We Have a-ha!

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I just got an e-mail that tickets for a third a-ha concert on May 8 have gone on sale. And I've got one! (It's increasingly looking like the promised Canadian dates aren't going to materialize. And hey, if I've got a job in the fall, I still might go see them in London, which was my original fallback plan.)

It's not quite Oslo. Then again, NYC in May is going to be a lot warmer than Oslo in December.

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[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

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Heh.

Hadn't see the Reel Big Fish one. Who knew Take on Me would make a credible ska song. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly surprised myself. *g*

I grew up in South London in an area with a large Jamaican population and have had a life long love of reggae and ska as a result.

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The Sweetie is a huge old school ska and reggae fan. He's educated me in how awesome they are. And he gets Ros singing along to songs from The Harder They Come with him. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

*tips pork pie hat to the Sweetie*

I have a sad reputation for getting my nephews, neice and the children of friends hooked on music that puts them at odds with their peer group. My youngest friend -- she's now 12 and the daughter of one of my best mates but she *insists* that we are friends independent of her mother -- was about 8 when I got her hooked on Noel Coward. She even sang "Mrs. Worthington" for her school concert:



You haven't lived until you've heard an eight year old American girl singing Coward. *g*

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You are clearly the best of influences.

If we're lucky, Ros will have all sorts of crazy musical taste and not get stuck with whatever pop sludge is being perpetrated when she's in school. (Not that I'm totally stuck up when it comes to pop sludge. But most of the stuff coming out today...not quite my thing.)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I always remember my Gran complaining about how we didn't have great lyrics like she'd had when she was a teenager... I'm delighted by the idea of being 70 and bitching to my grand-nephews and nieces about how they don't have great lyrics like we did... and then playing The Sex Pistols for them. *g*

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Great minds think alike. I've always sworn if Ros ever gets into truly dire music, I'm going to throw The Sex Pistols at her.

We also have a video of Don holding her on our second day in China, and singing The Clash's Guns of Brixton as a lullaby. I'm not quite sure who I'm going to blackmail with that when she's older. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I love The Clash and I was born in Brixton so... *g*

Yep, as they say in my Dad's family "I couldn't find an "H" with both hands" until I was about 12. My "terribly nice" girl's grammar school did it's best to try to fix the problem. *g*

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Brixton! Cool.

I've only been once. We saw Orbital play a fab gig (one of their last) at the Brixton Academy.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I didn't even know they were still around! (Yes, I fail as a music fan. Once upon a time I would have been shocked by that.) It would be very cool to see them in London. (Well, okay, I think everything is better in London.) Clearly, this is a Sign that you will have a job in the fall!

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Clearly you have not been paying attention to the songs I've vidded. *g*

But you're forgiven. a-ha are still selling out stadiums in Europe and South America, but they have virtually no presence in North America. And ya know, as awesome as Take On Me is, it's the last ten years of their career I like best.

Here, have a live version of one of my fave songs:

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Yay for A-Ha! But only one ticket? Don isn't interested?

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If I'm still bereft of job, I'll be going myself and on the cheap. And if I do have a job, we're going to make a family vacation of it, but one of us will have to stay with Ros at the hotel. And it won't be me. *g*