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satyricaAt the start of last week I went to see Company at the vertiginous Gielgud with culture-club Claire, which was a thoroughly enjoyable show, more delivering the wow moments with the big numbers than the individual songs; although I thought the various gender reassignments worked fine, the lead performance was a little too anonymous, however well sung. I also miserably failed to recognise George Blagden (in a fairly small part) depsite having watched an episode of Versailles only the night before.
On Tuesday I went to the Boston Music Rooms to catch Sheafs, only getting there for the last few songs of promising support band Moses; some friendly young Greek siblings got chatting to me between bands and Sheafs delivered all the energy you'd hope for. I had a different gig booked for Wednesday but J had messaged to say that his brother was playing down at a chilled little night at Herne Hill so I opted for sociability. The venue was called Off the Cuff and a cute little under-the-railway-arches, mis-matched decor kinda place and the night was run by a guy called John I'd seen play with J's brother before. There were four acts, all one-guy-with-guitar and John played first followed by Dan, then an Irish guy called Tommy McCardle and finally Joey Goodtimes. A bunch of J's friends and family were there, who I've all met a few times now and they were really friendly.
I went to the shelter Thursday night and M headed off on holiday for two and a half weeks, meaning I've got the flat to myself for a while (when I'm there, at least). I skipped out of work early the following day to collect a Women's Suffrage banner from the LSE, which I then took to the pub as a few of us had arranged to have a couple of restrained post-work Friday drinks. I took my banner home, changed and zipped out again over to Studio 9294 to meet up with new-gig-friend Joey for the HMLTD show. I only got there for the last song of Famous but they sounded interesting, next support Gaika didn't fare so well as the electrics cut out so often he ended up having to give up. Things remained pretty touch-and-go for HMLTD but they just about managed to get through a set, typically resplendent, with a responsive crowd.
On Saturday I took my banner to Oxford to hand it over to L as we had our Iris Project Trustee Meeting. I took advantage of being in the area to drop-in afterwards on the Board Games day that M&S were having; they've moved to Milton Park, which I could get to by bus from Oxford, although it was a slightly tortuous process. I stayed for a few hours though and played Scarabya, Century: Spice Road and The Abyss, which were all new to me, before chaining buses back to London. I had a chilled out Sunday at home for most of the day then met N mid-afternoon to have a poke around the China & South Asia galleries at the British Museum and some food before heading back home.
On Tuesday I went to the Boston Music Rooms to catch Sheafs, only getting there for the last few songs of promising support band Moses; some friendly young Greek siblings got chatting to me between bands and Sheafs delivered all the energy you'd hope for. I had a different gig booked for Wednesday but J had messaged to say that his brother was playing down at a chilled little night at Herne Hill so I opted for sociability. The venue was called Off the Cuff and a cute little under-the-railway-arches, mis-matched decor kinda place and the night was run by a guy called John I'd seen play with J's brother before. There were four acts, all one-guy-with-guitar and John played first followed by Dan, then an Irish guy called Tommy McCardle and finally Joey Goodtimes. A bunch of J's friends and family were there, who I've all met a few times now and they were really friendly.
I went to the shelter Thursday night and M headed off on holiday for two and a half weeks, meaning I've got the flat to myself for a while (when I'm there, at least). I skipped out of work early the following day to collect a Women's Suffrage banner from the LSE, which I then took to the pub as a few of us had arranged to have a couple of restrained post-work Friday drinks. I took my banner home, changed and zipped out again over to Studio 9294 to meet up with new-gig-friend Joey for the HMLTD show. I only got there for the last song of Famous but they sounded interesting, next support Gaika didn't fare so well as the electrics cut out so often he ended up having to give up. Things remained pretty touch-and-go for HMLTD but they just about managed to get through a set, typically resplendent, with a responsive crowd.
On Saturday I took my banner to Oxford to hand it over to L as we had our Iris Project Trustee Meeting. I took advantage of being in the area to drop-in afterwards on the Board Games day that M&S were having; they've moved to Milton Park, which I could get to by bus from Oxford, although it was a slightly tortuous process. I stayed for a few hours though and played Scarabya, Century: Spice Road and The Abyss, which were all new to me, before chaining buses back to London. I had a chilled out Sunday at home for most of the day then met N mid-afternoon to have a poke around the China & South Asia galleries at the British Museum and some food before heading back home.
