Hi folks, some of you may remember a discussion about Darryl Purpose about a
year and a half ago (briefly, someone mentioned him, in the context of a
recent release, which reminded me of when I'd met him many years previously
at a gig in a tiny venue in London - we subsequently exchanged emails, when
the lister, whose identity I've forgotten, forwarded my post to the list on
to Darryl). Well, he was in town about 10 days ago, so I went to see him.
It was a great gig: Darryl is a great songwriter and performer, and a very
interesting guy - he used to play blackjack for a living (!) and had some
great war stories. I bought one of his CDs, an acoustic, as-live collection,
and it's terrific. He has a real gift for story telling, and a wonderful ear
for a memorable line. One song starts off with "Mr Schwinn was as thin as a
pelican's grin" - isn't that great?! There's another song, called
singer-songwriter heaven, which is about what you'd expect, and much better
than you could hope for, a worthy companion piece to Leonard Cohen's Tower of
Song.
Azeem in London
NP: silence, thank god - a few minutes ago it was water gushing down from my
kitchen ceiling! I had to rouse the couple upstairs from their slumbers
(fitting revenge for the number of times they've woken me up with loud music
or loud bonking :-) - it was their washing machine, which seems to be sorted
now, although I won't be using my oven tomorrow, as a lot of water landed
right on it :-(
