Just a bit more on the subject
Feb. 5th, 2018 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericcolemanWe got a message on the band page a couple weeks ago asking us if we wanted to be the overseas GOHs at next years British Filk Con. Needless to say, we said yes. Some of it is the music, but there is a whole lot more to this for me.
My father, brother, my brother's first wife, and I lived in north London for a year in the 70s. It was an odd time. My father's rules for me were "you sleep here and you go to school every day, the rest is up to you". It was a once in a lifetime thing.
I saw the majority of the West End shows. I saw some amazing concerts. I worked in a theatre (wildly illegally). I went to a British school, which made graduating HS, and getting into college a bit of a trick. I dated this lovely British girl. The middle class British kids wanted nothing to do with me, so I hung out with the other foreigners and the working class kids. Right there were the foundations of punk rock, which happened a year later.
But mostly, I felt like I was home. Something that doesn't happen often. Where I feel comfortable in the place I live.
It will be 44 years since I've been there. I get to go back, even just for a few days. The plan is to fly in a week early, get to London for a few days. Probably head north to see some people. Then off to the con.
Larry Kirwin, from the late, great Black 47 said it best.
You can always go home, you just can't stay.
I know it is profoundly different now. But I get to see London one more time.
My father, brother, my brother's first wife, and I lived in north London for a year in the 70s. It was an odd time. My father's rules for me were "you sleep here and you go to school every day, the rest is up to you". It was a once in a lifetime thing.
I saw the majority of the West End shows. I saw some amazing concerts. I worked in a theatre (wildly illegally). I went to a British school, which made graduating HS, and getting into college a bit of a trick. I dated this lovely British girl. The middle class British kids wanted nothing to do with me, so I hung out with the other foreigners and the working class kids. Right there were the foundations of punk rock, which happened a year later.
But mostly, I felt like I was home. Something that doesn't happen often. Where I feel comfortable in the place I live.
It will be 44 years since I've been there. I get to go back, even just for a few days. The plan is to fly in a week early, get to London for a few days. Probably head north to see some people. Then off to the con.
Larry Kirwin, from the late, great Black 47 said it best.
You can always go home, you just can't stay.
I know it is profoundly different now. But I get to see London one more time.
