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Finally, someone's talking seriously about getting rid of Tube drivers. Let's start by ditching the people who are paid to get on the DLR, nick the front seat one carefully positioned oneself to grab at Bank, and then pretend to drive just as one was doing oneself before being so rudely interrupted.

Another local comedy preview this week, which I think it would be fair to say was a little less polished than the first, plus two gigs with a Georgeson connection; the Soft Close-Ups, on a stage covered inexplicably but beautifully in confetti, fit a cover of Mr Solo's 'Astrology' into the set, alongside a does-it-count-as-a-cover of Luxembourg's 'About Time'; the rest of their set is as expected, but it's not as if they play often enough for these songs to lose their sparkle. David Devant themselves, on the other hand...maybe it's like Larry Niven's concept of mana as a finite resource, but I find myself wondering if all the belief the World Cup is taking up means less iconic energy to go around elsewhere, because until the encore they are merely 'very good', as against the usual 'magical'. Perhaps part of the problem is that I have seen in the pub beforehand that Foz? has a swanee whistle, a kazoo and a duck call, but none of them make a noticeable show during the gig. It's like having a gun on the wall in the first act and then not firing it by the end of the third. Except quackier.

Spent yesterday in the centre - and without sighting a single elephant, though I did happen upon Postman's Park at last. The goal of the expedition, though, was the Hunterian Museum. Supposedly it's a resource for surgical education, but most of the stuff there can serve no purpose except freaking people out. The disembodied circulatory system of a baby, in particular, will follow me through my nightmares, and there was a syphilitic cock in a jar whose eye follows you around the room. Some of it is simply random - a jar containing a tapir's anus, another with the nipple of a horse - while other relics are celebrity underskin, like Jonathan Wild's skeleton or half of Babbage's brain. Hideous, yet wonderful. Very London.

Date: 2010-06-18 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com
Let's start by ditching the people who are paid to get on the DLR, nick the front seat one carefully positioned oneself to grab at Bank, and then pretend to drive just as one was doing oneself before being so rudely interrupted.

Ha, I thought that was just me!

Date: 2010-06-18 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com
Why do you think I had a child?

Date: 2010-06-18 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com
Just so you could pretend to drive the DLR? You don't need a child for that!

Date: 2010-06-18 11:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com
It may not have been the most foolproof plan of my life...

Date: 2010-06-18 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Apart from anything else, doesn't The Child insist on getting to do all the cool bits?

Date: 2010-06-18 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com
Yeah, but in another year or two she'll be too embarassed and I can make her cringe by insisting on doing it anyway... *bides time*

Date: 2010-06-18 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Bwahahahaha!

Date: 2010-06-18 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stu-n.livejournal.com
It's so not just you.

Date: 2010-06-18 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missfrost.livejournal.com
The kazoo was definitely out for I'm Not Even Going To Try.

Date: 2010-06-18 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
And apparently there was some on the free jazz interludes of 'Cookie', but they weren't nearly as noticeable as I'd expected/hoped.

duck call

Date: 2010-06-19 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
fair comments, I was in a slightly bad mood as some Devant fans had posted comments that I should stick to the riffs and avoid the 'improvisation'. As I now spend most of my time in the rarified atmosphere of Musical Saw, Swannee whistle etc (KC, Foster & Gilvan), I was a bit miffed, tried to get the duck etc in but nobody reacted. Devant has become a bit of a museum piece with the artifacts carefully guarded by the fans, which is hardly creative. What we need is some new material... Plans are afoot... watch this space!

Re: duck call

Date: 2010-06-20 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
I'm glad to hear it! There was a new song at the last 100 Club show or the one before, wasn't there? But I can appreciate it must be a bugger getting the balance right when there's so much love for the classics and every new song in the set means someone doesn't get to hear their favourite.

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