FUNKING PARTY SCORE DRAW FOR A HUNGOVER WWB
Reports are reaching this blogger that the self styled Buddha of soul and funk, WWB, has made another unsuccessful attempt at a return to the highlife.
The aging somnambulist and ex Wembley Foot tapper, was suffering from the standard hangover as he began his stylish set. As usual a soulful mix of fusion, jazz and hard core old skool reverberated from the clubs speakers, leaving the occupants of the largely empty auditorium grooving and strutting with glee.
For a while, those of us lucky to remember the hay day of the Wembley Foot tapper phenomenon, were transposed to 1979 and the seedy dance floors of Atlantis in Margate and Lacey Lady in Gants Hill, Ilford, just off the north circular road.
However, the empty venue was a sure pointer to the symbiotic ennui ,which the followers of this ex prince of the dance floor, continue to suffer.
As Eddie Henderson, Brass Construction, Dexter Wansel, Donald Byrd , Ronnie Laws, Grover Washington and the like, drifted across the dance floor, those who had attended the event drifted through the door on to the cold and unforgiving Cricklewood high street.
A small band of bald and greying Anglo Irish converts, attempted to raise the atmosphere of the club, but were unable to move far enough away from the bar to save the evening. Alas, they soon also drifted away towards the warmth of a Kilburn “lock in” and a pot of Guinness.
All in all, this was another small step on WWB’s return to the heady heights of his youth, and again we can only hope that provided excessive alcohol intake does not continue to seep the seed from this ex musical masters brain, the future may still be bright !
A recent return to the broadcasting studio may prove to be the stimuli needed to return him mentally to his hedonistic youth, however, his recent deportation from the UK and embroilment in the Kingston, Jamaican underground could still thwart any return to the highest stage for the soon to be pensionable aged WWB.
Updates will be posted as soon as the Jamaican authorities release him from his self inflicted home imprisonment, and his agreement to pay the going rate to the local gangsters for protection.
A recent return to the broadcasting studio may prove to be the stimuli needed to return him mentally to his hedonistic youth, however, his recent deportation from the UK and embroilment in the Kingston, Jamaican underground could still thwart any return to the highest stage for the soon to be pensionable aged WWB.
Updates will be posted as soon as the Jamaican authorities release him from his self inflicted home imprisonment, and his agreement to pay the going rate to the local gangsters for protection.
