Young family band “Bound By Time” last Saturday in Oxford’s Cornmarket Street
This post is a tribute to the inventiveness of today’s kids. Equipped with musical instruments, video cameras, editing software and the Web these guys are doing such amazing stuff that frankly, it’s a wonder that they still need adult musicians, writers and film-makers to entertain them. Maybe they don’t. Maybe all they need is a bit of inspiration.
Today I’m featuring young band ‘Bound By Time’ and my friend Alice, young cartoonist, artist and stop-motion movie proto-genius.
I’ve seen Bound By Time twice now, on one of their visits to the streets of Oxford. My little daughter aged 5 really loves them and won’t leave until we’ve heard several songs. Last Saturday we heard them play “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, “Don’t Look back in Anger” among several others, plus a couple of their own compositions (I liked ‘Easy Does It’). They play and sing rather well, with good vocal harmonies. Big brother Alex has a lovely tenor voice and the girls all look fabulously cool, grungy and unbothered by everything. I asked Alex if he wanted to be a pop singer and he answered “I just want to keep doing this, making our music with the band…”
Crumbs, what a professional answer…
My friend Alice (aged 15) has a collection of the funniest mobile phone films I’ve ever seen. I keep on at her to put them on Youtube but there’s some formatting or editing issue… They are stop motion animations of some cuddly toys, starting with a murder mystery solved by the walrus ‘Dr. Glen’ and then finally being more or less the (mis)adventures of Dr. Glen, whose entire dialogue (interpreted by Alice and my teenage daughter in voice-over) consists of the word WUH.
(As in WUH-WUH-WUH WUH, WUH!: What’s that Dr. Glen? You’ve just reached the check-in desk and realised that your passport has expired? Trust me it’s funny when you see it…)
I can’t show you Dr. Glen, shame, but I can show you this lovely song-vid which Alice put on her Facebook. It’ll make you ache for the long summers of your teens. Unless you are still a youngster, and then it will make you look forward to them.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=17827723360
(My daughter is the one eating sugared jelly Iberia lollies on the airplane with Alice…)
You need a FaceBook account to see it. I’m assuming we’re all living in the 21st century here.
4 replies on “Kids are AMAZING: Part One”
Hello,
Well i obviously live in the 20th century since i don’t have facebook. :D. I don’t see the point in it to be honest.
Anyway, the bad seems cool. Crummy kid with good proffesional answer. :). They’re to good a band. 😀
Lukas…
Hey Lucas you’ve gotta go on FaceBook…we’re going to do some v cool things there re Joshua Files…say no more…
Oh, I love those kids! I keep meaning to hassle them into letting me write their entire biography or something before they turn into the new Poppy and the Jezebels and get too famous to talk to us plebs…
Aren’t they fab? They sent me some very sweet messages via MySpace. They’re playing on 9th November at the Thames Suite at the Rivermead Leisure Complex in Reading. They invited me to go. Would you like to come along, Rocrastinator? Some other teenage bans are playing also.