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MaryJean McCall, niece of Jerry Lee Lewis, headlined what turned out to be a trial run for the revived Jerry Lee Lewis Fan Convention, which will be held in an hotel in Hove on February 21st next year.

Guests in the audience at the Inn on the Green, Ladbroke Grove this evening included MaryJean’s mother Linda Gail Lewis (Jerry Lee’s sister), her father Cecil Harrelson (lifelong friend of Jerry Lee), Norwegian piano player/singer Stephen Ackles, British rockers Danny Rivers and Wee Willie Harris (who both performed) and many Jerry Lee fans in town for his two concerts in London, the next one being later today at The Forum, Kentish Town.

MaryJean performed two brilliant country-oriented sets, and her piano playing technique has certainly developed since her last London visit two years ago. She teamed up with British Country singer Jonny Williams for several numbers, including ‘Jackson’ (made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter, but also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis and sister Linda Gail).

Jerry performs ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ at London’s 100 Club (click picture to enlarge)

50 years after his first British tour in 1958, which was cut short, Jerry Lee is yet again on our shores (and has been many times in every decade since 1958).

He appears at The Forum, Kentish Town on Tuesday, then moves on to Continental Europe for an extensive tour. I’ll be at The Forum, and also at his show in Paris with sister Linda Gail Lewis (replacing Little Richard, who’s undergoing hip replacement surgery and who will now tour next March, possibly with Jerry Lee), and Chuck Berry.

Linda Gail Lewis and Wanda Jackson will also be on The Forum bill, Wanda being an original female rocker/Country/Gospel singer who knew Elvis, and once dated him I believe.

Monday night I’m seeing Jerry’s niece (Linda Gail’s daughter) perform at the Inn on the Green with Jonny Williams, a British Country singer, supported by Jenny Laine, a British Patsy Cline-type singer.

I watched with interest two TV programs about past life regression, featuring celebrities. An Emmerdale actress (the British soap opera) and Eddie Large from the comedy duo ‘Little and Large’.

These regressions had great similarities to my own hypnotic regression some years ago. I wasn’t asleep, I was fully aware of what I was saying, seemed to be fully awake. Yet I couldn’t have been in a normal state of consciousness, since when I listen to the audio tape of the regression I can clearly hear a dog barking in the street outside. I did NOT hear this at the time, I think the hypnotist must have told me to ignore all noises outside the room or something similar.

In the celebrity regressions, I think it was Eddie Large who thought he’d been in the room with the hypnotist about 20 minutes, when in fact it was 2 hours.

Last night I and some friends were fortunate enough to see the very first London appearance (at the Half Moon, Putney) of Matthew Lee and his band, a young Jerry Lee-type singer/pianist from Italy.

He performed for about 90 minutes, very energetically, using many of the trademark gimmicks of the man known as ‘The Killer’. But Matthew also sung his own compositions and songs by other artists, including Louis Armstrong’s ‘What A Wonderful World’ and an amazing rocked up version of Presley’s ‘It’s Now or Never’ (which, of course, is based on the classical ‘O Solo Mio’).

A very presentabale, charming and talented young man I hope we see more of on our shores. This was a last-minute gig, little advertised, so I hope the next time he appears in London he gets a bigger audience.

Click to enlarge photos of Diana

Diana, former ‘Prisoner of Wales’ as she posthumously refers to herself, has commented on the current financial crisis (see her comment to my last blog). Although this surprised me, as she has usually confined her comments to my blogs about herself speaking from the after-life thru her voice channel, Andrew Russell-Davis, it should really come as no surprise.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, Diana communicates thru her voice channel, Andrew Russell-Davis, first by a transcribed book and channeled messages also transcribed, but since 2005 with something approximating her own voice, speaking thru Andrew. This is a unique form of mediumship. There have been direct voice mediums who produced voices of the dead by constructing voice boxes out of ectoplasm, but part of Diana’s essence remains Earthbound, seeing and speaking thru Andrew, with his permission of course.

Whether or not the current collapse of the world banking system means the capitalist system itself is collapsing, it certainly reflects on the credit society we are now living in.

Living on credit has become a way of life, not least in the mortgage sector, where in the crazy rush to ‘own property’ people mortgage themselves up to the hilt. Of course they don’t ‘own’ these properties at all, not until their mortgage is fully paid off. They are merely living on credit on the mortgage company’s property, and paying thru the nose in interest charges.

Then there is the current fad for bank loans, overdrafts and credit cards. All this living on credit indicates that our current society doesn’t even undestand what money is.

Money is simply payment for labor. A bank note is a voucher to certify that a worker has labored, and thus created value, and is payment for his or her labor, that is all.