Spirit of the Blitz

Took the tube over to Hammersmith to rehearse some new songs for the show, in a building not far from the restaurant where I used to play jazz piano for years. A few minutes after coming out of the tube, the station was closed for a short while for some terrorist alert, which turned out to be a false alarm. Simon - who is playing keyboards in the band I’ve put together for the show, arrives a few minutes after me in a really good mood because he’d ordered a take-away Latte from Costa Coffee inside the mall, and the guy had just finished serving him as the alarm went off and the place was evacuated. So he left the shopping centre delightedly clutching his coffee, as opposed to the two or three people behind him in the queue who had already paid for theirs but were forced to leave empty handed…

Hammersmith Shopping Mall can be a very depressing place at the best of times. Come friendly bombs…

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