I went to a “fab” new year’s eve do last night. After a good meal, walk and chat with a friend I ended up at the Music Room in the Majestic Hotel in Dubai. The first thing that struck me was the average age of the men there and then I spotted that the average age of their companions was a quantum leap lower: an ethnic group removed too!! Good for everyone if it spreads peace and happiness in the world.
Then there was a live group on stage. I can’t begin to tell you the genre of the group except that it wasn’t bee bop, gospel, rap or anything like that. It was LOUD though. The question entered my mind, however: is it vital for the performance of these singers and musicians to keep their hairstyles in tune with the music? Music from the 60s and 70s and hairstyles from the same era: men from that era too. Men of my age with long hair half way down their backs: ageing guitarists with very long wispy pony tails. Goodness!
One other feature was the lead guitarist who seemed to be English (I think) but who put an American inflection in his voice. Why would one do that I wonder?
As I walked back to the hotel at around 1 am the sound of the music was ringing in my ears. Literally! I was deafened temporarily from the excessive noise these groups pump out. I also stank of cigarette smoke and my clothes still do.
There was another phenomenon that I noticed. People in the room would be walking around or even just standing still when one of their legs seemed to lurch sideways a little, as if the floor under that one foot had slipped into some Stephen Hawking type of space/time discontinuity. Odd that! Kept happening: seemed to be the same people every time too although as time went by, more and more people seemed to find these patches of flooring and tiles! I did notice though, that if one had drunk only soft drinks or hadn’t drunk alcoholic drinks to excess, the floor and one’s legs remained firm. Have I found something new and unusual in the order of the Universe Professor Hawking?
DW
