Music Camps For Dad & Mum

There’s something in an article in the Independent about music camps for adults that reminds us of all those articles on Grups - the thirty and forty somethings that are refuse to grow up. The Independent reports on a number of music camps being set up to help the fathers and mothers rock:

[An] opportunity for 20 frustrated musicians to improve their renditions of “Stairway to Heaven” is being offered in Devon by Mike Hurst, who played in The Springfields with Dusty and then became a producer, discovering Cat Stevens.

After running a summer camp for musical teenagers, he created the RockMasters weekend in a country house near Tiverton in response to pleas from their parents that he do something for them. “I had various parents saying, ‘It’s wasted on the kids. Why don’t you do it for adults?’” Hurst said.

…The rougher end of rock’n'roll it ain’t. But the list of those signing up - from lawyers and businessmen to mothers - suggests that regardless of education or career success, in the era of X Factor and Pop Idol, everyone secretly wants to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

We picture very embarrassed teenage off-spring and sitting in the corner watching their parents and chanting, “I can’t believe you are doing this to me. It’s so unfair!”

Independent Online Edition > News