Future themes
When we first came up with the idea of doing Get It On, we used to worry about whether we could keep coming up with themes for the initial ten week run. Nearly a year and a half later the 'future themes' folder is still bulging. There have been some good ones suggested in the past few weeks.
Frank in Denny came up with ‘questions’, so that could include How Deep Is Your Love? or Would I Lie To You? John in Darvel is after ‘prison songs’ and Arthur in Carstairs has come up with two pages worth of stuff. His suggestions include ‘gadgets’, ‘agriculture’ and ‘songs that are past their sell by date’. e.g.: 1999, 1984, Disco 2000.
I really like the suggestion that came in this e-mail from Mike Whyte:
“I was listening to Billy Bragg (New England) and to the lyric (he borrowed from Paul Simon) "I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I am 22 now but I won't be for long"... And I thought, what a nonsensical lyric. If he wrote the song lyrics at 21, how can he suddenly be 22 in the same lyric? So how about the theme 'Songs with nonsensical lyrics’ ? “
Post a comment if you like and let me know what you think of these themes, or come up with some of your own. If there are any artists that you think are worthy of a theme night then let's have them as well...
