When I was a kid, my sisters were in the choir at The Sacred Heart church. I was jealous as they got a biscuit and a glass of orange squash after mass. Back in the 1960’s, this was a big thing. My sisters suggested I auditioned. Sadly this didn’t go well. The choir mistress told me I was tone deaf and didn’t have a musical bone in my body. I believed her. Although I occasionally sang for my band, the False Dots, this was only ever as a last resort and out of necessity and I always thought it sounded awful. I was happy playing guitar and doing backing vocals.
When Allen Ashley left the band in 2021, out of necessity I took on vocals.For me, it was a temporary thing to enable us to write new songs. But then two strange things happened. The first was that I started to enjoy it. The second, even more bizarrely was that audiences did. I found I have the perfect voice for our blend of ska/punk. It’s not great on more melodic numbers, but in our recent recording sessions I’ve realised it works really well on upbeat ska/punk songs. For decades I’ve been cross with God, for not giving me a great singing voice. His best practical joke is that he actually gave me the perfect voice for my favourite musical genre, I just never realised! But I’ve also realised it’s never too late. What do you think?
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