Our son the rock star

We have just come back from Torvy's "school concert". What a blast! School concert is a total misnomer, conjuring up, as it does, visions of the sort of things we used to do. This was such a far cry from the sort of concerts we used to put on. The kids did most of the stuff themselves - choreography, musical arrangements, magic acts, poetry recitations (their own poetry), raps. One of the songs Torvy played with two of his mates was an original as well: Fabulously Lazy written by the kid on lead vocals. I have tried desperately to post a clip from it here, but can't figure out how to edit it down from its current size of 23MB (and that's not even the whole song!) and I can't find a place place to store anything bigger than 5MB. I'll keep looking into it, but not now - I have to drive down to Reading tomorrow for a 9am meeting, which means leaving really early, so I had best get my tail to bed!

I was blown away by how much of a natural Torvy was with that bass guitar, even the overlong hair worked. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to a dinky little guy aged 22 (but looking 15 and almost indistinguishable from the kids) - a teaching assistant at the school called Mr Webb. He looks to be a bit of a rocker himself and is very versatile. The fact that he is also "well cool" doesn't hurt, because it has raised the profile and the street cred of music among the boys, and Torvy has greatly benefitted from that.