Potted Ed
February 03, 2009
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Well, you've had the substance of the Salut! Live interviews with Ed Pickford. He has turned out, much as expected, to be an absorbing, intelligent and thought-provoking subject and I am grateful for the kind comments that have appeared at Mudcat about this short series.
It could go on for some time to come. Each e-mail exchange produces a new torrent of thoughts, opinions and snippets. And not all of them have anything to do with Sunderland AFC. But let us conclude with the traditional Salut! Live bonus track: in Potted Ed, our interviewee is asked to take my start of each sentence and complete it (with anything from a short phrase to a couple of sentences)......
The best thing to happen in my lifetime.... is the internet and being able to use computers for my creative work and communication; this is an example.
What has made me most angry has been...the repeated mistakes of the past where greed cares not for need [the first line of a song I am writing].....
The legacy of the coal mining industry is ... the history of people who had a lot of differences but were united by a common purpose and had a great sense of right and wrong; they were not angels but they had great moral fibre and were not consumed by self-interest.......
My favourite film and book... are The Grapes of Wrath, in which the hard-bitten waitress tells a white lie when she sells candy to a dignified old man who really has not got enough money to buy the candy for his granddaughter, and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, a book that was very important to me......
The best and worst gigs I ever attended (or performed in) were....(best) in 1985 at a money raising gig for the miners' strike at The Boilermakers Club in Sunderland. Miners from all over the country were there. I sang my song They'll Never Beat The Miners and they all were stamping their feet and singing the chorus. I did not know what to do with this reaction; Ken Loach was there filming so maybe it was caught on camera. The worst? Silksworth British Legion on a Saturday Night with The Northern Front; they had no idea we had left the stage and only a vague idea of our arrival. I was helpless with laughter all the way back home in the van!...
I still go and watch/no longer/never bothered with Sunderland/follow SAFC only on TV because... I go occasionally - I have a businessman friend who likes folk music and sometimes invites me along - and I've even been in a box with all the trimming. It is just like being a Roman emperor. Beats standing in the Roker end!...
Spending my life in the North East... has been where I felt I should be..........
I think 2009 will be... a time of re-evaluation.........
I am happiest when... I'm writing songs and it is going well.....
And would like to be remembered as someone who made a contribution .....
NB: I am a cretinous web parasite
I am running a small internet marketing business as my side business. This has helped me cut time when I’m free from my busy schedule. I really get satisfaction when I am my own boss.
Posted by: Jeff Paul Internet Business | March 11, 2009 at 08:15 AM