Saturday, May 31, 2008

Possibly the greatest event of the 21st Century so far!

No this is not the Jefferson Starship (complex history here) that made "We built this city" This is the Paul Kantner version, who are playing two gigs in London, the first of which will feature a set consisting of the greatest album ever recorded plus some from the band who recorded the greatest guitar album ever recorded. How good could this possibly be? I did see the original Jefferson Starship mk1 at the Knobworth festival in 1978. Grace Slick was missing from the lineup I was disappointed, the sound where we were was attrocious, although I believe this might have been down to borrowed equipment and the people I was with, mostly knobheads apart from my mate Bobby weren't interested in moving to a better location and needing the lift home, I was afraid of losing them.

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Prise it from his cold dead hands.

What a glorious day. The sun is shining, its bitterly cold, but there's something nonetheless pleasant about a day when the planet is less one horrible bastard!

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Saturday, March 08, 2008

Party in the offing

The great day nears!

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Okay, so I've not been too busy to blog, I just couldn't be arsed! So now I'm forcing myself to do post something before I forget how.

First up I have a new project its only going to be food related and its here. I pinched the title from Reidski, but he won't mind I'm sure.

Friday night I had an urge to go and see Arcade Fire, but at £46 for two tickets in a big barn, I decided on a whim to have a look at the HAC site. Would you believe it, our favourite Rock covers band are on and its only £ 8 for two tickets. I'm sure Arcade Fire were good, but Big Licks were simply troopers of the old school, parading a set list including Alex Harvey's Framed, the Who's Won't Get Fooled Again, A bizarre Stevie Wonder/Led Zeppelin blended medley (I believe the young folks call it a Mash Up) which has to be seen and heard to be believed and the bastards even sent a tear down my face when they played While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which I last heard at Manuel's funeral. I'm beginning to like the HAC more now that you can take your drink into the theatre with you. Did I mention the stunning artwork by the immensely talented brother of Reidski? Arcade Fire Pah!

Football, what can I say, sublime, ridiculous? A bit of both actually. 3 -1 against Heart of Madlithuanian is definitely not to be scoffed at in normal circumstances. But these were far from normal circumstances. After a bleak injury devastated month or two, we finally had players back, Hay and Invincibile which made quite a difference. Throughout the first half I was convinced as were many around me that this clown had recently opened a new Ukio Bankas account, such was the standard of refereeing. Alex who was with me had just returned from the States where he saw stepson Craig's Burlington Barons (I have no idea how to read that league table) play in a series of matches refereed bizarrely by retired basketball referees. We thought this was perhaps where Mr Collum should fuck off to!

Nevertheless just before the end of the first half he sent off Hearts' Chistian Nade for an appalling assault and from then on things got better and better. A penalty taken by Nish saw the "Nishometer" swing back from the "Pish" to the "Not too bad ". Also fabulous to see Eric Skora back as sub after a few years. He'd been on loan from Preston, went back, we bought him a season or so later but he had a lengthy injury and this is the first time I've seen him in a while. All in all a good day out.


All this and Veal for dinner again.

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

I have seen and heard the future! It is Beirut .......

......The band, not the city. I was sort of channel surfing through MTV and the like when I caught a glimpse of brilliance at the tail end of Gonzo. The video was incredible the music was beautifully haunting and very definitely original. I rarely go into uber-raving mode about something as simple as music, but in this case I present to you for your delectation the immensely talented young Zach Condon. Enjoy!

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Christmas the Aftermath

Growing in depth and beauty with every play.





























Midlake's the Trials of Von Occupanther, fabby.

I've had a remarkably themed Christmas this year, with an abundance of things culinary, both books and gadgetythings. I am going to spend a while in the kitchen methinks.

Christmas day was spent as per the last few, with mumsy. Spent a totally chilled time sipping champagne and cava and cooked duck with roasted (to perfection) potatoes, roasted parsnips and sprouts finished in the frying pan with butter and bacon. I could feel the weight going on with every mouthful. Fortunately, the starter was a light melon and parma ham and the pudding was a simple concoction of poached apricots with fig and hazelnut in a filo pastry served with vanilla ice cream. The one downside of the day was when mrs tnr opened her pressie from mumsy, my face must have been a picture as pressie was a digital camera, which I had also got her arghhhhh!

I'm on holiday for almost 2 weeks, which means I'll spend too much time on this and too much time watching wall to wall repeats of River Cottage.

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