And, from 10 pm, Happy Bulgarian New Year!
They had a rather good band playing in Sofia’s public square this year, to a very excited crowd. It was a bunch of performers who dated from the 60’s and 70’s, who were influenced by the Beatles but who had been tragically and ruthlessly kept down by the regime, at the time.
Tonight’s band featured:
* a somewhat desiccated boomer on lead vocals and guitar who had spent years as a buddhist monk in Nepal but who had escaped just in time to be influenced by Crosby Stills and Nash,
* a blues man on acoustic bass who totally rocked whenever the songs went into a 12 bar, reminding me of Michael J Fox ‘under the sea’
* an energetic drummer wearing more clothes than everybody else
* and a younger guy on folky guitar who knew all the words and looked vaguely worried whenever a Legend joined in or went off on one.
It was lovely to listen to and even more entertaining to watch.
Well done and thank you, Bulgaria. You know how to hold a New Year Party!
