rock family trees

Saara, my better half, was for a time a jazz vocalist in a group with someone who’d previously been (and subsequently was; they reformed!!) in mod hopefuls The Carnaby, whose insanely catchy single ‘Jump and Dance’ was released on Pye/ Piccadilly in 1965.

This is, strictly speaking, irrelevant to everything else featured in this blog; I’m just obliquely proud about it and like telling people.

But speaking of insane catchiness in music, do listen to Meg Curl’s ‘Distanced’; if there’s been a better song about what it’s like to be a teenager during lockdown, I’ve yet to hear it. The home-made video was shot in and around Windmill Hill, a council estate just adjacent to Glastonbury, ‘the oddest town in Britain.’ Windmill Hill is now the subject of its own documentary film.

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See also: the Beatles, missing the Watchet Music Festival, should I tell the children about Lou Reed?, 'Cats' starring Taylor Swift, watching 'The Filth and the Fury' with French subtitles on.