[Dixielandjazz] a strathclyde stomper/ Mick Mulligan Movie

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

to Bill Haesler 


Daring suggestion, a Mulligan movie 
given the vivid disclosures of Melly:
while the music might well be hot and groovy
excessive involvements of lower belly 

(witness ever more tellings in a TV
documentary full of reports of naughty --
too naughty to be recounted here by me, 
and we're neither narrowminded nor snotty)

sing not the musicality of Chisholm
but very otherwise lubricated slide 
and roaring-boy sexual athleticism 
that would leave most Rock hacks stranded by the side 
of the road makers of real music were on, 
ensembling onstage, duetting till grey dawn. 

Title: SCENES FROM THE SCRUBBER BELT? 


Of course the film-makers would miss out the meditative hours with a bedspring in the middle of the lonely back; and sundry overnight stories which brought to life, with bugs more abundantly, many the old music-hall landlady joke. 

Bacon and egg antecedents of the Ronnie Scott Club sandwich ???  

And then there is the GB in GB tale of the innocent Antipodean over-warned about rowdy audiences whose instant response had the three way consequence of a fan falling from his punch while a pair of glasses and an autograph book described separate arcs in the air. Graeme Bell in Great Britain that was. 
Where would a film producer find all those lengths of bad and narrow road without sight or dream of motorways?  

I gather from reports made by motorists that the bad roads are coming back, by a natural process ... 

Is there not a BAD ROAD BLUES from those days, with surprising interruptions of the rhythm?  

I hate to feel my nearside tyre go down?
Did you ever play a more blues-inspiring town?
Some of the tales would make a Storyville madame frown?

before my time, though!
and the three lines above are as ever now i.m. Harry Callaghan!

Robert 
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From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
>ROBERT R. CALDER wrote [in part]:Reminds me of a tv drama series about the revival of a rock band, but the thought of a trad band film with the same star makes >the mind boggle. His screen name is Robbie Coltrane.  
>
>Dear Robert,
>I also recall that 1987 6-hour miniseries about The Majestics, but had to look up its name: "Tutti Frutti".
>At the time, I also imagined a 'trad' band version. And immediately thought of the UK Mick Mulligan Magnolia Jazz Band, based on the events in George Melly's book "Owning Up".Plus first hand stories told to me by two Australian members of that group, Paul Simpson (ex-London) and Ian Pearce from Hobart, Tasmania. Very kind regards,  Bill.