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Saturday 11 June 2011
Thursday 9 June 2011
Great entertainment value
I have been treated tonight to a 'second hand' concert courtesy of my mum and brother Bill with hilarious excerpts. My dad brought mum a ticket to see Elton John in Cardiff for Christmas last year and we brought an accompanying ticket for my brother too. So off they set this afternoon in hot pursuit of the Motor point Arena (previously known as Cardiff International Arena).
Billy and I have been pianists since children so are naturally wooed by Elton's talents and have been playing his music for many years. I went to see him in a beautiful intimate open air concert at Burleigh house some 15 years ago (that's shocking - makes me feel really old) but mum and Billy had never had the pleasure.........until now. He may have had a drug problem, be a bit of a diva, and a little arrogant, but you cannot take away the mans talent and his ability to write a great song in 15-30 minutes.
We had a phone call to say that they arrived safely and in good time, and that they were just locating the hotel that they would be staying in before the return journey tomorrow morning. They reported that the concert was set to start at 8pm, they had fab seats with a great view and then we sat in wait. The next phone call came at 8.10pm and we were treated to "Saturday Nights Alright" which we sat listening to on loud speaker for a bit (until they cut us off without warning) and then the calls came thick and fast, 1 after another with some great classics eg Sacrifice, Crocodile Rock, Yellow Brick Road. We realised it was absolutely pointless even answering the call with a 'hello' as they obviously couldn't hear a thing we were saying. We just sat and listened and enjoyed sharing the moment with them. Alongside Elton in the background, we were treated to blasts that went something like this "laaaaaaaaaa, la la la la laaaaaaaa, la la la la laaaaaaaaa, la la la la laaaaaaa" (Can you guess which tune this was their accompaniment for??) but it caused a bit of a titter and was lovely to hear them enjoying themselves. It was touch and go as to whether mum would be able to accompany Billy as she had experienced terrible tooth ache for the last couple of nights, but it seemed to have subsided by this morning so she risked it. I'm guessing the sore throat she is bound to have from all that singing will take her mind off the tooth ache ;-)
Billy and I have been pianists since children so are naturally wooed by Elton's talents and have been playing his music for many years. I went to see him in a beautiful intimate open air concert at Burleigh house some 15 years ago (that's shocking - makes me feel really old) but mum and Billy had never had the pleasure.........until now. He may have had a drug problem, be a bit of a diva, and a little arrogant, but you cannot take away the mans talent and his ability to write a great song in 15-30 minutes.
We had a phone call to say that they arrived safely and in good time, and that they were just locating the hotel that they would be staying in before the return journey tomorrow morning. They reported that the concert was set to start at 8pm, they had fab seats with a great view and then we sat in wait. The next phone call came at 8.10pm and we were treated to "Saturday Nights Alright" which we sat listening to on loud speaker for a bit (until they cut us off without warning) and then the calls came thick and fast, 1 after another with some great classics eg Sacrifice, Crocodile Rock, Yellow Brick Road. We realised it was absolutely pointless even answering the call with a 'hello' as they obviously couldn't hear a thing we were saying. We just sat and listened and enjoyed sharing the moment with them. Alongside Elton in the background, we were treated to blasts that went something like this "laaaaaaaaaa, la la la la laaaaaaaa, la la la la laaaaaaaaa, la la la la laaaaaaa" (Can you guess which tune this was their accompaniment for??) but it caused a bit of a titter and was lovely to hear them enjoying themselves. It was touch and go as to whether mum would be able to accompany Billy as she had experienced terrible tooth ache for the last couple of nights, but it seemed to have subsided by this morning so she risked it. I'm guessing the sore throat she is bound to have from all that singing will take her mind off the tooth ache ;-)
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