Ostrich-step

Melly and the Ostrich's

As Decks and the City's Melissa Bradshaw has pointed out in this recent blogpost, she and I went to Cyprus for the forthcoming Qvest Edition last week. Asides from some serious reportage on Napa's music scene and the history of the island (including some beef with neighbouring Turkey), we made friends on road with some BIG, BIG BIRDS (and I aint talking about the ones we saw downing fish bowls in Napa central).

Through an amazing performance involving movement of their big big wings and fluttering of their long ol' eye-lashes they silently explained their sadness at having BIG BIG WINGS but no ability to fly :( . *cry!* Poor Ostrich's, we feel your pain and your heartache... just rest in the knowledge that we will be bringing your story to human dancefloors this summer via the OSTRICH STEP, a sort-of progression of Benga's Chicken Step:



Having been SO moved by the lovely Ostrich's, I am currently engaged in intensive studies in the movements of other creatures with useless limbs or vestigial organs... Coming soon to a club near you: The Blind Fish Astyanax Mexicanus Step, Whale-Step (based upon their hind leg bones which they cannot walk with) and The Human Tail Bone Waltz.