mostly david ephgrave

While I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with actor / musician work (a topic I’ve already covered here ), there's one job in that field that I’d still quite like to do: play Elwood in the Blues Brothers. I’ve wanted to do it since I was a kid, when I used to go and watch The Official Tribute to The Blues Brothers at the Gordon Craig Theatre each year. Me and my best friend Chris were obsessed with it – and would spend hours singing along with the soundtrack in his front room, whilst attempting Jake and Elwood’s moves. We knew the album inside out (as I imagine Chris’ neighbours eventually did too). I tracked down copies of the original Blues Brothers LPs, plus a VHS of the movie. The film is patchy at best, but the music is fantastic; John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd surrounded themselves with the genre's finest players. Singing along with the records lost its interest as we got a little older, so we decided to pull a small Blues Brothers band together. We ca...