Off to see Paul McCartney at Hyde Park this weekend. I suspect for the small fortune we paid for the tickets we’ll be a speck in the distance watching it on some vast TV screen. If so then I think this is the last massive gig I’ll ever go to. The Stereophonics at The O2 [...]
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We’ve been holidaying. Not away-away, just on holiday – at home like. Due to recession, job commitments and rather tedious hospital appointments we’d decided we’d stay at home and if the weather was grand, venture to a Norfolk beach. Splendid weather did indeed appear but not on any day we had clear for beach activities. Instead [...] Well the Folk Festival went ok. I can’t admit to watching any acts that thrilled us particularly apart from The Hot Club of Cowtown (or the The Cow Pats of Club Town as L called them) – they were certainly shit hot and smokin’! Jim Moray played a couple of good sets, coming across as a [...] Last night on the way to bed I could hear the clouds open and a thrashing deluge clatter off the roof as a prelude to the opening of the 2009 Wheeliebinland Folk Festival which begins tonight. Traditionally the festival starts with a Glastonburiesque mud bath, poor lighting and a very short evening of mostly local bands. [...] We’ve been neck deep in boxes. On Tuesday our dining room furniture arrived in generally easily recyclable packaging but for its quantity. It has taken two [petrol] car journeys crammed to capacity with cardboard to dispose of it all. I swear we could have made a dining table from it all. Still, the resulting chairs [...] It was a blustery, dank night last night. I trudged back from work, picked up my bouzouki and guitar, flung them in the back of the motor and pootled off to The Boot. A busy night and nice to be in the warm fug of the pub with a large array of musician huddled in the [...] What to report? Not a lot. I’ve been keeping my head down a bit. Learning a bit of Java and applying for jobs (nothing successful to date). Not a lot about at the moment. Down with some terrible temperature and headache last night. Felt like death, but a good weekend none-the-less. Yoda and L had been [...] John Martyn appears to have died. This on the back of Dav[e]y Graham popping off late last year. What is the world coming to? Soon there will be no folkies left. Good night at The Boot last night. I left the house without a coat only to be escorted on the way to the pub by flashes of lightning. Thankfully I seemed to miss the deluge both before and after the gig. Poor turn out at the beginning but things got busier later on (as is often the [...] One from my childhood, with a certain amount of updating from yours truly (fluffed of course). I’m off to bed now. If this video link is broken in the morning then you’ll have to wait till Monday night to find out what it is as I don’t have YouToob access at work. |
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