{"id":536,"date":"2019-05-19T20:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T18:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:28:48","slug":"41-time-is-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/19\/41-time-is-tight\/","title":{"rendered":"41. Time is Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Time is Tight.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Four albums in 26 years and so far, not a single live gig has been forthcoming from A Padded Room. But things are about to change. We\u2019ve been asked to play at the annual Dr\u00f6mfesten in Sandviken in August and the plan is to play the whole of the latest album. If they let us. But time is always an issue at festivals and they usually restrict the number of minutes onstage, so the risk is that we\u2019ll be thrown off after 30 minutes. But we\u2019ll see how it goes. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t really know why we\u2019ve never thought of playing live, but right from the start in 1993 this was a studio project. Also, we\u2019ve not had a band – just Herbie and myself. What\u2019s changed this time is that Bj\u00f6rn (drums) has been involved in the whole recording process and the songs are all playable without the need of a symphony orchestra or a bank of keyboards. On the other hand, there\u2019s a piano or organ on most tracks on the album and Bertil F\u00e4lt has agreed to play piano with us. He might also be persuaded to add a little sax here and there. Niclas Carron is guesting on guitar and backing vocals, so we won\u2019t need to skip anything at all. We\u2019re already working individually on the songs and I\u2019m seriously looking forward to both the band rehearsals and the gig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great Yarmouth. Why did we go to Great Yarmouth?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Time is Tight<\/em> is an instrumental from Booker T. and MGs, released in 1969. That summer of \u201969 I went on a camping holiday with three schoolfriends, Paul, Tony and Keith, to Great Yarmouth, where we lived in a rented caravan for two weeks. We were 16 (Paul 17), but as always, we managed to get away with visiting local pubs for a pint. But none of us drank much during those two weeks. We had quite a mature attitude to alcohol even at that early age. If we drank too much, we would anyway have been quickly thrown out.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, two songs stood out in a big way in Great Yarmouth: Tight is Tight<\/em> with Booker T. and Stevie Wonder\u2019s My Cherie Amour. <\/em>During the first week I also met Joy, a nice girl from Barnsley in Yorkshire, who was also on holiday there with friends. And I spent most of my holiday money on her and was broke the second week. The others had similar experiences, and our second week in the caravan was spent playing cards at night and sleeping during the day to save money. Towards the end of the second week, food also became a problem. We ended up on a cheap diet of baked beans, bread, butter and tea. We were all very thin back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our second week in the caravan was spent playing cards at night and sleeping during the day to save money. Towards the end of the second week, food also became a problem. We ended up on a cheap diet of baked beans, bread, butter and tea. We were all very thin back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-padded-room","category-general","tag-a-padded-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}