Shownotes Transcript
The song I have sent you this week is taken from one of my DVDs so there are pictures to go with it…pictures you will see in your mind’s eye as you are one of us. Easy to sing about as it is such a great place to live.
They have found a “new” planet in our solar system….it’s so far away you can’t actually SEE it and it my not ACTUALLY be there…but by all accounts this is very exciting.
Now…is it me or is all this space stuff a complete waste of money…we are told that children are starving and there is not enough money to pay the doctors…then we watch a guy doing sommersaults in a spaceship…not to mention the thing that landed on a comet as the batteries went flat…what happened to that?…plus we have been informed that the richest men in the worlds form 1% of the population and their wealth is equal to the rest of us…the whole thing is a joke.
There looks like there’s been a bit of naughtiness in the Tennis fraternity….match fixing indeed….I don’t know why everyone is so surprised…where there’s gambling and money involved you will get scullduggery…tennis is probably the easiest game to fix because pros can hit a ball to within 6 inches of where they want it to go…so if someone has got a few grand on who will double fault first…no problem.
It’s a tricky one to trace….but I feel sport has lost it’s way…even the Olympics are getting boring….Tennis has lost it’s characters like Nastase…Connors…McEnroe etc…now we have Andy Murray who is about as interesting as astrology ….and Jocavic…great as he is…not much entertainment value….or am I just getting old?
They had a get together at Fort Perch Rock last Sunday in memory of Harry Prytherch who was a Merseybeat drummer with The Remo Four and did a lot to keep the music alive. It was well attended and they had a couple of solo acts and a couple of bands…I got up with one of the bands and did a few Rick Nelson songs as Harry once MC’d a show I did with James Burton. It was a a nice afternoon anf harry would have been delighted with it…in the words of Harry “May the Fort be with you”.
.Great news for our fundraising Wednesdays with The Cheshire Cats….Barry Mason no less has offered to come and do a show for us….he will sing the million seller hits he has written and talk about how they came about…I have been dotting out his set in the strange keys he sings in and have got a band together to back him…I’ll be playing guitar. His hits include “Delilah”…”The Last Waltz”…”Bicyclettes de Belsize”….hits for the Drifters …Tom Jones and Englebert…etc…….it’s a big ask but a nice challenge