Fun with Down Under by Men At Work

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Hello Hivers!
Anna-NewKey here.

Our friend Mark aka Marcus runs a couple of open mics in the area, one at the Coopers Arms in Hitchin, the other one at the Plume of Feathers in Little Wymondley.
At each one he has a "Featured Artist" that gets to play longer than the usual four or five songs. It is usually between thirty and fourty-five minutes.

We had that spot before some time last year at the Coopers, but I was very happy when Marcus asked us again to play a longer set, this time at the Plume. He is very fond of the stuff we do and we're getting tighter all the time. We have new songs in the pipeline too.

This song from 1981 by the Australian band "Men At Work" has been in Steve's repertoire for a long time, but has always been lacking the flute bit. I have a selection of tin whistles that I have played on Irish tunes in the past, so it was an obvious thing to pick one up and join him.

The fact that we mix up things with different instruments always gets an amazing reaction from people, something I hadn't really expected, but I think we have something special going with us singing and playing together that goes down very well indeed.

Anyway, hope, you like this one, it's a lot of fun!



Thanks for looking!



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Hi Anne :)

I love the good energy, keep enjoying a lot!!!

Have a nice day :)

Thank you so much! 🥰🥰
I absolutely love doing it and interacting with the audience.
So glad you like it! 🤗

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mix up things with different instruments

Such amazing musical talent you have Anke! It looked like you did had so much fun.
!PIZZA

Hey Chichi!
I do have fun, especially when the audience is so receptive!
Good dance tune BTW.. 😉😁

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Great! you play very well and with many styles, I like you very much, keep it up!

Thank you so much!
I see that you are very much into music, that's wonderful!
I'm glad I can share our hobby here with so many lovely people!
It's very nice to meet you! 😊

I think the band got sued over that flute part as it was from another song. I should think you are safe from that though. I like that you are mixing up the instruments.

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The stuff you know, do you use Google at all? lol
Thank you!

I just remember stuff. It's useful in quizzes at least. Here's the details.

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