It’s another no-news day (get used to them, it’s out of season). Except to report… No. No news so here are some random photos.
One of them’s a cruise ship in Rhodes (don’t know why I took that one). That was last month. I am back there next week to set up some dental business, and maybe do some shopping – in Rhodes, I mean, not on the cruise ship. I’m not exactly Jane MacDonald, though I did once audition for a job on a cruise ship. The audition was held just off Leicester Square in the West End (very glamorous – not), in some old shed, it seemed, and I was going for the job of cocktail and cabaret pianist. This was in the days before everything ended up on one keyboard; pianos, orchestra, choir, rhythm section all at the touch of a button – honestly, to be work in such a job now, and particularly in a West End pit, you need to know how to operate a space shuttle console just to coax a bit of Weill out of the instrument.
Anyway, I played, they asked if I could play X, Y and Z (it’s a song by Michel Legrand), and I could and I did, and then they asked me if I knew this and that (the most famous vocal double act on the high seas), and I kind of did know this, but was unsure of that so I improvised. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job, and when, after I’d played, they told me about the ship and the cruise, the living conditions and the pay, I didn’t want it anyway.
Whatever, enjoy your no news day.
