cNutgroist

Godgiven comedy moment no.2 was sunday night at Vicar St to see Youssou N'Dour and the Fathy Salama Orchestra sing songs of devotional Sufi music from Egypt, Senegal and elsewhere besides. Leaving aside the fact that the number of Senegalese music fans divided by the number of Egyptian music fans means that most of the people in the 1000-strong room were basically there to hear "7 seconds" and nothing else (which i'm pleased to say he didn't do), the problem was that 40 minutes after the band was due to take the stage there was still nothing happening. The compere then came out to announce that he was very sorry but there'd been an oversight, it was all Vicar St's fault, but some of the musicians were very sorry and upset at having to ask but were basically a little uneasy about coming out to perform since the music is all liturgical, it was the start of Ramadan and there was alcohol in the audience....so could we all just hurry up and finish our drinks please!? he gave us 15 minutes and sneaked off to much confusion. Cue 1000 people clapping and cheering because we're all good citizens of a multicultural, tolerant society aren't we now. Simultaneously cue the same 1000 people groaning, rumbling and booing a little upon realising that yes, we've got to finish our bloody drinks so a bunch of superstitious foreigners can get up and play their tinkly winkly plinky-plonky music even though we all paid 60 bloody euro each for this.

So I said to my companions "I wonder if they find out I'm here they'll ask for the Jew to be removed as well?"

And I said it too loudly

And everyone in several rows turned round to see who had just said such an obnoxious comment

And everyone smiled

(phew)

But the Marriage Module still hit me
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