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This is a brief report of a Jake micro-fest held this afternoon in Phil and Shona Neil’s livingroom with breakout session in the dining room. Present were Phil, Ross Hepburn and myself who assayed several of Jake’s better known numbers with the aid of several mini-bottles of Stella Artois and a bottle of the very sociable Corbieres which washed down the excellent home-made vegetable chilli. Highlight of the afternoon was without question Ross’s Castleford Ladies’ Magical Circle played and sung in the style of George Formby with the aid of a 1928 Gibson banjo-ukulele. He has been booked for the next available Jakefest at which – believe me – you *will* be astounded.
We have also revived the excellent notion of “Extreme Jakeing”. Oh dear.
Ian
Mmmmmmm. “Extreme Jakeing” !
Trying to sing “Isobel” all the way through without breathing in ?
Trying to sing “It was only a Gypsy” all the way through without laughing ?Tell us more…
The idea (which was Ross’s) involves the performing of Jake songs in unusual and ‘extreme’ circumstances. For example when I telephoned Ross the other evening he had to be helped down from having a go on his daughter’s unicycle. Had he been performing a Jake song when atop said unicycle that might be considered unusual and bordering on the extreme. In my case I am considering how I might get a guitar up the next Munro I climb.
The idea is to perform Jake’s songs (as opposed simply to muttering them under your breath when running a marathon for example š ) in a situation which might reasonably be regarded as ‘extreme’ in some plausible sense of the word. We suggest that photographic evidence should be required and these photos should be posted in a place to be agreed – either on this site or on Yahoo.
Happy Jakeing!
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