Tuesday 11th October 10pm – 12pm

Iyrie! vs Shiv. Show Me Yours – Put The Bunny Back In The Box.

You now how it goes. It’s late, you’re in some hotel room with a bunch of people you don’t really know somewhere just off the Croisette, and it’s more than a bit late. Lovely crowd, so that’s all good. Boots and myself have had the foresight to lug a set of speakers all the way from London, so we have tunes. Nice. Inevitably people start getting out their phones and are jostling for position to entertain the room with their music. Now, it may be uncharitable, but we carried the speakers, so shouldn’t we be in charge? The usual form here is one person trying to sneakily cut short someone else’s track, while they demand we listen right to the end as if there is a suddenly brilliant bit twelve seconds from the end that will make eight minutes of jazz high hats somehow rewarding (is it me, or is there always a bit too much treble?). Patience is certainly not a virtue in these circumstances.

But, praise be, this time things are different. For here in this room in the form of the diminutive pocket dynamo Shiv we have someone with some of the best tunes we’ve heard in quite some time who can easily entertain us ad infinitum with her exceptional musical taste, on which they should be congratulated. Stand up, sit down, oof. Before you know it the sun is coming up and we dawdle down to sea front, speakers in tow, to the faded glory of the poorly named Cannes Palace Hotel pool, mumbling garbled missives about how we like our hair neat and dusting it off, all very happy bunnies.

Thus upon our return this little story provided the inspiration for this, the first in the occasional Show Me Yours Junk In The Trunk series: some of your tunes and some of ours, all bouncing off each other. Thanks to Shiv for her contribution. Full marks.

Got tunes that you think would make a good Show Me Yours show? Feel free to let us know.