Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Who needs a Wii...

...when you've got a wind-up gramophone?

While the Man has been off skiing with colleagues tonight, the kids and I have amused ourselves with some good old-fashioned stay-at-home fun: sewing, cardboard modelling and gathering round my HMV gramophone listening to 78s. We don't often take it out, but this evening we decided to crank it up and spin some scratchy discs.

Ah, there's nothing like a nice bit of dance band with authentic background hiss! No offence to our Exile friends, but it really does beat Rock Band any night of the week.

4 comments:

  1. Well, of course this is more fun that Rock Band, but that's hardly a fair comparison. Instead, I urge you to log into Pandora, make 'In The Mood Radio' and listen to it with the food-processor running while cleaning a potter's wheel with a tooth pick. Now that's fun!

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  2. HMV also RCA.I think that even my nearest and dearest could "master" this music machine if someone wound it up!

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  3. Can't believe you haven't been head-hunted by The Sun's headline writing team yet - you'd be perfect!

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