Skunk:
The ehm, the first record I ever bought, I got it... What I used to do was I’d
save up my pocket money and sometimes I’d skip school dinners and keep the
money Mum had given me for that, and then a couple of weeks before Christmas
I’d, actually ehm, that’s not strictly speaking true, because usually I’d be so
damn excited about the whole thing that I’d start doing my Christmas shopping
in October or something, but I’d, I had the ehm the...
putting
his hands together before his mouth as if in prayer, and yawning into them
Skunk:
..the, I would go up into town and buy all the presents on one afternoon, stuff
for my mum and for my friends, and one time I saw an album of Christmas carols,
so I bought that, you know, I hadn’t really thought about music that much
before, but my mum had a really, one of those old mono record players and I
used to sometimes play her old Elvis singles and stuff, but mostly I liked to
sit in there with the turntable going, and I’d, you know, without a record on
it, and I’d make spiral patterns on it with different coloured crayons.
Laughs.
Skunk:
But I remember getting this album, and carrying it home in the, it was ehm, you
know, in a plastic bag and it kept getting blown about in the wind and,
whatever. So I got it home and I put it on but... I don’t know, it... I
remember thinking that it didn’t sound right, because, well, at the time I
didn’t know why, I mean, they were the same carols and hymns and everything,
but it just didn’t sound the way... It was only later, when I was a bit ehm,
when I was a bit older that I realised that what I’d really wanted was a
recording of the way the carols were sung in my church, or something
that that came close to that, you know, the same feeling of warmth and
maybe ehm, community? But this record was a choir, like a, a really trained
vocal performance, and I think that robbed the carols of, I didn’t... I didn’t
feel like I was part of it, not the way I’d been in church anyway.
