It snow laughing matter this weather. Sorry. But last night we did make it through the white blanketed scary Wild Wood to see Ben Waters playing up at The Crooked Billet, Stoke Row. My birthday treat.
Paul Clerehugh does the best food in these parts and also has the most amazing little black book of old rockers who should by rights be dead... but are still bloody good in his small pub.
Google 'Ben Waters' if you like Boogie Woogie piano. He is not old but IS amazing. Looks like Peter Kay and does fool around a lot but sure can do BW; unbelievably fast fingers .... and Jerry Lee Lewis – even to the playing with both hands and one foot. Didn't actually set his keyboard alight, just ripped it up.
I was born to the sounds of Winifred Attwell, 'Cross Hands Boogie' etc on scratched '78's. And then there was my favourite teacher who survived a very rough class by bribing us with a couple of boogies if we behaved.
We did last night. Entranced. Ben drinks Malbec, the glass bouncing along his keyboard. But never spilling. A real pro.
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