MUSIC FOR THE CHILDREN

26/2/2001

Off the back of a successful show at Beaconsfield f.c, the mag 7 were booked to  entertain during an 18th birthday bash at stocks (the mansion where Oasis done the photo shoot for the cover of the "be here now" album.

We were asked  to set up opposite the dj in the small narrow entrance hall which had doorways  through to a large dining area and a detached bar.

Competing with cousin ‘it the dj’, the feedback problems proved insurmountable, still he was struggling to get any interest from the punters whilst we awaited our  slot.

One of the organizers decided that it would be a spiffing idea to announce that food was being served as we took up our battle stations for the show. It seems that in the eating Vs being entertained showdown, quish loraine  and sausage on a stick have a distinct advantage in rural England.

Performing in front of a dozen or so people has always been difficult  but it's harder when the two adjoining halls are filled with middle-aged parents stuffing there faces and teenagers in a free bar desperately filling each other up with alcohol in a probably successful attempt to get in each others knickers.

The noise brought in some of the more curious youth only for them to heckle "play something we know!". It's only then you realize that people born in the early eighties have no history of music prior to the early nineties and since then they have been fed a basic diet of repetitive computer generated sounds and a constant supply of boy/girl bands serving up buckets of treacle.

Still we got paid and buggered off home.


Yul  Bryner
the band with no fans weekly

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