Family Time by Simon Thoumire

This my opening number to my Self Portrait 2009 album and reflects on life in the house trying to work, practice etc. The fighting noises at the start and end is the audience replacement as it tends to frame much of what I do. The tunes are Dr Shaw, Strathbogie Editor (both by J Scott Skinner) and Marvin Garnish (Simon Thoumire).

Self Portrait 2009 is a new unique piece of video work concentrating on Scottish music and new media. It takes the form of a YouTube playlist (www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1516B8EF804A4C92) and Simon is the first artist in the UK to release an album on YouTube (source: UK editor of YouTube). It is a free work open to all to view. As the album title says 'Self Portrait 2009' looks at Simon's life in 2009. Simon is a musician, event organiser and director of footstompin.com who works from home whilst looking after his 2 children with his partner Clare.
Whilst this album shows off Simon's first love of Scottish traditional music it also features his very eclective musical tastes. "I have tried to take my music and put it into situations that surround me. Everything you see and hear on this album is real life. From sitting on the living room couch practising to being inundated by the commercialism that is directed at our children from most TV channels. It also features frustration, sharing and happiness. There is a lot of humour on this album and I hope it makes you smile."
www.footstompin.com/simonthoumire

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• mark
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• darth
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• thoumire
• scottish
• scotland
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[ScottishFiddleLesson]

Great playing!

[Booker950]

You crack me up, down and all around. Wonderful!

[fiddletrish]

This is fabulous! The shoes are a tad distracting, I must say.... are they spats or women's heels?

[WobblingFiddle]

Charlie you crazy pirate

[gingerhog]

Really funny Simon! And great tunes too. Nice to see Mark in top form too.

Simon... are you wearing High heels? They're nice!

[chirritutiplen]

Top Class! Wonderful!

[FolkNFiddleClub]

Absolutely brilliant! I was in stitches at both the opening theme and the tune, which is brilliantly played but very humorous at the same time, especially as the opening chords suggest a different blander style of music but go into this great tune. I totally agree re the 'being inundated by the commercialism' thing as well.

All the Best,

PD

[jukerdanz]

Wow, some experience. I love it - the music is great.