‘Things can only get better‘ sang portly Labour party members in 1997, sweat cascading down their fat, pink little faces as they jiggled about in exuberant glee at the dawn of a new political era. It all ended rather badly BUT the same cannot be said for the boys of GetJazzical who just keep on getting better!
It’s the last ten minutes of the film. The hero has overcome adversity, heartbreak and robots to get this far and yet he lies there motionless on the floor, life ebbing away whilst the villain laughs mockingly at his crumpled body. ”No!” You think, surely this can’t be the end? Not now, not when our hero only just learnt an important lesson about himself that he really knew all along. It’s just too heartbreaking. It’s NOT FAIR!
Occasionally in life you stumble across someone who’s been doing the same thing as you all along. You then kill that person and hope that the vultures eat them before anyone finds out. For GetJazzical, Nonclassical is that person… Only kidding folks, we have nothing but LOVE in our collective heart (which looks a little like a ying-yang symbol with Olly’s oily black half pervasively oozing hate and mistrust into Alasdair’s pure white and crisp soul) and we are major fans of what they’re doing. Read more…
While Olly is back in NY, living a life of pure hedonistic debauchery and espressos, I (Alasdair) have been plugging away, trying to find the best in new music and new musicians. Last night saw the LSO play at the Barbican, a fantastically “yes our building was built in the 60s and we love it” venue. It was an interesting, 20th Century composer set list, and if my tickets were not free I probably wouldn’t have risked the cash on the concert. Thank heavens for freebies then, as after 15 minutes of Charles Ives and me eyeing the nearest exit, we were introduced to, and I fell in love with, Yuja Wang…