The Smith's Journal - March 2009



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2009-03-07

Africa Junction play for Comic Relief

Tags: Music, Drumming

OK, we all need a bit of Comic Relief now and again. Since Red Nose Day was nearly upon us, Jean decided it would be a great chance for our new band Africa Junction to get out there and perform to raise money. In the end, three locations were planned in the high streets of three nearby towns: Chalfont Saint Peter, Amersham and Chesham.

We were mentioned in local newspapers and invited friends and family to contribute online. Luckily it was a fine day of spring weather, and once we'd set up, our funny costumes soon gathered a grinning crowd. I was dressed as a pirate, and nearly got myself in trouble with the law for threatening motorists and passers by with my cutlass - ARRRR! Photos are here. Footage of us drumming is yet to be edited, but I made my YouTube debut with a jolly pirate song I wrote en route to the gig.



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