Children of the revolution...

Out to Loanhead tonight for a visit to the maternal home of Mr CBQ. Sister Pam is up from London and does not appear to need to breathe whilst she regales us of every iota of activity undertaken since her arrival yesterday lunchtime…

Considering the content of this website, the above remark brings to mind the words kettle, pot and black…

On the drive over I have an idea for a new open mic night. One of the great things about Out of the Bedroom, is its policy of no cover versions. However, some of its most popular nights are those on which a “themed” covers night takes place…

And so my big idea is a new themed open mic night. So it wouldn’t be people just turning up and playing their favourite cover versions – no, each night would be themed…

We could have, just off the top of my head, the following nights:-

T Rex night
Bob Dylan night
David Bowie night
Beatles night
Rolling Stones night
Elvis Presley night
Glam Rock night
Cheesy Pop night
Grunge Rock night
Heavy Metal night
Uriah Heep night
Grand Funk Railroad night

OK perhaps I’ve taken that too far…

Of course they must all be totally acoustic and I think that would be entertaining…

However, Anne utters the word “No” in response to my question as to whether she thinks it’d be a good idea – she reckons it might be a bit Karaoke-ey but I don’t because I believe people would put their own interpretation on the songs rather than true Karaoke where they’d be singing along to a backing track designed to sound as much like the original as possible…

And so, I believe it may prove popular because (a) people would know the songs and (b) they would be interested to hear how they were being interpreted…

It could also help budding singer-songwriters who, by learning covers, would be able to see how successful writers have written their songs…

The idea flashed into my head because I’d made up a T Rex : The Singles 1968-1977 24 song CD for chum Spike and we were listening to it as we drove. I asked Anne what her fave T Rex single was – she doesn’t have one – mine is, at the moment “Children of the Revolution”…

…just a thought…

Anyway, other highlights from the evening were Pam saying she was going to Belgium on business for one day and that the town she was going to was closer to Holland than Belgium???

Pam constantly referring to “Strictly Come Dancing “ as “Strictly BALL Dancing “…

Me and sister Sheila trying to fix a noise coming from my mum’s rubbish electric fire - we thought we’d succeeded but ultimately we were defeated by the rubbishy workings inside the fire – despite the placing of a cut down candle and an ornament of some sort inside the fire in a cunning attempt to silence the offending sound…

The entire family discussing the fact that my nephew, Andrew jnr, who contributed such lovely piano to the last track on “Deeperdown” and co-wrote two of the songs with me, has a RUBBISH job delivering wigs from some kind of sweat-shop running exploitational employer – and that he ought to call in tomorrow morning and say he’s not going back…

An entertaining time was had by all….