Holy Holy Holy

Protesting we'd got it all wrong, Chippy said he was smooth and not Cheesy. I responded with "Ok then More like Philadelphia." Chippy came up with the work required on the fencing but the Concrete under the posts ended up costing us a small fortune as try as they might they could not budge it. This resulted in paying for two days work. This will help pay for Chippy's guitar strings cos with that money we should hear sounds like Carlos Santana. ( may be they'll be made of gold)

Rehearsal's start Monday, to ensure that the language does not turn blue we strumming in our parish church. I have managed to convince wifey that we now don't need to include in our repertoire "He's got the whole world in his hands" and certainly not Micheal Row the Boat ashore but she insists on playing "Give me Oil in my Lamp" eh em. Our prayers have been answered and the Church are going to let us play their resident house drums. Dominic da' drummer is back but not sure how the drums are gonna hold out for rock...

After a lengthy conversation with James and a realisation that big sound is gonna cost big money Hot Machero took a reality check. Hot Machero are now opting for a more acoustic sound and less volume. Lily the Sound Tech and piano accordion player to Diddly Skwat, the Irish Folk band, gave some advice. Once translated from his broad Brummie accent, he directed us to more some expensive kit, but far more sensible for our needs. He even offered his support probably because he felt that we are going to need it.

The Machero house hold has been plagued with illness this week. Even Mother dearest has been suffering with what can only be described as a kind of Man Flu.(This is the deadliest kind of flu that woman do not know anything about a real killer). Wifey could not even make the marching band practice(yep Marching Band).

Wifey's time off sick has inspired her to start writing a song themed about life passing on by. This has raised a heated debate on her lyric writing skills. Trying to rhyme the word 'soon' she came up with baboon, spoon, loon (probably based on me). Wifey has a distinct dislike to country but always writes songs out of Dolly Parton's back catalogue. They are not quite as up front though. Some fine tweaking of this tune and I am sure we are looking at a Brit Award. This is in fact song number two for the Machero's. The first was based about Eddy the VW Camper (if you have not read any of the previous blogs) but SJ refuses to sing it...I sure she will grow to love it when everybody screams at the stage "play Eddy, play Eddy"...especially the VW dub Vans all over the World.