Well, the bluebirds have stopped singing, for one.
It's the private clubhouse of the Gaztelubide Society (www.gaztelubide.org), one of about 106 gastronomic eating clubs where men (no women allowed) gather nightly to cook and sometimes sing for one another.
Vardy has more than done his bit and it probably summed up the mood that the crowd had been singing for one of the other players to take it anyway.
In the 1950's rock classic, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," the singer Frankie Lymon, asked, "Why do birds sing so gay?" Do you know why? A. They sing, for one thing, because the bachelor male wants to attract a wife.
Her last performance came at a concert in Kentucky just one year ago, when Susie Glaze, John McCutcheon and Kathy Mattea came to sing for Jean one more time at the Union Church in Berea.
"We can be heroes," David Bowie sang, "just for one day".
"Alone we stand, together we fall apart," Mr. Casablancas sang, reaching for one of the highest notes he hit all night.
She said she'd sing for me one day.
The Gaelic songs will be sung for only one generation more -- to an audience of anthropologists and folklorists with their recording machines, in performances that are less preservation than cultural taxidermy.
