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satyricaso I managed to do most of the things I had planned for last week: missed Kat though which I felt bad about cos I don't know when she'll be back in the country . . .
Leonard Cohen wasn't a disappointment (although my friend with the tickets getting there at 7.28 when we'd had an e-mail saying he'd be on stage at 7.30 did nothing for my nerves!) He ran onto the stage and had a biggish lounge-style band with him (at least one of whom he introduced during each of the 25 songs he played over the course of the evening.) The bulk came from his later albums, which suited the band and the timbre of his voice as it's deepened in later life more, but he wasn't shy about performing his earlier classics either. My highlights were probably Anthem, I'm Your Man, Tower of Song, First We Take Manhattan, which was gloriously dark, and Famous Blue Raincoat. I enjoyed the humour, both in his self-deprecatory comments to the crowd (I wish he'd spoken more: I could have listened to him talk for three hours and still left happy) and even in the order of the songs. I think what I enjoyed most was being made to hear the lyrics anew by hearing them sung live, you get so used to hearing a particular recording that it was so great to hear a song you love afresh.
Have also now been to a match at The Oval: happily the right team won and Mark Ramprakash came over to our boundary for about two minutes. It felt weird being the one organising something for the whole family for the first time but it seemed to go pretty well.
Was great to get back to The Globe for King Lear which was lustily performed and had the added entertainment of someone fainting in the crowd at the eye-gouging; Rock Society was cool, a very different crowd to Red Eye et al.: older, more male, bearier- not sure when the next one is but I promised someone I'd be there ;-) And earlier this week I saw The Bravery and got to jump around lots, which I'd not done at a gig for a while- there's nothing like sweat and endorphins to sort you out.
Today's excitement was to come back and find that the council had dismantled the balcony while we were all out: presumably they got to it from the outside although there's no sign of scaffolding. My weekend's shaping up to be something like: Surrey, Oxford, then back to London on Sunday when there are way more things I'm supposed to be doing than I'm ever going to make it to . . .
Leonard Cohen wasn't a disappointment (although my friend with the tickets getting there at 7.28 when we'd had an e-mail saying he'd be on stage at 7.30 did nothing for my nerves!) He ran onto the stage and had a biggish lounge-style band with him (at least one of whom he introduced during each of the 25 songs he played over the course of the evening.) The bulk came from his later albums, which suited the band and the timbre of his voice as it's deepened in later life more, but he wasn't shy about performing his earlier classics either. My highlights were probably Anthem, I'm Your Man, Tower of Song, First We Take Manhattan, which was gloriously dark, and Famous Blue Raincoat. I enjoyed the humour, both in his self-deprecatory comments to the crowd (I wish he'd spoken more: I could have listened to him talk for three hours and still left happy) and even in the order of the songs. I think what I enjoyed most was being made to hear the lyrics anew by hearing them sung live, you get so used to hearing a particular recording that it was so great to hear a song you love afresh.
Have also now been to a match at The Oval: happily the right team won and Mark Ramprakash came over to our boundary for about two minutes. It felt weird being the one organising something for the whole family for the first time but it seemed to go pretty well.
Was great to get back to The Globe for King Lear which was lustily performed and had the added entertainment of someone fainting in the crowd at the eye-gouging; Rock Society was cool, a very different crowd to Red Eye et al.: older, more male, bearier- not sure when the next one is but I promised someone I'd be there ;-) And earlier this week I saw The Bravery and got to jump around lots, which I'd not done at a gig for a while- there's nothing like sweat and endorphins to sort you out.
Today's excitement was to come back and find that the council had dismantled the balcony while we were all out: presumably they got to it from the outside although there's no sign of scaffolding. My weekend's shaping up to be something like: Surrey, Oxford, then back to London on Sunday when there are way more things I'm supposed to be doing than I'm ever going to make it to . . .
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Date: 2008-06-26 06:56 pm (UTC)Cricket-wise, there was talk a while back of an Egham-type group outing to the cricket ... I seem to recall Lol expressing an interest and I'm sure he wasn't the only one. Anyway, that could be a thing - although I have no idea when we might fit such a 'thing' in.
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Date: 2008-06-26 09:12 pm (UTC)smaller venues are def a good plan- one reason I wasn't sorry to go to Manchester for LC
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Date: 2008-06-26 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-26 09:34 pm (UTC)further investigation (i.e.: looking out the kitchen window) suggests a cherry-picker was involved . . .
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Date: 2008-06-26 09:35 pm (UTC)