The question on everyone’s lips these days, seems to be ‘what’s playing on your iPod?’ Whenever I switch on my iPod I find the battery’s flat – so for me, the answer is always ‘nothing at all’. It’s a very different matter when it comes to what I listen to whilst I’m driving – the CD I play over and over and over again is ‘The Very Best of Rondo Veneziano’.
I first came across it at our wonderful hairdressers – Pisani in Woodhatch and I loved it the first time I heard it. I left many hints for Frank over the following months, but it was my sister, Ali, who gave it to me for Christmas – and, as luck would have it, she received a bonus copy of her own, courtesy of Amazon. She had ordered my CD online but, in Amazon’s infinite wisdom, her order got into a loop and started duplicating itself. She phoned to stop the flood of emails acknowledging orders, but too late to stop a second copy of the CD being sent out, which she was told she could keep with Amazon’s compliments. So Ali now works along to this brilliantly uplifting music, whilst I drive. I can’t explain it, obviously it’s not everyone’s taste, but it just makes me feel happier as I drive around. It’s excellent music on the move, with its upbeat momentum and a spring in its step!
It’s not Frank’s sort of music at all, as he told me when first he heard it – he loves all contemporary music from the 60s till now – he’s great to have on your quiz team! But a strange thing happens when, on the odd occasion, Frank drives Katy the Tardis… I will have left Katy’s radio tuned into the local BBC radio station but when I next return I find the volume turned up and ‘The Very Best of Rondo Veneziano’ playing!
To get a taster of mine and Ali’s favourite CD visit the Rondo Veneziano site.
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