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pull up a chair musiclovers, I have the urge to tell another story.......
Yesterday, I heard all the Monty Python gang being interviewed on the radio .(Well not quite all, they said Graham Chapman "remains stubbornly dead")It was this week in 1969 that their first show was broadcast on BBC radio. Michael Palin said at the time they had a "heady sense of freedom" as the BBC had imposed no limitations on them....well except for very little money and a late night time slot
I so loved "The Monty Python Flying Circus" TV show when I was younger( the larch....the larch LMAO). The world would be a much poorer place without all the wonderful art that ensued from the Python team. I adore Michael Palin. Terry Jones is in Australia at the moment and will be reading poetry and chatting with Shaun Micalleff(one of our best Aussie comedic writer and performers...Micallef, a name for a frogbat, also a name...) tomorrow a.m on ABC TV.
So YAY, Monty Python!! nudge nudge wink wink say no more
say
no
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Now the Dali bit....I have been wanting to look inside the Grafton Christchurch cathedral since I moved down here and never have felt right about it.Last night as part of Artsfest, a raggae/calypso band played in the cathedral, so I went along. Amazing!!!! the church interior and the music.They played lots of Bob Marley songs, it was a bit surreal watching the Artsfest crew cutting loose in front of the stained glass windows and to see a guy set up a camera tripod in the pulpit.
The drummer and singer, who also played steel drum, are both from Trinidad.Even so, I thought I recognised them. Small world hey?
I had travelled to town with hub who's band playing at a pub, so I had to fill in time till 2am. I went to the all night supermarket and the guys from Jahbutu, the calypso band were there too). I said to them, I just saw you in the cathedral and now here we are with supermarket trolleys, this is a very Python/Dali moment. lol.
Anyways I asked them, did you play in Lismore back in the 70's ? They had!!! with the Trinidad Cavalier Steel Band. I was there front row, when I was 14 with my parents.We bought their record all those years ago and still have it. So 26 years later they are still performing with such joy and harmony. Bravo.
Anyway, I found the whole thing wonderfully bizarre.
Cheers to music and laughter and you too.
Yesterday, I heard all the Monty Python gang being interviewed on the radio .(Well not quite all, they said Graham Chapman "remains stubbornly dead")It was this week in 1969 that their first show was broadcast on BBC radio. Michael Palin said at the time they had a "heady sense of freedom" as the BBC had imposed no limitations on them....well except for very little money and a late night time slot
I so loved "The Monty Python Flying Circus" TV show when I was younger( the larch....the larch LMAO). The world would be a much poorer place without all the wonderful art that ensued from the Python team. I adore Michael Palin. Terry Jones is in Australia at the moment and will be reading poetry and chatting with Shaun Micalleff(one of our best Aussie comedic writer and performers...Micallef, a name for a frogbat, also a name...) tomorrow a.m on ABC TV.
So YAY, Monty Python!! nudge nudge wink wink say no more
say
no
more
Now the Dali bit....I have been wanting to look inside the Grafton Christchurch cathedral since I moved down here and never have felt right about it.Last night as part of Artsfest, a raggae/calypso band played in the cathedral, so I went along. Amazing!!!! the church interior and the music.They played lots of Bob Marley songs, it was a bit surreal watching the Artsfest crew cutting loose in front of the stained glass windows and to see a guy set up a camera tripod in the pulpit.
The drummer and singer, who also played steel drum, are both from Trinidad.Even so, I thought I recognised them. Small world hey?
I had travelled to town with hub who's band playing at a pub, so I had to fill in time till 2am. I went to the all night supermarket and the guys from Jahbutu, the calypso band were there too). I said to them, I just saw you in the cathedral and now here we are with supermarket trolleys, this is a very Python/Dali moment. lol.
Anyways I asked them, did you play in Lismore back in the 70's ? They had!!! with the Trinidad Cavalier Steel Band. I was there front row, when I was 14 with my parents.We bought their record all those years ago and still have it. So 26 years later they are still performing with such joy and harmony. Bravo.
Anyway, I found the whole thing wonderfully bizarre.
Cheers to music and laughter and you too.