Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Passion for Tashian, and a Bacharach silver lining
Daniel Tashian on stage with Kacey Musgraves at the Grammy Awards last year.
Picture the scene: A mid-morning radio studio. In one corner a man is crouching beside a pile of hamburgers and a bucket. He is attempting to break the world record for the ‘most burgers eaten in one hour.’ The bucket is for safety. In another corner a man is making ‘the Friday Cocktail.’ It’s 11 AM.
I survey all this and think ‘all is good.’ But suddenly the producer motions towards me. A guest who had said they were ‘very unlikely’ to be free is on the way in and is performing! The same studio scene looks very different now. I howl ‘oh please, Jesus, don’t let him find me like this!’ I eye up Burger Man and type ‘can we cancel him’ on a screen to the producer. She shakes her head, apparently the burgers are sponsored. I point at the mixologist and type ‘him?’
