Hopes and Fears / June 29 2008
There was a loud party going on in a house on the other side of he rec’ last night.
With the aid of the Leica 8×20 binoculars pointed through the studio window, Audrey and I watched about twenty intoxicated people as they shouted at the moon, at each other and at the world in general, seemingly oblivious to their neighbours’ need for sleep.
There appeared to be a schooldays theme to the party. We could see people dressed as schoolgirls, teachers in gowns and mortarboards, lipsticked, cigarette-smoking floor-moppers, and toothless dinnerladies in turquoise aprons.
In a comically vain attempt to express themselves with some new form of freestyle dancing, we gazed upon people mostly standing still, arms limp by their sides as they awkwardly shook their heads to the music of Amy Winehouse (who must have been taking time off from assaulting fans at Glastonbury) and, later on, to the style of tuneless guitar music that my grandmother used to call ‘Heavy Medical’ – an artless and shocking noise that used to really frighten her whenever she heard it.
On another note, Episode 10 of the Big Arena Records Podcast is now online – the hilarious and magnificent final instalment of the first season. It features the Two Hopes – Bob Hope and No Hope – singing You Do Too Much, another gloriously raucous Enormous stomper taken from Electric Baby Grand.
Before they left the studio to patronise more of the local hostelries, the Two Hopes asked me to say this to you: ‘Thank you for letting us into your home.’
(If you are not presently at home, it might be a good idea to run back and check that no one is there.)
Filed under Hope / Podcast / Electric Baby Grand / Amy Winehouse / Anti-Social Behaviour / Drinking / Nelson Galaxy / Music / Recording Studio / Insomnia / Enormous
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3 comments on “Hopes and Fears”
Nelson Galaxy / June 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Episode 10 is rather brilliant Nap. Whoever is singing the higher harmony is just brilliant. What a genius.
Napoleon Fantastic / July 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
It was Nelson Galaxy - or rather, it was a person like Nelson Galaxy, but much less sober.
Come to think that is Nelson Galaxy!
So there we have it: confirmed. It was Nelson Galaxy singing the high part.
belinda / July 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
What ever .. you are always on Creative Areas & Minds .. so .. that is the MOST reason, and Why i stay here .. regard for Audrey.
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