Current mood: I’M AN ACTOR!!!!
Category: I’M AN ACTOR!!!! Music
So...
Rather than being a proper mans MAN out FUCKING!!!!
I elected to spend my RockAnRolla evening in the most polite of company at The Royal Albert Hall listening to sea based classical music topped off with Tchaikovskys dying breath...
Yes boss, when my friend John called me a week or two ago and said he'd got a spare ticket for The Proms I was amazed..
For one, I am notoriously unreliable in answering any of the 5 phones in this fort...
And for 2, the whole idea of going to The Proms wasn't something I considered to be the kind of proposition John might be offering me...
No boss, John is a few years younger than I am, but he already has 3 children..
This reality has always amazed me..
He, Heloise and me were all at Art School together, and children most certainly WEREN'T ON THE FREE AND EASY ARTSY CURRICULUM!!!
No boss, when they told me they were due, so pothippyart addled was I, that my best response was:
'I didn't think that was possible..?!?'
But it was - and then it was again - and again...
So today, after sitting in on 4 hours of an excellent session at Gizzard Studios, I headed on over to Kings X and met John off the train...
We took a beer, watched a crate fall off a passing truck (it sounded like a car crash), and chewed the fat...
We were both very impressed with the Olympics and Usain Bolt.
We expressed our fears that the Republicans are too professionally cynical to loose to the Democrats in a cynically political climate
And we ordered breakfast...
Now, as you might have guessed I have a few anecdotes about The Royal Albert Hall..
Yes boss, what i don't have an anecdote about, really isn't worth mentioning - I am after all a man of the world, who collects clever anecdotes for a 9 ta 5...
So, before we get onto the meat, here we go with the first...:
My sister Rachael studied classical music with a passion
Yes boss, somehow this generation of the Giovanni's is very musical despite the previous one not being at all so...
Rachael liked to play the piano, the violin and to sing...
She graduated up through the grades, played in the Eastleigh Area Schools Orchestra and then the Southampton Youth Orchestra.
After securing a place on the Specialist Music Course at the Peter Symonds College, she then got a much coveted place at The Royal College of Music..
Now perhaps some of you are thinking:
'YOU GIOVANNI ARE A LYING CUNT!!! You claim all this rootsy down to earthiness poor shit, but in fact you're from some poncey middle class family with trust funds and horses...'
But no, my Dad fixed cars and then fork lift trucks and he finished his working days as a storeman at a technical college. Meanwhile my mum was a housewife and the only reason any of us have progressed in the world is because of religious hard work and PIOUS FUCKING HARD WORK!!!
Anyway...
The Royal College Of Music is just down and around the corner from the Royal Albert Hall and my sisters course required that her concert performances were completed inside this epic venue...
Well, one time she'd done just such a performance, and whereas I was off saving the world somewhere, my mother and father were there lending their usual quiet support...
The gig played, they were taking a photo of their daughter on the steps at the back of the hall - a proud shot for the family album...
And Michael Cane walked into shot...
Yes boss, we have the photo (though I don't have a copy right here and now)
There is Rachael looking all pleased and proud in the foreground - and in the background is Michael Caine in a long black overcoat looking to be in something of a hurry...
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