This is what I wrote for my seven-day diary piece in the South London Press for today...
"First port of call today was outside the Crystal Palace branch of Blockbusters where the Endurance Steel Orchestra, helping raise money for KidsCo, warmed up shoppers with Christmas tunes. They were performing as part the Triangle Xmas festival. We then hotfooted it to the Half Moon in Herne Hill for an hour of Dr King’s Half-cocked Woodstcock Festival. Dr King’s nifty guitar noodlings preceded a trio of Arctic Monkey-esque fifteen year-old guys called Archie Zoo Kid. Their lead singer has spent a year and half writing songs and it showed. They were good."
Dan from the newspaper pointed out that my comment at the end about the guy spending a year and a half writing songs and "it showed" could be misinterpreted as a negative point. I agreed and left it to Dan to rephrase it properly. I'd meant, of course, that the hard work that the songwriter had put in had paid off, because they were very good! His mum told me he'd taken that year and a half off school...can that be right or did I misunderstand? By the way, he's the guy with the cap in the bottom picture.
I didn't have room in the piece to mention the scout and the barrel organ, playing The First Noel I think it was. We wondered if turning the wheel constituted playing a musical instrument.
Oh, sorry to The Half Moon for scrawling "65" after the "3" of your "3 Days of Live Music" sign...and sorry for forgetting to rub it off after the photo was taken.
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