As everyone seems to be doing it lately, I thought I’d post my set list from the 28th March. It was fairly late in the evening, mostly newbies although they were lining the edges more than dancing. Nothing special really, but comments welcome of course.
(Track, Artist, Album)
Two O’Clock Jump - Harry James
Flying Home - Will Bradley
Shadrack - The Golden Gate Quartet
Six Appeal - Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman & Lionel Hampton
Froggy Bottom - Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy
Now You Has Jazz - Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong
Sent For You Yesterday - Count Basie
Lavender Coffin - Lionel Hampton
Cole Slaw (Shorghum Switch) - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Let It Roll Again - Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra
Loose Wig - Lionel Hampton
The Jumping Jack - Luckily Millinder and his Orchestra
I Like Pie, I Like Cake - Four Clefs
Here We Go Again - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
The Raggle Taggle - Boots and his Buddies
Doin’ The Jive - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
Opus No. 1 - Gene Krupa
Tuxedo Junction - Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson & His West Indian Dance Band
Last night I was lucky enough to go to the Shockwaves NME Awards. Apparently it’s being screened on Channel 4 at around 11pm on Friday. Anyway, I found this short clip of one of many brilliant bands I saw. Elbow performing Grounds for Divorce from their album Seldom Seen Kid. It gets awesome at around 1:14 when the orchestra kicks in.
On Friday me and Sean taught a beginners class near Angel. I got a lovely email this morning:
Thank you so much to yourself and Sean for coming along and performing for us on Friday, the dance lesson was brilliant - you really got people involved and it was such a fun and socialable dance! Just what we were looking for and it is obvious how much you both enjoy yourselves too.
We would like to extend a HUGE thank you the both of you for helping us to raise £620 for charity. Due to the generosity of people such as yourselves and your dancers donating their time and expertise, we are able to donate 100% of this money to charity – 50:50 between Shelter and The Big Issue.
Sarah and Sharron will be running the marathon this year, so if you’d like to sponsor them and their charities:
Me and Tim entered a contest on Monday at the 100 club. It was a bit last minute and quite terrifying but good fun. Someone posted a few highlights (with bits we f***ed up cut out luckily ) on youtube
(I’m the one in the turquoise top/black skirt)
I also was on Strictly Come Dancing very(!) briefly this weekend. Supposed to be doing some jam circle type stuff for a film at the weekend as well, no idea what it is though. Unfortunately I don’t get paid for this stuff so my dream of becoming a full time lindy bum is still on the back burner
Today I visited Nanis on Great Portland Street. I’d been recommended the place by my boss, upon hearing about my sausage sandwich quest, telling me it’s well renowned locally for it’s cumberland sausages. To my surprise, when I entered I couldn’t see any sausages on the menu- until I wandered into the back of the shop and realised they had a separate counter for hot drinks and breakfast- how delightful! I ordered a cumberland sausage sandwich on white, buttered and slightly toasted bread. The sausages were cooked in a proper hot plate grill and not microwaved. All for £2.30. I received my sandwich wrapped in a foil package, but it was not quite as satisfying as the Make Mine wrapper- being a bit on the thin side.
I was disappointed to find upon unwrapping that the sandwich had been cut into four slices. I find this an inconvenient configuration as the sausages tend to slip out more easily. Also, much more work is required when applying sauces as each of the four tops much be lifted and placed back. Due to this my expectations had been lowered, however it turned out to contain the most delicious sausages that I had eaten in a very long time and this combined with the perfect amount of butter on the bread was delectable.
It is unfortunate then that I can only give this sandwich a 7.5/10. The quality of the bead combined with overenthusiastic slicing did taint my enjoyment somewhat. Perhaps I shall go back another day and request a different type of bread and slicing style.
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