A little Take That” related story….that ended bad…..
I went out wi a bunch of friends back at the start of june and it turned out that it was a kinda blind date mugging for me, to be fair the night started extremely well as we all went to a decent dirty/authentic spanish bar, good music, decent wine etc..etc, i talked bout my work and she seemed genuinely interested (i’m a speciality chocolatier), she talked about her work (architect) and how she first got into it through working as a town planner in Barcelona and trying to change the built environment for the good of the people, she was really passionate about her work which i greatly admired and to be honest it helped enormously that she was very attractive, mid 30’s, very slim and fit, poker strait long dark hair, spanish/english parents, olive skinned and the loudest most natural laugh i’ve heard in a long time – we got on like a proverbial house on fire and the conversation eventually turned onto musical tastes. Being a man i obviously jumped in first and as i talked about my varied taste and heros such as Gill Scot Heron, Dennis Coffey, Frank Zappa etc.., old skool stuff to start with as everyone has heard of them…right?, then i moved onto my so called alternative tastes such as Ritchie Hawtin, Joris Vorn, Graeme Clark, Silicone Soul and it was at this point that i realised i’d lost her as she hadn’t heard of any of these artists so i quickly turned the conversation back to her and asked what was her musical passion…..her eyes light up and she gushed “Take That” and proceeded to fill me in (bore me shitless) with all her tales of the many Take That concerts she had been to and how she loved Gary Barlow.and weren’t they fantastic?, i probably shouldn’t have drunk quite so much by this point but it was an involuntary cough which led to an outburst of “C’mon, your taking the **** pi$$ aren’t you?”.
Needless to say it went downhill very rapidly from there to the point where i ended up saying how can you expect to be taken seriously when you consider turgid noise like “Take That” to be music?, i got my coat and left pretty quickly.
Phew!…i consider that a lucky escape.