Its gala weekend in the sleepy little town that I call home.
We took a walk into town to see what was going on and found that one of the bands from the music school, that the wee fella goes for guitar lessons at, were playing in the square.
They were an all girl affair playing covers of Avril Lavigne songs etc, you get the picture. They were ok in a kind of teenage garage band way, mainly managing to start and stop the songs almost at the same time, and hey at least they were up there giving it a go rather than mouching around the streets looking miserable.
The best part was when the lead singer, obviously feeling either supported or pressured by the presence of her peers in the watching crowd, sang a lyric along the lines of "but we don't give a fuck". The effect of this outburst of teenage angst was somewhat diluted by the embarrassed expression that flitted across her face swiftly followed by the blood rushing to her bright red, burning cheeks...
Rock and Roll !
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That brings back memories - in my teenage years as frontman of Merge, we played a gig at the Brechin High School talent show, including the Manic Street Preachers song "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier" in our set. One of the lines in this song is "It's so fucking funny" and our rhythm guitarist made several unsuccessful attempts to get me to substitute the offending word, as his dad was a principal teacher at the school. But I was happy to take the rap for my rock'n'roll lifestyle....
Did you turn a delicate shade of pink or did you tough it out in true Liam-lite mode?
My thousand-yard stare was set in stone, I was too cool to be embarrased at swearing on stage at a school show. This cool was, however, tamed somewhat when I attempted to launch a plastic bottle into the crowd, gave it too much oomph and watched as it hit the stage lights and rebounded to land at my feet.
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