This could well be the strangest introduction to a band we have ever been sent:
I was on my way to work, sitting on an underground train, when I noticed this man. He was about forty years old. Wearing a worn-out jacket. Although he wasn’t what you might call "gorgeous" or anything, there was something about his look. Maybe it was the twinkle in his eye. Or the crooked slant of his nose. I don’t know, but something about him began to obsess me.
I tried not to let him see me looking. The train was moving into the next station. I glanced up - he was getting off! I watched him walk slowly and confidently down the platform. I don’t know why, but I suddenly got the idea into my head he was thinking about me. Maybe it was that quick glance from his dark bluey-grey eyes. He had looked at me. Out of everyone in the carriage, he had looked at me. Had he noticed me looking at him? Before I could stop myself, I jumped through the closing doors.
I was following him down this busy street thinking, "What the hell am I doing? I’m going to be late for work! I must be losing it!" I had to make excuses to myself, like: "It’s okay, I’m just a really curious person." Or "What’s the harm in it? - it’s just a crazy adventure - people should go with their instincts more often. But I knew I was just being an idiot.
He entered this scruffy café with steamed-up windows and not enough space for its’ dozen or so morning coffee drinkers. I followed him in and looked around in vain for somewhere to sit. This was awkward. Not so for him - apparently he was meeting someone and immediately sat down at a table where this girl was already sitting. I presumed the person was a girl, because she had her back to me and all I could see of her above the high-backed bench was long, straight, dark hair.
An old guy in workman’s overalls took pity on me and offered me a seat by the window. I sat there for a while, watching the man talking to the girl with the straight hair. The dull reality of my little adventure was sinking in - he was just an ordinary guy, meeting his ordinary girlfriend for coffee, and sitting here watching him was going to be as boring as hell. I climbed off my stool. I could still get to work and be excusably late. At the door, I turned for one last glance. I just caught a glimpse her handing him an envelope before I found myself back in the busy street. You see? Just an ordinary couple handing each other envelopes.
I hurried back into the café. Made my way back to my seat, trying to look like I’d forgotten something. The man had opened the envelope and was counting the money inside. It looked like quite a wad of notes. He put the money into the inside pocket of his worn-out jacket. Now, when he spoke to the girl, his brow jutted forward, like he was saying something important, like he was stressing something very, very important. The girl nodded. She kept nodding like a puppy until he finished talking. Then he reached under his sweat-shirt and from some hidden place pulled out a slip of paper. He handed the slip of paper to the girl, who accepted it eagerly. Without waiting for her reaction, he got up and walked out of the café, leaving his coffee untouched.
I immediately followed after him. Not worrying this time of my madness, as my mind was possessed totally by a hunger for knowledge. Unexpectedly, he stopped at the edge of the pavement and hailed a cab. This was it. If he got into that cab, I would certainly never see him again. A cab had pulled up. He had the door open and was pausing to talk to the driver. I couldn’t help myself: "Hey!" I cried out. But my voice was just another unremarkable note in the music of urban noises. I pushed through the oncoming pedestrians, "Hey, wait a minute!" This time my melody registered. He turned and saw me. Perhaps he even recognized me as the girl in the train. Maybe be he wished he could’ve stopped and got to know me.
Whatever. All I know is he jumped into the cab and I never saw him again. But as the cab pulled away, he rolled down the window and I saw his hand let go of something. I ran to the spot. Found a little slip of paper fluttering down towards the pavement. I snatched it before it hit the dirt. I held it carefully in my hands, like the girl with straight hair had done. I unfolded it. There was a sentence printed on one side. It said, "Are You MY Kind of Beautiful?"
"Is that it?!" I screamed inside. "Is that it?!" I screamed outside. "Have I come all this way just to flatter some guy’s inflated vanity?"
"Flip it over." Said a voice. I turned. It was the girl from the café. The girl with long, dark, straight hair. She smiled and continued down the street.
I looked back at the slip of paper in my hand. I turned it over...
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Followers of Job Done may have heard Phil and Paul from the band being interviewed on BBC Essex on Tuesday 30 January. Steve Scruton invited us into the studio to talk about and play some material from our recent live promo CD.
In between the general chat, Steve played a good proportion of three tracks, one of which was Steve’s favourite "How Time Flies", a sample of which can be found by visiting the Tracks page on our website at www.jobdoneonline.com. Steve was particularly impressed by the fact that the CD was recorded totally live and without any frills.
One of the questions he asked Phil was "who do you sound like?" As yet, we don’t know ourselves but when you listen to the tracks on the website, you can decide for yourselves! Don’t forget to check the KlubKat gig guide to find out where we’re playing next.
Rockenfield/Speer's "Seven Devils" has successfully defended their BandWars championship with 44% of the vote!!! Thanks to all those who voted!
www.musicdish.com/bandwars
Also, there's a lot more info on the guys at http://www.paulspeer.com/new.html
Fresh after her amazing nomination as Best Female Artist at the Victorian Country Music Awards, Melbourne singer-songwriter Nattasha Crestani is now a dot com!
Go to www.nattasha.com and vote for her site through other music sites!
The site includes pictures, audio and news.
It will soon include lists of radio stations who are playing Nattasha's new song "Million Dollar You" so people can call and vote for it.
"Million Dollar You" has had the most amazing response already including many commercial radio stations adding the song to their airplay schedule.
Nattasha's public gigs are also listed on the site. Nattasha will be performing both originals and covers in her style of stardust crossover country with a new acoustic guitarist..
