Another performance from Steve Oram and Tom Meeten’s Club Fantastico, the same
night as Is My Toaster Sentient? and just as dynamic. When I first uploaded this video
here in March 2024, I felt a little cold about it, finding it overwrought and almost
unpleasantly intense. But it seemed to trigger a wave of warm nostalgia in various
friends and acquaintances who were all quick to tell me this was actually a good one,
so now I feel bad about having disparaged it. The truth is, I’m not a good judge of how
effective my performances are. I only know how close they come to what I wanted to
achieve, and in this case I guess I did OK. It’s an exuberant rendition of Michael the
Swan which makes the most of how extraordinarily silly it all is.
THE ALBANY, GREAT PORTLAND ST.
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
MICHAEL THE SWAN
SONGS
LYRICS
OTHER STUFF
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
THE ALBANY, GREAT PORTLAND ST.
MICHAEL THE SWAN
Another performance from Steve Oram and Tom
Meeten’s Club Fantastico, the same night as Is My
Toaster Sentient? and just as dynamic. When I first
uploaded this video here in March 2024, I felt a little
cold about it, finding it overwrought and almost
unpleasantly intense. But it seemed to trigger a
wave of warm nostalgia in various friends and
acquaintances who were all quick to tell me this was
actually a good one, so now I feel bad about having
disparaged it. The truth is, I’m not a good judge of
how effective my performances are. I only know
how close they come to what I wanted to achieve,
and in this case I guess I did OK. It’s an exuberant
rendition of Michael the Swan which makes the
most of how extraordinarily silly it all is.
