Songs of Fascinating Aida

Subject: Fascinating Aida
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 12 Jun 03 - 03:54 AM

Went to see the wonderful (non-folk) trio last night and lovers of comic and satirical song may like to know that some of their songs are available at http://www.fascinating-aida.co.uk/faframe.htm including the non-PC, Dietrich take-off "Because you're German", but , alas, not the wonderful "Stick your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye".

RtS

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jun 03 - 04:23 AM

They're great aren't they? I heard Dilly Keane on Radio 4 the other day, saying this is their last tour, so sad. Glad you enjoyed it, and wish I'd been there.
Giok

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: Ringer
Date: 12 Jun 03 - 04:40 AM

My wife's taking the Italian lodger to see them at Buxton tomorrow evening. I'd have gone, except that to have done so would be to have missed ringing.

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 12 Jun 03 - 03:25 PM

I thought that they had split up years ago, or was it just that they lost their regular radio 4 slot?

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 12 Jun 03 - 07:02 PM

I read about them (probably in the Guardian, well I guess it would be), a couple of weeks ago, and how their current repertoire reflects how their lives have moved on....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: tooligan
Date: 13 Jun 03 - 03:18 AM

They are on the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival this year.

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Oct 10 - 01:29 PM

Just introduced to them via facebook.

This is brilliant

Cheap Flights

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Oct 10 - 02:14 PM

I first learned of them in an earlier thread: HERE. They are BRILL!

Subject: RE: Fascinating Aida
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Oct 10 - 03:36 PM

Outstanding Thimbles, outstanding! I must say I'd forgotten how good FA are.

Subject: ADD: Funerals (Fascinating Aida)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 02:29 PM

FUNERALS
Singer: Fascinating Aida

Ooh, pigs in blankets!
Eighteenths, twenty-firsts, weddings, christenings
Milestones rushing past
Anniversaries, then retirement

Life goes by so fast
It’s good to know there will always be an excuse for celebration
And the parties I go to nowadays don’t need an invitation
I’m off to a funeral, hippity hip hooray!

A person I didn’t know very well has sadly passed away
It’s taking place in Leamington Spa, which is always nice to visit
Well at my time of life it’s a pleasant day out, that’s not too much to ask now, is it?
I’m off to a funeral, a colleague of mine is dead

The woman had bored me for years and years, now she’s boring God instead
I’ll have to set off early, the journey’s a bit of a swine
But my bag is large and roomy so I can nick a bottle of wine
But oh gosh, I don’t get out like I used to do

At my age festive occasions are far too few
Last rites give us a chance to fraternise
We’ll sing some turgid hymns and then we’ll socialise
I’m off to another funeral, with sandwiches and cake

Catch up with those ghastly cousins of mine, I love a jolly good wake
We’ll tell each other “you haven’t changed”
We’ll be lying through our teeth
“Donate to the chosen charity?”

Well it’s cheaper than a wreath
We all must die, it’s part of God’s grand design
The late lamented had a sad decline
She didn’t want to go on, her bed sores were chronic

Make mine a triple Hendrick’s, just a splash of tonic
It’s yet another funeral, someone’s gone to eternal rest
It’s a Humanist service, so that’ll be dreary
The Catholics do it best

Oh yes, it’s sad that what’s-her-face has met her timely end
But secretly it’s cheering to think I’ve outlived another friend
I hear Marjorie’s poorly… see you soon!


Find more lyrics at indolirik.jspinyin.net

https://indolirik.jspinyin.net/lyrics-fascinating-aida-funerals/

Subject: RE: Songs of Fascinating Aida
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 07:22 PM

Sung by somebody at the Singaround today, but I forget who.

Here's the Website of Fascinating Aida: https://www.fascinatingaida.co.uk/

Subject: RE: Songs of Fascinating Aida
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 07:47 PM

It was Gayle Wade who sang Funerals at tonight's Mudcat Singaround. And brilliantly too.

Subject: RE: Songs of Fascinating Aida
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 08:20 PM

Saw them at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and they were absolutely brilliant as ever: a sell-out in a 450-seat theatre as was I think the rest of their run for several weeks. Odd now to think they were talking about a “final tour” as long ago as 2003, as John Mackenzie reported above!
What did happen this year though, 2 days after we saw them, they had to call off a couple of nights, owing to a “family emergency”: it later emerged via their own Facebook page that this had involved Dilly’s husband suffering a serious stroke and subsequently dying as a result, very sadly. And yet, they were back on stage a couple of days later to complete their run of shows. Sheer professionalism!

Subject: RE: Songs of Fascinating Aida
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 20 Sep 22 - 02:43 PM

Oh no Tattie, I knew there was an emergency - was that just after they did the Kings in Glasgow? Poor Dillie, how hellish for her (and them all)

Subject: RE: Songs of Fascinating Aida
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 20 Sep 22 - 05:55 PM

Not sure: they had been at Edinburgh’s Festival theatre for one night earlier in the summer, but had a long run booked for the Fringe: we saw them on August 8th and it was a few days after that when they cancelled a couple of shows.