Blog: Pre-Holiday Round Up
Tomorrow I'm off on HOLIDAY for a few days (we're going to LONDON! Hey HEY! There's loads to do, we've already GOT The Rough Guide, and travel time is LOW!) so today I'm dashing round Finishing Off bits and pieces, getting up to date with my email, and writing myself Things To Do Lists for next week. In the spirit of this TIDINESS, here's a few ITEMS of interest before I head off...
ITEM! I got tickets for Live 8 yesterday! Well, for watching it on the big tellies in Hyde Park anyway, but still. The Dominion Theatre is round the corner from my work, and when I walked past yesterday lunchtime and saw the HUGE queue i thought there was NO chance whatsoever of me getting any. When i walked past AGANE that evening on the way to the TOOB the queue had gone, and I thought "ah! i knew it'd all be over!" but was SURPRISED when I turned the corner and saw a queue of only about 20 people outside the theatre. I joined this queue, and within three minutes was being FROGMARCHED through the building - through the lobby, along the corridoe (we all GAWPED at the selection of almost identical pictures of Freddy Mercury along the way), and then to a desk where i took two tickets WITHOUT BREAKING STRIDE and then out the other door. EASY! I felt a bit sorry for the people who'd been queuing since the day before, mind you.
ITEM! This month's NEWSLETTER has now gone out, and I'm very much enjoying all the emails I'm getting back saying "I DEMAND PARITY!" Well done everybody!
ITEM! New GIG in the GIGS list today, I'm going to be playing at The Fox & Firkin in Lewisham again on September 15th. It was ACE last time, hopefully it shall be so again.
ITEM! I'm still worrying about Cornwall, what we're going to do, whether we'll all get on, how much BOOZE we'll need to get in, and so forth. However, as The Flex On My Kettle WISELY pointed out, it makes an EXTREMELY nice change to be worrying about something so much FUN for a change! HOORAH!
ITEM! For the COMIC GEEKS amongst us - BLIMEY, that Dan Slott is GRATE isn't he? I just read the last issue of his Spiderman/Human Torch mini-series, and I must confess to getting a bit WEAPY AND also to laughing out loud whilst reading it. This happens ALMOST NEVER. Everything I've read of his is BRILLIANT and, though i probably shouldn't say things like this, it really reminds me of when I first started reading Alan Moore's stuff. OK, i was about NINE when that happened, but still, watch out for Dan Slott to start worshipping puppets any day now!
ITEM! A couple of months ago i bought the British Sea Power album, "Open Season", listened to it a couple of times, and then stop. Today i have listened to it a couple more times, and i must say it is REALLY growing on me. It's a little bit Boo Radleys and a little bit SUEDE, and these are two things i LIKE!
ITEM! That's everything i think - now, where's my sun tan lotion?
posted 30/6/2005 by MJ Hibbett
Comments:
Re "Zipcodes" tracklisting in the newsletter - the album title might be appropriate for a US release, but don't you think "Sod it, let's get pissed" might cause confusion? (both clauses)
posted 1/7/2005 by Dan
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