Life has taken over. Both on child care duty for part of half term whilst trying to manage MRI trying to kill the mother in law through such abject and obvious neglect I best avoid further comment. So, took the 6 year old to Sheffield and the pub were very clear about not letting in 6 year olds
Conversation with the offspring and we decided to skip the gig and focus on matters at hand. Despite an expertly crafted handbill, which gave them the largest font size and implied they were top of the bill, they were on first Started playing to about 5 or 6 people and ended up with about 60 or 70.
Judging by the state of them at 10:15am this morning in the Chocolate Cafe, a good time was had by all which went far beyond closing time. Apparently it went very well indeed. Despite the fact the degree course is performance based and focused on guitar they were playing drums. Last night secured 2 headline slots so I’ll hopefully be attending 1 of those next month. Having heard 1 song composed by their female lead singer I have to say I’d genuinely be interested even if the offspring wasn’t in there.
I’ll be having stern words about the velvet jacket though.
Hifi shows and comment on same are thus bottom of the bill at present.
Your comment regarding the surround sound demo reminds me of a large Hi-Fi show I attended with my father and older brother way back in the early '70s, I’m sure that it was at Olympia.
There was a room demonstrating Quadrophonic sound, (I don’t know who the company was). The audience were seated on a platform and as the show began the lights dimmed and various sound effects were played, a jet flying from one corner to the other, racing cars being driven etc. The effect that had the most impression on me was that of a fair-ground carousel. Round and round it seemed to go, round and round and round until I was feeling quite nauseous and then the inevitable happened…I threw up. I’m sure you’ll be able to imagine the effect that had on the demo and the disruption it probably had on the following demos too.
My next experience of quadrophonic music was several years later when a friend and his girlfriend and me and my girlfriend (now my wife) were travelling to Southend one Bank Holiday in a large American car that had a quad sound system but the only thing that we had to play on it was a quad version of I think Machine Head (I’m pretty sure but may be wrong), this was play at full volume on repeat all the way there, about three hours.
I’ll be heading down tomorrow. I usually go with my brother or best mate but none are available this year so I’ll be on my Jack Jones. One thing I always find about hi-fi shows is the music selection. So unoffensive, its offensive! As said previously here, Jazz is just so irritating. Seems to be quite a few usual suspects not attending this year!? No B&W. No KEF. No Kudos.
I thought about gong this morning but then I remembered previous years.
Anyway, what prompted me to post here is that I’m astonished how @Innocent_Bystander and @joy_boy have just dismissed jazz entirely. It is such a broad genre that there must be at least one sub-genre that you’d enjoy. If you like rock music, for instance, I’m sure you’d enjoy jazz-rock fusion. I think that’s how I got drawn in.
You’re quite right Clive. I shouldn’t entirely dismiss Jazz. I must remember that Jamiroquai is in fact ‘acid jazz’ which I like. Its more the elevator music type Jazz that I’m not particularly fond of.
Of course I can’t say there isn’t a single jazz track that I might like if I were to hear it. But nothing I have heard is appealing. Whilst some jazz is bearable, more so with a live band in the corner of, say, a restaurant, it is not interesting or even enjoyable as a music to which to listen and all too much just makes me want to cover my ears while I dash out of the room. Yes, there are crossover genres like jazz-rock, and there is no clear definition as to when it is jazzy rock and when rocky jazz, but it doesn’t take much jazziness for me to go off it. Some people talk about finding a way in to jazz, but I don’t see the point in trying to find, given that in so doing I’d have to try music that just makes me cringe, while there is already more music I do like than I have time in my life to hear enough of.
These were really nice to my ears. Amazingly detailed, open and realistic presentation with some kind of country going on (and I don’t say that very often). But then it turned to tinkly-tink stuff and I had to leave the room…
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