The Scotsman Sessions #397- Chris Forbes

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The Scotsman Sessions #397: Chris Forbes

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00:00 Hi there everyone, Duncan Murray here, the other Murray brother.

00:20 You all know my brothers, Ando and Jam Jam, for all their tennis.

00:28 But I am here today for the Scotsman sessions to really finally demonstrate that I do have

00:34 some skills as well.

00:39 You know it wasn't easy growing up in that environment when everyone was so good at one

00:44 particular sport.

00:46 And no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get into it.

00:50 So eventually I did start to rebel and I did that through music.

00:58 Yeah music.

01:02 It's probably not what you're thinking.

01:04 You know it's not.

01:08 I really went traditional for what is the most badass, sorry mum, way to rebel with

01:19 a musical instrument.

01:21 And that's when I had this.

01:24 Sorry, hang on.

01:30 Let me just hear this.

01:35 Just two seconds, it's a bit tricky.

01:38 It's a strap on, a strap at the back.

01:43 The accordion, that's right.

01:45 I realised that it wasn't the most explosive instrument.

01:50 I wasn't really getting across my feelings of kind of resentment and loneliness.

01:57 Especially when you're starting out you have to learn all these pretty rubbish non-hell

02:01 raising songs like Merrily We Roll Along.

02:10 But what I realised is if I could just learn those songs in a minor key it started to give

02:18 off a little bit of energy.

02:19 It started to capture my mood a little bit at the time trying to grow up with these guys.

02:20 So I was getting somewhere.

02:42 I still wasn't really pushing the point home.

02:46 I wasn't really getting through to my mum, my brothers, they were just too busy.

02:52 It didn't matter if it was summer time, winter, even Christmas day, they were just playing

02:58 tennis.

02:59 Mum always said Santa hates a sloppy backhand.

03:03 So I had to keep pushing through and I started to go through a bit of a gothic phase.

03:08 I thought I'll just play the black keys.

03:11 There's only one song you can really do with that and it's called the Knuckle Song.

03:15 I thought that was showdom.

03:16 But that wasn't really doing it either, I've got to be honest.

03:33 These guys were off winning tournaments and winning big competitions and I was just there

03:40 trying to find a way to express myself.

03:42 And to be honest, sometimes it got so hard I would just put it into bassoon and I would

03:49 pretend I was a lonely ship in the night.

04:05 Then I realised, just like my brothers, that if I worked hard at something then I could

04:10 finally prove to my mum that there was more to me than just being a tall skinny shape

04:17 that takes up some of the space in the house.

04:46 That one's for you, Mom.

04:47 Love y'all.

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