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The Boys and lists
Written by Jimmy
Louise spends a lot of her time rolling her eyes at the ‘boys’ in Abubilla Music. Much of this comes down to the famous scene in Diner, where a guy is auditioning his fiance by making sure she knows music trivia. He very aggressively grills her on producers, writers and performers on various 45’s (a single back in 1959).
The boys are like that guy. Rob, Jimmy, Andy, Ed and Martyn age between 23 and 50 but all love music. So, we had a long e mail dialogue around our favourite chords (See Ed’s blog on chords). 72 e mails we finished that little bit of fun. Then we had a major debate about a new guitar to add to the studio in Spain — 216 e mails later and we settled on a banjo. We are now into the classic boy game of compiling song lists for a drinking game we’ll play in Spain in a week’s time. You have to name a category, like ‘Songs with a Colour in the title, and then go around listing until someone runs out. We each have to bring 3 such lists down with us (we’ll publish the results first week of December). This is classic boy fun. Louise hates it. Hates the trivia of it. Hates the one-up-man-ship inherent in listing making. Sigh….
But, as we learned later, however much Louise hates lists, she really freaks out about jokes about Worrying Livestock or Cello Nipple.