Pip-pip all,
Been a frightfully yet joyfully busy end to a summer rich in Chap-Hop but poor in weather.
Late September found me once again at the velvet doors of the Soho revue Bar for another splendid Wam Bam Club. All went well until I discovered after I had finished my recital and been hounded by a gaggle of screaming harridans who couldn't seem to grasp the fact that my moustache was real and ran off shouting such platitudes as 'I'm gonne wet myself!' and the like, that Lady C, having travelled back early from Paris to see me had been turned away at the very same velvet door at which I had previously found myself. I registered my disgust with the staff and joined her hastily at the hostilery to which she had resigned herself.
I was joined by my erstwhile posse at said public house only to find out that not only had another old chum been turned away, but he'd also been told by the plebian, burton-attired doorman to 'make an effort next time'.
The ruddy barefaced cheek of it!
Anyhoo, The following evening I played in ipswich, the scene of a post-recital riot during my previous visit. This time was just a little more gentile. By 2am myself and my trusty aide Wing Commander Doling enjoyed a lock-in at the venue with 'none other than' Jim someone-or-other, the manager of Ipswich town association Football club and some of his chums, whom I entertained with renditions of Level 42 numbers on my banjolele (that was the only way to keep these football types from starting another riot thought I).
Another recital, another working class pursuit. I have no idea how these things happen, but there you go. Harlow Dog Track (!) for Chloe's 25th birthday party was a splendid evening with some splendid young people. Like these here.
I say!
In other business, the album 'Flattery Not included' is all ready to go now and being manufactured as we speak, so do keep your eyes and ears peeled and I shall let you all know when it's available to buy.
Keep your peckers up and remember kids, do keep them sheathed to avoid the old Crinkums. Don't learn the hard way like i've had to!
Salut!
B x