With my probable departure from Camden, the town I consider my home, back to Scotland, it pisses me off that a guy who restricted his performances to the land of my parents, grandparents and their ancestors’ birth* is now travelling far and wide and will therefore give me less of a chance to see him live.
*My dad was an engineer and the family moved around the Middle East. I was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, but I am a ‘Sweaty Sock’ as we are called down here.
And the bloke seems to use a pretty broad range of instruments, including the accordion.
I remember the first time I saw Shawn Colvin at the original Mean Fiddler. She was accompanied by bassist and accordion player, T Bone Wolk.
Shawn told a story that, at a benefit gig, Bonnie Raitt approached T Bone after a spectacular accordion solo and asked him if he was married, to which he replied yes and enquired why she had asked.
She replied, “Your wife has got to be the luckiest woman in the world to be married to a guy who can move his fingers that quickly.”
One of few tracks using accordion I’ve heard (honest I don’t search for accordion music) is Eddi Reader singing with Fairground Attraction on the LIVE version of Allelujah from the album Ay Fond Kiss. A simple yet brilliant analogy underpins the song – the composer is Mark Nevin.
The video below is pretty good with Eddi Reader being nuttier than usual but the track on the album is better.
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music is good ‘n all that, but whaddayamean? Are you leaving london?
Looks like I may have to.
Probable large rent increase (a kind landlord has held the rent at the same level for years) which will make London unaffordable.
Flatshares are out of the question considering unsociable hours and risk exposure to sharers considering an uncertain income.
Still, miracles do happen – If my landlord is considering selling, he’ll be much better off waiting for the new capital gains tax system to come into force next year when Alistair Darling/Gordon Brown’s great socialist ‘initiative’ will give buy-to-let investors a much greater profit on their properties.
So if I can stay on, I don’t know who to thank, Alistair Darling or George Osborne…..