Chobits and pieces
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gervase_fenSpent the morning ordering up £2000 worth of stock, over the phone, for the manga evening next Thursday. The lady at the other end of the line for the third call sounded quite weary by the end of it.
Spent the afternoon helping with a staff appraisal, which is a first for me as far as I can recall. At the end I did ask whether the appraisee wanted us to set "giving up smoking" as a long-term goal, but he demurred politely.
Spent the evening at the New Theatre Royal in Southsea with Mum and Dad watching Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers. Support was from Rosalie Deighton, a singer/songwriter with Kate Rusby-ish tones and whose career might be starting all over again (her first and only LP came out in 2001) thanks to the success of KT Tunstall and Sandy Thom. It seemes that there's now a clear commercially viable niche for feisty, folky songstresses.
Continually engaging, Glenn Tilbrook knows that he doesn't have to introduce songs like "Up the Junction", "Tempted", "Pulling Mussels from the Shell" any more than Paul McCartney would say "This one's called "Yesterday"". The band are loud, tight and clearly having a blast - the keyboardist and drummer in particular could steal the show from a less charismatic frontman than Glenn.
Highlights included the above classic Squeeze hits, as well as "Hourglass", "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Slap and Tickle". Keyboardist Steve Large is an up and coming recording artist in his own right, and the co-written political song "Don't stick around too long" (WMDs, dodgy dossiers etc.) was a stand-out. It was a treat to hear him on the Korg CX3, recreating that distinctive, late seventies synth sound (e.g the intro to "Take Me I'm Yours"). The finale somehow went from "Take Me I'm Yours", via a vocoder homage to "Funky Town", to end up with the band leading the audience in a chorus of Minnie Ripperton's "Loving You" ("Loving you is easy cos you're beautiful / la, la la, la/ la, la, la, la / aaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggh").
Spent the afternoon helping with a staff appraisal, which is a first for me as far as I can recall. At the end I did ask whether the appraisee wanted us to set "giving up smoking" as a long-term goal, but he demurred politely.
Spent the evening at the New Theatre Royal in Southsea with Mum and Dad watching Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers. Support was from Rosalie Deighton, a singer/songwriter with Kate Rusby-ish tones and whose career might be starting all over again (her first and only LP came out in 2001) thanks to the success of KT Tunstall and Sandy Thom. It seemes that there's now a clear commercially viable niche for feisty, folky songstresses.
Continually engaging, Glenn Tilbrook knows that he doesn't have to introduce songs like "Up the Junction", "Tempted", "Pulling Mussels from the Shell" any more than Paul McCartney would say "This one's called "Yesterday"". The band are loud, tight and clearly having a blast - the keyboardist and drummer in particular could steal the show from a less charismatic frontman than Glenn.
Highlights included the above classic Squeeze hits, as well as "Hourglass", "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Slap and Tickle". Keyboardist Steve Large is an up and coming recording artist in his own right, and the co-written political song "Don't stick around too long" (WMDs, dodgy dossiers etc.) was a stand-out. It was a treat to hear him on the Korg CX3, recreating that distinctive, late seventies synth sound (e.g the intro to "Take Me I'm Yours"). The finale somehow went from "Take Me I'm Yours", via a vocoder homage to "Funky Town", to end up with the band leading the audience in a chorus of Minnie Ripperton's "Loving You" ("Loving you is easy cos you're beautiful / la, la la, la/ la, la, la, la / aaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggh").
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Date: 2006-07-13 10:29 am (UTC)