Scientists have discovered a curious phenomenon which they are calling “The BK Blues”. It seems to be experienced by only a certain proportion of the population, but symptoms seem to be spreading worldwide slowly. The symptoms are a near permanent attachment to the internet, regular checking of certain websites, easy excitability and the desire to travel great distances at relative short notice. There is also a tendency to use smilies :). Sufferers have also been known to scrutinise financial constraints, holiday entitlements, maps, airport timetables and other transportation considerations, and then say “Oh sod it, I’m going to a concert”. At present there is no known cure. DVD and CD sales have reportedly gone up in the last few months.
(Just for fun and it's all just an excuse to put a picture of my favourite singer up on my blog - this one is a new one for promotion purposes - website http://www.briankennedy.co.uk/ . This year is Brian Kennedy's 20th year in the music business and there is supposed to be a UK tour going ahead sometime late April, early May, but only Irish dates have announced so far :(. I'm packing up my fears and going to his Dublin date in April, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the "First 20 years" tour goes ahead in the UK and dates are announced soon)
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4 comments:
You are so funny, so talented; don't forget me at the airport. lol.
Hi jewel,
A very amusing blog combined with inspiration. Well done for "packing up my fears". Brian Kennedy is a positive distraction for you. Have fun!
Warm wishes, Gary :-)
:D that did make me chuckle! He's a ruggedly handsome fella - I'm off to check out his music!
Thank you for all your encouraging comments.
Brian is a role model to me as he grew up on the Falls Road in West Belfast at the height of the bombings, riots and killings. He was also teased mercilessly for being gay, and yet is such a beautiful soul, a giving and caring person and is so down to earth. Jaye, there are some songs of his on the weblinks on my profile page. He is a prolific tourer, and loves to sing live, having said that singing to him is like breathing: his voice is completely natural, untaught, but pitch perfect, and there aren't too many people who can sing "You Raise me Up" completely unaccompanied and doing all the verses. Would thoroughly recommend him, but then I'm just a tad biased.
First saw him when he was the support act for Clannad in 1996, and have never looked back. His music got me through very bad post-natal depression one particular day, where I sat in pain from my stitches on my own with my two-week old son, as both he and I cried. It was 9.00 in the morning and I just didn't know what to do - hubby's boss had sent him hundreds of miles away and I was just so tired. Then I put a Brian CD and sang to my son through the tears and we got through that day somehow. I wasn't diagnosed with PND until nearly a year later. My son is now 11 and one of his primary school teachers told me on his last day that she had never met a more well adjusted or well-rounded child as him, so I must have done something right over these years. Unfortunately son is more a John Barrowman fan, so it's just me that goes to the Brian concerts from this household now... but as my fears lessen, my concertgoing has increased and on balance I'm looking forward to Dublin (although not the flying) as the incentives are my friends I've meet through Brian and the man himself in concert and at the after-show signing. Just over a month to go :) xx
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