More About Clowns

As promised, at our last band practice I confronted Matt about his Clown related themes for the band, particularly his increasingly blatant attempts to remodel himself as a sort of operatic sad clown. It didn't go down well. He started making that high pitch shrieking noise he makes when he's expressing extreme grief and wouldn't shut up. The other members of the band began to berate me for being mean to him, again.

 

That said, I refuse to drop the topic. Yesterday we went into the studio to demo our new super album. I got there late and Matt was already recording the first vocal parts. It was a song I didn't recognise. I asked Marcin what it was and he sighed and said it was Recitar! Vesti La Giubba! from the famous opera Pagliacci. For those less cultured than Marcin and myself, Pagliacci is the opera about the sad clown.