Closet Concert Virtuoso Gifts

Caught in the Music

A Symphony of Penguins

Anna Calvi

"I haven't started playing the violin. I hide my vegetables in here!"

Motorherd

Allegro con molto espresso

Freddie Mercury

"I guess someone got up on the wrong side of the podium today."

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

'After hours of rehearsing together, little Judy Barlow is going to play 'Three Blind Mice' while her father screams, 'Keep that racket down, will ya?''

"Eventually the instrument becomes an extension of your body."

And this is a little ditty I wrote called 'the third quarters profit and loss account' ...Colin often wished that he'd followed his first love and taken up a career as a musician

Popera!

'I'm sure I could lie on my back waving my feet in the air if I could play the saxophone.'

'Inside Ralph is a comedienne crying to get out.'

"Iggy Pop? More like Iggy Grandpop."

"A gentleman would offer his seat."

Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a chocolate bunny at his easter concert.

A musician bowing a tiny guitar

Fuzz - Nigel can twiddle his drumsticks.

'No you idiot! You're supposed to smash your guitar AFTER the show! What are you going to play now?'

"I miss diving into a mosh pit."

'In the middle of the second movement, Rodney's worst fears were realized; Phillippe began to sing along.'

Air Sitar.

'Well, one of us in wrong.'

"Is it my imagination, or does our use of correction fluid increase as people's teeth get whiter?"

"You'll have to imagine the melody for this next song too."

Pogo Cellist

Rod Stewart

The Edward Witten String-Theory Quarter

"Too much to drink, a tattoo parlor, a dare and..."

"Horton hears The Who!"

'The records show, I took the blows and did it, the way of whatever sheep happened to be in my way.'

Sir John Barbirolli

...she found out that the basque he'd bought wasn't for her.