Last night's documentary on Chubby Brown revealed him to be more of a crusader than a comedian. Whilst performing on stage whenever he made jokes about pakistanis being terrorists the audience instead of laughing started cheering and it made me think a bit more about my personal perspectives on similar incidents on the Harrow Campus. This is purely evident from the amount of boy-racers who hang about outside halls each night who don't give a toss about running over people. Is it any surprise why the Undercroft and Area struggle to get people to come in more regularly?
Anyway that's straying from the point, the documentary also revealed that the real Royston Vasey wasn't too different from his stage act and some of his opinions could be rather shocking. He defended himself by saying that many people North of Watford have similar opinions and it represents their general sense of humour.
I've been up in the studios again this morning working on production as planned and am waiting for a few more people to get in and have a listen as I feel I need a second opinion on what I've done.
In the meantime I'm having a listen back to last weeks Grooveline where the Album of the Month is "Interpretations"; a selection of covers of Earth Wind And Fire songs.
I'm not too sure about what I've heard so far, Mint Condition's cover of "After The Love Has Gone" is rather weak and doesn't really have the emotion of the original. Even Damage's 2001 cover was better than this.
However I've found another EWF cover which is more to my liking; The Nu Soul Orchestra and their take on "Runnin" from the band's 1977 album "All N All".
Also I've booked tickets for what I reckon will be my final gig this academic year, Jocelyn Brown at the Jazz Cafe. I've wanted to see this woman perform live since I arrived here in London and even her duetting with Jim Branning off Eastenders hasn't lowered her appeal.
It's dissertation deadline day for the third year media students and later this afternoon I may be tempted to gatecrash the celebrations at the Undercroft bar. Then again with the amount of times I've been mistaken for a third year, it shouldn't do me any harm at all.
1 comment:
Although I think some of Interpretations is pretty good, including the Mint Condition track, *all* of the tracks fall way short of the originals. It proves that if the original product was pretty much perfect, anything attempt to duplicate it is going to sound inferior.
The only exception to that is Incognito's version of That's The Way Of The World. No-one has ever done EWF as good as that.
Stephen H
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