Still, anyway, as they often pointed out at the time, it is not that often you can – hand on heart – say you were looking forward to any event involving an accordion, at least not in public anyway. Despite the obvious concern about the nature of the event and worries about just how safe it was for a naked young lady to operate such a device so close to her sensitive regions, there was quite a sizeable crowd gathered just outside the supermarket to witness the event, along with several camera crews from all the major TV networks, and Channel 5 (which, apparently, still exists).
Of course, these days more or less everyone has a mobile phone able to take pictures and/or videos, so the event itself was not going to go unnoticed, especially as it was – as such things are these days – all done in the name of charity, and the beneficiaries of the money raised were not just the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidental Tweaks to the Unprotected Nipple during a Musical Performance (RSPATUNMP), which is – of course – one of the most popular charities in the country, especially after those harrowing scenes of what happened when the All-Nude Orchestra of Brighton attempted to record a version of Ravel's Bolero without the use of safety cymbals.
Still, despite the accordion most of the people who witnessed the event – now, of course recorded for posterity and available on both the charity's home page and YouTube – regarded it as one of the cultural highlights of last year. Not only that it raised a record amount for the charity and there is talk of doing a mass naked accordion concert sometime in the near future, which is something we can all look forward to... at least to some extent.
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