Sophie Raymond Sings for Me!
Last night we went to La Lupa restaurant in Balmain for dinner - but really to hear Sophie Raymond perform. I first saw her play at the Basement a year or two ago and immediately fell in love with her voice and her songs. I hadn't much chance to see her again, since she is Melbourne based, but she's been doing some gigs in Sydney and this was my chance to hear her again.
It turned out that there were only two couples in the restaurant - Susannah and I and one other couple! However, this turned out to be a very good thing, because when you are in a circumstance like that, there's nothing else to do but introduce yourself. So I did and we had our dinner together and chatted about her music, other people's music and her travels. The second half of the show was just Sophie singing to us - giving us a private performance!
This really made my day (having a bad week at work). She did a wonderful reggae style sort of version of "The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music", as well as selections from her new CD (not out yet, but I shall be getting it as soon as it is available).
She finished with this song request from me ...
Happy people
Miss donna can’t find
A thing in her room
Beyond the light
Of afternoon
Guess buying light bulbs
Is still new
So centred now having a base and a home
Friendships drift fast when you’re on the road
Now she nurtures them
In her bondi abode
She’ll offer you floor space
To put down your road case
And miix you up a fancy treat
Through her bent laugh,
She tried to speak
Chorus:
Do you think we could breed happy people
One good heart is the seed
Happy people
Laughing smiling only seen
Happy people
Mister fisher
He had a situation
A child with a woman-
He was not in love
He lived with them
Five years long
Together despondent
Passionless was the norm
These are not the values
He wants to pass on
Through his guilt
The truth was strong
He said this choice is hard one
We’ll be more apart son
But a better man i will show you how to become
(Chorus)
Think of a memory
Of a perfect time
Like a sunday,
When you were a child
Sun kissed an salty
Sand in your toes
From the sea,
Into a hot bath you’d go
Be fed googy eggs
And soldier toast
Hold on, to that feeling
Hold on, let it breed
My dad he was told that he had a bad heart
And as a result
They opened him up
He went under for the big op
It changes your life when you somehow cheat death
Realise how much we
Don’t show that we care
Something shifted
In my parents then
Think i captured a glimpse of their youth and the instant
That they fell in love
Saw for the first time, what my conception came from.
(Chorus...out)
Make sure you go and see her, and buy her CDs, they are wonderful.
Her website
http://www.sophieraymond.com
Some more info about her:
http://www.abc.net.au/overnights/presenters/RAYMONDSOPHIERAYMOND.htm
It turned out that there were only two couples in the restaurant - Susannah and I and one other couple! However, this turned out to be a very good thing, because when you are in a circumstance like that, there's nothing else to do but introduce yourself. So I did and we had our dinner together and chatted about her music, other people's music and her travels. The second half of the show was just Sophie singing to us - giving us a private performance!
This really made my day (having a bad week at work). She did a wonderful reggae style sort of version of "The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music", as well as selections from her new CD (not out yet, but I shall be getting it as soon as it is available).
She finished with this song request from me ...
Happy people
Miss donna can’t find
A thing in her room
Beyond the light
Of afternoon
Guess buying light bulbs
Is still new
So centred now having a base and a home
Friendships drift fast when you’re on the road
Now she nurtures them
In her bondi abode
She’ll offer you floor space
To put down your road case
And miix you up a fancy treat
Through her bent laugh,
She tried to speak
Chorus:
Do you think we could breed happy people
One good heart is the seed
Happy people
Laughing smiling only seen
Happy people
Mister fisher
He had a situation
A child with a woman-
He was not in love
He lived with them
Five years long
Together despondent
Passionless was the norm
These are not the values
He wants to pass on
Through his guilt
The truth was strong
He said this choice is hard one
We’ll be more apart son
But a better man i will show you how to become
(Chorus)
Think of a memory
Of a perfect time
Like a sunday,
When you were a child
Sun kissed an salty
Sand in your toes
From the sea,
Into a hot bath you’d go
Be fed googy eggs
And soldier toast
Hold on, to that feeling
Hold on, let it breed
My dad he was told that he had a bad heart
And as a result
They opened him up
He went under for the big op
It changes your life when you somehow cheat death
Realise how much we
Don’t show that we care
Something shifted
In my parents then
Think i captured a glimpse of their youth and the instant
That they fell in love
Saw for the first time, what my conception came from.
(Chorus...out)
Make sure you go and see her, and buy her CDs, they are wonderful.
Her website
http://www.sophieraymond.com
Some more info about her:
http://www.abc.net.au/overnights/presenters/RAYMONDSOPHIERAYMOND.htm
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