Saturday 21 December 2013

All the world's a stage

You know you’re getting older when the last time you went clubbing it was called a disco. 

Age alert.

The CM’s arts editor gave me a good laugh on Thursday (print edition, p. 19):

“Ladies and gents, are you ready for Marco Da Silva? [who?]  “You’ve most likely seen him in music videos or on the cover of magazines.”  [Err, no]  “Perhaps you were lucky enough to have seen him dancing on tour with Kylie Minogue" [no again] "Yes that’s him, the really hot dancer with the awesome tatts.”  [nobody says ‘awesome’ in Europe, dear CM, and tatts are simply chav]  “However you know him [we don’t], get ready to take your relationship a step further...” [relationship???]

Oh dear.  This is the level of entertainment in Larnaca.  It might be a bit better in Nicosia or Limassol (we hope), but poor old Larnaca gets left with the dross, while the CM tries to big up a “famous” choreographer, dancer, model and DJ [performing] "exclusively in Cyprus"  [exclusive because nobody else wanted him].  Don’t get me wrong, Mr. Da Silva, I’ve got nothing against you or your, umm, dee-jaying/modelling achievements, but let’s not pretend this is high art.  

Please, Mr. Mayor Andreas Louroujatis, may we have some decent entertainment in Larnaca for a change, other than the usual vraka dancers at Phinikoudes?  We know the country’s broke, but if Cyprus can afford Russian missiles and Israeli gunboats, then surely we could get Andrea Bocelli? 

Harrumph.  Bah, humbug.  

In the mean time, we have to content ourselves with YouTube.  

Patron saint of musicians:  Saint Cecilia

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