Mar. 10th, 2009

unclechristo: (gosh)
An old chum asked me to play for her school and talk about music to 7-10yr olds etc as they have been playing my Sanctuary piano album at assembly for ages. Schools aren't my favourite places but I thought it would be good for a change and to do something out of my comfort zone - I also remember my cousin Miv giving a talk about her native Zimbabwe when I was little at my primary school and how no one ever forgot it. A friend of mine from then still talks about it.

I slowly introduced each instrument, piano, kalimba, guitar, low whistle, tin whistles, theremin and alternated it with some songs - silly ones mostly - piano improv, Deja Blues, Long Days Waiting, Alien Salad Abuction, Bobby Caseys, Rainbow Real, Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do), some things on the theremin, Alien Jellyfish Song.
Of course the theremin was the star of the show and I got quite a few kids up to have a go.

Then things broke up and they all hastily wrote thank you letters to me while I broke the kit down, - then it was autograph time - I'd taken some postcards. The teachers seemed very enthusiastic afterwards, and the kids were too in a shy kinda way.   Overall - good for the soul I think.

I managed to do some recording/editing on the Bridget song, and the electrician came in the morning to sort out some lighting.

Still very tired after my crap day but felt a lot better generally - just need another good night sleep.
unclechristo: (wafflehouseeyes)
This amused me today - I love The Onion news and when they hit the nail on the head it;s art - certainly the only news network I trust.

Warning - there is a little bit of bad language in this vid.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of

I alsoloved the congessmans pre-emptive apology
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/congressman_offers_preemptive

plus
Have you got on to the phenomenon of Soupy Norman? -  - Polish soap opera humourously dubbed into new Irish dialogue - there are 8 episodes on youtube but annoyingly a couple have the sound out of synch with vision.
here is a good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxb8FwhzK8




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