The Contino Sessions by Death In Vegas was incredible album from the late 90’s / early 00’s featuring lots of great singers.
Scorpio Rising wasn’t on there but is a must listen as you liked that.
At the very last school I taught in before I retired, an after school event was scheduled at short notice: a Careers Evening for Year 10.
As I was a form tutor for that year group, I got resentfully corralled into following them around from classroom to classroom while they were given presentations on how to become wage slaves in various fields.
Think they were as pissed off as I was about having to stay behind.
Until we got to the one that was about following a career in music.
That was given by Simon Hanson.
He came across really well and it more than made up for the boredom of the previous talks.
Had to admit that I only owned one CD single by Death in Vegas (the scintillating ‘Aisha’ featuring Iggy Pop), but hopefully that might have surprised him a bit as this wasn’t the kind of school where you would imagine that the staff listened to songs about serial killers.
Never found out what his connection with the school was or how he got roped into being part of the occasion. But am quite chuffed to have met the guy.
And now I must check out The Contino Sessions.