Everything in F

John Barlow's just elected me to his 'Organist Writer's Club'.
Play everything in F was my approach, go especially soft when you don't know the tune, and everyone called it sensitive accompaniment.
I was primed for the Thringstone residency he mentions by earlier years with my mother. She had a spell at running an entertainment agency. We would be sitting round the table at home, she would shriek, tell me to grab my music, and I'd be whisked off in her black Mercedes 200SE (reg: KAY 1E) to fill in for a booking she had forgotten about - normally one of those charity gigs she wasn't going to get paid for in any case. So nurses massed on stage at the Bingo club to sing out carols, or a stand in organist for Lougborough's Spiritualist church.
Home organ was a three manual Conn, nice and theatrical, 'The Organist Entertains' on Radio 2 spinning out fabulous whirls of noise once a week.
Does anyone still play the electronic organ? Hammond got the sound right, great for jazz (especially Ramsey Lewis) but the rest is strictly end of the pier material. I bet there's still a summer residency at the end of Eastbourne Pier, John Mann pulling at the heartstrings.