| Northampton Loves GBS |
| Everyone needed a break to catch their breath after the first three songs and the band as well. Alan and Séan regaled us with an account of their afternoon activities.
“We’ve been here many times and I am ashamed to say that we have just made an important discovery about this town! It seems we have always walked through town in the same direction all the other times we’ve been here. Today we decided to walk the other way. Did you know that there was this college right up the street? An all-girls’ college! Why had we never walked THAT way before? Maybe we’ll have a chance…” |
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| “Yes!” Séan added gleefully. “An all-girls’ college! No men! Just us… walking around the campus of an all-girls’ school. We can’t lose! I’ll say anything (like) ‘You can trust me, I’m a lesbian. Yes, I’m gay, in fact, I’m more than joyful! I want to study women, I mean Women’s Studies.”
Then Séan cracked up the band and the audience when he began singing a song from West Side Story – “I feel pretty, oh so pretty…” “I want a t-shirt that says Smith College,” Alan went on, “Séan needs one that says ‘Smitten College!’ though. (cue much audience laughter.) “Yeah this is the anti-suck town,” Alan continued. |
| Then he dug himself into a hole he would not easily escape from. “This town sucks in a good way,” he said, as Séan looked on incredulously. Realizing what that sounded like, Alan tried to backpeddle. “I mean, there are places in the world that suck way more than this one!”
At this point, Séan suggested that now might be the time to sing a Newfoundland folk song rather than talk. They talked about how they recorded an album of Newfoundland folk songs because it was a sure way to fame on the international stage. |
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| Check the back of the photo - Séan is fencing with a guitar stand! |
| The bouzouki photos are from Jack Hinks. |