we know it.