... is a good thing. People should do more of it ( Read more... )

I simply have to record these few days. Last night, I went to the first proper show The Libertines had played since 2004, a Reading/Leeds warm-up at the Kentish Town Forum. When they played there in 2003, there was no difficulty whatsoever in buying tickets: but I guess absence makes the heart grow fonder, and they've become kind of popular or ( Read more... )

I know fully well that I'm showing my age here, but I simply don't care. Tonight was bliss ( Read more... )

Well, that was fun! My ears seem to believe that they're listening to the ocean in conch shells. Goody gumdrops! This is the reason why I go to loads of shows (and buy loads of albums too, for that matter). Most of them probably will be a bit humdrum, and one has to take the rough with the smooth: but, every now and then, there'll be an extra- ( Read more... )

The Libertines are reuniting to play the Reading Festival! And, after a three-hour ordeal with crashing websites, I think I've managed to get a ticket. Woot! I'm excited ( Read more... )

I have new old books. I like new old books. The internet is a wonderful thing. (Though goodness knows where I'm going to find the shelf space for them all).


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Les Paul has died. Not that the news came as any great surprise to me: I was already aware that he had needed to cancel his Monday night shows for the last couple of months. So it looks like I got there just in the nick of time! Seeing him was, indeed, the main reason behind the trip I took back in April: after a decade of procrastinating about it ( Read more... )

I was aware at the time that it was being filmed, only I didn't have the three or four quid (probably five, come to think of it) that I'd have needed to get a copy of the tape. We're really going way back here, back to Thatcher-Watchmen-Gorbachev land: but I fucking loved this band, back in the day, I really did! And I was present at this very show ( Read more... )

Fuck Michael Jackson; and, while we're about it, fuck Farrah Fawcett too: Steven Wells has died. :o(

20 April
Ashley showed me Vancouver, and we wound up at a rather lovely pub. And... that's about all there is to report. Except just to say that she and the fellow whom she is officially not dating do make an exceptionally cute non-couple.

21 AprilAnd much the same again. This time we also took in the 'Watchmen' movie: a second viewing for both of ( Read more... )