Programme Notes

Instant Sunshine have been searching for the perfect programme for many years. The juxta-position of songs to create a concert, which brings joy to the heart of each member of the audience, is their elusive goal. However it is difficult to please all the audience all the time. Their carefully selected programme for the Beefeaters' Annual Convention may well upset the vegan guests in the audience and there is always the risk that their cabaret for the English Speaking Union Christmas Party may not be ideal for the esperanto enthusiast who has crept in at the back.

They have tried various ways of overcoming the difficulties and have found that weeks of careful planning creates a great deal of argument since it is impossible to please all of Instant Sunshine all the time. Random selection of the programme in the dressing room on the other hand is less stressful and concentrates the mind as they fight with bow ties or search for missing cuff links. Sometimes the audience is left to do it themselves by shouting out titles from the auditorium but this has risks and can lead to unrest and fighting in the aisles, diverting attention from the performance.

We leave you to decide which method has been adopted for this concert but it is likely that songs will be selected from the following - and a few more:

A Bouquet of Roes	Los Peckham Ryos
A Memorable Meal	Lots in the Attic
A Nod and A Wink	Lugubrious Lobster
Alas Poor Hamlet	Middlesex Man
At the Launderette	My Dog Has Fleas
Bar Stool Sailing	My Garden Shed
Beefcake	Never be Tempted by Water
Birds and Bees	Pick up the Phone
Birdseed	Platform Three
Christmas Greetings	Rambling Man
Conservation Conversation	Scat Like That
Corduroy Trousers	Scratch the Sepia Surface
Cucumber Sandwiches	Shiny Leather Chair
Doctors	Smooth Train Blues
Don't Tell the Abbot	Smooth Train Blues
Eating Food is Wrong	Sorry
English Through and Through	Sorry
Equal Animal Rights	Specs Appeal
Every Body needs a Body	Spring Collection
Fleeting Time	Ten Gallon Hat
Foreign Relations	The Demon in The Drink
Go Plastic	Top Dogs
Has Anyone Seen My Horse	Tring
Heathrow Holiday	We're Awfully Keen on the Arts
Holiday Survival	Westminster Pier to Greenwich
Ideal Home	What is a Thingummy-jig
If I Keep on Whistling	Whitehall Farce
It Happened in the Park	Who Dunnit
Judges	Who is My Neighbour
Kiddies Olympics	Who Mowed the Lawns of Eden
Knitting for Victory	Wish You Were Here
Listen to the Summer	Worms
Lords Pavilion	Yodelling Neurosis

There are moments in any concert that are crucial to any conscientious concert-goer, who likes to plan the evening - when to buy the programme, at what moment to queue for ice creams or when to rush to the bar. To make this easier it is likely that this evening's concert will have the following format:

First Half

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INTERVAL

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Second Half

... unless there are any last minute difficulties beyond our control.