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satyricaBack from Empire last Monday, I went down to Gordon's in the evening and met up with N and his friend Amy, then we headed on for food. On Tuesday I headed out to Egham where cryx's presence had drawn the great and the good to R&P's house for pizza, it was lovely to have everyone together and just hanging out and reinforced that sense of how something that would have been an everyday occurrence 15 years ago has become a special occasion. I made the most of our antipodean visitor by having dinner with her and others Wednesday night as well.
I went to see music at the Fiddler's Elbow on Thursday: Arron Sands was playing solo, emotionally raw songs with an electric guitar, when I got there. My band, Loud Mute Rage were on next but I did hang around for the rest: both also groups with international memberships. Road Atlas were particularly impressive but the more punky Greek guys Playground Circus were fun too. I was at the Boston Music Rooms the next night, arriving during Kid Kapichi but there for rockers Fizzy Blood, who seem to be gaining a bit of a following and generated plenty of energy.
The weekend was quietish: a bunch of domestic stuff on Saturday interrupted by poking around a couple of little art exhibitions in town with N, one called Subsumed that Fiona had put in the crypt of St. Marylebone plus some Conrad Shawcross sculptures in a Mayfair gallery. We had planned a walk out of London for Sunday but transmuted it to Open London when we saw the rain: a bunch of us poked around DFID (which houses the Admiralty Boardroom in all its wood-panelled glory), the FCO (which was quite the eye-opener, no wonder some sections of the ruling classes have never moved on from the mindset of Empire) and the rather ostentatious Spencer House before having a Sunday Lunch at Brown's.
I was eating out again on Monday night, dinner with the KES crew at a pub back in Marylebone, which was both fun and also a bit weird; odd how you can feel incredibly close to people but also have such different worldviews. I went to Scenario, the board-game bar, with E yesterday evening, we played a few of their less demanding games and it was nice to see how popular it was. Evening in today: new boss has finally started and I'm cautiously optimistic, although things have already started to ramp up for the winter.
cryx's presence had drawn the great and the good to R&P's house for pizza, it was lovely to have everyone together and just hanging out and reinforced that sense of how something that would have been an everyday occurrence 15 years ago has become a special occasion. I made the most of our antipodean visitor by having dinner with her and others Wednesday night as well.I went to see music at the Fiddler's Elbow on Thursday: Arron Sands was playing solo, emotionally raw songs with an electric guitar, when I got there. My band, Loud Mute Rage were on next but I did hang around for the rest: both also groups with international memberships. Road Atlas were particularly impressive but the more punky Greek guys Playground Circus were fun too. I was at the Boston Music Rooms the next night, arriving during Kid Kapichi but there for rockers Fizzy Blood, who seem to be gaining a bit of a following and generated plenty of energy.
The weekend was quietish: a bunch of domestic stuff on Saturday interrupted by poking around a couple of little art exhibitions in town with N, one called Subsumed that Fiona had put in the crypt of St. Marylebone plus some Conrad Shawcross sculptures in a Mayfair gallery. We had planned a walk out of London for Sunday but transmuted it to Open London when we saw the rain: a bunch of us poked around DFID (which houses the Admiralty Boardroom in all its wood-panelled glory), the FCO (which was quite the eye-opener, no wonder some sections of the ruling classes have never moved on from the mindset of Empire) and the rather ostentatious Spencer House before having a Sunday Lunch at Brown's.
I was eating out again on Monday night, dinner with the KES crew at a pub back in Marylebone, which was both fun and also a bit weird; odd how you can feel incredibly close to people but also have such different worldviews. I went to Scenario, the board-game bar, with E yesterday evening, we played a few of their less demanding games and it was nice to see how popular it was. Evening in today: new boss has finally started and I'm cautiously optimistic, although things have already started to ramp up for the winter.
