Many thanks to Barrie and Suzie, who let us trash their house and did all the clearing up.
Another splendid night, of course, Steve & Margaret had to beetle off at midnight but made up for this early departure with an early arrival, revealing scenes of chaos as I tried to assemble dinner. Mike and I tore ourselves away at 3am, we could have stayed a lot longer.
As I predicted, we had a lot of duplicates but none of the ones I thought we might. "My perfect cousin" (the Undertones) came out three times, and everyone thought that was a good thing. Lots of duplicates "Son of a preacher man" (Dusty); "Papa's got a brand new bag" (James Brown); "Good rockin' daddy" (Etta James); "He's not heavy, he's my brother" (the Hollies); "Alcoholic" (Star Sailor) (an appropriate choice); "Little sister" (Ry Cooder); "Seventh son" (two different versions: Willie Mabon & Jools Holland). Sly & the Family Stone and Sister Sledge were notable by their absence.
We never managed to hear Steve's playlist. He decided to go retro and bring a CD. As if anyone has a CD player these days...! His 1st generation iPod (with a hard disk) has finally died, and at an inconvenient time. However, we did find out that he selected the theme from the "Man from UNCLE", which I though was rather clever.
I was pleased with the reception to my playlist. My first 9 tracks were good, inoffensive music night fare, successfully lulling everyone into a false sense of security. But the last track was the 17 minute cacophony of "Sister Ray" (Velvet Underground), which I rather like as it happens, but Margaret had to keep her fingers in her ears.
When posting the playlists, I noticed the wonderful tidiness and symmetry of Mike's playlist:: son, daughter, sister, brother, mother, father, uncle, aunt, grandmother, grandfather. (This subtlety was rather lost on me on the day.) Of course, the astute of you will say "what does "Walk on the wild side" have to do with grandfathers?". The link, to give you a massive hint, is Herbie Flowers, but I will say no more.
Next theme: "Toys and Games, but not including Sport".
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