File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 656


From: "Dave Coull" <davecoull-AT-uka.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:12:04 +0000
Subject: Re: This Whole Abortion Debate...


I wrote

>> Both Goat and myself mentioned, from personal experience,
>> women with "late-in-life" pregnancies being "encouraged"
>> to have abortions. Fortunately, the advice was not taken.
>> My son Angus is alive, well, and working at a crap job
>> while trying to pursue his "real" career as a musician/songwriter.

and Lorax asked

>What kind of music does Angus get into?  He's about my age
>and I'm also a musician/songwriter and I'm always interested
>in hearing about other artists.

Like my father, Angus can't read music, he just sits down
at the piano and starts to play. The musical talent skipped 
a generation  -  I can't play any instruments. Keri and Nadja
both like my singing, but I think they are in a minority! Whereas 
my dad only played tunes other people had made up, Angus 
only plays his own stuff. When Angus was a lot younger, 
he used to make up these really honky-tonk, boogie numbers 
on the piano, which I really liked. But then he got into the Pet 
Shop Boys a few years back, and ever since then I reckon I can 
hear traces of that in a lot of the stuff which he does. Personally, 
I never liked the Pet Shop Boys, so I don't like stuff that sounds 
a bit like them. I can recognise the musical skill involved, but
I'm not very keen on a lot of what Angus produces nowadays.
Some of it, I like ; he produces so much stuff that the odds
are I will like some of it. But I wish he would go back to his 
earlier honky-tonk boogie style. As for the words of his songs,
there is a lot of fin-de-siecle (or fin-de-millenium) doom and gloom.
Angus is actually a cheerfull sort of person, he makes everybody
laugh, he's quite a comedian, but his songs aren't cheerfull. 
Maybe it's something to do with knowing that he was an "accident" 
and the medical advice was for abortion !

   Dave

   

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