Saturday, 31 August 2013

I Love this Town (and weird women.)


I’m sure I posted this video once before, but I make no apology for posting it again. That’s because:

a) I think it’s the cleverest pop song I’ve ever heard.

b) There’s a story behind it:

My then-wife introduced me to it, as she did the album Consequences by the same duo. She had a bit of a thing about Lol Creme (he’s the one in the white shirt.) She said he was even cuter than me. Did that bother me? No.

‘That’s because he’s older than me,’ I said. ‘And he doesn’t play rugby. And he hasn’t been a sailor.’

My then-wife seemed unaccountably impressed by the fact that I’d been a sailor. She said the song ‘Sailor’ from Consequences somehow represented me in her eyes. Funny creatures, women.

Eventually she had a fling with an ageing Italian bloke at Wimbledon one year, and then got involved with an archaeologist who specialised in the Neolithic. Her place in my life was taken by a woman from Liverpool who turned out to be an absolute disaster, but that’s another story.

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