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I’m hoping that Tom Waits will release a video of the Glitter and Doom tour (I think most of the shows were recorded, so I assume there’s something in the pipeline). Meanwhile, here’s a clip of a performance on the David Letterman show in America last year. So energetic, expressive and, of course, quite unique. On the tour, the end of the song (also the end of the show) was greeted with a massive shower of glitter from above the stage.
This is very silly, but it did make me chuckle. (The banner at the start of the clip means “You’ll never walk alone”.)
Maynard made his debut last night in this pre-season friendly, scored a hat-trick, and sent the fans home feeling that yes, maybe this boy will provide the vital ingredient, missing for so much of last season, i.e. the ability to score goals. Certainly his three debut goals were taken with the confident ease of a very good footballer, and the man next to me was in no doubt that Maynard had already proved that he’s worth the money, and will deliver us to the promised land of the Premiership. Let’s hope he’s right, although it may be just a tad early to tell! (After all, many of us remember the brace of wonder goals that Lee Trundle scored against Scunthorpe in one of his first games for City…)
The match itself was great fun, and the Antwerp side were not as bad as the scoreline suggests. City played very well, with very few mistakes in any area of the pitch, and our other new boy, midfielder Gavin Williams, also looked promising. The real stars of the night, however, were the Antwerp fans. There must have been well over a thousand, and they sang throughout the game, giving their players a heroes’ send-off at the final whistle. Their finest hour was when they danced a conga to a chorus of “Let’s go f*cking mental” in perfect English when their side had just conceded yet another goal. It must be very heartening for the players to have such loyal fans, and I hope we manage to be even half as encouraging to our boys if things don’t always go well this season.
As none of my regular pals were able to come along, I spent quite a bit of time sending goal-flash texts, and soon realised that I’d need to add “Maynard” to my telephone’s dictionary. The best reply of the night came from Laz, responding to my “3-0, hat trick for Maynard!!!” text message. He asked “Yes, but can he finish?!”. Yes Laz, I do believe he can.
Anyway, here’s a clip of those fans:
I rather like the sight of wind turbines, but I’m glad I wasn’t admiring this one at close range…
Let’s hope he does this one:
Yay! Tom’s doing a gig in Birmingham! But hot diggedy dawg, that’ll be Birmingham, Alabama, and sadly not the one that’s an hour’s drive from Bristol. He’s announced his American tour dates (and they seem to be a rather odd collection of venues), but no European details yet. That said, he promises in his whacky press conference (see highlights below) that he will be coming to Europe, and mentions Spain and Dublin, so maybe he’ll stop off in merrie olde England en route. Here’s hoping!
Well, by popular demand, here’s a clip of me singing at my birthday party in November. Actually, when I say “popular demand”, I mean one person, who said she “wouldn’t mind seeing it”. My friend Stephen recorded this on his little digital camera, so it’s not exactly broadcast quality. The sound’s pretty good though (although you may well disagree…). In my defence, I did have a stinking cold and bad throat at the time. And I think the microphone was faulty, somehow changing the key of what I actually sang…
I find that people are rarely neutral about Tom. I have friends who have to leave the room when he pops up on the iPod, and others (admittedly not many!) who think his music’s marvellous. I think he’s great, and if I could take only one artist’s music to my desert island, it would have to be his. I’m not sure whether this video would help to persuade the doubters of his weird genius, but here’s the link anyway.
