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Fashion Victim

Should you wear a wig to an outdoor concert?

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I’m sure this is a question that’s been on your mind for some time now and luckily, right here on Redsultana, I can advise you with some experience.

The pros:
You don’t have to wash your hair, no one can see your greys, it remains effortlessly neat.  When the temperature drops after dark, your head stays warm.
The cons:
It’s a bit hot and uncomfortable. As the hair was lighter than my natural hair it did fly about a bit. And it was difficult to know if all my natural hair was remaining undercover.

In short, I probably wouldn’t again.  Grey hair?  It’s distinguished.  🙂

And don’t you love the guy in the background getting into the shot.  It’s a close community up there in picnic blanket land.

I was at the John Mellencamp concert, supported by Sheryl Crow and another artist called Toby… who, now I think about it, I think is a friend of my cousin.

It was quite warm out there in the country and there were a few flies… and a few fashion victims.

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I think it’s the skull socks.

Teamed with the little halfway booties they are a picture… but then add the white tights and wow.  Who was going to beat that?

Certainly not me in my wig.

And what do you think happened here?

It’s just not a good look.

And no.  That’s not my blanket.

School

My Christmas spirit is already wearing thin

04122007257Two end-of-school concerts in one day is enough to make any proud parent call for a bex don’t you think?

First up the daughter’s Edudance concert – which was quite nice and brief – the way a school concert should be. In about 40 minutes we’d had seven numbers. My daughter was brilliant of course. Compliments to the ex-Moulin Rouge dance teacher who even choreographed the item segues so we weren’t left for too long without something to watch or do. (No, no topless dancing for the under-12s in case you were wondering.)

Then the son’s end of year Christmas concert. Grumpy Groover came along with the daughter and I to this one – hey I went to both so I wasn’t going alone – and we sat down to be entertained, only wincing slightly.

Now the thing with music concerts is that they are NOT choreographed. And of course the school wants to show off the range of musical instruction. It leads to a pretty tedious two hours.

We started with the Junior/Intermediate Band playing (for the seventh time this year) the theme to Pirates of the Carribean. They play it well. It’s familiar. I like it. A good start. I thought to myself “Hey this might be okay after all…”

But they only played ONE TRACK and then we had to wait while two people moved ALL THE CHAIRS for the next piece – a five piece recorder ensemble. The recorders are okay but do you really need to move 30 chairs especially as the band is COMING BACK ON! Goodwill only goes so far.

Then we heard a flute ensemble… meh. Haven’t we heard flutes already in the band? And then an electric guitar solo. Now I don’t mind an emo playing guitar but couldn’t they be directed to perform?! Sitting on your chair and playing along to an mp3 player we couldn’t hear. Oh the pain! I’d rather they play Stairway to Heaven – at least I know the tune. And STAND UP for goodness sake! You’re a guitar player!

Then the choir came on – this is my son. Belt buckle not done up properly but otherwise quite smart. Don’t you wish you could rush on stage and dress them properly!

First tune was Shackleton which they’ve been practicing all year. They are pretty good although the piano drowned out the soloist… a pity. Then Tora Ora, which was okay. Then they decided to showcase their year 9 vocal students. Plainly they hadn’t done a soundcheck with the mikes which were so loud the young performers were quite thrown. You couldn’t hear the choir backing singers at all. They chose some complicated song and most of them were out of tune, probably freaked out with how loud they were… also it looked as if they had had no microphone technique taught to them… singstar on playstation doesn’t count.
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Awful.

Anyway then we had two long boring tunes by the guitar ensemble – another long set change as they arranged chairs for them… then three short but pleasant tunes from the strings and finally another long set change as the intermediate band came back on… they played some woeful arrangement called Bugs and something else unremarkable. And finally FINALLY – everyone came on stage to sing Christmas carols.

A two hour program…

So here’s my advice if you are arranging a school concert:

  1. Plan your concert so you don’t have to continually re-arrange the furniture… that might mean solos and small ensembles first.
  2. If you are including solos/small ensembles – ONE ITEM ONLY.
  3. Song selection – familiar tunes work best with a mixed audience who are really only there to listen to one person. Short songs are also welcome.
  4. If planning to use microphones – do a soundcheck.
  5. If using a piano with a choir – put the choir in front of the piano – so we can hear them.
  6. Length – don’t feel you need to pad out to two hours. 60-90 minutes is enough for busy parents who possibly have several concerts to go to.

Finally, you may be sure that both my kids & Groover will be in attendence at MY concert this weekend as our choir sings in public for the first time. Mwah ha ha ha ha!!

Music, Reviews

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton from the Where's Eric websiteI was lucky enough to be invited to the Eric Clapton concert tonight. The tickets were amazing – second row, centre.

Eric Clapton does not look like a rock star. This was a concert for people who love great music not teenyboppers looking for eye candy.. He’s what 60? He looks like an old man. He wears very unfashionable glasses. But he can play the guitar like an angel.

He had some serious guitar players with him on-stage. Derek Trucks – who was awesome – and incidentally the youngest player to make the Rolling Stone top 100 guitarists of all time… (can you name the two women in the top 100?) and a guy called Doyle Bramhall II (who was taking photos on-stage using the timing device on his SLR!). The drummer Steve Jordan was great too – very… enthusiastic. Eric knows how to pick a band…even the pianist is world renowned… apparently.

There was a mix of old and new – he used the full band and did solo acoustic pieces – it was a well crafted concert.

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It was weird because even though he is brilliant, he didn’t really have that rock star prescence. It was almost like the band playing with no lead singer…

I was glad I went and my thanks to my gracious hostess. 🙂

…did you work out the two women in the top 100 guitarists of all time (2003) list?

Extracurricular, Music

Parochial

I know that my hackles rise when someone disses my city and I try not to take it personally but I thought it an odd way to begin a concert last night by describing your host city as “quite nice”.

What was that about?

Dianne Reeves said she’d spent a little more time here than she had on her last visit in 1991 and she found Perth “quite nice and I like the wine.”

Well I found her concert, under the stars at Lake Karrinyup Country Club quite nice and I liked the wine (too much) as well.

I even saw the comet.

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I found her continual reverance and reference to her idol (Sarah Vaughn) over the top and boring – sure talk about it once but then move on lady – and her song selection for the most part – pedestrian. I was very disappointed with her final song – she left us on a low rather than a high.

But as I say, I wasn’t really there for the concert and we sat on our picnic blanket until the last bus left.

We had a great time, and I wish I liked Jazz enough to really appreciate the concert, but I suspect it wasn’t even that great a Jazz concert anyway.

Maybe in the end I did take her comment too personally. 🙂

Extracurricular, Music

Stung

Just in case you were wondering… the Sting concert down at Leeuwin Estate was fantastic.

We drove straight there from Perth and arrived early – about 3.15 – the gates opened at five so we sat in the middle of a dusty windy paddock eating our picnic nibblies and talking. The time past quickly and soon the gates were open and it was a mad rush to the parking area – the coaches – lots of them – racing the cars it seemed. As soon as cars got stopped to be directed to park, people leapt out of the back seats and RAN for the entrance. We sent of Mandi and Mike while we were parked relatively closely to the gate.

We were in the first wave of people entering the amphitheatre and so found ourselves relatively close to the action and the $1000/head seats at the front.

It was lovely sitting their in the sunshine waiting for the concert to start – we caught up with other friends who had also made the trip down – and enjoyed a glass or two of wine and a few more nibblies. The amphitheatre is quite sheltered so the howling wind of the paddock was not in evidence.

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Afterward we stayed on for a while – there were A LOT of very drunk people in the loos – before driving back to Dunsborough. A great midweek interlude.