The EX Factor

Do you have a talent you want to share?

 

Have you been hiding your light under a bushel long enough, isn't it about time you shared your hidden talents with us. If so then this is the page for you. 

So are you a budding Picasso, Lennon & McCartney in waiting, maybe a bit of a David Bailey dying to get out or do you see yourself as the next J K Rowling?

Whatever your talent here's your chance to give it a public airing & face the critics for the first time.

Our first offering comes from a VERY unusual source, a guy who served in the Regiment for many many years, at this point he wants to remain anonymous. He has written a song and had it recorded I'll let him do the introduction  

This song has been written by an ex member of the Regiment, I wrote the song after listening to the radio at work and heard a song written about some kids playing football in their garden, trying to get the ball back from the next door neighbours garden! I thought surely someone can write something better than that so that was my inspiration. The song is about meeting.  How it was then, how it is now, what he still thinks about her, and if it was possible go back and do it all over again?

 

The singer and musician is a guy called Mike Marsh. Mike is only a part time singer/musician, this version is not the definitive one, the writer is trying to get other people involved in this song and release it as a single ( Ha Ha possibly) we will donate a percentage of any monies made to ( I think Hendon House?) correct me please!! A good cause that helps in the rehabilitation of injured soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Let your wife's/girlfriends or even bits on the side listen to it and see what they think.

 Would be interested in any advice or comments that you might have.

 
Regards  ANON

 

Enough said, here's the song its called "Where it all began."  Don't forget the composer would like feedback from you guys.  So come on all you closet Simon Cowells out there here's your chance is it a hit or a miss?

 

Click this link to play the song  Where it all began.wma    Please note the words of this song are copyright reserved

The place where it all began, great easy and simple track to listen too, perhaps wont win the x factor, but then I probably would not have given it a thought had it been a contender. I'm not in the industry, not a critic, but I thought it was simple and comfortable.  Just my two pence worth.
 
Adrian Raff Rafferty

Next up is Andy Urquhart with a copy of his Study of van Gogh's 'Three Cottages in Saintes- Maries' 

This is the size it came through, not being an expert on Van Gogh I have no idea what the original looks like. So once again its over to you guys, has Andy done a good job, is this on a hit or miss?

 

Next up is Jack Wright's picture of a Wessex in flight. Jack created this using xara X.

 

wessex 5.jpg (42595 bytes)  Click on the picture to see it on full size

 

Well is this a hit or a miss. Not much feed back on the previous two, come on guys lets hear some comments.

Here is a sonnet from Jim Cowling. Thanks for the contribution Jim

Ode to a Vagrant

Ah Diogenes! Where do you reside?

Behind the metaphysic walls of Goth?

A painter made you famous when you died,

then had you stuffed and dressed, in your old cloth.

That apple-barrel town that Drake defined,

with coxswain pipping whores and drunken tars,

becomes an anchor for the wet-brained mind

of any lusty hero in its bars.

And what of ‘Cockney Jim’ and ‘The Singer’?

D’you meet in cobbled yards behind the stage

with a jar of the ‘hurry up’; and linger,

yer trousers draggin’ like a laggin’ cage?

You were the pilgrims of the darker side,

like Desert Fathers; drifting on the tide.

　

 

Your comments and any contributions to the usual email address

commandogunner@aol.com