It's Never Too Late to Work Nine-to-Five

Last night Grumpy and I found ourselves watching 'Rock School':

"The British-based project tracks Kiss bass player Gene Simmons as he educates the classically trained pupils of Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Surrey, on the ways of rock."

(Channel Ten blurb)

The saddest part of the whole show for me was that none of these ruddy-faced kids had even heard of KISS. What kind of deprived upbringing is that?! Pardon me while I go all misty-eyed at the memory of my days in the KISS Army.

Of course, my attention was immediately caught by the little blood-nugget, Josh, who laments that he isn't very popular and that the other kids pick on him a bit. I could kind of see their point of view when he insisted on speaking in Elvish.

(Believe it or not, this isn't some lingo that The King spoke when he'd had a skinful.)

Also, he chose the stage name The Emperor. He may be lonely, poor chap, but he sure can dream.

Anyway, I'm sure one day Josh will got to uni and join the local chapter of Dungeons and Dragons and everything will fall into place for him.

In this episode Mr Simmons was looking for a lead singer for the band. One by one the kids got up and sang 'God Gave Rock'n'Roll to You' & many of them had very sweet voices. But their renditions were kind of, weeeeell...perfunctory. Almost dutiful, if you will. "Right-o, chaps (and chapettes), let's give this a good old bit of British what-ho and jolly well get it over and done with - then we can get back to evensong."

Then the Emperor stepped up to the microphone. His singing was atrocious, but you know what? He totally rocked the joint! Not surprisingly, he's been made lead singer, which will no doubt lead to many late-night beatings and hair-pulling in the dorms, because school children can be so beastly, but at least he was showing a bit of rock'n'roll attitude. Good for him I say.

I'll be tuning in next week to see what happens next. Also, the only other decent thing on at that time is The New Inventors, and it seems to have run out of puff.