The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43970   Message #646536
Posted By: Mr Red
10-Feb-02 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Performance idiosyncracy & superstition
Subject: RE: BS: Performance idiosyncracy & superstition
St Anthony it is then. Sounds familiar anyway.

Funnily enough my ritual is more a methodology (engineer again) but I prefer to have a reason to sing a song. "The Old Barbed Wire" (or equal) on or near Nov 11th, preferably at 11pm. One of my own songs "Coughton Conspiricy" on Nov 5th because it is about the Gunpowder Plot. If I hear an American accent in the audience I may sing "Blow ye Winds in the Morning", similarly South Australia, Amsterdam , Tamaranui, Farewell to Nova Scotia etc etc. Though one night we had a visitor from Canton and I was stumped but I did give a bit of schpiel about peoples' caberet in the street markets of Hong Kong (no to be beaten).