Tag: dad
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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Welcome to Digital Britain, a drowned economic kitten
Great anti-Mandy and anti-paranoia song ‘Only Idiots Assume’ by Broken Dongles who are Liam Mullone and “Blue Remembered” Hils Barker. Love the kitten line, the BBC Micro comparison and ‘your dad’s got a beard! I bet he’s in Al Qaeda!’ 😀 Maybe their followup should be a cover/version of EMI about the blight that is…