We started recording an E.P. this week. Armed with a modest amount of recording equipment we set up in our usual rehearsal room, DOA Studios in Bolton, and recorded a rhythm track to Soup Song. It was captured on film by my friend Ian Brown, who is going to be putting together a small piece about the song. Here’s a very small snippet in which Dick explains what the song is about.
He’s actually serious you know, he really does want do a whole gig that combines music and cookery. It’s not enough for him to play songs about food, he wants to actually serve it during the gig. Not only that, he wants to cook it during the gig. I’ve tried to explain to him various points of Health & Safety, of how it might be just slightly dangerous to have a gas stove onstage, of how using sharp knives in a venue where much alcohol has been consumed (and that’s just Jay and Ben, our trumpeters!) is not a good idea but no, he insists it can be done.
So, I’m leaving it to him. I know he’s going to keep slyly introducing food songs into the set and one day he’ll probably sneak a cucumber on to the stage, disguised as a shaker or something. And eventually he’ll come up with a way to do it that is both safe and practical. When that day comes I’ll be a very happy man as I’m sure it will be a great event, but until that day I’m content to just sing about food, prepare food and eat food; just not all at the same time.
