Music, in its various guises, runs through my family bloodline. We've had number ones, sell-out tours, played stadiums, sailed through foreign lands (with foreign women and foreign wine presumably).
Now, I don't want to mislead you, dear viewer. I don't want to persuade you that drawing up a Siddle family tree will lead you to the Beatles on my dad's side, and the Stones on my mum's. I did actually go to school with a chap called Mick Lennon, so perhaps he did have such geneology...you'd have to ask him.
But I'm really counting down the days til my uncle's band reforms. They were pioneers of a decade of music; at the forefront of the scene. You'll hear a song of theirs routinely, as often as that clutch of songs on your Power Ballads CD.
Yes, in a week and a half, I'll be swanning along to a Parish Centre in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, for the grand, eagerly-anticipated, swoon-inducing reunion of...
Kajagoogoo. Pic sourced from BBC.
Remember Limahl, the boisterous, badly-coiffured frontman? Well, that wasn't my uncle. Steve Askew, he was. The one keeping it together. A D G chords on repeat, strumming like the rhythm guitar demi-God he was. In the pic, he's the one on the far left. See where I get my dodgy barnet from?
He's 50 in a couple of weeks, and Kaja will reform for one night only as a celebration. Too Shy, their chart-smash, will undoubtedly go down a storm.
There's another blog probably forthcoming on my own musical exploits. I'd like to think of myself as a journalist-cum-musician. Though not at the same time...singing my way through a death-knock would be traumatic experience for all concerned, I'd imagine.
But there's a chance I might play a set in Leighton Buzzard. Warming up the crowd for these 80s gods. I'm looking forward to it. Just a shame that these once nubile ladies that were throwing undergarments at Kajagoogoo years ago, will now all be 50!
Ah well.
My other uncle was also in an 1980s band...but that's another blog. See if you can guess which one...
The chorus of one of their hits mentions food you'd get from a burger van, a pond animal and an American state.
Until next time...
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