Flashback to 1964 or 65. I’m watching ‘Top of the Pops’ on the goggle box, and the Stones are playing, with Mick doing his mince about dance routine. In walks grandad; it’s a red rag to a bull, and off he goes.
‘What the bloody hell does he look like, bloody ‘tater mouth. Needs a wash and a sodding haircut, the big girl. What a bleedin’ racket. Sounds like a cat howling on the back wall, that does. Wouldn’t pay ’em in leather washers. They should bring back national service etc’.
Back to the present, and earlier this afternoon, I was dragooned by my fourteen-year-old granddaughter into watching some ‘K-pop’. For the uninitiated, this is contemporary South Korean popular music, and she’s utterly obsessed with it.
So she pleaded with me to sit down and watch all her favourites with her, and of course being the world’s greatest grandad, I endured with a big smile for her sake. ‘Aren’t they great?’ she enthused, as I suffered a succession of migraine-inducing fast-cut videos of identikit clones jumping about like ferrets with St Vitus Dance, all to a cacophony of unintelligible babble. Here’s a little sample for you to ‘enjoy’;
After she’d gone home, I launched into it with the wife. ‘Jesus what a racket. They all look the same, they all sound the same, those videos give me a right headache’ and so on and so forth. Of course, I walked right into it, and she couldn’t resist landing the sucker punch, saying with great glee ‘you’ve turned into your grandad!’.
Oh well. I suppose there’s worse ways to spend an hour than watching some Korean fanny shaking some tight little ass about. It could have been some cunt like Ed Sheeran that she wanted to watch. Anyway, I’m now going to sooth my soul with a glass of wine and some Chris Rea . That’s the way to do it.
Add this link to the bottom for no other reason than it’s one of my favourites among many from Chris, who’s survived all manner of trauma in his life, and still rocks it with the best;
This was a bloody amazing concert, so I hope you’ll let me share.
Nominated by: Ron Knee



