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JOHNNY MOPED
Alex Ogg presents a play in four acts (adapted from the original one act).
Act
Five: Every dream came true Starring Xerxes and Martin
Xerxes: Where were we, Fred was the genius. Fred wrote 90% of the songs out there.
Martin reappears, picking up on the conversation
Martin: What, Every Dream Came True?
Xerxes: Apparently.
Martin: It’s a good song that.
SS: I thought that was a new one.
Martin: Captain’s been playing around with it for the last couple of years, but it’s never been released. The genius of Johnny Moped is that they were one of the earliest of the punk bands. But they were overshadowed by bands who were slicker.
Xerxes: Who had more talent.
Martin: No, I don't think that's true. Not judging by tonight’s performance.
Xerxes: You should have heard us years ago. No actually it was probably exactly the same.
SS: But that was a nice, poignant song (Every Dream Came True).
Martin: That’s cos there’s elements of truth in It, and anything that’s got truth in it, like Hemingway said, you should only write about what you know...
Xerxes: Well anyway, the guy who wrote it threw himself under a train, so I don’t know how much truth’s in that.
Martin: Quite a lot of truth I would imagine.
Xetxes: Quite a let yeah. But I wish he’d stuck around and wrote a few more songs.
Martin: Yeh, Captain told me about him.
Xerxes: Wonderful human being
Martin: Captain get’s a bit misty eyed when you talk about Fred.
Xerxes: lf it wasn’t for Fred, Captain wouldn’t he doing what he’s doing now.
SS: Hey, I still haven’t found out where the Xerxes bit comes from.
Xerxes: Oh, that was Ray's brother. At our first ever pub gig, Johnny was working at a printers, and got sone stuff knocked out cheap, and they said John wasn’t good enough....
SS: Not very rock and roil...
Xerxes: ...and Ray’s brother was reading some Greek poetry or something.
SS: That’s not mineral water Johnny’s been drinking is it?
Xerxes: Yeh, course it is. He’s a dear sweet soul.
The END
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