I, The Reverend Ian Patrick Harris (another story there concerning The DVLA and The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster) came to Brighton, fresh from music college, with the intention of bringing the world to light with my classical genius.
I did create a mandolin orchestra, that is still going today, called The Fretful Federation. I now, no longer have anything to do with it. Fifteen years of my grasp of the orchestral baton was enough.
I eventually, through desparation, ended up busking mandolin, on the streets, whilst on stilts. This led to a Stiltwalking band ‘Poles Apart Stilts’ which eventually performed all over the world and on the popular soap opera, in The UK, Eastenders
That eventually dissolved due to the Credit Crunch and ‘personal’ problems within the band (them moonlighting, at a cheaper rate, behind my back).
Back to being a street band, and with the instrumentation, that we used in Poles Apart, we performed rock and pop covers on the Streets of Brighton, now under the guise of ‘The Iron Boot Scrapers’.
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