This is basic plucking or The Staunton Lick. Or at least this is what it sounded like before we messed with it. And a Pig. I should play it a bit quicker but I've hurt my finger. And Mirkin kept falling off. Etc.
I've mentioned these great RSA Animate talk / films before. The RSA taking TED on at their own game. I've not seen any RSA lectures in the flesh, but having been TED speaker myself before (ahem, see below) I'm pretty familiar with the TED ones, and as fascinating as they are they do feel a bit Steve Jobs keynote - as slick as Louisiana last year. Seems to be a bit more natural British grit on the RSA ones. All of which is nit-picking - I don't think you can beat an intelligent monologue. I keep coming back to this one by David Harvey on the financial crisis, nodding all the way through it. I don't know if that makes me a Marxist, but I do think the system we've got is fundamentally flawed. Lemon Jelly Play the TED Conference Thomas Dolby asked Fred Deakin and me to play at the TED conference when it took place in Oxford a few years ago, so of course we agreed. This was a few days after our then biggest show, headlining Saturday night at the Big Chill in front of nearly 30,000 people, so it was a very much stripped down affair we put together to play in front of the world's leading thinkers, movers and shakers, inside a large marquee in an Oxford college quad at the end of one of the conference days. Ah, from the heady heights of Saturday... It was a boiling hot day so no one had the slightest bit of interest in going in the marquee. We played to a total of four people, two of whom were friends of ours. The world's leading thinkers, movers and shakers drank and networked on the lawns outside, paying absolutely no notice to that racket coming out of the tent whatsoever. A real two men and a dog situation, God we laughed. At least we got a decent TED bag and a laminate for the collection, and a very nice letter from TED thanking us for our wonderful music, that had won over so many new fans.  |
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