Jayyyysus - nearly 3 months without a single solitary bleedin post. Not even a youtube video!
Now I could say that the last few months have been busy (and they have people!) but to be fair I think a better excuse is just to say that blogging seems to be a lot like going to the gym. In the early heady days you're full of that effervescent ebullience becoming somewhat fanatical with 2 or 3 posts a day (okay thats where the gym analogy ends) but then "things" start to creep in - work, drinking, more drinking and you start to get lazy.
Ahhh shur I'll write up that film review tomorrow.
Hmmm last night would make a good post but I'm just too knackered.
It's raining outside (sorry thats for the gym!)
You can tell you've lost the blogging vibe when something happens and your first instinct isn't "that'd make a great blog post"!
So lets ease back into this lark. Somehow I don't think I have the patience to recap over the last 3 months (this may or may not be done Memento style in a non-linear flashback format but Hey who knows!) so lets start with the last week or so ... and what a week it's been!
The joys of working in "education" (and I use the term oh so loosely) is that I am now officially on summer holidays so its been a case of lots of gigs and cinema with the odd bit of restaurant work thrown in to cover my high maintenance lifestyle!
So whats been going on?
Well I've seen 3 of the musical highlights of the year in the space of 2 weeks. First up was the phenomenal Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. I'd had a good feeling about this having listened to the album and no doubt the mojitos, beers and bottle of Rioja in the Winding Stair helped as well! I haven't quite made up my mind about the Venue Formerly Known as the TBMC. At the Cathy Davey gig there was a ridiculous amount of noise filtering down from the bar but that had as much to do with the quietness of Ms Davey's voice
No such issues with the bould Ms Jones! From the moment she came strutting out she gave it socks - that woman is sixteen kinds of cool - the band were class - listen anywhere that you've got a brass section, drums AND a bongo player is ok with me. She dragged various people onto the stage and the place was just hopping! The line of the night had to go to the lead guitarist of the Dap Kings (possibly even cooler than Ms Jones herself)
Band go off stage
Crowd roaring for more
Crowd roar a bit more
Guy comes on by himself
"Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings are not the kind of band who just do encores for the sake of encores...
So what I'm asking you is this ...
Are you clapping waiting for something to happen or are you going to MAKE something happen?!!"
Ligind!!
The place went mad!
Highlights Number 2 and 3 will have to wait cause I've got a poxy academic meeting to go to - so much for bleedin holidays.
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Ahhh its good to be back in the gym
