A funny thing happened on the way back through Gloucester Cathedral this week. After a mesmerising 45 minutes watching Laura Marling perform an unaccompanied acoustic set, Pocket and I set off in hot pursuit in the hope of persuading Lovely Laura to write MM a Christmas exclusive. I would have course swum retrograde without Pocket chiming in my ears… faster, faster.
It was an enormous personal achievement for me to even open my mouth and speak, let alone burble away nonsensically about Christmas. La la. Trouble is, I can imagine what it feels like to be on the end of a stream of consciousness from a breathless bug-eyed woman, old enough to be your mother. It does scream go away. LL was of course perfectly gracious. I’m sure she gets a lot of requests. Mad and other.
It was an extraordinary gig. A set list conjured up very much on a song by song basis, glorious acoustics as you’d expect in such a big old holy place, a huge God-given talent and a wonderfully English audience, so polite. Perhaps: apart from the woman with crying baby. I’ve had three. It’s good form to leave discreetly when they don’t settle. Circumstances dictate, really. You just have to go with the flow.
Happy Friday.
Mrs Mackerel
We can’t offer Laura, but hey, here is an appropriately titled tune from another favourite, and a video of a new Laura song, Pray For Me.
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Download Mark Lanegan – On The Steps Of The Cathedral mp3 (from Here Comes That Weird Chill)
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