Events conspired, (TOH’s b’day/valentines day/a student discount on the tickets), to find me somewhere I never expected to find myself yesterday…..watching a classical concert, The London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Sage to be exact. Now those who know me will be laughing, particularly if they have heard me doing my “I don’t do classical” line. [...]
Today was a day when I engaged in a bit of bonding with Third Party. First off we put together a list of 50 festival type tunes to put together in a playlist for the day. We figured that having a festival day would be a good way to stop getting fed up with the [...]
Yesterday afternoon I started part 1 of the Third Party alternative Christmas thing before heading off to enjoy a v. special bit of “me time”.
For those who aren’t aware Third Party and I normally do Christmas Day a couple of days before she heads south for Chrimbo with her dad. Normally it is a [...]
Music, good music, timed perfectly and delivered by the right person can occassionally have an incredible impact upon you – almost involuntarily producing an emotional response. That happened to me last night when I went to see Martyn Joseph at the Sage.
I have to say I regarded most of it as a bit of [...]
Ok, so Sunday sees the end of an era with the last Delirious concert, when they play Hammersmith Apollo. As part of the end of the road type stuff Christianity Today, the US evoish mag, has an interview with Martin Smith. The article, through two questions asked, gives an insight into how the US religious [...]
The NME site provided a link to this Roger Sargent tribute to Steven Wells, the poet and journalist who died earlier this year.
http://www.vimeo.com/7345379
At the moment I’m on a bit of a mission to introduce TOH to folk music. This is being done gently, the other week it was an evening spent snuggling whilst watching my DVD of Ralph McTell Live at the Royal Festival Hall. Last night it was off to her first folk gig; Show of [...]
Last night, (or technically just a few hours ago as I am blogging at silly o’clock, still buzzing after a great night), I went to the Sage to see the Indigo Girls. For me this was a big deal because they were one of the main artists I really wanted to see, but never have.
Couple [...]
It’s Virtual Festivals festival award time and Greenbelt is up in a couple of cateogories. If nothing else it deserves to get the best toilet award, just for the ones down near messy space. Incentive to vote, you get entered into a draw to win tickets to every winning festival.
This weekend Third Party had a new rite of passage and I had a really proud parent moment…the two were seperate but not disconnected.
Rite of passage was that she could go to the video shop and get out a cert 15 DVD on her own. Know it sounds silly, but to me this was really [...]