11 November 2009 2 Comments

Continuing my current theme of no theme at all and delighting in the utter randomness of it all….

A few weeks ago I noticed that Madness were playing at Newcastle. Not only were they doing an evening, but an afternoon matinee with children’s price tickets. In the rock/pop sphere, or at least the kind I mix in, this is unheard of.

So I thought: it is time that I took my 8 year old son to see his first concert. So I asked him: ‘No thanks, dad’- replying to me in the tone that a parent might use on an immature teenager (I do have a lot in common with an immature teenager though…). I tried wheedling…. no luck.

Eventually, he ‘discovered’ ‘One Step Beyond’ and with the help of his brother (aged 5 and already has signs of being a rock wild child) liked it. Then he discovered that a friend and his dad would go…. then he wanted to go.

…I’ve just discovered that said friend has got us tickets. I’m so excited…. I’m also prepared to be told off by said 8 year old for behaving immaturely…. but also some father-son bonding and a sign that someone who I remember being born is entering a new stage.

Hand me that pork-pie hat and those drain pipes…. But I’m not doing ‘that’ dance: it’s the knees- not what they used to be…and the music- it’s so loud…don’t they make any proper tunes anymore?