Welcome and Benvenuti to all my Lovely Followers
After the concert with two lovely American friends. Foto P Finnigan
Yes, I’m back, ‘to let you know that I can really shake them down’. I know sad 60’s lyrics again. But, don’t worry, now the dust has settled after the Rock Chick Band Concert, I have been busy concentrating on other things, like updating you on the fun happenings in our little bit of Chianti and Italy generally. However, here is a final bit of memory from two weeks ago. The date for next year is Friday 22nd June.
Vasco Rossi at Modena. Foto La Nazione
Just one week after our concert, the hugely popular Italian Rocker, Vasco Rossi, hit the stage in Modena and despite the heat attracted 220 thousand fans! Rossi cut his first record in 1977 and is still adored by his fans for his heavy riffs and romantic power ballads. Now, for we northern Europeans, his ‘gravelly speaking way of singing’ is unusual; you either hate it or love it. The Italians love it! He is effectively Italy’s most succesful rocker and at the age of sixty-five even has the youngsters squealing in the aisles!
Our vintage Sony music centre circa 1980. Foto P Finnigan
Back in our lovely converted monastery farmhouse, my man has hauled our vintage Sony Music Centre out of storage. Sadly, it hasn’t worked for years and we have a great collection of vinyls from the 60’s through to the 80’s that have not been played for donkeys. We popped into our electrical man in Certaldo this morning and he has offered to have a go at reviving it. So next Saturday, we will take it down. I’ll keep you posted.
Addio Paolo Villagio Foto La Repubblica
Meanwhile, whilst reading the papers over coffee in Fiano, there was some sad news from the world of film and television. The death of that very funny man Paolo Villagio at the age of eighty-four. Many of you outside of Italy will recognise some of the characters he played; that image of the plump little man in trousers or shorts pulled up over his round belly to his armpits and held there by braces. A character that made the audience laugh before he had spoken a word. Addio Paolo.
We also read that, Silvio Berlusconi is back, and having invested a huge sum of money into his party Forza Italia, he is on the hustings again. We do not have a date yet for the General Election, but probably around November. It will be nice to have a bit of colourful entertainment back in the political news.
Last night (Saturday) Fiano had an open air cinema in the parco (scrubby grassy area) behind the apartment blocks. We did not go, but this morning’s talk in La Dispensa coffee bar was all about it and my man spotted this left over sign in the hedge walking back to the car. “Look at these prices!” He moaned. “Perhaps we should have gone; one euro for a glass of wine!”
Well, enough of that; off to C’era una Volta for lunch.
Have a really great week and do drop me a line.
Salute June x
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