Confluence

Feedback group Writers Connect arranged a homework exercise a month or so ago: write a rap verse to perform at the next meeting. I whisked this up and "spat it" at the group two weeks later. It seemed to go down well, so I decided to make a music video of it. I wanted to make it as decent as possible, so I rehearsed it a few times, checked pacing, breathing, saliva control, gathered a few props, practiced with sound levels (a bit)... and then my computer broke. 2 weeks later, it's fixed and the verse is complete. Just a bit of fun. I'm not the next Immortal Technique. 

Or am I...?

0:20- snare starts

0:40- beat starts

From early beginnings on the outskirts of the city

I always bring unlikely circumstance with me

pick out a moment in space and time

on a radio show at the age of nine

Baloo arranges to take the club out

to commemorate the founding of the cub scouts

The group in their uniform are very well-dressed

But out of a sense of rebelliousness

I rock up in T-shirt and jeans

I figure we're there to be heard and not seen

everyone else is in woggles and scarves

leaving me looking the one who's half-arsed

An older cub, he was the type born to lead,

had numerous badges adorned on his sleeve

The presenter he asks what each one of them means

and the kid explains symbols supported by seams

He spoke with charisma aged only eleven

a popular jock who was known as Kevin

Or Sinny, a kid whose name you might know

was picked to play rugby for Leeds Rhinos

and later he rose to the top of his field

This kid, his name was Kevin Sinfield

Now I don't need any form or type of citation

As captain, he's one of the best in the nation.

But wait, let me take you back to '92

Cos with telling this story I'm not even through

The presenter agrees that uniform's irrelevant

as with radio, you don't have the visual element

It's liberating knowing that a city can hear ya

Then afterwards we darted to a little cafeteria

A floor or so up from the station's studio

We walked in the room, and what do you know?

Who do we see sat huddled there? (SWALLOW)

It was Peter Simon from Double Dare!

An opportunity we out not to pass

So Kev Sinny walked up and got us autographs (SHOW PIC)

I expect today that if the two were to be found

together that it would be the other way around!

The fate of the rest of the team is a mystery

So I'm signing off now from this scene of Oldham history.