I was told to keep Saturday night free for a ‘surprise’ Father’s Day event. I was worried it’d be bungee jumping from the top of Big Ben again… It tends to play havoc with my flute embouchure as you can see from last time (and look what it did to my flute!). But instead, at about 4 o’clock the doorbell rang and there was my son saying he was taking me and the rest of the family out for an Indian meal – in my opinion a much more pleasant surprise and better for my blood pressure too!
I’m thinking of my own father today who was a great encouragement to me and Steve when we were starting off in music and I’m very conscious that not everybody gets to have such support in those crucial early years. Here’s dad just after WW2 in his red beret.
So, if you’d like to come and wish me and the chaps in John Hackett Band a belated happy Father’s Day, you’ll find us in Honiton and Penzance on the 21st and 22nd June.
