Chris revisits country dancing in Tap End Gold
On Easter Monday, Scott, Chris and Beccy began by debating the early success of The Voice against Britain’s Got Talent. Their preferred part of the new format was the possibility that a coach might turn around, realise they had made a mistake and have to conceal it from the singer.
The conversation also returned to the swivel chairs Chris had seen beside a nightclub dancefloor. He and Beccy decided they could recreate the coaches’ theatrical turns in a club, even if nobody was entirely sure why a dancefloor needed a pair of spinning chairs.
Engelbert Humperdinck’s Eurovision entry was given the team’s full attention. Scott was preparing to travel to Azerbaijan for the semi-finals, while they played one of Humperdinck’s older records and argued that it would have been a very different, but potentially winning, choice for the contest.
The day’s Tap End Gold extract took Chris back to Year 5, where country dancing had dominated PE lessons before a school performance. He disliked every part of the activity, including the calls for “do-si-do” and the obligation for boys to hold hands with girls, but remembered swinging a partner too hard and accidentally sending her into the audience.
Chris also recalled sports day, where he came third in the egg-and-spoon race and was convinced he had beaten Andrew Robinson in the 100 metres despite being handed second place. Scott and Beccy welcomed the idea of a rematch, and Chris argued that Britain had missed a trick by not making egg-and-spoon racing and sack races Olympic events.
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