I could move a mountain when my hand is in your hand – The Real Thing
Whether The Real Thing had the Alps in mind I don’t know but they know the band all right in Soll… and Austria you to me are everything.
Songs often jump up and hook us randomly in the places we hear them the most.
And You To Me Are Everything rocked out every night at the Whisky Muhle.
I skied some of those mountains… yeah, right!
Where Alex Johnson, the singer, belts out rock classics, while the locals pour Jagermeisters down his gullet.
And he announces every night that You To Me Are Everything is the best song of all time.
And Alex does the ‘best song of all time’ justice, and a bunch of others with his ‘Candy’ well worth a mention.
I even forgave him saying that Paolo Nutini had ripped it off REM.
I’ll be in one of those huts
All this, and did I say that they have a game where you hammer a nail into a block of plywood with the acute end?
Which funnily enough you won’t see in the pubs of Glasgow, Liverpool or Dublin.
We travelled to Soll with ski specialists Top Flight and I have hiked up the hills with them too since.
And that’ll be the beer then
Top Flight, who also with good reason call themselves the Italy specialists, are suffering like so many in Travel.
And they had to make the heartbreaking decision to let some staff go last week.
Which I know from dealing with them would have been the last thing they would have wanted.
It may seem like all uphill right now while downhill doesn’t seem too appealing either.
And the locals are real friendly
But skiing proves that we can ride the bumps and come out still standing at the end of it all.
And there’s a Jagermaester at the end of it all at the end of it all and a rocking music set. It’s apres-ski and it’s everything.
*Everything – The Real Life Story which chronicles the career of the first all-black British band to reach No.1 in the UK charts screens on BBC Four on Friday at 9pm.
