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    Wiggly Concert

    murray flying v scaled Late last year, Sol, Steph and I went to the Wiggles concert with a couple of friends. It was totally awesome! I know the Wiggles are a kids show and everything but I’ve always appreciated that they are a real band that play instruments (though not much on stage these days), write their own songs and put interesting things in their music. I like the arrangements they come up with for their songs, especially places where Murray sneaks in a bit of fuzz guitar.

    On stage they had lots of fun, keeping themselves entertained with some ad lib bits and pieces between songs. The show itself was really well produced. They tour with The Wiggly Dancers who are entertaining to watch and do some acrobatic stuff at times.

    A friend told me earlier last year that the Wiggles without Greg is like Guns ‘n’ Roses without Slash but while we miss Greg, we think Sam carries his own part really well and while the vibe of the Wiggles has definitely changed, they haven’t lost “it”.

    After the show, Sol insisted that we get some merchandise and we picked up the latest Wiggles DVD Pop go the Wiggles. Of course we had to also watch it when we got home and I think it is one of their stronger DVDs although I think there is only one original song on there. The other hour of music is the Wiggles renderings of nursery rhymes, old and new with Wiggles style pop and period costumes. Lots of fun for us adults too. MY favorite moment being when Murray kind of teleports into the middle of See-saw Margereedaw in some kind of psychedelic get-up and a flying V guitar.

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    Posted: January 8th, 2008 under Fatherhood, Culture.
    Comments: 2

    Comments

    Comment from Jen
    Time: 9/1/2008, 1:04 pm

    You are so funny Matt, you haven’t watched alot of Wiggles though a lot of their stuff has been done before in one form or another and they’ve done a good job of revamping. I keep tripping over their songs here and there – Eleni spends too much time on the computer! Oh that I attribute to you and showing her the bananas website :)

    Comment from blue milk
    Time: 11/1/2008, 7:56 pm

    Yeah there was a lot of love in this household for the Wiggle Concert too, sounds like a huge success. Our daughter has happily transferred her affections from Greg to Sam with no complaints, but her father tells me Sam, in comparison to the rest of the Wiggles has gone a bit pudgy – still if you’re a multi-millionaire overnight you’re going to be drinking lots of the good wine hey?

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